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does/did anyone else here like doing gymnastics?

i started doing martial arts when i was 6 because my dad was into it. then i progressed to gymnastics and trampolining which i really loved. this is kind of funny because i think am actually a bit dispraxic (i can't dance and i frequently injure myself just walking about the house) but i always found something soothing in the exagerated movements, tumbling, etc. along the same lines, i also love climbing and trapeze.

is this an unusual hobby for an aspergeric?

I did gymnastics at ages 6-7, karate at ages 9-10, and aerobics at age 22-23.

Tim

i used to do gymnastics

I used to do gymnastics, and then did lots of martial arts. Now I do yoga.

I took ballet lessons when in my early twenties, and for a short time, developed an extraordinary sense of balance. I could run on ice and not fall, and balance on very narrow edges. When I got out of the habit, I became my normal, clumsy self again.

so it's not that unusual a hobby then.

i have tried a little ashtanga yoga and i really liked it. do you do a lot of yoga? what style(s) do you practice?

i know exactly what you mean about the extraordinary sense of balance. i find that i can quite nimbly weave my way to the exit of moving buses and trains just in the 30 seconds or so before my stop. which kind of compensates for me not wanting to have to ask people to move, & never realising it is my stop til the last minute.

wish i could dance, but i have poor sense of rythmn and timing. what made you give up ballet?

I did it for a few lessons when I was six or so. But I quit because I was afraid to go upside down.

but it'd be funny picturing the lumbering oaf I am nowadays in a unitard flipping about on the pommel horse in Beijing

I got into other stuff, and than realized that I really missed ballet. Now I am older and not so nimble, so I'm trying Tai Chi.

I have been doing gymnastics on and off since I was 2 1/2.
I'm not good at all, by I really enjoy it.

thank you, that is a very amusing image. i haven't heard the word unitard in ages

I've been studying Capoeira, an Afro-Brasilian martial art, for about four years seriously, two years casually. I had a hamstring pull, so I gotta take a week off, which is killing me right now.

I'm interested more in acrobatics than gymnastics, especially when applied to Capoeira, but dang, it hurts when you screw up. And yes, that is me smacking my head against the floor.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_Yu2YPabJs

Since I've been injured, I started blogging about Capoeira...yes, it's sort of an obsession. Heck, my YouTube account is dedicated to my three main obsessions: guitar, capoeira, and cube solving.

http://eusoucapoeira.blogspot.com

I've been bboyin (a.k.a. "breakdancin") for some years now. Enough said.