Flexibility

I am a very flexible person. Both in terms of being easy-going, and literally in terms of doing the splits and that sort of stretchy-thing.

When I was 16, my tap teacher turned 50. I thought she was so cool because she could do the splits at 50. I decided to make it a personal goal to be able to do the splits at 50 too. I'm not even close to 50, but I am over 35, and I can do the splits still. I hadn't done them in a year or so, but last night, I tried. I can still do the right side perfectly, but the left hamstring has been a little injured of late. I'm only about 90-95% splitting (is that a verb?) on the left side. I will be stretching and working on doing the splits on the left. Maybe, if you ask nicely, I'll post a picture :-).

I was reminded of my goal of the splits when Nino posted her Mother's Day adventures. I want her to be my new BFF. Her post reminded me that I need to make sure I can acheive my goal.

I am a firm believer that turning upside down on a regular basis will keep you young! I did a backbend last night to loosen up the old back (yea, it still hurts). I was pleased that I could still do one after a couple years of not, and will work on getting back in walkover and handspring form. Three pregnancies in four years tends to put a damper on how many cartwheels and walkovers one does! My goal for the weekend is to capture some photos of N (5) doing a cartwheel, and K (3) and T (21 months) doing some tumbling too. Maybe I'll get MWH to catch one of my cartwheels on digital bits. Fun, fun!