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Sabrina Voinea: The Next Simone Biles?

Here is my concern: Simone wasn't throwing these huge skills at 13. She was learning her body, learning techniques, focusing on execution and becoming a mature athlete. NOW she can push the bounds of gymnastics because she has this solid foundation of the basics as well as the maturity to understand how to achieve the best result. This girl is extremely talented and has a lot of potential, but as we see time and time again, putting this much pressure and difficulty at this age leads to injury, mental blocks and a whole slew of other issues. I hope they don't push her too far

 

No. She’s the next Sabrina Voinea. Why do we have this need to make a talented athlete the next “so and so.” And it would be nice if we could chill with putting all the pressure of being the next big thing on these young gymnasts. I’m sure she has enough pressure from coaches and the program.

 

Simone wasn’t doing these skills at 13 because her coaches were pacing her well. It’s all about timing. Romania better be careful or she’s going to burn out.

her back handspring shows me that they aren’t teaching her proper technique whatsoever and are only concerned with her throwing as many big skills as possible :\

I just hope they are pacing her well enough for such a young girl, but she is incredibly talented!!!! ❤️

Absolutely not. It's about safe, progressive skill development and technique. She is a very young girl who does very difficult elements. Simone herself didn't put all of her difficulties in until she reached senior year, and even so, it was a progressive development. It is interesting, because it speaks of a promising future for the Romanian program, but time will speak for itself.

She’s very good for being so young, but her form needs ALOT of work

Romania watching Sabrina: she’s going to be the next Simone Biles!!! The gymternet watching Sabrina: she’s not even going to make it to senior level if they carry on like this

 

I hate all this, they did it before with "the next Nadia" and now "the next Simone." Nope. Nadia was Nadia, Simone is Simone and this girl is going to do wonderful things too. Stop comparing, it's so annoying.

 

Okay, unlike a lot of you, I will make no comment on pacing or any thing in that nature. I'm not the coach, nor the athlete, nor have I ever trained with one. But, as a personal trainer, her legs do not seem to be strong enough for her to be throwing some of these skills on hard floors yet. The way she lands the double-double especially concerns me. Her poor knees...

You can tell they aren’t really stressing technique. Bent knees and flexed feet and she’s landing low and while still twisting.

She is using poor technique to finish her skills. Sometimes she still lands short. I see this all the time on the boys' side. The guys who dominate as they get older are using impeccable technique with slightly easier skills when they are younger. Technique must be learned early. Muscle memory sets in makes it automatic. Learning it later is almost impossible.

Body type is completely different, I think it is a very bad idea to draw any comparison at such an early stage to such a historic person as Simone Biles. Doing so will only put undue pressure on this young lady to live up to expectations that may be out of her reach.

I feel like if she corrects her technique on her back handspring and extend it more she will definitely generate more power because her backhandspring looks pretty flat rn

I think at this point in time, it's absolutely fine that she's playing around and training these difficult elements. She's already miles ahead of most girls her age and getting comfortable with difficult skills at this age may just bode well for her in the future. My only fear is the Romanians will look to her as their "new Nadia" and present her as the gymnast to dig Romanian Gymnastics out of the hole they've found themselves in, therefore putting a lot of pressure and expectation on her like they did with Larisa. I am fully aware her mum Camelia Voinea is heavily involved in her training, so hopefully with her experience as a gymnast she'll know how to manage her daughter's career and pace her properly.

There can only be one Simone Biles. I wish this young lady to have a chance to be the best version of herself and not a copy of someone else. She has a bright future ahead of her

Yeah, not sure a 13 year old needs to carry the weight of social media expectations on her shoulder....

I hope they focus more on her health then the big skills

Every time I see a young promising gymnast, I am like, will she make it to her senior years without any major injury ? This being said, I wish her all the best :)

This girl has a giant future cause she is not afraid of doing this HUGE skills for such young age..she needs to be good on food and work out for to keep her health and body great for this difficult..needs a little bit more flexible and the back too..Good for romania

Given her technique on truly everything, I'm just hoping and praying she stays healthy enough to have a successful and lucrative career as Sabrina.

Instead of looking for the "Next Simone Biles", why not allow these young gymnasts to be the best version of themselves. Simone is a unique, once-in-a-generation athlete. We won't see another one like her for a very long time, if ever. So let these young girls be who they are rather than push them to do skills that are probably too difficult for them. Frankly, I worry that they might burn this girl out or injure her.

Simone really was a ball of raw talent at this age but she did not get refined or do that difficult of skills until she was about 15. I hope this girl doesn’t get burnt out

When I was this age my couches a where making me focus on my technique pointing my toes, squeezing my knees, reaching longer and safer in my back hand spring, blocking my arms and getting the correct form in every movement I do. Not just after every skill straight away pushing to the next step rather than working on perfecting the skill so once we do go to the next step it will be safer and have less chance of injury. I have imfact noticed imperfections in every skill she does which proves this point further. I don't mean any hate to Sabrina or her coaches she is an absolutely amazing gymnast and brilliant for her age just I think that her coaches need to work on perfecting some of her skills and to not pushing her this fast.♡

No one is the next Simone. There is only one Simone. I hate how people do that.

She’s got the power for sure but the technique hasn’t caught up yet. If she stays healthy and finds safe qualified coaches like Simone she’s got a possibility

Why didn't they say she is the next Simona Amanar or my favorite Romanian gymnast Lavinia Miloșovic? Romania has a very long history of great gymnasts. There is only one Simone Biles.

No. Simone has excellent form. This girl’s form is awful. I fear the will get hurt if she keeps those low, uncontrolled landings.

Lovely gymnast ! But can we stop labelling girls as ‘the new_____’. She has her own style and I would like to see her do well as herself. Not trying to be anyone else. Xx