Gymnastics Stephanie

element group requirements dismount cartwheel practice practice practice practice

I am in at least two sorts of race with my body, where “with” means both “riding in and by means of” and “against, viewing it as a competitor”: what can I get myself to learn to do and to do as soon as possible in the competitive moment or minute or day or month or calendar year before its changes take the willingness or the supposedly fearless patience (whatever that means) or the ability away

practice practice practice practice look at me practice don’t look at me head over head over heels over head over heels and practice practice practice practice practice now pretty means pretty hard or pretty is as pretty does

is practice practice practice practice too pretty too difficult now practice do it again now practice practice practice practice practice do it again a backward somersault while moving forward practice practice practice practice

whether any of the people watching me who have not done the things I do know what I can do or what I have been trying to do or how hard it can be or how easy it seemed before I knew what I was doing not that I know what I am doing now

practice practice practice practice practice practice practice almost lost it practice practice practice beyond the interminable practice practice might be the effortless practice practice practice practice or apparently effortless practice practice practice practice practice practice or something like joy