{"id":94688,"date":"2019-08-12T20:02:29","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T03:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/the-twisty-physics-of-simone-biles-historic-triple-double"},"modified":"2019-08-12T20:02:29","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T03:02:29","slug":"the-twisty-physics-of-simone-biles-historic-triple-double","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/the-twisty-physics-of-simone-biles-historic-triple-double","title":{"rendered":"The Twisty Physics of Simone Biles\u2019 Historic Triple-Double"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-twisty-physics-of-simone-biles-historic-triple-double2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What. The. Heck. Did you see that? Simone Biles appears to defy the laws of physics with <a class=\"\" data-event-click=\"{\u201celement\u201d:\u201d ExternalLink\u201d,\u201d outgoingURL\u201d:\u201d\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCSports\/status\/1160714101288574976\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCSports\/status\/1160714101288574976<\/a><br \/>\n\u201d}\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCSports\/status\/1160714101288574976\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">this epic tumbling pass<\/a> from the 2019 US Gymnastics Championships. It\u2019s called a triple-double. That means she rotates around an axis going through her hips twice while at the same time rotating about an axis going from head to toe THREE times. Yes, it\u2019s difficult\u2014but it doesn\u2019t defy physics, it <em>uses<\/em> physics.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"\" lang=\"en\" data-type=\"twitter\" data-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCSports\/status\/1160714101288574976\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCSports\/status\/1160714101288574976\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCSports\/status\/1160714101288574976\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCSports\/status\/1160714101288574976<\/a><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Let\u2019s go over the three key parts of this move. You can follow the physics, but I don\u2019t recommend trying this triple-double in your backyard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What. The. Heck. Did you see that? Simone Biles appears to defy the laws of physics with this epic tumbling pass from the 2019 US Gymnastics Championships. It\u2019s called a triple-double. That means she rotates around an axis going through her hips twice while at the same time rotating about an axis going from head [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}