I signed Mary Austin up for gymnastics as a way to expend some energy. Previously, she had taken dance and liked it but was not very enthusiastic about it. Well, she LOVES gymnastics; this is the understatement of the year. She is constantly flipping off our couch into a beanbag and attempted to do the balance beam on our deck railing! Wednesday was our last class until summer session. In just 8 one hour classes she has learned how to pull up over the bar, walk the balance beam steadily, do a back walkover off the gym wedge and do a front roll over launching off the vault. It is really scary and I have promised her and myself that she will not become one of those anti-social children who only want to eat, live and breathe a sport. You do have to wonder with all the Chinese girls that have been and are being adopted not if but when will Team USA have one of them on the team!
Practicing on the bar!
Dismount!
Airplane arms for the beam!
Back walkover
Mary Austin and Kyler at the end of class!
1 comment:
Wow! She looks really good.
Kim
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