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gymnastics back handsprings

Tuesday 24 March 1998

Today I got to attend gymnastics again after the gym was closed for 2 weeks. During those two weeks the moved to a larger facility and I love it! The new place is way bigger and has two floors, two runway trampolines, two big trampolines, a vault, 1 high bar, 3 uneven bars, several low bars, and plenty of room for more stuff that hasn't been installed yet!

I did not really stretch or practice or anything for the two weeks, so I was a bit cautious on the floor. My first bigger passes were just roundoffs, testing out my leg which I hurt playing Ultimate this weekend.

It felt pretty good, so I pulled some roundoff back flips, and once I did 3 goods ones in a row, I did a punch front flip.

Then I did some standing back handsprings! I haven't done them in years and years, and way back then I didn't do them super well. But today they were as good as ever and getting better. I need to stretch out my tummy before I get too crazy doing those again.

Kenneth spotted me on about 4 in a row and I got pretty sloppy because of tired arms.

So I bounced over to the runway trampoline where Sarah, Tanya and Ashley were tumbling. Sarah was doing roundoff backs with two twists; Tanya and Ashley were doing mostly back flips with 1/2 twists or just sloppy back flips.

I did some simple front flips and tried a couple of 1+1/4 back flips but never really got them straight enough to go all the way.

All too soon our 55 minutes was up, though we often stretch it out to and hour 15 minutes... Not tonight.

See ya soon!!!