Okay, so i'm covered in chalk and sweat and it feels PRETTY GROSS! I would go take a shower but it's occupied so i figured i would waste some time writing a new entry instead, hehe :)
For the record, i wore a black leo with sapphire highlights and rhinestones today, with sky blue and yellow TNA short-shorts. pigtails as always, since my hair isn't long enough to tuck into a ponytail without half of it falling out.
Today, there were new students! I won't mention their names, though. There was a girl that was around my height and age (though she is totally prettier, i'm so jelly hehe), and sisters at age 12 and 8, who are adorable and from Cartwheels! However, the crying girl didn't come back :(
We started with warm-up as usual by running lines, and then we would do high knees, kick bum, inchworms, and more. donkey kicks, kick handstand with both good and bad legs, split leaps, wolf jumps (i don't have enough coordination for that...) catleaps, kicks and the straddle push thing that i hate so much.
And then something new... a front support position (so that's pushup position) with hollow back, and without bending your arms or legs, hop across the floor by pushing with your shoulders and fingers and feet. i can't really do it.
and also handstand pops, which i can sort of do, and handstand rolls, which are not difficult at all (though i cannot do straight-arm handstand rolls)
Finally, we started stretching, so normal flexibility things, bridges, splits, straddles, butterflys. but then, a new stretch, and it goes like this -
you lie back on your back with your legs in a butterfly, and your partner (or the coach in this case, because neither me nor the girl was willing to do this - it feels strange and exposing, especially since we're wearing shorts) will push your knees towards the ground. maybe it's my inflexibility, but it HURT. it felt like being crushed. i wasn't even embaressed about the position i was in anymore because it HURT. and then i start laughing because that's what i do when something hurts. o_o
we went to beam and bars first today, splitting off into two groups. my group went to beam and did forward walking, backwards walking, forward on tippy toes, and backwards on tippy toes, then switched to bars.
we would hang from the bar and lift our chins up to meet the bar, then straddle up to touch our feets to the bar, and slowly go back down, then chins up again (or not) and pike up instead, and slowly come back down. it works abs but i don't feel it o_o
back to beam! bunny hops forward and backwards, followed by kicks, dips, and tuck jumps (and i was NOT doing a tuck jump on the high beam! i learned before that straddling the beam after falling out of a tuck jump, or any jump, HURTS!!)
back to bars, and we worked on chin up pullovers, kick pullovers, cast x5, back hip circles. then we got some free time, so i did a kick pullover, a front hip circle, and almost instantly i could cast and tuck onto the low bar. then i jumped to high bar. then we went to the tumble track and we did as follows -
- straight jump x10 + handstand flatback
- tuck jump x10 + front tuck
- pike jump x10 + front layout
- straddle jump x10 + front layout / front tuck
- flysprings + trick of choice.
naturally, with the new girls, not everyone did the above as follows. sometimes we substituted the tucks and layouts for dive rolls, for the beginner girls.
Then to floor, where i worked on my back handsprings on the incline mat. it was not difficult but i was a bit worn out by that point so around 70% of it looked nice and pretty, the other 30% had bent arms or flailing legs.
The other girls worked on different things -
one worked back handsprings with me
one worked back tucks
one worked cartwheels and rolls
one worked round-offs
two worked front handsprings / back handsprings with a spotting block
then we were done, present, and off we go to eagerly await next week! :)
It was a fantabulous day - full of fun!
No trampolines, but plenty of amazingly advanced male gymnasts to watch - whilst i cannot aspire to be like that (since girls' gym and boys' gym is different) i very much enjoy watching them, since it is so close and so real, unlike how when you watch the Olympians, there is always a disconnection because it's through the TV and you don't get it - they're not there, living, breathing, encourging each other the same way you are in the same place you are.
Fabulous overall.
A bit more tired and hungry than last week, but that's alright.
I'll regret leaving RGA in winter term when i return to Phoenix. I'd stay if i could, but i cannot afford both and i really want to return to Phoenix <3
Well, that's that!! <3
^^ Till next time! :D
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