The gymnastics thread

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I opened this thread because i want to tell you guys about gymnnastics, and my experiences with it, and i will update too, and you can also tell your experiences as well

Gymnastics...

It I had to name, out of everything, the thing that I am worst at... Gymnastics would be it lol

Couldn't be worse at it if I tried really!

Are you good at it?

I was in it when I was 5-8. It was fun, we did trampoline, jumped in the block pit, we did fun stuff. I hated the balance beams because it was so hard and I always needed help with the high beams and I quit when I was 8 because it got too hard and we didn't really do much of the fun stuff. My mom told me I got to an age where kids start to train than doing it just for fun and my body wasn't made for that. I think it was mostly my coordination that was the problem.

Wow this is like bizarre coincidence... my Norwegian friend and I also liked gymnastics...

For me though, my experiences with gymnastics were all about pain! ! I liked it when I first tried it in high school as part of gym class, but I wasn't in shape then so I really couldn't do it well, always falling down and lacking sufficient strength or coordination. Even though I was utterly crap at it, I still liked it a lot, and I distinctly remember marvelling at all the cool stuff on TV the US men's gymnastics team did at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.

I tried a gymnastics class a couple years ago at my university, but although I'm in slightly better shape now than I was in high school, it was still crazy difficult. I just don't have that short ectomorphic body type to do all the flips and stuff very easily, plus I would see some of the people doing somersaults and almost landing on their heads or necks which is rather scary. Having the gymnastics coach be some old guy in a motorized wheelchair wasn't very reassuring either...

Am i the only fan of gymnatsics It's the ONLY thing i like about school, everything else:

I will begin with elementray school, I didn't like team sports, but enjoyed endurance tests, push-ups, sit ups, jumps.......

It was the same until the 7th grade, then i were the climbing champion in the school or maybe the 2nd best climber, i had a rivalry with one of my friends at that. I began getting interested in team sports when i was 13, i loved football, basketball, volleyball. I signed up for the school tournament fpr volleyball in the 9th grade, and we thought we won, until the teachers played against us, and we lost .

I will later tell what it's like in high school gym. (Hint, it ROCKS )

I arrived at 8th out of 10th place in a school marathon, consisting of running as fast as you could in a half mile.

I think your definition of gymnastics is a bit different. Like, I would call gymnastics, jumping about, rolling about and doing somersaults, walking on beams, swinging on horses, rings, bars, that kind of thing that you see on TV and I am not good at most of that, presumably due to lack of co-ordination although I'm sure that there are a couple of things that I maybe could have done had I really practiced it.

However, endurance, type stuff like push-ups, sit-ups, doing weights at the gym and stuff was always fine.

When I was at school I was one of the worst in my class at most sports but nowadays I'm probably not the worst out of everyone my age because a lot of girl's fitness tends to deteriorate as they get older, have kids etc hehe

lool I meant gymnastics horse, not equestrian horse lool you must've seen guys swinging on them on TV lool

I don't ride either lol, fink equestrian horses are quite cute but wouldn't fancy all that mucking out.

Anyways why I am talking about gymnastics anyway, it's not like I would know anything about it

I'm curious about something: Do the Brits who say "maths" as short for "mathmatics", also say "gyms" as short for "gymnastics"?

er, nah, there is no short for gymnastics cus gym is short for gymnasium