Is anyone else here a fan of gymnastics? I've been following the sport for 16 years now. I post on five other forums regularly, four of which are devoted to gymnastics. I also hold a 16 year subscription to the magazine International Gymnast.
I'm very excited about the upcoming Olympics. Even though I follow the sport through all major and minor competitions, the Olympics is kind of the big build up for us gymn fans. The scoring system has changed and the perfect 10 is no longer the ultimate score. If fact, if you score a 10, you've actually done quite badly! I'm interested to see how the general public reacts to this.
Anyway, just looking for other spooky gymn fans.
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I was a gynmast and diver growing up.
Oddly I haven't followed the sport since then really. I kinda got out of the sport when I was in the gym and we had a collapsed trampoline with a spot belt attached to the ceiling. The tramp was collapsed in a way that it was up on one end and down on the other. (imagine a square tramp, shaped like a ramp) anyway... on the collapsed end was a concrete pit filled with foam. We were horsing around one day doing triple sumi's off the top without the spot belt. I overshot the pit, and landed on my femur on the edge of the pit. Snapped it right in half. That pretty much ended my team gymnastics career since I was 17 when it happened, and over six months in a plaster cast... ya, that's doom for a gymnast.
The sport has gotten incredibly insane in the last 20 years. some of the tumbling they're doing now, we wouldn't even have dreamed of. Granted, the floor technology is a lot different now than it was then....
Personally, I don't think the sport is all that healthy for young women. I know I suffered after-effects from what I put my bod through all those years.
Oddly I haven't followed the sport since then really. I kinda got out of the sport when I was in the gym and we had a collapsed trampoline with a spot belt attached to the ceiling. The tramp was collapsed in a way that it was up on one end and down on the other. (imagine a square tramp, shaped like a ramp) anyway... on the collapsed end was a concrete pit filled with foam. We were horsing around one day doing triple sumi's off the top without the spot belt. I overshot the pit, and landed on my femur on the edge of the pit. Snapped it right in half. That pretty much ended my team gymnastics career since I was 17 when it happened, and over six months in a plaster cast... ya, that's doom for a gymnast.
The sport has gotten incredibly insane in the last 20 years. some of the tumbling they're doing now, we wouldn't even have dreamed of. Granted, the floor technology is a lot different now than it was then....
Personally, I don't think the sport is all that healthy for young women. I know I suffered after-effects from what I put my bod through all those years.
subscriber for 16 years? thats older than the contestants! which is the problem I have with the "sport." If a 13, 14, 16 year old girl can do it better than 25 year old women, its not worth doing.
QUOTE (The Mule @ May 13 2008, 07:46 PM) 
subscriber for 16 years? thats older than the contestants! which is the problem I have with the "sport." If a 13, 14, 16 year old girl can do it better than 25 year old women, its not worth doing.
By the time you're 17, your gymnastics career is pretty much over or on the serious downslide.
At some point, after puberty, girls bodies just change and stuff just doesn't rotate the way it used to. Hips, hiney, chest, ya, it just doesn't like to go upside down anymore. LOL.
Gymnastics has turned into a little girls sport really.
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