Kids Super Gym Lakewood Ranch

Question

can anyone find out if you can learn how to do front flips and back flips(nothing else) on this website http://www.kidssupergym.com/index.cfm (am a boy 13)

Answer 1

Oh.  I can see why you might want to go there.  They look hot!  I wish i knew about gymnastics when i was your age.

But back to the question. You really need a nice soft thing to land on and a trained spotter to learn this kind of stuff.  It's not like water skiing where when you fall you get wet and maybe a little tired.  Gravity is a harsh mistress on land.  And you're going to fall.

So, my advice is to sign up, and learn it.  You may think that you'll look foolish.  You may think that you'll fail.  But when you're 70, you won't get the opportunity to fail.  I'm not going to take up gymnastics.  I'm learning to play the violin.  Sure it sounds like i ran over the cat - again! Sure, i must sound foolish in front of my very good looking teacher who is half my age or less. But i still practice, and i'm getting better.  And my 11 year old son, who has more time to practice, is much better than i am, and is clearly the heart throb of all the girls in his school - from kindergarten to the high school seniors.  Well, he's the best musician under 18 for twenty miles around.  And it's only taken five years.  Of course, at the state level, there are more advanced kids half his age.  But the locals don't seem to know that.

Also, it doesn't really take that long to learn this stuff.

But let's say you have your eye on someone in particular.  Someone who goes to this gym.  Is there another gym you could look foolish at for awhile, then transfer?