So what is gymnastics "all about"

[I-Heart-Beam]

Ooooh, good question!!!

Gymnastics for me is having fun and making the most of myself. A lot of people about the same age as me are involved in gangs (guys and girls). Four girls in my year have recently got pregnant. Gymnastics keeps me out of that and gives me a chance to do something not a lot of people can do while having A BLAST.

Sorry for excess cheesiness.

[gracefulone]

I started gymnastics because I was flexible. I stayed with it because it was fun an it was something that I had to work at. I love working at something and then being able to see how far I've come.

I started coaching first and foremost because I was fifteen and needed a job. I wanted a job that I'd a) be good at and b) enjoy. Coaching is so rewarding and it reminds me what I used to be like and that little faces look up to you every day whether I'm coaching or practicing.

[gymmomntc2e6]

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Originally Posted by krazykidzmom My kid is much harder on herself, and it is very stressful. I wish she could have that attitude.

My dd is a perfectionist. She is very hard on herself. If someone else can do something that she cannot it does not matter if they are older, stronger, been doing it longer - she thinks she should be able to do it. This stressed me out at first in the gym. But in the last 6 months she has changed. She is competing and doing ok. I was very worried at first. But now she just loves to be in the gym. School is still a nightmare (compares herself to everyone and may give herself an ulcer before she is 8 if she doesn't learn to not worry about what everyone else is doing). But at the gym she is happy all the time, can't drag her out. She is confident there.

All I want is for her to have fun. Whenever she has a meet (she has only done 2, but has one next weekend) we tell her that we just want her to have fun and to try her best. 1rst or last does not matter. Of course she is in a better mood when she leaves w/ a medal around her neck LOL

[gymgymgymnast08]

1.I am a perfectionist too I think, so I hate when I can't do a trick that I have done before or should be able to do. I'm not leaving til I do this trick!
2. No matter how many hours you practice how many tricks you have theres always something else to challenge you.
3. All the conditioning= Muscles.
4. Your team becomes your family and your coaches become your parents.
5. The pride you feel when you finally get that trick or nail that beam routine... PRICELESS
6. Discipline- I believe that gymnasts have much more discipline then other athletes. We can't be thinking about something else when we are doing. We have to focus.
I can give many more reasons! I LOVE GYMNASTICS! <3

[Kayleigh]

That is a great question.

This sport is amazing. I've learned more about life and the real world than I think I would've doing anything else. I think that's what this sport should be about.

I also think that it should be fun, more than anything. That's why I'm still around. That's what gymnastics was to me when I started. Even now at level 6 (which I HATE, by the way :P ), I'm at least trying to make it fun, even if it's not.

[CoachL]

I coach to be rich....umm wait I'm in the wrong profession

I coach because it is a rewarding job. I've never been very good at putting my feeling or thoughts onto paper, but I know that I coach because that is what I was meant to be and its what I'm very good at. I think I may take the more hard core approach than some coaches, I coach to put kids in college, I coach to put kids on the national team, I coach to make national champions, I coach because it is fun, I coach because it is challenging, I coach because I enjoy being in the gym, I coach because I love seeing a child succeed in every area of life, I coach because I am.

that was corny, that is the basic jist of it.

[cccam]

i don't know why i do gymnastics. the sport just fascinates me. i can't really grasp and wrap my mind around the fact that their or 14 yr old girls who can be at an elite status. idk the whole thing just gives me such a rush. if im not doing gymnastics im thinking about it,watching it or making montages of it. I can't EVER imagine my life without it

everyone in my family doesn't understand why i always talk about gymnastics and why i wont stop going and i wont stop training. its like they want me to give up or something, but i don't think ill ever be able to let go of this beautiful sport