Bars. Just Bars. (Skill Explanation Compilation)

I should probably start explaining things more.

I now have three drafts in my post section. All drafts because in the middle of each one, I started talking the "gymnastics talk" and thought to myself, hmm, I should probably tell my readers what this means before I post this. So then I start another one and do the same thing. So now, I am going to give an short explanation for every basic bars skill I can think of.

Random Pictures of Awesomeness

As I was looking for pictures for my previous blog post and came across a ton of really cute pictures, but I couldn't put them into my other one because they had nothing to do with gymnastics. I still feel the need to share them with you, so without further ado......

Best Song Lyrics in the Universe

So, we're deciding which songs to buy right now, and listening to some pretty good ones. And some pretty bad ones. Anyways, here are some the best lyrics in the world universe.

Blast to the Past

I never really know how to answer questions regarding when I started gymnastics and why. Because, truthfully,  I don't remember how I started, and now that I think about it, there was never life before gymnastics for me, or life without gymnastics. Well, except for last year, but that is a completely different story. Me starting gymnastics wasn't my decision, it was my parent's. They apparently couldn't control me. I "moved too much." So they stuck me in dance, skiing, gymnastics, and soccer, but gymnastics just stuck. So anyway, here's my gymnastics story.

The Complications of Gymnastics (Minus All the Flips and Twists)

Today I had a wonderfully confusing conversation with my coach. She is an official judge for USAG, so she knows all the rules for competing, and what the difficulty is for each skill. Now, I'm going to attempt to explain some of the things we talked about, although I am pretty sure that by the end of this paragraph, most of you will decide that maybe that essay you're procrastinating for isn't so bad, or thinking, yeah, I do have things to do. And I totally get that.

The Pros to Having an Injury

No, this post does not mean that having an injury is all fun and games, and it is definitely not trying to convince you to go and hurt yourself. Please. Just don't. It is simply a post explaining the upside to an injury, so that I can stay positive, and it will be a nice break for my friends because I'm sure they are completely sick and tired of me complaining all the time. :)

Meet...... My Teammates

My teammates. My obnoxiously weird friends. My competition. My family. No matter what, they're still my best friends. In fact they're pretty much my only friends apart from about seven, give or take a few, who I go to school with. In this post, I'm going to try to introduce each one so that if I ever name them in stories or future posts, you know exactly who I'm talking about. And I just think this is going to be a fun post.