gymnastics

In our gymnastics class today we had to do many interesting things. Some to me were kind of difficult and some were kind of easy. We had to do these things to measure how our skills were and what we had to improve. We had to do a warm up activity first, which we had to pick pieces of paper and do what they said on them and we had to see who could do the most of these things in two min. After that we had to get a partner, Mike was my partner. The first thing we had to do what a hand stand with our partner. Our partner had to hold our legs this first time, we repeated this three or four times. Then once we accomplished this we had to do one on our own, with our partner still there, but they were to just keep us from falling over. We did continue this for a couple more times. Then we went into our skills portion of the day. The first thing we had to do was a forward roll. You had to obtain a 4 out of 4 to not have to do it again. I received a three on this, which meant I was in the Utilization category, a step down from expert. Next we had to do a backward roll. You would think this would be easy, but its not. I got a two out of four. Next we had to do a cartwheel. I did very well on this i got a four out of four. My partner Mike on the other hand only got a two. They next thing we had to do was walk on the uneven bars with our arms straight out, backwards and forwards. I only obtained a two on this because i have really weak shoulders so it was hard for me to do this. Then we had to do the rings. We had to be straight up and down and then into a sort of "V" type thing. I got a three on this. The other thing we had to do was climb a rope with no knots, and once again i have bad shoulders and am not very strong in my upper body so i couldn't even get up, and also we had socks on which also hindered me getting up. The final thing we had to do was walk forward and backward on the balance beam. I did this well and got a four out of four. This is what we did all class and we are learning how to teach kids to do these things as well.