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Gymnastics can be perky, but mostly it's a lot about balance and posture - legs straight, toes pointed, standing tall and elevated with your back straight and chin up. It's all about grace and flow, especially on the floor routines, because along with all the jumping and tumbling, just as much dance has to be incorporated into any routine on floor or beam. Granted, cheerleaders might toss in a few jumps and flips into their pep-rally, but they focus more on the bouncy "we gotta be peppy and fun and bounce our boobs a lot!" while actual gymnastics focuses on flowing physical the physical tumbling and jumping together with the more subtile art of dance. If you get the chance, I recommend watching some of the floor routines for the Olympic girls gymnastics team when it starts in a few weeks, then you might see what I'm talking about. It really is a lot more then running and jumping and twirling (albe it those are mighty fun. ;) )

And sorry if I sounded bratty and stuck up... I've been involved in gymnastics in some way, shape, or form pretty much all my life (participated in the sport until roughly the time I could walk until I was about 13 and then managed off and on after that and helped my mom where I could, who has coached it for as long as I can remember), so I'm kinda one-sided on the subject. :)

john_elizabeth!! Join! Is fun!

I seriously am this || close to at least adding it to my friends list... So far I'm resisting, but I dunno how much longer my willpower will hold out. :D