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>> They're all ready to pounce.
Gymnasts at Swiss Turners
in West Allis.
And Marvin Kimble looks ready
to make one giant leap forward.
>> Some people are just born
with this gift
to just turn it on.
He's a real all-around.
He's good on all six events.
>> Marvin may be the all-around
best at Swiss Turners since
Olympic champion Paul Hamm.
And he's happy to give you his
take on all six events.
>> P-bar is two bars,
parallel to each other.
You swing in between them,
around them, under them,
over them, flip off of them.
Then we go to vault.
You just run down the vault
one way, as fast as you can,
and hit the spring board,
and bounce off the table.
Then we go to floor.
It's just a floor with springs
under it.
They bounce you in the air.
You get pretty high off the
floor.
Pommel horse is like
the balance beam for guys.
It's very nerve-wracking
at a competition.
It's hard to stay on.
Rings, more of a strength event.
You use your upper body
more than your lower body.
High bar, it's a metal bar.
It's probably
the most scariest event.
I don't know, personally,
I like high bar.
>> The high bar
has liked Marvin back.
Really, all the apparatuses.
>> He's just dominated junior
gymnastics in the United States.
>> Going to the University
of Michigan next year,
on a full ride.
>> Go Blue! Michigan.
>> Michigan's where it's at.
>> There's Marvin.
My little trooper.
He was an active kid.
>> Marvin's mother Carolyn
remembers him as a kid
who could never keep still.
>> When he was born, I kind of
knew he was a special kid.
He was always active.
He was always jumping, moving,
jumping off of things,
and swinging on things,
and climbing up things.
He was trying to do flips then.
I just saw him doing flips
one day, and I said, gymnastics.
I used to take him downtown
and walk a lot.
>> But he was also born
in inner-city Milwaukee.
Not a place where gymnastics
gets much respect.
>> People, where I'm from,
they usually think gymnastics
is gay.
>> We are not in the greatest
of the neighborhoods.
Some teens fall into it.
There's Marvin.
>> Marvin's mother
has worked hard to keep Marvin
from falling into it.
And gymnastics has been a big
part of it.
>> There's his first medal.
>> The arms come up...
She brought him to gymnastics,
primarily as discipline.
She knew that for gymnastics
took a lot of discipline.
And he definitely needed
discipline.
[laughs]
He would just walk off the floor
to go to the bathroom.
Or leave, you know.
We'd go, "What are you doing?"
He'd say, "I gotta do this!"
You know, he was just this
little kid, you know, talking
back to us all the time.
We got kicked out, many a time,
out of the gym.
>> They would literally say,
"Hey, it's over.
Go sit out there and wait for
your mom to come pick you up."
He was being defiant.
>> I was kind of like, "Oh, I
don't need to practice
that much, this isn't that
important."
>> This is the book I put
together with him and his dad
in it.
>> Part of it may have been
that Marvin's father,
Marvin Kimble, Sr., died
around the same time Marvin, Jr.
started gymnastics.
>> After he lost his father,
I worried about how Marvin
would turn out.
He was a pretty angry kid
>> Each year, he got
a little bit better.
A little bit.
And his mother,
His mother is a saint.
>> They worked with him
every night in practice.
They never gave up on him.
He finally figured it out.
>> I was telling him, trying to
make him see the big picture
with his talents.
I said, "Marvin, you have
something where you could go
really far.
You could go all the way."
I said, "But you've go to work
hard, because at the top,
everybody's good.
Everybody's talented.
So, who is the smartest
and works the hardest
is going to be the winner."
>> I have potential to be
one of the best in the world.
You have to train
like its important.
Every turn matters.
Yeah, every turn matters.
>> His next goal is to get on
the world stage
and start turning heads.
>> Whatever troubles Marvin
may have had,
they seem well behind him.
>> I really don't know
if it was his dad's death or...
I just, I don't know,
but gymnastics helped him
channel whatever anger he had
through his sport.
>> And as he starts his climb
to the top,
Marvin seems at peace.
>> I have a cross on my side.
In between the cross, it says,
"Rest in Peace, Father."
I just wanted to keep the name
alive, or at least,
boost the name up, because
my dad didn't really have
that many accomplishments
in his life.
I just want to be the first
and represent him.