Aside from all that, we quite enjoyed ourselves. The vault is much more impressive in person. D loves the uneven bars - which turns physics and the highly trained human body into something magic and impossible. The "timed warm-ups" entertained us immensely, like watching high-level playground antics of very talented children. Boingy-boingy-boingy! The balance beam is far less interesting, TV loves it because it can get dramatic camera angles with little risk of a body falling on them. But from any distance, it's fussy and slow.
The sprung floor is easier to understand seen directly, as well. Not that it makes their leaps and flips any less impressive, only that they really couldn't do it at all on plain concrete. At least not for long. And there were plenty of young women in U jackets with various slings and braces.
I struggled to get out of the small seat in the steep tier without falling. Oh, how the once flexible have stiffened.
The snow continued, but we only had a few blocks to walk to the train. Dressed warmly, out of the wind, we chatted and enjoyed the snow, out past our bedtimes.
3 comments:
What fun! You know, I realized just the other day that the shoulder-roll that saved me from injury last year, when I was doored while bicycle riding, was a reflex from taking lots of gymnastics as a kid. It was one of the very few physical things I was good at.
Dale,
I remember that. Probably saved you a dislocation at very least.
Sounds like a great idea... I don't know if we have much of an equivalent here.
Our local pool does have provincial diving championships every couple of years, perhaps that would be the closest we would get.
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