I started gymnastics classes a week ago..yes I'm 12 years old and in level one. I've been teaching myself gymnastics, though, since Febuary, so I can already do most floor stuff. I can so far do cartwheel, round-off, handstand, backbend (and stand up from it), backbend kickover, front walk-over, middle splits, and I can kick pretty high, not quite all the way yet, but getting there.
I don't want to be in the Olympics or anything, I just want to be in cheerleading, though, because..well I like gymnastics, ever since in gym class in fifth grade in Febuary when we had our gymnastics unit and we had to come up with a gymnastics routine, I couldn't do anything, not even a cartwheel then, but I liked learning, and now I like practicing all the stuff I did learn to do. My middle school is really messed up and does not even had a cheerleading squad, so I might have to wait 'till highschool, but
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