You raise a good point. I was reading the other day that the NFL is facing bad times because many parents of the millennial generation refused to let their kids turn out for football due to possible injuries. And then I heard yesterday that there is a demand to make cheer leading a sport because of its physical demands. Of course there are no injuries in cricket and soccer, right?
On 10/23/2012 01:57 PM, Ravi Chivukula wrote: > I also watched this video - I was wondering at the amount of beating her > head and body was taking. But I suppose it's all good. > > On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Robin Carlsen <[email protected]>wrote: > >> ** >> >> >> >> >> --- In [email protected], "raunchydog" <raunchydog@...> wrote: >>> Juliette got her membership card for USA Gymnastics in the mail >> yesterday. Membership allows her to compete in USGA meets anywhere in the >> country. USAG keeps track of scores for meets and ranks skill levels. Her >> first official USAG competition will be in Coralville Nov 16 & 17. I took >> this video on my IPad...no zoom and I couldn't do any editing. The image is >> tall an narrow, there's a full view of how high she flies. She's working >> out for an informal intra-team competition next Saturday. The kids are >> wearing Halloween costumes for competition...should be fun. >>> http://youtu.be/ruWo52D0xoA >> Dear raunchydog, >> >> I must be careful here not to be influenced by anything other than my own >> perception--I say this because every once in a while posters post in order >> to buck up the morale of other posters, and you have said some nice things >> about me--There might be a temptation therefore to try to curry favour with >> you by saying something positive about Juliette on the trampoline which is >> not merited by a strictly objective observation of her performance. >> >> However as someone once fanatically devoted to athletics--and still a >> sports fan--I must say that Juliette does seem to have a real confidence, >> happiness, and self-sufficiency in her trampoline action. She has a sense >> (or so it seems to me) of a self-determination that for me has everything >> to do with achievement--and real fulfillment--in this context of physical >> coordination and skill. I watched Juliette twice and I liked her own >> self-context, even as she was being coached on the sidelines. >> >> Robin >> >> >>
