Wednesday, May 30, 2007

gym class


Punk and Kooka will never learn what a first down is from me, or how to play hockey, or which golf club to use when (they only give you one at mini-golf). I cannot teach them how to use a lacrosse stick, to dribble a soccer ball, or escape a full-nelson. But by-god there will be back-handsprings, fouette turns, and splits.
Last month we studied baseball, before that it was tap dance, now we are on to gymnastics.
Kooka is technically proficient, but Punk is three times as daring -which gives him a giant edge in gymnastics. He's working on back-walkovers. Kooka is practicing cartwheels. Both of them turn out their splits (as they should) -always.

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