Welcome to the Wild, Wild Gym

Saddle up, Boys!

This was the last week of summer camp and the theme was "Welcome to the Wild West".  With school having started this past week, attendance was light.

I had shown up to the gym early to help out with the excel, Wednesday, but there were so few of them, they really didn't need me.  I noticed a saddle on top of the pbars (campers were learning how to mount a horse) and thought to take a picture of it on top of a "real" horse.

The other idea that struck me was, "how fun would it be to play "bustin' bronco" atop an octagon barrel by suspending it over the top of a pit?

I wanted to try it with bungee cords, but the ropes probably worked better.  My two concerns were the stitching breaking off of the equipment (I figured it'd just be the hooks and webbing stitched on the barrel, which aren't used for anything anyway) and Murphy's Law of a kid falling onto the rope and hurting himself with a scrape.

I tried out my idea with the camp kids with the instructor's approval, and it worked out beautifully.

So Friday, when I told the Hot Shots to bring their cowboys hats in (didn't tell them why), I tried covering the rope ends with noodles (they didn't stay on and I felt safe enough that I didn't tape them to stay on).

I only gave them 2 turns before we did our regular warmup- and it was a blast!

My 6 Hot Shots begin training at the same time as the level 4 team next week, jumping from 6 hours a week to 9-12 hrs, for level 3 training.

Congratulations, cowgirls!