History Film / StickIt

* RealityIsUnrealistic: Creator/MissyPeregrym is well over the average height of a female gymnast (which is ''4'9"'') at 5'6", but while this makes it harder, it's not ''impossible'' to compete at that level at her height, and there are some gymnasts of that height who compete and have success at the elite level, such as Nina Derwael, who won an Olympic gold medal on bars at 5'7".

* RealityIsUnrealistic: Creator/MissyPeregrym is well over the average height of a female gymnast (which is ''4'9"'') at 5'6", making it harder, but not ''impossible'' to be at that level.

* WritersCannotDoMath: On the first day of Nationals, Tricia qualifies to only one event final, but somehow wins the all-around, meaning she had the highest score of the day despite finishing outside the top eight on three out of four events. While it's not technically impossible, it is ''extremely'' improbable, especially given that another gymnast (Haley) qualified to all four finals; the math on that would require things to play out in a pretty exceptional way, but there's no indication that that happened.

* ShoutOut: Haley lives with her dad in Plano, Texas, which may be a subtle shout-out to the fact that Nastia Liukin lives in the same area. It may also be a shout-out to the fact that the (now former) women's national training center, the Karolyi Ranch, is in Texas[[note]]before 2001, the Karolyi Ranch was in fact also an elite level gym, training names like Mary Lou Retton, Kim Zmeskal, and Dominique Moceanu[[/note]], or the fact that Texas was at the time home to two international quality gyms -- WOGA[[note]]World Olympic Gymnastics Academy[[/note]] and Texas Dreams. [[note]]That number would later increase to three with the opening of World Champions Centre in 2014.[[/note]]

* TresAmigos: [[TwoGuysAndAGirl: Haley, Frank, and Poot are portrayed as this.]]

* ShownTheirWork: When Haley lists off the named skills (aka "insanely high mountains") she is training - Geinger, Rulfova, Chusovitina, Shaposhnikova - the skills she is shown performing correspond exactly with the name of the gymnast who first performed them. For instance, when the narration says 'Chusovitina', Haley is seen doing a full-twisting double backflip dismount from the uneven bars, a skill which Oksana Chusovitina had named after her.[[note]]Technically, Chusovitina's named skill is the full-twisting double layout on ''floor'', but there is no name attached to this dismount, and it's actually not uncommon for names to be "borrowed" in this way to describe skills that resemble a named skill (i.e. "[[https://balancebeamsituation.com/onodi-mount-dunn/ Onodi Mount]]" on beam).[[/note]]

* PlatonicLifePartners: Haley's relationship with Frank and Poot. The simple fact that she doesn't have a love interest is actually one of the things people compliment this movie for.

** Walk out of a competition for no apparent reason? Prepare to be mocked, mistreated, and hated by every fellow gymnast you encounter! (To be fair, she did cost them a freaking ''world medal''; it's understandable that at least the girls from that team wouldn't have an easy time letting that go.)

* ShownTheirWork: When Haley lists off the named skills (aka "insanely high mountains") she is training - Geinger, Rulfova, Chusovitina, Shaposhnikova - the skills she is shown performing correspond exactly with the name of the gymnast who first performed them. For instance, when the narration says 'Chusovitina', Haley is seen doing a full-twisting double backflip dismount from the uneven bars, a skill which Oksana Chusovitina had named after her.[[note]]Specifically, the dismount Chusovitina debuted was a "full-out" -- a double backflip with a full twist on the second flip. In the film Haley actually performs a full-''in''; however, real-life limitations -- namely, that only a scant handful of gymnasts have performed a full-out dismount since Oksana Chusovitina debuted it in the '90s -- certainly make this "error" forgivable.[[/note]]

** The format of Nationals in the film is that the first day is the All-Around and the qualifier for event finals, and the second day is event finals. However, while some countries do conduct their national championships this way, the format of USA Nationals is that all gymnasts get a chance to compete all events both days, and then the combined scores from both days are used to determine all-around and event rankings. The USA has used this two-day cumulative score format at least as far back as the late 1980s, so it's not just a matter of the film being a little behind the times either.

* WritersCannotDoMath: On the first day of Nationals, Tricia qualifies to only one event final, but somehow wins the all-around, meaning she had the highest score of the day despite finishing outside the top eight on three out of four events. While it's not technically impossible, it is ''extremely'' improbable, especially given that another gymnast (Haley) qualified to all four finals.

* WritersCannotDoMath: On the first day of Nationals, Haley qualifies to all four event finals while Tricia qualifies to only one, but somehow Tricia wins the all-around meaning she had a higher combined score than Haley. While it's not technically impossible, the math on that would require some pretty remarkable things to happen, but it's not even treated as remotely noteworthy.

* WritersCannotDoMath: On the first day of Nationals, Haley qualifies to all four event finals while Tricia qualifies to only one, but somehow Tricia wins the all-around meaning she had a higher combined score than Haley. It's theoretically possible, but it would require things to add up in an exceptionally improbable way.

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* AlphaBitch: Joanne.
** Tricia too.

* MandatoryUnretirement: Haley was forced back into Gymnastics after getting into trouble with vandalism, though mot everyone seems happy she is back. She shocked everyone after she scratched out of Worlds, basically screwing her team and teammates like Tricia, which she takes heat for when she comes back. See RetiredBadass.
** It's understandable that she quit [[spoiler: after finding out her coach was having an affair with her mother.]] though she kept that to herself

* HeelFaceTurn: Joanne
** Also Tricia, at the end of Nationals.

* {{Jerkass}}: ''Both'' of Haley's parents, Joanne's Mom, and Haley's former coach. And don't get us started on the judges at finals. Unbelievable.

* SeriousBusiness: Walk out of a competition for no apparent reason? Prepare to be mocked, mistreated, and hated by every fellow gymnast you encounter! (To be fair, she did cost them a freaking ''world medal''; it's understandable that at least the girls from that team wouldn't have an easy time letting that go.)

* TechnicianVersusPerformer: Tricia Skilken (technician) versus Haley Graham (performer). Subverted in the fact that Haley ''does'' have the skills to match Tricia, and even top her; she's just erratic, in that sometimes she nails it and sometimes she "can't control [her] tricks."

Haley and her teammates eventually make it to the National Championship. When one of the girls, Mina (Maddy Curley), is denied her rightful '10' for the reason of having a bra-strap showing (an ancient and rarely-invoked rule, only brought up because of Mina's teacher), the other girls band together in an attempt to fight the judging system. As a whole, they choose who has the best routine for an event, and allow that girl to do her full routine, while all others forfeit their chances, effectively choosing the winners and breaking the system.

* TruthInTelevision: Sadly, many of the complaints made about the current gymnastics judging system are all too based in reality, although this was exaggerated for the film.

* SpiritualPredecessor: To ''Series/MakeItorBreakIt''.

* ShoutOut: Haley lives with her dad in Plano, Texas, which may be a subtle shout-out to the fact that Nastia Liukin lives in the same area. It may also be a shout-out to the fact that the (now former) women's national training center, the Karolyi Ranch, is in Texas[[note]]before 2001, the Karolyi Ranch was in fact also an elite level gym, training names like Mary Lou Retton, Kim Zmeskal, and Dominique Moceanu[[/note]], or the fact that Texas is currently home to two international quality gyms -- WOGA[[note]]World Olympic Gymnastics Academy[[/note]] and Texas Dreams.

** The format of Nationals in the film is that the first day is the All-Around and the qualifier for event finals, and the second day is event finals. The actual format of USA Nationals is that all gymnasts get a chance to compete all events both days, and then the combined scores from both days are used to determine all-around and event rankings. The USA has used this two-day cumulative score format at least as far back as the late 1980s, so it's not just a matter of the film being a little behind the times either.

** There's also a mistake regarding how the rotation setup works. In the film, all the girls start on vault, then move on to uneven bars and so on. In reality, Nationals work like the Olympics; gymnasts would be broken up into four groups, each starting on a different event, and multiple routines would be happening simultaneously. (This is also likely a situation where it was simplified because reality would complicate the plot; if the real format was followed, not only would it be harder for the gymnasts to talk to each other to plan the rebellion, but it would also mean there would almost certainly be at least one routine on each of the other events prior to Haley's scratching on vault.)
*** Similarly, the format of Nationals in the film is that the first day is the All-Around and the qualifier for event finals, and the second day is event finals. The actual format of USA Nationals is that all gymnasts get a chance to compete all events both days, and then the combined scores from both days are used to determine all-around and event rankings. The USA has used this two-day cumulative score format at least as far back as the late 1980s, so it's not just a matter of the film being a little behind the times either.