~I was walking past a school a couple weeks ago an there were two little girls practicing mill circles and a full bar routine. It made me laugh because only another gymnast would recognize a full bar routine.
~I was at 6 flags and saw a girl on a set of cement stairs going up one by one and...
I'm always super nervous that I won't have something so I usually have a lot of useless things...
-spare leo
-shorts
-grips
-wrist bands
-knee brace
-ankle brace
-hair ties
-scrunchies
-bobby pins
-headbands
-hairbrush and comb
-Chapstick
-socks
-t-shirt
-hand sanitizer
-Advil and Aleve
-iPod...
The rec class at my gym does conditioning in each circuit it's kind of a warm up do each event but its more conditioning and body positions. Like before bar try do a coupe chin ups, fish swings, inverted hangs. For vault they do sprints and dip runs and lying on pommel and lifting legs above...
About "feeling like the captain." That really doesn't depend on if you're the best or not. One summer I gained with a high school team and the two girls who were going to be seniors that coming year were by no means the best on the team... They just acted like leaders. And I found out later that...
Some of mine do. I've got some rips that just don't go away or leave marks. There is stuff you can put on them. But Ido t because it doesn't really bother me if I have marks. I don't think you can know why is really a scar until you totally stop training because otherwise you're constantly...
We were doing press handstands at the end of conditioning and I was super tired and not really focused. I didn't straddle enough so my fry jot the beam and I was leaning too far forward so the combination if the two made me face plant ( very slowly) into a couple of 8 inches below...nearly all...
I competed for several years and I recently started coaching at my gym. I was given a group of pre-team kids who need to master some tumbling before they can join the team. Mostly they are working on mastering front and back handsprings and beginning to work on back tucks and some a doing front...