Going around the obstacle course at a gymnastics class and remembering what to do at each station is far more than gymnastics training.
Asked what the family talks about over meals, he paused for a moment and smiled before saying, "Gymnastics, of course".
There are the many great sports, especially soccer (football to the rest of the world), basketball, swimming, gymnastics, and, of course, my favorite, track and field (known as athletics in most of the world, a tell as to its centrality).
Gymnastics is of course a sport lodged right near the brilliant dark heart of Olympic competition, its legends all bound up in the four yearly parcelling out of that miserly gold.
Of course gymnastics remains necessarily subjective, and what one judge may construe as a small error (losing 0.1 of a point) might be seen as a large (0.5 deduction) error to another.
What are you doing?" The brand of urban-obstacle-course gymnastics they practice may be at odds with the socially conservative mores of Khan Yunis - the southern Gaza town and periodic war zone that they call home - but it is their chosen form of self-expression.
Examples of antenatal classes were 'yoga', 'pregnancy gymnastics' and educational courses in the Netherlands such as 'Giving birth together'.
But, for this woman at least, none of that can beat a combination of free preschools, family allowances, tax deductions for each child, a paid, four-month maternity leave and to top it all off, an extended course of gymnastics, complete with personal trainer and electric stimulation devices, to get you and your birth canal muscles back into shape, courtesy of the taxpayer.
A crash course in gymnastics for BBC Radio 1Xtra DJ Nick Bright culminated in him making a somersault attempt.
I grew up in dance and gymnastics and then of course during recess we would play soccer.
