Karolyi's Camp: Training Future Olympic Gymnasts

[Stonymypony]

I used to love to hear bela say "you can do it" but now I love "it's hot like hell" :)

[gymnasticsluver31]

i want to train with bela karolyi

[bugsy2424]

bela karolyi trained some of the worlds best gymnasts including MARY LOU RETTON!!!

[GymFloozie]

I would have loved to have seen Shawn competing during the Shushunova/Silivas era.

[TuesdayPillow]

She'd never had made it very far in the era of artistry, dance, and good active flexibility.

[krissypoetnwriter]

Shawn went to china and shes really good.

[theamazingjaide]

@krissypoetnwriter Duh?

[mmoran3]

why

[uggymnast1796]

iv been there! its sooo fun

[Gymnasticsgirl1996]

do you think it will be fun for me? i am 13 and level 4 have 5 skills but can't move up because i haven't compeated? will i be with some girls my age? i leave july 6th to head for camp with him

[50baybeeih98]

@Gymnasticsgirl1996 i bet youll do great!!!

but the time u posted says i year ago so iguess u already found out huh ? lol :]

[venusrevolution]

shawn still looks really young here-she looks alot older now, and it's only been a few months since the olympics...

[mka800]

Bela seems like a great guy - fun, eccentric, and all that. But some girls don't make it with him because they fail to realize the cardinal rule: Bela is in charge, Bela says what to do, Bela's way is the only way. If you can adapt to that, you'll probably get on really well with the man. I mean, come on - any man who surrounds himself with all those animals can't be all that bad.

[briaberger]

Read up on what he did to Emilia Eberle.

[complainer101]

exactly. because BEATING a gymnast is the right way to maintain your authority, huh? yeah, he's not exactly a great guy... or, he wasn't. who knows, maybe he's changed..

[greyskies34]

@complainer101 yeah that was years ago in a different country w/ diferent settting and stuff

[gymgirly1]

THEY ARE REALLY EXCPENSIVE

[weLUV2flip]

You live near the ranch!!?? Have you seen the wild pigs! OMG! The cutest things ever when they are babies! We surely don't have that here in LA!

[BuckyKentucky08]

lol i know exactly where this place is at...its right next to our land, ive seen the outside but have never been in it

[gymnasticsweetheart]

I went there for tops national training but never for like a summer camp. It was fun. You have to be selected and i think you have to be 8 to attend.

[No1snYpeslikme]

Wow, I wish I lived there so bad.

[weLUV2flip]

Ok, did you just say that you were a Karolyi gymnast, but yet you don't remember training for this camp? Um, sweetie, that's cause you've never been to camp or a Karolyi gymnast! DUH! The "camp" would have been at your gym, and you would know that if you really were one of their gymnasts.

[jadedpill]

i went there but i was too young to remember all the preparation for going to the camp... i was a karolyi gymnast so i think it was a given for me to go.... that camp is something that i VIVIDLY remember from childhood...don't recall it being difficult, but do remember accomplishing and acquiring a magnitiude of new skills.

[gymnast2182]

Can anyone from any state or from any age train their? Just wondering...

[hawks7503]

Im not sure if you can go there and train regularly without being asked to, but the have an awesome camp that runs throughout the summer.

[brookenicole222]

LOL, Alicia so funny. "I was like, what is this place??"

I had no idea Bela had so many exotic pets! If I were there, I wouldn't be able to focus on training. I'd be too excited about the animals. They are beautiful.

[danicabrooke]

haha couldnt agree more! =]

[Sublue]

This guys loaded.

[Chilina13]

It's from an article from Los Angeles Times. It was called Mining for gymnastics gold at a texas ranch

[gymnastgurl12345]

wow where did you get this from?

[gymnastralohartley]

where did u find this??

[ClayBabe6]

its a recent interview that just came out. i can't remember who did it, i think a dallas newspaper.

[marieked]

What is this from? I've never seen this interview.