Pass It On

A Rubbery Slope

I was perusing through my files, trying to organize; I decided to put this up for Erin, as it's nostaglic. From around Winter Camp, 2004 at SMGC, during a snack break.

New Soul Birthday

Kaliray is one of our SMGC kids who migrated over to LASG. Last Sunday was her birthday party, and I was happy to have been asked to work it. Robyn and Heather are also former SMGC coaches who worked the party, along with coach Desiree.

The zipline (which you can see in Malaika and Anna's video) broke on Saturday, so we worked without one of the main attraction party gimmicks at LASG. This was only my 2nd part at LASG, so I'm a bit out of my groove on running parties and learning the LASG format and material.

Kaliray is another kid who I've always loved, but who I don't see enough of. She misses a lot of gymnastics classes (at LASG, she's signed up for my Monday intermediate class along with Malaika and Anna- all originally part of Al and Teri's junior advanced Wednesday). Cute as all heck. Some of that should come through in this raw footage:



I hope to someday use the footage in a future video. One-legged inch worms are what we call one of SMGC's standard warm up passes across the floor where you hold one leg high in the air, then move both arms forward, followed by moving the bottom leg forward. I remember teaching a class of physically fit stuntmen/martial artists and it just about killed them. Most of the kids don't have much love for the exercise either, in spite of the cute name given to the drill.



Anna and Malaika were at Anna's violin recital, so weren't at the party.

I wish I had better footage of my handstand push-ups at the beginning of the video; I did two no problem, with Kaliray on my back without touching the mat (not confident and consistent yet to do it away from the wall) the first go round; but was too muscle-tired to do it in 2 takes for the camera. I'm way past my prime, but think I want to work on this; hopefully before the 40-50 lb kids I work with turn into 60 lbers!

Winter Camp 2004