Gymnast Strength Impresses Me More Than Powerlifting Strength

[NickEdge779]

This looks impossibly difficult.

[stuntmovie]

Thanks, NICK!

I really appreciated seeing the amazing stuff these "new" kids can do.

Two of my nephews were Cirque du Soleil performers the first few years after it opened in Las Vegas (Mystere and Zumanity) and back then I never  thought that their 'performance' could ever be copied or repeated.

But that video proves that I was wrong and that each new generation will do something that the older generations previously thought was impossible.

In my earlier days yow were  a 'star' if you could ride a skateboard down a narrow street or hit the big waves at Sunset Beach.

What could possible be up next that will impress us old farts??!

[Tennisballz]

This shows how valuable gymnastics are to little kids.  If they grow up doing gymnastics they will have crazy functional strength.  It must take years to develop that kind of strength.

[ritch]

Thanks, NICK!

I really appreciated seeing the amazing stuff these "new" kids can do.

Two of my nephews were Cirque du Soleil performers the first few years after it opened in Las Vegas (Mystere and Humanity) and back then I never  thought that their 'performance' could ever be copied or repeated.

But that video proves that I was wrong and that each new generation will do something that the older generations previously thought was impossible.

In my earlier days yow were  a 'star' if you could ride a skateboard down a narrow street or hit the big waves at Sunset Beach.

What could possible be up next that will impress us old farts??!

Such a good post. I often think of everything you said, pretty much the exact same way.

[Radical Plato]

Check out the Shaolin Monks for incredible body movement and strength.

[ritch]

I wonder if the people in the first row need to sign a waiver to attend them swinging those crazy weapons.

Don't fuck with tha monks!

[stuntmovie]

Thanks, RITCH! ( I think.)

TENNIS, good gymnasts do start at an early age.

It's been a while but I think my nephews started shortly after they reached the age of four.

At the age of about three and a half I watched one of my nephews standing on my brother-in-law's shoulders while my bro-in-law road the unicycle I gave him for a Christmas gift.

I paid for his first gymnast lesson and he stayed with it though the end of college and then joined the Cirque here in LV six months before Mystery opened to the public.

They actually started training in a good sized tent on TI's property as the showroom had yet to be built.

My oldest nephew \ was one of the performers who did the back-flip from pole to pole (among other amazing stuff) which was taught to hm by a group of Chinese acrobats from a small town in China where everyone was an acrobat.

I hd the opportunity to meet the performers and see most of the Cirque shoes and I have to admit that each of them are true athletes in the strictest form of that word.