ELISABETH HOUSE
Table of Contents Introduction .............................................................................................................................. 3 The Tools You Need ................................................................................................................ 3 These Things Are Hot!............................................................................................................ 3 Wow! Amazing! ........................................................................................................................ 4 Yes! I Win! .................................................................................................................................. 4 Glossary ...................................................................................................................................... 5 Index ............................................................................................................................................ 6
Introduction
Do you like gymnastics or even sports? Well if you do, you’ll love my book. If you keep reading my book, you will learn how to do flips, what they do in gymnastics and a lot and I mean a lot more! Keep reading, and you will be very f, if you do it. Listen carefully and if you like gymnastics, I bet you, all of your dreams will come true.
The Tools You Need Do you want to learn what some of the equipment is in gymnastics? Well these are some of them: there are mats, vaults, trampolines, parallel bars, and balance beams and, uh, there’s probably more. I love doing flips on the parallel bars. What about you? If you do, you’ll probably want to sign up for gymnastic lessons cause then you’ll actually know how to do it properly like I do. Here are some instructions about how to use the equipment properly: The mats are either used for jumping, landing or falling on. The vaults are for jumping or kicking off of. The trampolines are for jumping on. The parallel bars are used to flip and swing on. You also need chalk on you’re hands to do it. The balance beam is used for practicing balance and doing hard tricks on. It is very fun. I’m sort of still a beginner so I’ve mostly just practiced dipping and jumping and stuff pretty easy, especially for me. Well, I hope you’ve enjoyed this chapter and enjoy the others!
These Things Are Hot!
Do you like fancy stuff? Well I do, even though tights and gymnastic suits aren’t very fancy. Some of the suits and tights and stuff are hot. Some just feel good. I for one, think most of them feel very good even if they’re actually hot. Do you? Anyways, I
like the clothing they wear. (Oh, and they also wear Wristbands. The Wristbands feel good) Well, anyways, you better not wear clothes that are hot because even if they feel good, they’ll be hot so beware.
Wow! Amazing!
Do you want to learn the different moves in gymnastics? Okay, than here they are: back flips, forward flips, summer salts, cartwheels, hand stands, backward summer salts and probably a bit more. Anyways, those are some of the different movements. I like cartwheels and handstands. Do you? Did you know that this stuff can actually be used for fighting too? Well if you didn’t, I just told you. Practice Makes Perfect! If you want to do something like gymnastics, you have to practice. To practice for gymnastics you have to do these things: Focus, never give up, listen to instructions, do stretches, warm up, do the splits and of course, practice. It’s hard and fun to practice. What ever you do, keep practicing. You know what they say, “Practice Makes Perfect!”
Yes! I Win! “Come on! Go! Beat her! Beat her! Oh, hi! Sorry, just watching the gymnastics Olympics on TV.” They have to focus real hard, they do. “Right now they’re doing some competitions. I love watching them. You should watch it at home more often, at least if you don’t watch it as much as you can already. Well, I hope you’ve enjoyed this book. Practice at home if you can! Goodbye!
Glossary
Cartwheels‐ are things that are like handstands but instead of staying on your hands as long as you can, you do a little twirlish thing. Competition‐ is when gymnasts face each other at gymnastics Flexible‐ means that your body can do stretches and hard stuff in gymnastics‐ Gymnastics‐is a sport that you can be in the Olympics for. Handstands‐are something that you get on both of your hands and stay on them as long as you can. Parallel bars‐are bars that you swing from bar to bar and do flips on. Routines‐are things that you have to memarize for compatitions for gymnastics. Splits‐are things that you have to split your legs on the ground all the way down either side‐to‐side or front‐to‐back. Suits‐are things that you wear for lots of things and also for gymnastics so you will feel comftarble and will beavle to stretch as much as you need to for compatitions for gymnastics. Tights‐are like legins but cover up your feet too. Trampoulines‐are things that you jump on and can jump cool tricks on it like flips or something. Vaults‐are things that you jump on to a mat or walk off of. Wristbands‐are things that you put on your wrists so they don’t get hurt at all.
Index
balance beam, 3 clothing, 3 competitions, 4 equipment, 3 gymnastics, 3
movements, 4 Olympics, 4, 5 parallel bars, 3 Practice, 4 Wristbands, 3, 5