There aren't very many videos surrounding adult tumbling/adult gymnastics on KZread so this was nice to see!

@emmaogilvie8679

Жыл бұрын

Yes! I noticed that too. It's really fun making them. I'm taking a break right now but I'm already excited to get back to it 😁 thanks for watching!

@akc1739

Жыл бұрын

I wonder if senior gymnastics would be a thing. 😂 I’m 57 and just started volunteering to help the gymnastics program at my local Y. It was so much fun!

I did cheerleading and gymnastics as a kid. This video encouraged me to revive my love for the gymnastics.

@emmaogilvie8679

2 жыл бұрын

that's awesome! i fell honored :)

@Kamilp03

Жыл бұрын

I was forced to quit gymnastics and lost my spark and I want to gain my skills back

hahhaha don't copy the little kids! that is great advice, actually 😂😂😂😂

@emmaogilvie8679

3 жыл бұрын

i swear, they're indestructible. i saw one fall directly on his head the other day, stand up, and keep going like it was no big deal. i was like no way that would pan out nearly as well for a normal sized human being!

I'm happy you're sharing your journey. I'm learning contortion/rhythmic gymnastics at the ripe old age of 27. 😂

@emmaogilvie8679

2 жыл бұрын

wow! i think contortin/rhythmic gymnastics is waaay harder than artistic gymnastics, that's awesome! the flexibility required for those sports is absolutely crazy. good luck! let me know how it goes!

@maylam27

Жыл бұрын

I thought I started too late, but seeing this comment has given me strength to continue as a rhythmic gymnast (I'm also older than 20) 😂

@oliviaprisacaru8367

10 ай бұрын

Well done ! I have also started artistic gymnastics 3 months ago and I'll turn 30 in November. :-)) No gymnastics background. So far, so good. I am already able to do the flic on the trampoline and looking forward to learn more moves and keep myself in good shape. :-)

Nobody warns you what gymnastics does to your hands. Women's Uneven Bars is the only exercise they have to worry about, but men have 4 apparatus that can turn their hands to hamburger - High Bar, Rings, Parallel Bars, and Pommel Horse. It takes months and years to build up tough calluses to resist the friction of gripping the bars while spinning around. Often they crack and bleed, or a blister forms that eventually rips off, leaving a raw divot in your hand. Not a pleasant prospect for holding hands on a date.

I have been taking an adult gymnastics class, and my class owl is typically is in the early evening.....like not so late that I'm tired (although I am a night owl), bu t not super early that I'm rushing over after work. My coach is also super cool with us not doing an element if we are not "feeling it" or our body is saying "don't."

number 4 was the most helpful and eye opening!..thanks for the video...keep sharing stuff like this...

I did the disaster of loose clothing at rhythmic gymnastics - it fell off and all the little kids were traumatized by my stomach and bra 😅😂

@emmaogilvie8679

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂 glad i'm in similar company! also, rhythmic gymnastics looks super difficult!!

Great video, Emma. Thanks so much!

Cool video! I remember doing dinner forward rolls in my kids gymnastics class. Wish I'd learned how to fold in half!

@emmaogilvie8679

3 жыл бұрын

i forgot you did gymnastics! how long did you do them for? maybe you can teach me a thing or two!

Thanks for giving insights into adult gymnastics! This vid was really helpful

@emmaogilvie8679

3 жыл бұрын

no problem! are you also starting or currently in a gymnastics journey of your own? if yes, i hope it's going well!

@durianninja2464

3 жыл бұрын

@@emmaogilvie8679 yep I am!!! :D

@emmaogilvie8679

3 жыл бұрын

@@durianninja2464 that's awesome!! what skills are you working on? also i love your user name 😂😂

This video deserves more views and likes!

@emmaogilvie8679

2 жыл бұрын

aww thank you! :))

Thank you!

Nice job, Em! Seems like I have a clue about what to get you for a birthday present! 👖 😆

@emmaogilvie8679

3 жыл бұрын

hah! im sure everyone at the gym would appreciate 😊

Thank you for this, I'm looking at starting classes soon

@emmaogilvie8679

Жыл бұрын

that's awesome! let me know how it goes :)

Thank you for the information !!!

@emmaogilvie8679

2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

Love this! More please! :D :)

@emmaogilvie8679

3 жыл бұрын

funny timing! after the video i'm working on currently i'm actually planning to make a part 2 to this video :)

So helpful! Thank you! I’m glad I’m not the only one miffed that adult classes are so late in the evening, and it doesn’t work for me as a morning person. Great idea to do private classes instead… the thing I like about group is that it gives me more time to rest while others take their turn. But it’s true that in private sessions I learn faster… How did you find your coach? :)

@emmaogilvie8679

Жыл бұрын

I'm glad you found it helpful! Honestly, I just called every facility and asked. This guy was pretty cheap compared to basically everyone else otherwise idk if I could've afforded it 😂 good luck! I hope you find something :)

This was really great, thankyou for sharing 😁 I am 41 now, really thinking I am too old for flips but curiosity is (or may) killing/kill me 😅

@emmaogilvie8679

3 жыл бұрын

Life is too short not to try! As long as you have someone knowledgable teaching/spotting you in a safe setting, you'll be good :) Tho that is the hard part isn't it 😅 Finding a gym near you that fits your schedule. I hope you get a chance to go for it because it is worth the experience!

@pixygnunchaku3494

3 жыл бұрын

@@emmaogilvie8679 Thank-you so much 🙂 Yes I find it hard to commit to joining clubs etc because my health varies from day to day and I never really know how I will be, also I would feel out of place amongst all the younger gymnasts, and I guess personal tuition is expensive 😬 maybe I will work something out, much appreciated 🙂

I'm going to try an adult class tomorrow (39, never done gymnastics) and my main question was literally the first one your answered!

@emmaogilvie8679

2 жыл бұрын

That's awesome! Good luck with your class tomorrow! Let me know how it goes 😊

@totalyodel

2 жыл бұрын

@@emmaogilvie8679 It was a lot of fun, but I'm definitely going to be feeling it tomorrow. I was not prepared for how hard it can be on your joints. All I did were handstands and cartwheels!

@emmaogilvie8679

2 жыл бұрын

@@totalyodel ahh yeah, do you feel it in your wrists? i feel like that's what usually gets people on their first day. it takes a while to develop wrist strength and endurance. hopefully tomorrow doesn't feel too rough!

Last month just happened to be the 18th anniversary of the first time I was introduced to the sport as a whole, even if it wasn't in a competitive setting. In that span of time, I've only ever done gymnastics roughly ten or eleven times. Though it has been nearly half that time since I was in the proper setting, I do sometimes wonder if I would be able to relearn certain mechanics at 23. Until more recently, I had never heard of actual classes for adults, and no school or college I have attended ever had it as a sport curiously. Even some events such as Vault and Uneven Bars I've actually never even done at all.

@emmaogilvie8679

3 жыл бұрын

Gymnastics infrastructure is so heavily geared towards kids that it is pretty rare to find adult classes. In order to train 3x a week I'm currently going to 3 different gyms in the greater seattle area (covid availability) but only one of them is an actual gymnastics gym with all the proper apparatuses. i do hope adult gymnastics becomes more popular. it's such a fun way to workout

@emmaogilvie8679

3 жыл бұрын

also, im curious too what you'd be able to do if you started training again. let me know how it goes if you go back 🙃

@colinroberts2060

3 жыл бұрын

@@emmaogilvie8679 In eighteen years, I've never technically done "formal" training per say, and there are still some painfully gaping holes in my skill set. I mean, I still can't flip and I can't for the life of me figure out why. In November of last year, I felt like I had pulled a muscle somewhere in my lower back and couldn't bend forward, despite the fact I hadn't done anything taxing. Because the bed in my dorm room was slightly elevated from the standard position, I had to basically jump into it, the same way a gymnast mounts onto a beam in certain situations. It seems like gymnastics is a fairly uncommon sport where I live in the Mid-Atlantic, even if I live around 90 minutes north of New York City. I sometimes find it fascinating how one of my favorite turn-based sports-along with "Freestyle Slalom" (on Skates), is so difficult to find in a competitive setting where I live.

@emmaogilvie8679

3 жыл бұрын

​@@colinroberts2060 the two non-gymnastics gyms i train at (for gymnastics) are a circus gym and a trampoline/cheerleading gym. they both have spring mat floors and very knowledgable acrobats so that's how i've been getting around the limited availability of adult gymnastics. is there something similarly acrobatic yet not gymnastics per se near you? 🤞

@colinroberts2060

3 жыл бұрын

@@emmaogilvie8679 I'm not entirely sure if I've seen that exact setup which you are describing in person, but there is the potential of there being something like that within an hour west of me. As I said before, I haven't done gymnastics in an actual facility since July 3 of 2012-when I accompanied a Summer camp group on a field trip to a facility in Arlington (NY, not Texas). I feel like I have used certain techniques of gymnastics in other sports though, even when I was leaping over desks in my geometry and environmental science classes in high school to get to a group member on the other side of the room.

love how your channel shows just how painstaking the process is to build up to acrobatic moves. what made you decide you wanted to do this? i’m intrigued by gymnastics and admire it, but was never sure if i really wanted to actually try tumbling (am about your age)

@emmaogilvie8679

2 жыл бұрын

that's funny you call it painstaking! 😂😂 well, glad you love it! haha i've always been drawn to the flippy activities but could never do them because i never had an opportunity to learn it. But now i do so i'm fully taking advantage of it. That's fair that you're not sure you want to try, nobody in my non-gymnastics/tricking friend group is remotely interested 😅 i think at a certain age your body decides the injury risk is not worth it and my body is a bit behind average :p

@ibnkhaldoun4319

2 жыл бұрын

@@emmaogilvie8679 i swam in high school and did track (mostly sprint and broad jump). i’m strong and fast but far from agile so maybe i’ll think about it a little more

@emmaogilvie8679

2 жыл бұрын

@@ibnkhaldoun4319 fair!

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1:20 best part you're welcome everybody

@emmaogilvie8679

3 жыл бұрын

lol

What is the first easiest flip to learn in gymnastics for a beginner?

@emmaogilvie8679

3 жыл бұрын

assuming they aren't flexible or particularly strong, i think a front or side flip would be easiest.

Me : starting gymnastics after a 15 years break ! : What do you mean no leotards allowed for old people like us ??? (3 on the way bought online 😂😂😂😂)

I'm 15 living in Sri Lanka ....there aren't any good gymnastic coaches in this country and my parents aren't very interested in the sport sadly 🥲So I'm planning on starting gymnastics when I go to music University in US or UK in avt 2 years :)))) Wish me luckkkk😁😁😁😁

@emmaogilvie8679

2 жыл бұрын

good luck!!!! that's awesome! i hope you remember to tell me how it goes in two years :D

@sithmi_seya_music

2 жыл бұрын

@@emmaogilvie8679 Definitely!!:) 😄🥰🤩

if you have any other tips, i'm all ears! 👂🌽

@emmaogilvie8679

3 жыл бұрын

😏

Great info! How is it going 3 years later? I am a 29y/o male with zero gymnastics experience and am going to my first adult class tonight (way later than i would prefer, as you mentioned, LOL)

@emmaogilvie8679

3 ай бұрын

how did your first class go? i'm so curious what skills you tried out! sadly, i ran into injuries and haven't been back to the gymnastics gym in a while. they're minor injuries due to poor neuromuscular patterning, meaning i'm doing loads of physical therapy. i can't wait to get back to it though!

@jordanbabcock

3 ай бұрын

@@emmaogilvie8679it went well overall! I worked on super basics like cartwheels and rolls, then we went to the bar and i learned the pullover and had some epic fails attempting a hip circle LOL. Rolls make me INSANELY DIZZY so that's gonna be a problem 😂 i need to do several every day to get my brain used to them. I look forward to going back!

@emmaogilvie8679

2 ай бұрын

@@jordanbabcock that sounds like a blast! i never got a front hip circle but i did get plenty of bruises trying haha you accomplished a lot in your first session--strong work!

@wozziesgirl

2 ай бұрын

@@jordanbabcock Getting dizzy is not at all unusual for gymnastics beginners and will diminish as you get used to the movement and to being upside down. As well as doing rolls it can help to hold inverted poses, like shoulder-stand, headstand, and handstand (front to the wall for a beginner) because your circulation isn't used to having to work harder to pump blood to your feet than your head and the head rush is part of what makes you dizzy.

is 27 years a good age to start at? .. i feel im so old to start even any thing

@emmaogilvie8679

2 жыл бұрын

i think 27 is great! i started at 28 :)

@icesokar3637

2 жыл бұрын

@@emmaogilvie8679 oh,great .. there is no difference hhh between 28 and 27, and how long it takes to get the shape at least.. or to start making progres

@emmaogilvie8679

2 жыл бұрын

@@icesokar3637 i think you'll find yourself making progress quick. There's so many different things to train in gymnastics, so it's easy to find one thing that you did better than last time! strength, endurance, flexibility, balance, skills for each individual event, etc.

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Hi, I am 18 and wanting to do gymnastics for the first time, but I don't know how to find a gymnastics coach or classes. I've looked online and just can't find any.

@emmaogilvie8679

2 жыл бұрын

it's definitely difficult! have you called the gymnastics gyms? sometimes they offer more than their website shows

@pinkiecakes2726

2 жыл бұрын

@@emmaogilvie8679 No, I have not yet, but I definitely will. Thankyou for the help!!

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Imagine starting at 35 like me :-/ .. Great channel keep it up :-)

@emmaogilvie8679

Жыл бұрын

thanks!

@phatcat3705

8 ай бұрын

I'm that age now. Wanted to take gymnastics as a kid but never could. Still every bit as determined to now.

just go out and do a backflip on concrete

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Thank you!

@emmaogilvie8679

3 жыл бұрын

are you on your own gymnastics journey too?

@xxfennyxxrockz4133

3 жыл бұрын

I used to play football, but now I am looking for alternatives because my knee told me not to do it anymore. So I ended up at calisthenics for now to stay in shape.

@emmaogilvie8679

3 жыл бұрын

​@@xxfennyxxrockz4133 what does your knee say about pistol squats? 😁

@emmaogilvie8679

3 жыл бұрын

@@xxfennyxxrockz4133 and that's great that you've found an alternative! it's hard sometimes saying goodbye to a sport/activity you've spent so long working at

@xxfennyxxrockz4133

3 жыл бұрын

@@emmaogilvie8679 It says: "Please take it slowly and increase gradually!". Can you do pistol squats?