As a teenager Growing up the best type of movies I enjoyed were movies that involved any form of gymnastics, like cheerleading or dance battles but my best was “make it or break it”,
Have you watched the series? If not its not too late, it's old but still Gold
I watched the series on our video player over and over again till the CD got bad, and my sister has to get the same movie for me multiple times.
I remember trying the moves in the house. i would set two side stools apart and place a rod or stick in between and try to walk from one end to the other with my toes , it is called the BALANCE BEAM.
i did this and so many more to the extent that I would incur some minor injuries , but i didn’t care even when it hurts i would try not to cry because my mother had threatened that if she sees me crying from any form of injury during this adventure she would double the tears because she warned me to stop, well stubborn me I wouldn’t stop.
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I was so flexible as a child, I wonder if it was my love for gymnastics and my regular practice. I remember one time we locked our key inside the house and we needed to get in. We had a protector with spaced lines of the bar, I always used it for my rehearsal, trying to get in and out of the house through the bars. Even when the time I get stuck and even get whooped for it by my mother. But that day they needed my skill to work and effortlessly I got in through the bars and got the doors open from the inside. I felt like a hero all my days of practice paid off.
I love gymnastics because it can be easily done indoors preferably in a Gym and it is not restricted to either being an individual sport or a team sport it can be both. As an individual sport, it can be very relaxing and calming like exercising or visiting a gym and as a team, it promotes teamwork and trust like what we see in cheerleading movies.
gymnastics is a sport for all sports.
It provides strength, balance, coordination, flexibility, and more anyone would need before and during a sport. Doing warm-ups before a sport begins is some form of gymnastics exercise so it is literally for everyone, especially for our day-to-day activities.
I love gymnastics because of how much it teaches patience and persistence; in the movies, you see how much work these gymnasts put into the art, and yet it is almost impossible to get it the first time, but with patience and consistency they eventually get it. they fall over the bars over and over again, miss their steps, get bruised but they get back up and try again. It is always beautiful to watch.
Before I get too excited about saying all the amazing things I love about gymnastics, let me give a proper definition of what it is, for the sake of those who may not consider it a sport.
According to Wikipedia
Gymnastics is a sport that includes physical exercises requiring balance, strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, dedication, and endurance. The movements involved in gymnastics contribute to the development of the arms, legs, shoulders, back, chest, and abdominal muscle groups
Now you see what I mean when I said it's a sport for all sports because according to the definition above all these benefits anyone can get from the sport is very much required to be great at other sports.
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There are so many types of gymnastics activities from aerobics gymnastics, acrobatic gymnastics, artistic gymnastics, parallel bars, balance beam, vault, and others but I love them all. I know I am no more a teenager, I may have lost my flexibility with the new weight gained, but if by chance I were to become a professional athlete, I would work on myself and become a gymnast.