Funny Things People who don't do gym have said?

[gymgymgymnast08]

haha everyone is amazed that we can do splits and im like guys im not even that flexable!

[Masters_Gymnast93]

lol. one times i was explaining my bars to a friend and she goes

"you know when all the ESL (English as a second language) kids speak their Mexican and Chinese?"
"yeah"
"well, Britt, that's what it sounds like to me."

[I-Heart-Beam]

"I'm getting really flexible, I can touch my toes and do the side splits now."
Heard after gymnastics session in PE. I nearly fainted.

[flippin dreamer]

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Originally Posted by I-Heart-Beam "I'm getting really flexible, I can touch my toes and do the side splits now." Heard after gymnastics session in PE. I nearly fainted.

What the heck do they mean by side splits??? Like a straddle....

you should of said "no! just cuz u can touch ur toes doesnt mean ur flexible!"
hahahaha
I hate it when people will brag about being flexible when they just aren't!

[gracefulone]

My friend Matt and I speak almost exclusively French to each other, and my best friend hates it so much, as she takes Spanish. One day Matt and I were having a talk about gymnastics skills (he's an ex-gymnast) and my best friend was like-"YOu guys are horrible. Even when you speak English you don't speak real English"

[gymnasticsbabie]

ahhh hahaha. everyones stories are hilarious. "you got a perfect 9!" lol!

every night my dad asks me:
"soooo...how was your day today? did you learn any new skills on the poles?"
"DAD FOR THE 100th time ITS THE BARS NOT POLES"
"oh right right, so how were your tkatchevs on vault today"
"DAD, tkatchevs are on bars, not on vault! do you mean yurchencos??"
"yea yea those"

its SO embarrasing to take him to meets when he asks my teammates all those questions, but i love my dad to death. he always makes me laugh because he has no clue what he's talking about.


my friends at school were like, "Oh ya i saw stick it yesterday! and they did those flips in the box!"
"uhhh.... um i think your talking about floor???"
"yea whatever same thing"

haha love them!

[icedwings86]

My husband was watching tv and was flipping thru channels when "Cirque du Soleil' happened to be on one of them and he runs out to the kitchen to tell me that I'm missing an exciting gymnastics meet with three gymnasts on the "ropes"!! LOL I had to explain to him that although circus performers can do gymnastics, cirque du soleil is NOT a gymnastics meet

[gymnasticsbabie]

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Originally Posted by icedwings86 My husband was watching tv and was flipping thru channels when "Cirque du Soleil' happened to be on one of them and he runs out to the kitchen to tell me that I'm missing an exciting gymnastics meet with three gymnasts on the "ropes"!! LOL I had to explain to him that although circus performers can do gymnastics, cirque du soleil is NOT a gymnastics meet

ahhahahaha.. my dad did that!! he would like run up to my room and be and be like "oh danielle there is gymnastics on tv!!!" and he would be so proud of himself... unitl i had to break the news that it wasn't gymnastics, it the circus..

[tumblerK]

At school when I talk about gymnastics all my friends are like, "I was in gymnastics when I was little, but now I can't even do a somersault, I'm afraid I'll snap my neck. Plus if I don't hurt my neck then I land on my back." I have tried to explain the concept of a roll, yet they never seem to understand.

[Bbfxvtub]

My dad, bless his heart, was never big on gymnastics terms (but then again, how many dads really are?! Haha). I used to compete a tkatchev on bars... and my dad could never say it. Instead, he called it a "gooma-gotchi". Hahah... he did eventually learn to say tkatchev correctly, but coming from him, gooma-gotchi just sounded right.