Gymnastics Lessons - Lesson Two

The girls have both been wearing leotards all week long and practicing different moves.  Riley is especially working so hard and just loving it.  Julia is having tons of fun and smiles so big the entire time.  Riley has a more focused look, but when not doing something and waiting her turn, she is all smiles.

The girls went easily to their groups today and followed their instructors to the warm-up area.  They split off and started with their groups.  Julia worked on the bar, trampoline, running to the springboard and landing on the large mats.  It was hilariously cute to watch her do it the first time.  She ran as fast as her little legs could go and then hit the springboard, stopped on the springboard and then just fell into the mats on purpose right onto her face in slow motion.  Then she got up and ran back laughing to her teacher.  So very much a Julia thing to do!  Loved it!!!

Riley worked on her cartwheels, handstands, rolls, jumps, bar, and running on the runway to jump on the springboard into the high and tall mats.  On the bar, she was told to swing forward and catch the soccer ball between her knees and then hold it there while she was hanging on the bar.  She did a truly amazing job at it!!  Looked very hard!  She did some really awesome cartwheels too.  Was quite impressive to see her make progress just in the last week!

At the end of class, her instructor came to me and told me that she was offering a six week course starting on Saturdays in May and that she thought that Riley would really benefit from the class as she is doing great, but needs some work on her upper body strength.  Totally makes sense as she has only done two classes!!  She said more time in the gym will help her accelerate her progress and that Riley is already up there with the top girls in her class.  I asked if she was doing great and she said that Riley is doing fantastic.  That she is really doing great.  So we'll see if we can do it.  She sure does love it.

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