Posted on 05/13/2006 8:54:42 PM PDT by davidosborne
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Good for her :-)
Okay so maybe I am just showing off my gymnast daughter a little...
FReegards,
David
That was cute. Here's wishing her great success!!
:)
It will be interesting to see how much she improves next year... she really seems to enjoy it...
David
That's what childhood is all about. Take good care of her!! I hope she enjoys herself.
You Know You're a Gymnast When...
There's at least one piece of broken furniture in your house, with a corresponding bruise or scar on your body.
Curbs become imaginary balance beams, and railings become instant parallel bars.
You love to spin pirouettes on the kitchen linoleum.
You subconsciously work on your pancake or toe point while watching tv.
The palms of your hands are tougher than the soles of your feet.
You drift off to sleep dreaming of new skills and combinations.
You compute your ultimate all around total using your highest scores to date on each event.
The gym feels more like home than your house.
You don't feel 'right' warming up before workout until at least one body part cracks.
You're injured and serve as a score flasher for 10 hours at your gym's invitational - and return the next day to do it again.
You daydream in school, jotting down routines in your notebook, with each move labeled A, B or C.
You miss the secure feeling of a bar in your hands when you're not at the gym.
You just can't resist a cartwheel, handspring or leap at the beach or park.
Your eyes are like radar when it comes to spotting gymnastics broadcasts in your local TV listings.
The noise your ankles make while walking alerts people that you're near.
You use chalk more often than soap.
The topic of almost every English writing assignment is about gymnastics.
You actually use the words "virtuosity" and "amplitude," and you know what they mean.
You're often called upon by your parents to show guests "what you can do". You usually act shy about performing but inside you love it.
You're swimming at a pool and you try the hardest gymnastics skill imaginable - underwater.
At school, you raise your hand with perfect form: arm straight, fingers together and pointed.
Your P.E. teacher gives you the ultimate physical test, you finish and ask what to do now that you've warmed up.
You can beat any boy in your class at arm wrestling.
It's almost impossible to find boots small enough for your feet but big enough to fit over your calf.
In your circle of friends, 5 feet is considered tall.
You do your homework in a straddle split.
Except for gymnastics, you haven't watched T.V. since......?
When you hear a good song on the radio, you start choreographing a routine to it.
Your idea of American History begins after Kathy Rigby.
You believe that there are only two kinds of people: GYMNASTS and those who wish they were!
Gymnastics is life and the rest is just spare time.
You have never heard of the words whining and wimps.
Your vocabulary includes rips, wedgies, sweat, determination, and guts!
You use your swing set to practice your bar routine.
You sit in a straddle when you are watching TV.
You have blisters on your hands for life.
You have become attached to your grips.
You're at the mall you just want to flip and tumble and hang from all the poles!
People mistake you for a rubber band.
You're doing handstands on the monkey bars in the schools playground.
Your bed is a trampoline.
Your body cracks loud enough to stop class but you don't hear it.
Aerial and roundoff are the two main words in your vocabulary.
Your friends are at the mall lookin at the newest fashion, when your looking at leos.
Your hands have more blisters than knuckles.
You come home with more chalk on you than on a chalkboard.
You point you toes during pull ups for gym class.
You dance down the hallway instead of walk.
Your floor routine music is your favorite song.
Practice makes perfect isn't just a saying, but a way of life.
All your friends are eating dinner while you are at practice.
Your rips are the size of the Grand Canyon.
You can stick it without using glue.
During a Social Studies test, you are tempted to put down what you really studied.
The magnificent seven isn't a tv show, it's Shannon, Dominique, Amy, Amanda, Dominique, Jaycie, and Keri.
You do handstands in public bathrooms.
You do pirouettes while waiting in line.
You do handstands in the parking lot.
You can't remember a time when your hands were soft & uncallused.
You perform well under stress.
You compete calmly before crowds yet suffers anxiety during school tests.
You are well coordinated.
You have the ability to balance your body on a narrow beam yet cannot bend over to pick up the clothes off of the floor of you room.
You have a new leo for every day of practice.
Every soft floor is like a place for tumbling.
Your couch is like a pit where you do all your flips.
You have bigger musles than all the boys in school.
Every thing you do has to do with flipping.
YOUR SAYING IS: it doesnt hurt till the bone shows.
Beam is super fat, and definitely easy!
Every pole you see you use to do backhip circles.
The jeans you buy to fit your calves are too big in the waist.
Every crack in the sidewalk is a balance beam.
It takes a whole bottle of hair spray to put your hair up in the morning.
You still wear scrunchies in public.
You walk through your routines when standing around in class.
Your gym friends see you more often than your parents do.
People look at your hair and say, "You're a gymnast, aren't you?"
You eat dinner, do homework, and study for testS in the car on the way to practice.
The tee shirts you own are from various competitions.
You have more injuries than the football team.
Vacation? What's that?
You spend more time at the gym then at home.
Your hands are as hard as rock.
Every curb is a balance beam.
You have 10-15 sisters.
When your parents have company you are the center of attention.
You've gone through more sandals then tennis shoes.
Everyone at physical therapy knows you by name.
You've been out of gym class for 8 weeks because of injury yet you still manage to compete twice in those same 8 weeks.
The lady at the attendance office knows exactly what to write you a pass for.
Your gym teacher loves you because of all your injuries.
You spend friday nights and saturdays at the gym.
Instead of heading in to the nearest Abercrombie you head to the nearest sports store for a new leo.
The boys at school are scared of you because you can easily beat them at arm wrestling.
Plane Tickets, Who needs them, you can already fly!
You can name the scores of your favorite gymnasts from any competition and any event.
You have a lot of spring Jackets to chose from. There's your team one from 3 years ago and from last year......
You print out this list and highlight everything that is true.
Every number is highlighted.
Watching TV turns into a streaching workout.
Everywhere you go, you practice your floor or beam routines.
You stand up doing your homework, standing on the balls of your feet to work on being "on toe".
You dance around while doing your homework.
Your pajamas are a gymnastics tee shirt with a sweatshirt over it and the got chalk shorts!
You are counting down to the minute till the summer Olympics start.
You know your a sad case when all that you ask for your birthday is tickets for the TJMaxx tour.
You show up to a basketball game with wet hair and have just shoved down fast food coming from a practice!
When asked to define a beam in science, you immediately respond "a four inch wide apparatus...."
You judge your gymnastics video tapes.
Your coaches see you more than your parents.
You constantly imagine new tricks and routines you will do at practice.
Even though you spend your friday nights and saturdays at the gym you still manage to finish dinner and homework in the car then rush and take a 2 minute shower, change and still manage to go out with your friends afterwards.
Strangers come up to ask you how you got so muscular.
You can pull the skin off your hand without wincing.
You're a klutz!
You have two sets of friends, your school friends, and your gymnastics friends.
You actually talk your non-gymnast friend into putting a leotard on.
Flipping on a four inch beam, six feet off the floor seems normal.
Getting a new floor routine is just as exciting as winning the lottery.
You relate life lessons to things that happened to gymnasts.
God bless you bro! You are justifiably proud.
Thanks Jeff !!
Children...what gifts!
Thanks for this ping...a nice treat.
Amen !
BTTT
Thanks EGC !
There was a lightning round also where he got fourth place.
David,
Most excellent.
Dick Bachert (proud father of 3 and grandpa of 6)
Give him my compliments and congratulations and tell him to keep up the good work!! My Dad was a High School math teacher, he'd be so proud of your boy!!!
You and David are blessed!
Excellent !!
My pleasure !
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