Rabble rousing

Sigh... go here and add your comment if you don't like the idea of sponsored communities and content on LJ.

(Mine can be found way back on page 15 of the comments, and that was just a couple of hours ago... wow.)

Edit: at some point this got slashdotted, and after about page 40 of the comments they did some damage control that you can also check out.

Grownups, please weigh in if you have any answers

I wasted a ton of today lying around on the couch reading fantasy... yay. ;)

I got to the gym though, and worked on my splits. This felt good since I've let handstand-enthusiasm distract me from flexibility lately, and I feel so much better when I stay focused and can at least feel I'm (probably) making progress. I can't get my front calf down consistently, which I was doing for a couple of weeks there, but I'll get there again.

Then I did a bunch of straddle-ups using the aerobic step and one riser. My new method is that I try to straddle up onto the step a few times, which is not within my capabilities at all, before trying to straddle up off the step; working at the harder level first is probably good discipline, and makes the easier level feel easier. :)

I'm starting to feel pretty worried that the Jamnastics gymnastics class won't run after all( ...worry worry rant. )

I have to admit, this little quest for gymnastic-y things really makes me wonder -- what the hell happens to human beings when they "grow up"? Maybe there isn't a lot of this (except maybe in NYC) because there isn't a lot of demand for it, and yet the amount of it that exists for kids is tremendous. Yes, I know little kids are lighter, more bouncy and more fearless, but adults have strength and discipline on their side; why don't adults seem to have the interest? Do we not have vestibular systems too? Do we not have fun? Are we all just way too self-conscious? Personally, I'm a lot more physical now than I was at any of the ages I could have reasonably found resources to do this stuff, and it's weird that it makes me so different to be on a different curve from the average.

I want to not believe this. I want to believe that if I advertised a handstand club that meets on the Cambridge Common every Saturday of summer, people would show up. Um... I just had to get this idea in late September, didn't I.