F**k me - I seriously overestimated my abilities this eve

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The kids were messing around this eve doing 'gymnastics' (they're 2 and 6) and I decided I would try a somersault.

I used to do them all the time but that was 40 years ago.

My head landed on the mat then my neck kind of caved in on itself. I feel quite lucky I didn't do myself permanent damage and probably need to face up to how pathetically fat and unfit I've become (recovering from cancer too which I imagine didn't help much)

Off to practice my cartwheels now 🙄

Dh a few years ago on Xmas day decided to show son that he could manage a four brick and plank ramp on sons new bmx......

He couldn't and actually skidded under his own car, he was cross when I asked was the new bike OK.
Bike was fine, he had less skin on his arms than he started with and has not ridden since.

I think I’ve found my people! I had a headache for 2 days after doing a somersault in the swimming pool recently.

Step away from the cartwheels!!!! I decided last year to show my dd how great I was at cartwheels an pulled a muscle in BOTH thighs

Me and Dd performed the can can at a friend's wedding last year. High kick, cartwheels and the splits. She's 22 and I'm 54!
I practise my cartwheels in the garden every summer to make sure I can still do them!

Bought a skipping rope to get fitter & wet myself.

I went on with the kids at a trampoline park last year and deeply regretted it during the weeks of muscle pain and swollen legs afterwards.

Massive silent sniggers here as dh is asleep

I tried cartwheels last summer. Wow I’m unfit but made me get running again.

Tried an arab spring aged 11...not bad, but not good.

Arab spring at aged 34...didn't actually leave the ground.

@goingtotown

That made me laugh!

I've just tried doing a crab (dodgy shoulder so didn't think I could manage it!)

The upshot is that I can still do a crab, however my feeling of triumph was short lived due to the massive fart I let out when lowering myself down.

Maybe I'm not ready for the Olympics yet...

@Chesntoots perhaps there should be a Mumsnet olympics with shit cartwheels and farting crabs?

At a conference last week, everyone on stage for a group photo, most folk just jumped down from the stage at the end but I traipsed to the end of the stage and descended the stairs whilst holding onto the rail.... I know my limits

I'm in my 40s 🤫

I demonstrated my backwards somersault in the water to the DC in a French lake on holiday this summer. Both my calves cramped up as I pushed myself up off the sandy bottom, I was bloody lucky to be in my depth or I would have drowned my stupid self.

I would be on that podium for sure!! (As long as they provided a ramp to get up there...)

perhaps there should be a Mumsnet olympics with shit cartwheels and farting crabs?

Snapped and farted!

I wonder why as adults we get so dizzy doing a forward roll and kids don’t ?

I tried a while ago to spin round and round ( like we did as kids to get dizzy and walk wonky ) . I managed half a turn and had to hang over the sink because I felt so sick . I was indoors on my own , I have no idea what possessed me !

I tried to demonstrate how to sit cross legged then stand up without holding on to anything and discovered I couldn't stand up at all. I ended up wheezing face down on a chair.
Bastardly DF found it utterly hilarious.

I never managed a cartwheel as a child, I definitely don’t think now is the time for me to start

I can still do a slightly pathetic forward flip on a bouncy castle though. As in I can sort of fling myself over and land flat on my back

Puddleglum misses point of thread......

Last time I tried a cartwheel I limped for days and that was years ago!!

Snapped and farted... Ha ha!

I’ve been thinking about taking up yoga again as I can barely get up the stairs... But I keep having visions of my lovely-young-yoga-bendy self reaching well past my toes.

If that girl could see me now!
It doesn’t even seem that long ago...

I demonstrated a forward roll to dd a couple of years ago. Such a simple, easy thing I remembered. Well, I heard every gone crack in my neck and I genuinely wondered if I might have broken it for a moment

*bone not effing gone

I've found my people. I demonstrated a forward roll to DS a couple of months ago, felt my back crunch as I went over and had to lay on the floor for 20 minutes while it un-siezed. It wasn't quite the effect I was going for . FFS I'm nearly not yet 40

Cross post with @MrsBungle clearly forward rolls are more technical than you realise

@mamehasan obviously! !