Freedom to Pursue Gymnastics?

An Afghan girl practices gymnastics in Kabul in September 2011.

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Since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, Afghan women have gained the rights to vote, work, and pursue an education. They're running for president, they've claimed seats in parliament, and they've even competed in the Olympics. But international troops are due to withdraw from Afghanistan by the end of 2014, and the Taliban threatens to step into the vacuum they'll leave behind. Already, writes Amie Ferris-Rotman in an FP dispatch from Kabul, many of the women who've come so far -- journalists, politicians, and rights workers, among others -- have begun to retreat from public life out of fear for their safety. "Once the Americans go we'll have to sit at home again, bored," First Lieutenant Zakiya Mohammadi tells Ferris-Rotman.
The "last decade produced a league of knowledgeable, determined young women for whom the Taliban's return is anathema," Ferris-Rotman writes.

Gymnastics Rings Anatomy

Desired shape on giants

If she's impressed....doesn't that mean it wasn't impressive?

At LASG:

Hat tip: GymnasticsCoaching.com

Dog: Straddle planche press to handstand

Planching and eating, the sequel to this one:



 I guess it helps to have a big, oversized head.

I recall one of a dog doing a flyaway off a tree branch...too lazy right now to dig that one up (similar to this).