When the kids first got there they had to stretch out with some of the instructors. The instructors then told the kids the rules for each apparatus and then let them loose!
One of the things the kids can do it jumping in to a pit filled with soft, squishy foam pieces. This place had 3 different "levels" to jump from; the floor, a platform 3 steps high, and a REALLY high platform. The first thing Marc did was to make a bee-line to the ladder to go up to the platform. That totally floored me! When he took gymnastic lessons 2 years ago, we had trouble getting him to even jump into the pit, let alone the high platform.
I thought that maybe as he waited (up really high) for his turn to jump, that he might change his mind.......
he didn't!!!!!!!!
and he landed safely in the soft, squishy foam. :)
He then walked directly back over to the ladder to do it again.
Marc got the biggest kick out of being able to jump on the spring board and jumping onto the vault. His "girlfriend" Katerie wasn't able to do it because she is shorter then Marc but he stayed there encouraging her. :)
They have what is called a tumble-track. It is a really long skinny trampoline-like thing that the kids could jump, hop, skip down.
One of Marc's favorite's was an inflatable whale that you crawl into its mouth......
crawl through an obstacle course in its belly........
and slide down it's tail to get out.
After Katerie jumped into the pit, Marc was ever so much the gentleman and helped her get out of the pit. :)
When it was finally Marc's turn on the trampoline, he was just jumping around like normal. I told him to loosen up and have some fun and make some silly jumps.
When Marc was in gymnastics, he had no balance what so ever! ;) This place had about 6 balance beams of varying height. He said he was going to walk all of them, even the really high one. And he did it!!
I had a lot of fun watching him do all the apparatus and being wowed at how far he had come since he took classes. :)
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