So, I did an open floor gymnastics thing, actually participating for the first time. It was a blast. The guy who was showing me around (gymnist on gay.com) had previous experience as a circus trapese artist, and knew his shit, backward, forward, and inside out. Tumbling score of 24. I started off the evening with a 1 and ended with at least a 3. Some of the shit he did just made me think “The Matrix”. Then I saw one guy doing a one-hand handstand, and was like “star wars”. scu = nerd, and I love me for it. =)
I did some stuff on the trampoline, practiced handstands and cartwheels, and forward and backward somersaults, tried a little something on the uneven bars (actually there was only one, so not sure what you’d call that.) and on the mushroom (which is like a pommel horse, but less threatening). The last thing we did was sort of a precursor to handsprings. (he said that the last thing I did was an attempt at a handspring, which I’m not quite ready for, but we shall see how long it takes. =)
I’m going to do more of this, dammit.
For some reason, I’ve never been good at handstands. I like to blame it on my long legs, but it’s more likely to be my stomach muscles. Or something.
The single uneven bar is usually just called the “high bar”. Have you done/will you be doing rings? They were my favorite.
Given that last night set my shoulder to feeling twingy today, I imagine it’ll be awhile before I’d be doing something so shoulder intense. This is a very unstructured learning environment I’m working in. =)