Gabriel Douglas Biography

A happy, but frightened father is informed that the child is sick with something complicated. Spectators are scared and anticipated to watch a heartbreaking sports drama about how a little black girl, fighting for life and health,, contrary to everything, will become an Olympic champion. But it wasn’t there. Roll your lip back, there will be no drama, overcoming either. Prepare a notebook and a pen to write down motivating sayings to hang them at home in a prominent place.

This should be enough to become a champion. I decided to watch a film about Gabriel Douglas and the summer daughter after the information that slipped in the news that this summer American gymnast decided to return to sports and try to get to the Olympics in Paris in the year. Well, what, the Russians probably will not be, there is less competition. The American feature film "History of Gabbi Douglas" was released in the year, two years after the Black Douglas Grumnestan, Gabriel Douglas, became at the Olympic Games in London for the first time in the history of sports gymnastics.

That is why the film was interested in my daughter Lilian, who has been engaged in gymnastics for the sixth year and loves to watch films about famous gymnasts. Gabriel Douglas, three -time Olympic champion - team, all -around; - team. Next you are waiting for continuous spoilers. Those who want to watch do not read further, otherwise the story in my retelling may seem more interesting to you than the film itself.

From such films, viewers are waiting for drama and a difficult victory over life circumstances. The authors of the film wanted to make a drama, we were informed that the future champion was born in a poor large family, and besides, with some kind of disease, but in the future it was not said a word about how they fought with this disease and where and when it has gone. It must be assumed that it was self -destroyed.

But we are immediately slipped by a new drama - Gabriel's mother decides to part with her husband. A husband cannot find a stable job to provide four of his children and a non -working wife. Mother Gabriel refuses to offer her husband to live on state benefits while he gets to his feet, takes the children and goes to live with his mother. It would seem logical to do this temporarily until the husband finds the job.

But the mother decides differently, although it is obvious that she does not quarrel with her husband. She finds work and lives alone with children. The father in the film is no longer mentioned. It is strange somehow, at least a scandal showed something or something, otherwise it turns out that a loving unfortunate father suddenly just disappeared. Somehow unconvincing.

Also unconvincingly showed and the mother’s disease is again unknown. Mother loses consciousness in a public place, cannot work anymore. Children are informed that this is a reaction of the body to a certain medicine. Gabriel tells his mother that he will abandon gymnastics, since it is difficult with finances, but the mother says that this is not poverty, and poverty is when there is no hope.

Shot from the film: Little Gabby. And you, dear readers, write down, write down. If there is hope, then you are not poor, it should help you in any situation. The film also says that "today is better than yesterday" heroes record and hang it on the wall. Turn your dream into the target. Grow it deep in my heart, and then ten years old, when you eat, sleep, breathe, laugh and cry, you should not forget about it, not for a second in the same spirit.

The actions are not particularly supported, but it sounds beautiful. The grandmother of the children comes, that is, the mother of the mother Hybriel and the rest and tells the children that with a sick mother they will have to live in poverty until the mother can work again. And leaving. And I thought that my grandmother would temporarily take children to her. But, as usual in this film, the topic does not develop further about the mother’s disease, though it shows that the mother agreed to accept help from the state.

Or maybe you should seek your children's father for help? And Gabriel, meanwhile, is engaged in sports gymnastics. At first, she played without a coach, gym and sports equipment learns all that children in sports schools teach: a wheel, rodat, flask, somersault, a blanche and that a blanche, then in the hall, on the first attempt and without learning, she made large turns on the bars without insurance.

Shot from the film: Young Gabby in the gym. The older sister Gabriel persuaded their mother to give Gabby to gymnastics. This sister herself seemed to be once engaged in gymnastics, but she left. When did you have time? And the mother does not immediately agree: “For me, the main gymnast is you,” she says, turning to this daughter of her, implying that Gabriel does not need to be given anywhere so as not to overshadow the fame of his sister.

But the argument of her daughter decides everything - "so that she is engaged in the gym, and not break everything at home." In the gym, coaches are amazed at the skills of young Gabriel, everyone asking how many years she trained. Gabriel everything turns out to be envious of the parents of other gymnasts. All the others do not envy and radiate continuous positive, no one pushed grated glass into magnesia.Some minor failures are shown, but they pass without consequences and are overcome without visible efforts at some point Gabby said that the coach says that she was not ready for competitions, but they show us that she is participating in them.

Gabriel dreams of getting into a country house to coach Bela Karoli, where elite gymnasts train the very house that years later appeared in the case of rape of gymnasts, a noble scandal was in American gymnastics, then the national team received a prison term of two hundred years. Bela Karoli is one of the most successful gymnastic coaches, I mentioned him in articles about the Romanian gymnast of Nadi Khomechech, I will leave links at the end.

Bela Karoli trained with his wife Marta Caroli, which in the film is shown by the coordinator of the national team or coach. Gabriel enters the training session for a coach who brought up the American champion of past Olympic Games, and this coach for one training session teaches her complex supporting “Amanar” Rondat to the support of the jump on the table, 2.5 screws in the phase of flight, that is, a turn of degrees.

Shot from the film: Gabby meets the new coach. Gabby is delighted and wants to go to train for this coach, and her mother only restrainedly says “well done” and does not even want to think about moving to another state to continue training with the best coach. Gabby adjusts that the mother can talk to the coach, but the mother is quite passive and talks with the coach on abstract topics, though she mentions that his daughter is excited.

To which the coach replies that "excited children are better than excited parents." And then somehow it develops that the coach agrees to train Gabriel, he finds her temporary as if the foster family, where she will live for free. By the way, the coach announces that Gabriel will now need to train not 36 hours a week, as before, but only 28, because the athlete should not be exhausted and tired.

He also says Hybrid, a strange thing, in my opinion, for sports: "Forget everything that you seemed to you can, I will teach you everything anew." The new coach handed Gabriel the calendar with a plan for two years, where all the competitions are precisely painted before the Olympics, straight with numbers. For example, we do not know the exact numbers of the competition for several years in advance.

Well, okay, this is not so important. Shot from the film: Mother and Sisters rejoice at Gabby’s victory. Gabriel is training intensively, everything continues to work out for her, she recovered 4 kg, but these are muscles. Then Gabby tears the poddle tendon, but already in the next frame is an injury behind. But the year before the Olympics, Gabriel suddenly decides that he wants to go home, but does not want to at the Olympics.

The coach persuades her to return: "The Olympic athlete is more than talent and muscles, the champion is not muscles, the champion is a soul." Sisters and brother encourage, urge to believe in themselves. Mother reproaches the money spent. I don’t know what helped - the persuasion of the coach, the fear of remaining a proper mother or the conviction of her brother, but Gabriel returned and won everyone.

The film has many documentary personnel where you can see the real Gabriel Douglas at different periods of his sports career, and our Aliya Mustafina and Victoria Komova flash on the frames from the Olympic Games. This photo is not from the film. Gabriel Douglas, who took first place in the all -around on the OI in London in the year, went to the crying Russian Victoria Komova, who took second place.

In the film "History of Gabbi Douglas" I did not see neither dramaturgy nor subtle psychological techniques, only verbal exhortations: "Believe everything and everything will succeed", approximately like in the Japanese drama "Gymnastics, which made us the main character - a bad guy Vatar, who was engaged in rhythmic gymnastics, said to everyone:" Do not give up "but I would also add" Tears ", and everyone immediately pulled themselves together and did not give up.

For the first time I was not inspired by a film about a champion that has achieved the highest success, I will not want to review it. But the daughter in general liked the film, she said that you can see not for motivation, but for studying the history of sports. I would like Gabriel Douglas to be able to return to the Olympics, it would be interesting, especially if Simon Biles returned, who also mentioned that he was preparing for Paris.

And if ours were also allowed, then there would be a super wrestling and super sight in general. I’ll tell you about the film about Simon Bails next Saturday - the films are the same to disgrace. After watching the film about Douglas, my daughter and I watched the final of the all -around at the games in London, it was fascinating, here is an article about this:.