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curefan85
Hi everyone!
I just wanted to introduce myself since this will likely be the main forum I'm active in. Quick background: 24 year old female in Virginia, took gymnastics for a few months when I was maybe 12 (or so?), obviously didn't advance very far in such a short period of time but always remembered how much I enjoyed it! So, now, here I am...struggling to find hobbies and such and stumbled back into gymnastics after realizing a local gym offered adult classes. I'm so happy I did! I've only taken one class so far - but I thought we did quite a bit for "beginners" - rolls, cartwheels, roundoffs, handstands, some quasi-vaults...I'm glad I had the little background I did so I knew enough not to be completely lost!
The only downside was it's a rather large class and we didn't really get any individual instruction (which seems to be a common complaint here). Better than nothing though - I'd still happily pay to have an hour a week to play on the equipment! (also sad it's only an hour a week! - need to find some open gyms in the area!)
During the last 15 minutes or so we got to go off and do whatever we wanted - I gravitated to the bars because I remembered liking them as a kid. I was so proud - I was able to do a pullover on my first try (though much harder than I remembered them being!) and then I got my back hip circle on my first try, woo!! Though that's about all I could remember how to do (and probably all I had the strength for) - still I was pretty psyched!
What a fun time - ever since I have been reading as much as I can about adult gymnastics, and it was very encouraging to find this message board. So thanks for sharing everyone! I'm looking forward to class number two tomorrow! Hopefully I won't be quite as sore afterward this time, ha...
I just wanted to introduce myself since this will likely be the main forum I'm active in. Quick background: 24 year old female in Virginia, took gymnastics for a few months when I was maybe 12 (or so?), obviously didn't advance very far in such a short period of time but always remembered how much I enjoyed it! So, now, here I am...struggling to find hobbies and such and stumbled back into gymnastics after realizing a local gym offered adult classes. I'm so happy I did! I've only taken one class so far - but I thought we did quite a bit for "beginners" - rolls, cartwheels, roundoffs, handstands, some quasi-vaults...I'm glad I had the little background I did so I knew enough not to be completely lost!
The only downside was it's a rather large class and we didn't really get any individual instruction (which seems to be a common complaint here). Better than nothing though - I'd still happily pay to have an hour a week to play on the equipment! (also sad it's only an hour a week! - need to find some open gyms in the area!)
During the last 15 minutes or so we got to go off and do whatever we wanted - I gravitated to the bars because I remembered liking them as a kid. I was so proud - I was able to do a pullover on my first try (though much harder than I remembered them being!) and then I got my back hip circle on my first try, woo!! Though that's about all I could remember how to do (and probably all I had the strength for) - still I was pretty psyched!
What a fun time - ever since I have been reading as much as I can about adult gymnastics, and it was very encouraging to find this message board. So thanks for sharing everyone! I'm looking forward to class number two tomorrow! Hopefully I won't be quite as sore afterward this time, ha...
