What kind of gymnast are you???!!

[Geoffrey Taucer]

I'm about to turn 21, and about to come out of retirement as a competetive gymnast. After three years of not competing, I'm going elite next year, and will hopefully be competing floor, vault, and rings.

For most of my life, I've done gymnastics more for recreation than anything else; I competed up to level 8 on all six events, and up to level 10 as a floor/vault specialist, and never really had elite aspirations or anything like that. I just did it for fun.

But now that I have the prospect of elite competition in front of me, I'm working my butt off to get ready, and still essentially doing it for fun -- and having a blast.

[kvgymnast]

i am 14 years old, level 10, fave events are floor and beam, gonna work on front handspring front piked half or front full and a half on vault, getting back all of my stuff on bars (broke my elbow), back fulls and front handspring front tuck on beam, and double back pikes on floor.
my fave skills are front giants on bars and back layout stepouts on beam and front doubletwists on floor!!!

[gymkitten08]

I'm 11 years old a level 4 I go to a YMCA

[Asherz<3]

I'm ashley. I'm a level 9. I'm on a club team. I'd say my favorite event is beam but my best event is vault. I dont exactly have a favorite skill. I dislike skills that take forever to learn lol. Well who doesn't. I'm planning on getting a jager on bars. And revise my yerchanko vault. Eekk. lol

[gymkat]

I just turned 20 and compete college club (NAIGC). It's a great opportunity for gymnasts who aren't quite good enough for NCAA or who don't want to make the time commitment. We use L9 rules with L10 bonus, so my routines are basically stock L9 things with a random D thrown in occasionally. My favorite events are bars and floor, and I should be a lot better at vault than I am. I don't really like running at and throwing myself over stationary objects.

[NYgymfan]

Heh, just realized I never posted in this one. I guess you could say I'm a rec gymnast...at my girlfriend's club. I'm taking tumbling classes and maybe a guy's gymnastics class just to learn how to do some stuff. Since I'm kind of old (will be a senior in HS) i doubt I'll be good enough to compete before I'd graduate....oh well, but ya never know! Gymnastics and tumbling is awesome though, its even more fun than I thought it was going to be!!

[Beetle711]

Im 12 & 1/2 and working on going to lvl8.I tried last year but decided to go back to lvl7.I LOVE giants!And i like BHs except the 1st 1 it just makes me nervous.I suck at vault im working on fixing that. It's getting better now so thats good.Im workin full &1/2s on floor thats the big 1 but also jonsons and round off popa(is that how you spell it) and FH front lay out and front to full.thats just floor. Bars pirrouettes(again is it spelt right) and cast to handstand.Vault tsuks.AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!Beam BH BH im really close (if i could just take out the arm swing)

now you know .I answered your question.

[perfect10nist]

I'm seventeen and I used to be level six, but I quit a year ago. Right now I just take the tumbling class. I go to a private gym. I liked all the events, but I really sucked at beam. I couldn't do anything without wobbling and falling off (at one level five competition I fell off three times and wobbled on everything else so I got a 5.45, w00t!). My favorite event to do would probably be vault or floor, since I really like tumbling and running at stationary objects . My favorite skills are any sort of backwards tumbling on floor, switch leaps, handstands, kips on bars, front handsprings and half-ons on vault, and side handstand dismounts on beam (you don't have to land on the beam! ). I'm deathly afraid of flyaways and giants on bars and anything that involves tumbling on high beam. I'm also afraid of tumbling into a foam pit. I cannot do a standing back tuck to save my life (I've been trying for three years ). Right now I'm working twisting on floor and standing back tucks.

[mac.n.cheese.flipz]

I am 12 (almost 13 yay!) and I'm in level 7. My favorite events are bars and beam. Some of my favorite skills to do are toe hects on bars (they are very fun!) tsuks, double backs off a tumble track into a resi, and double flyaways into deep foam. I'm not really afraid of anything yet but I dread the day when my coach is going to make me try a tkatchev O.o