Hello all,
It has been a long time since I posted anything here although some of you who have been around a long time may remember me.
I wanted to say thank you to Coach Sommer and The Gymnastic Bodies community:
5 years ago I was a wannabe gym rat who loved gymnastics and circus but never had a chance to try either one. I thought stuff it, I bought a set of gymnastics rings online and hung them from a beam in an old building. I could only do 1 pull up full range of motion and after much redfacedness I managed to do an inverted hang.
I thought, there must be a way to learn how to use these, after some high level google-foo I found Gymnastic Bodies.
Fast forward 5 years and after hundreds of hours of training and a very challenging audition I have been accepted into the Nation Centre for Circus Arts in London. This is In no small part thanks to Coach Sommer and you all here. Reading, learning, giving me pointers on videos and encouraging me, through association, to hard work and training at crazy times after long shifts.
So thanks guys, now that I will be studying and not longer working 50 hours a week and trying to squeeze training into every spare hour, I may even be able to become a more active part of the community again.
Michael
