It also takes discipline of a different kind to handle the pressure of competing at the Olympics, says Kyla Ross's coach, Jenny Liang.
"I feel her biggest challenge at the Olympic Games is her own mind," said Jenny Liang. "Her mind has to be even stronger. She has to think, 'I've practiced this 1,000 times. It's just changing the venue.' If you think too much, you cannot do anything."
Liang and her husband, Howie Liang, have coached Kyla for the past seven years. They met in China as gymnasts for the Chinese National Team and moved to the United States, where they opened the Gym-Max Academy of Gymnastics. The Liangs say that being a coaching team works well in training athletes.
"Between the two of us - look at him, he's very gentleman-like, he's like a grandfather," she said.
"That's how you coordinate," said Howie Liang. "The Chinese say, 'You have to have two sides.' She is sometimes stricter, then I'm nicer."
"They don't really yell at me too much, so that's something that I'm lucky about."
Kyla Ross is the youngest member of the U.S. women's gymnastics team.
"I enjoy sort of being the youngest and having older girls to look up to have advice for [me]," she said.
Kyla was born in Hawaii, where her parents enrolled her in a gymnastics class when she was three years old to burn off some of her energy. Jason Ross says he never expected his daughter to go to the Olympics.
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