Recent content by GymnastInParadise

I really need help with my back handspring on beam! It is really inconsistent. Sometimes it is really nice and sometimes it is horrible. My biggest problem is hand placement. I try to look for the beam, but I rarely get them on correctly, and one of my hands has slipped off several times. The...

Thank you everyone! I asked my HC and she said that she considers a chasse to end with your toe pointed in front and then counts the step separately. But I will probably always think of the "gymnast version" of chasse step leap as just chasse leap! ;)

I am a ballerina converted to a gymnast, so this confused me a lot. In ballet, a chasse* is when you point your foot out in front of you, step on it, jump into the air with your feet together/ toes pointed, land on your back foot, and step forward. If you are doing multiple chasses in a row...

I am a level 5/6. We condition for at least a half our every practice (we go four times a week). And that is not even counting what we do during actual practice time, at stations and such. I mostly hate anything that I have to hold for more than 1 or 1 1/2 min. I am not big on endurance. Oh and...

When forgetting your gym bag is way worse than forgetting your purse. When you use chalk more than soap.

I think the real reason they counted gymnastics out is because if any random person tried it, they would break their necks. LOL

I am 13 and 5 feet. At school I am one of the shortest in my class but at gym I am one of the tallest of my age. LOL

I started when I was 6 but we moved two years later and I didn't get back into it until I was 10. We found a really good gym and I went straight to the intermediate rec class (level 3/4) because I still remembered some of my skills. Now I am 13 and in the advanced rec program (level 5 and up)...

I was having a gymnastics conversation with one of my non-gymnast friends and she was saying how she thought the hardest thing on bars was "the thing where you go around the bar". I said "You mean a giant, where you stay in a handstand shape and go all the way around the bar?" And she was like...