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gymnastics beanie babies

Tuesday 3 November 1998

Last week I didn't go to gymnastics because I hurt my ankle jumping over Maggie's couch. I did go this week, but my ankle wasn't happy enough to do round off back handsprings on the floor.

Today my heart just wasn't into tumbling. I did several russians (russian style front flips) and 1 back hand spring.

However, on the trampoline, I did a lot of fun stuff!

Mostly I bounced and bounced like Thunder Rabbit does in the Sauna and I did a couple of back flips. Then I did a ton of front flips, all in a row.

Now, they weren't front flips landing on my feet each time, but front flips landing on my shoulders/back each time. The first time I did them tonight, I was able to do 9 in a row. I was a tad dizzy after that.

The next time I did 12 in a row!

I did a couple of front handspring vaults, and a straddle vault and two (almost) stoop throughs (That's where my legs stay straight and go between my arms.) The first one was good, but the second one I had bent knees.

And then I had a delightful brainstorm.. Why not collect all the beanie babies that were strewn around the gym and bounce with them all on the trampoline? I couldn't think of a good reason not to, so I collected 4 of them.

{Boingy} {boingy} {boingy} {boingy} I went and they didn't bounce as high as I, but they boinged and binged and bounced around as I jumped.

I made up a game of seeing how few bounces I could take and bounce each of them high enough to catch all four. (not necessarily at the same time) After a little bit of practice, I was able to do it in 6 bounces.

About 15 minutes of bouncing beanie babies was all I could handle, so I did a couple more vaults or something..

It was about time to go home, so I did some final cool down leg stretches with Carrie (sp) who happens to live across the street from me, and went home.