Hi, my name is Jordan Dahl. We're talking about advanced floor gymnastics, and the last thing I wanted to cover is having fun. We talked about this earlier, but I wanted to reemphasize it. For whatever reason you're in gymnastics, you're in this training, whether it be your parents are drilling it into you or whatever else the reason may be, you want to make sure that you are having fun. These next couple of tricks that I'm going to show you aren't recognized at competitions, but they're just something that I've kind of come up with to make sure that I'm having fun, and not getting too serious about training. Now these skills that you acquire in gymnastics, can really follow you to a number of different places. I've had the opportunity to share these talents in the theater, on film, and even in cheerleading competitions. As you come up with these fun passes, you need to really take a step back and do a risk assessment in your mind. You need to check and see whether you're up to par for those kind of things, and as you're considering these more fun skills, really making sure that you can stay in control of them. Because of the skills that I learned in gymnastics, I kind of got pulled on to a cheerleading team, which ended up being a really fun experience. We ended up going to state, taking first place, moving on to nationals, and taking second at nationals. So just keep in mind that these skills can really take you other places besides just gymnastics. Just a word of caution to you about cheerleading, if you want to get involved with it while you're still training, kind of make sure that that's ok with your coach. Cheerleading tends to kind of sloppy up your technique. So make sure that if you are going into that, you're checking yourself on every tumbling pass, making sure you're still in control, you're still remembering those basic fundamentals of technique and proper skills on those tumbling passes. Let me show you one of my favorite tumbling passes that I like to do just for fun. I'll start off, round off Arabian, open up into another round off, back handspring with back handspring and then I do what I call a ninja kick or a kick out. You kick up and you split your legs apart. You land down in kind of a spider man position. You can turn over if you've learned what an aerial is. You can do an aerial into a front tuck.
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