-You know you are a gymnast if...
-Gymnastics is life and the rest is just spare time.
-You have never heard of the words whining and wimps.
-Your vocabulary includes rips, wedgies, sweat, determination, and guts!
-You use your swingset to practice your bar routine.
-You sit in a straddle when you are watching TV.
-You have blisters on your hands for life.
-You have become attached to your grips.
-You have more rips in your hands from bar than holes in Swiss cheese!
-You're at the mall and you just want to flip and tumble and hang from all the poles!
-People mistake you for a rubber band.
-You're doing handstands on the monkey bars in the schools playground.
-Your bed is a trampoline.
-You use chalk more often than soap.
-Your body cracks loud enough to stop class but you don't hear it.
-You're short enough to model for trophies.
-Aerial and roundoff are the two main words in your vocabulary.
-Your friends are at the mall looking at the newest fashions, when you're looking at leotards.
-Your hands have more blisters than knuckles.
-You come home with more chalk on you than on a chalkboard.
-You point you toes during pull ups for gym class.
-You dance down the hallway instead of walk.
-Your floor routine music is your favourite song.
-The Matt and Kip you spend most of your time with aren't guys.
-You know most vaults aren't in the bank.
-Practice makes perfect isn't just a saying, but a way of life.
-All your friends are eating dinner while you are at practice.
-Your rips are the size of the Grand Canyon.
-You can stick it without using glue.
-During a Social Studies test, you are tempted to put down what you really studied.
-The Magnificent Seven isn't a TV movie, it's Shannon, Dominique, Amy, Amanda, Dominique, Jaycie, and Keri.
-You do handstands in public bathrooms.
-You do pirouettes while waiting in line.
-You do handstands in the parking lot.
-You can't remember a time when your hands were soft & uncallused.
-You perform well under stress.
-You compete calmly before crowds yet suffers anxiety during school tests.
-You are well coordinated.

-You have the ability to balance your body on a narrow beam yet cannot bend over to pick up the clothes off of the floor of you room.
-You have a new leo for every day of practice.
-Your couch is like a pit where you do all your flips.
-You have bigger muscles than all the boys in school.
-Every thing you do has to do with flipping.
-You promise to never stop gymnastics.... like an energizer bunny that just keeps going.
-Your calves look like softballs because they are so big.
-You go to school and take the chalk home from the chalkboard.
-You tell off boys on dates telling them you have gymnastics.
-Your rips are like craters in the moon.
-Your saying is: it doesn't hurt till the bone shows.
-Beam is super fat, and definitely easy

Gymnastics is like, the navy seals, only harder. There are like 2000 navy seals, there are only like, 200 elite gymnasts Guess that's because there's kids who's rather have a life than spend 6 hours a day training tricks that could kill you. Don't be fooled by the leotards people, the things gymnasts do make navy seals look like wusses. And we do them without a gun.

Gymnastics tells you no. All day long. It mocks you over and over again. Telling you- you're an idiot. If you like running full speed at a staionary object- vault is for you. If you like pulling pieces of skin the size of quarters of your hands- bars is for you. Because the only thing more fun then rips, is when your rips get rips. It's super sexy. And floor, are you serious, who doesn't want to parade around in a leotard getting wedgies and doing dorky choreography. If you like falling, then gymnastics is the sport for you! You get to fall on your face, your ass, your back, your knees, and you're pride! It's a good thing I don't like falling- I LOVE IT!