You think my congratulations is a little late? Well, this comes from ignorance. Kendra and I went to Janelle's gymnastics meet yesterday at A West. We could only go for the first hour, as All-Area Worship was at 7. Yet, within that hour, we were able to see how truly difficult gymnastics can be.
Janelle's team did the uneven bars first. It was then that we saw these students in pretty good shape unable to lift themselves up over the bar more than half the time. Then, when there were a couple who could, or those who could do a single back flip for their landing, we were much more in awe.
In the background, another team was doing the vault. And other than the moments when we might've snickered to ourselves due to the funny ways these girls would run, we realized how hard it can be to trust yourself to get over the... um... haha. I don't know gymnastics terms. The brown saddle looking thing? I should wikipedia that.
Her team then went to the balance beam. It was common for a lot of girls to fall off, and it was then we noticed how much stress goes into this sport. How many smiles turned to frowns as soon as they hit the ground. How many times the girls expressed nervous laughter when they stayed on, even though they had just waved their arms like a crane and their torso wobbled uncontrollably until that final moment of equilibrium. Whew.
The cool thing about the meet was that it was fully entertaining. No, I wasn't laughing at the girls' failures, what I mean is there was always something to watch. There were four different things to watch. And the tumbling was always a bonus with the fun music (my personal favorite being "Jump on it" hehe).
So again, props to Miss Johnson. It's just so amazing how easy they make that look.
2 comments:
"The brown saddle looking thing?"
Nice.
So why Shawn? Why does Nastia never get any love? Or the 8-year-old Chinese girls?
hey, i wikipedia-ed it. but nastia doesn't get as much cred because she seemed kind of selfish. not like one could actually tell these sort of things on national tv, but it was the vibe i got. haha.
and true, 8 year olds get mad props. but in all honesty, i only really saw shawn perform, and she gave it all she got in the individual and team events. i'm a huge fan of team players.
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