Flippin' Class!
I used to work with a woman who took her 3 year old son to gymnastics. It was basically a tumbling class, but her kid called it "Flippin' Class." As it turns out, The Doctor is now taking He Tell Jokes to Flippin' Class.
They're going with two brothers from our congregation. The younger of those brothers actually has some potential so he was moved into a more advanced class on a different night. The older brother and He Tell Jokes were kept in this beginners class. I went last night to see what it was all about.
It's actually pretty interesting. They thought they were just taking a little beginner's class at the local community building. But the place seems pretty serious about gymnastics. The gym is ginormous and there are tons of kids with various trainers using it at the same time. The two guys in charge of the class last night were obviously Russian. I'm guessing they'd been through the Soviet athletics program as gymnasts. That's some serious stuff.
The boys did various rolls and cartwheels down a long mat. They did a couple of things on the palmel horse (I'm too lazy to check the spelling on that). They did a couple of moves on the rings. They played on a trampoline and jumped into foam. They climbed a rope. All things that little boys should love to do. And they did look like they were having fun.
The parents can't go into the actual gym. They (we) have to sit in a very small windowed room looking out at the gym. The view is not very good. You can't really see into all the corners. So we missed the boys playing on the rope. While sitting in that little room, we spoke with one of the mothers. She explained that it was a pretty serious place. Most of the kids train at this place their whole lives. Also, most of the kids try to get gymnastics scholarships to college. Whoa. You should have heard her reaction when The Doctor mentioned that her son was just beginning at 10 years-old. She was like, "He's 10 and he's just now starting?" The Doctor had to emphasize that her son was only doing this for fun and to get a little exercise. The look on the lady's face was like, "Yeah, that's all he's gonna get out of it." And she had seemed so normal up to that point.
I don't really want to comment on the abilities of He Tell Jokes, cause he is just starting, but suffice it to say that I'm thinking of changing his name to Was That Supposed to Be a Cartwheel?
They're going with two brothers from our congregation. The younger of those brothers actually has some potential so he was moved into a more advanced class on a different night. The older brother and He Tell Jokes were kept in this beginners class. I went last night to see what it was all about.
It's actually pretty interesting. They thought they were just taking a little beginner's class at the local community building. But the place seems pretty serious about gymnastics. The gym is ginormous and there are tons of kids with various trainers using it at the same time. The two guys in charge of the class last night were obviously Russian. I'm guessing they'd been through the Soviet athletics program as gymnasts. That's some serious stuff.
The boys did various rolls and cartwheels down a long mat. They did a couple of things on the palmel horse (I'm too lazy to check the spelling on that). They did a couple of moves on the rings. They played on a trampoline and jumped into foam. They climbed a rope. All things that little boys should love to do. And they did look like they were having fun.
The parents can't go into the actual gym. They (we) have to sit in a very small windowed room looking out at the gym. The view is not very good. You can't really see into all the corners. So we missed the boys playing on the rope. While sitting in that little room, we spoke with one of the mothers. She explained that it was a pretty serious place. Most of the kids train at this place their whole lives. Also, most of the kids try to get gymnastics scholarships to college. Whoa. You should have heard her reaction when The Doctor mentioned that her son was just beginning at 10 years-old. She was like, "He's 10 and he's just now starting?" The Doctor had to emphasize that her son was only doing this for fun and to get a little exercise. The look on the lady's face was like, "Yeah, that's all he's gonna get out of it." And she had seemed so normal up to that point.
I don't really want to comment on the abilities of He Tell Jokes, cause he is just starting, but suffice it to say that I'm thinking of changing his name to Was That Supposed to Be a Cartwheel?
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