ex Gymnasts

[Crazy Dave]

Originally Posted by wellbelove's

Today at work we took the kids to my old Flicka Gymnastics school. Its been like 10 years since I climed the beam, swung the bars and jumped into the foam pit... Oh how much I miss it!

Anyways I started talking to one of the coaches who brought to my attention an $8 ADULT drop in class! Its an hour and a half on Wedsdays and Thursday nights.

Im so gonna have to give this go, anyone else intrested?

Can you still to the splits standing on your head.... I'd find you really hot if you can.... opps,,, did I say that out loud.

[Ree Fresh]

In all my years of gymnastics I could never do the splits :( I tyred and tried and i think by my last year i was 2 inches off the ground.

Bev start by practicing your bridge, then stand up and bend backwards into a bridge, then try the back walkdover. If you can push your body up wtih your arms and do a front one, then a back one should be easy once you know how to look for the floor and do all those other things :P

[bebu*funfun]

i look like i have mad abs, but i dont know why i can never flip my legs over. i have a fear of bashing my head on teh ground..so that doesn't help.

ONE DAY ONE DAY.

lol when i think of doin the bridge.. i think *crack*....there goes my spine.

[Ree Fresh]

well im drunk and i think that i cant do it, but at the same time i dould. Like i siad before alot of it has to do with being brave. I use to be able to do crazy jumps on the hgihest beam with out any fear... then this girl hurt her arm and i got all sensitive and full of fear. I quite a eyar later cus i lost all my bravery :(
Anyways i think you need to pucsh yoruself once in awhile to do soem darign things. Doing a back bend involves having very strong arms/guns practice practice... we should do coffee and back bends some time bev?

[veN]

Originally Posted by wellbelove's

we should do coffee and back bends some time bev?

The staff working that day at starbucks shall be more than mildly entertained :)

[bebu*funfun]

hahahha...coffee and backbends date it is.

[veN]

Originally Posted by bebu*funfun

i look like i have mad abs, but i dont know why i can never flip my legs over. i have a fear of bashing my head on teh ground..so that doesn't help.

ONE DAY ONE DAY.

lol when i think of doin the bridge.. i think *crack*....there goes my spine.

Try it starting from the ground first. Lay down with your knees up and go from there until your comfortable with that. Yoga style bridge to start, then the walking over bridge... That's my thought. I could only do back bridges and back walkovers with a spotter bc I was so afraid of falling and cracking my head open! I never took gym tho... Maybe I'd have been braver then.