Gymnastics
The Majlis Sukan Negeri of Penang runs a gymnasium to train gymnasts. I wonder how many of you watched the film “Nadia” before. She was a gold-medallist Romanian gymnast who defected to the West. She started at a very young age. Joseph loves climbing and tumbling about. I think it’s because of the way i held him since he was a baby:
So, I sent him to a gymnastics coach to get him interested. He loves it and keeps asking for more… It’s good to get started early in something he likes.
5- and 6-year-olds at the gym
yippeee..me nambah one…err.gymnastics hor..i wan my girl to learn tat oso but the ortho daddy say kenot..cheh..sked got a lot of injuries wor…so i say..er.then send for ballet classes la..daddy say..train her to play tennis…mm ngam key geh..
Bernard, cooooooolll………
Eve, send your daughter for capoeira
yenjai, capo.. what???
eve, tennis is good oso.. maybe joseph will like it too. mm ngam (mat yeh) geh?
actually hor, i think when they train, they learn balance, strength, agility, endurance and, most importantly, common sense, which help them to prevent injuries. e.g. joseph is quite an adventurous type, so he’ll perform all sorts of stunts at the playground that he thinks he can. but he won’t do something that he’s not confident he can do.
the one who’s protected all the time doesn’t know what he can and cannot do. he doesn’t know his limitations.
aiyoo..bernard..u know sum thing..last nite karen had a fall in the play ground..n got a hematoma..the daddy…fuiiyooo..dem tension…so i think i’ll put off the idea of gymnastic for a while..let things cool down first..
aiyo… these things ah must have both parents to be excited about it wan… if one not keen ah, big big trouble lah.
better go for capo.. what?? wazzat??
my joseph, if he gets knocked anywhere… he’ll show me, then he’ll say, “not broken, not bleeding, just a bit pain-pain”… then hor, he’ll start playing again.
Bernard: capoeira –> a kind of brazilian martial art, which we have adapted into a kind of cardio dance.
Info: www.capoeira.com
mm ngam key : literal translation –> the key doesn’t fit into the lock. It means you are not talking something which is of interest to another party
btw, very very nice background you got there!
I need to learn how to do that
aiyoo….ur joseph boi boi ma…very lasak one…girl more fragile..more pampered…
yenjai, oic. interesting info. haha.. somebody said, “Capo-what?” too. read the blog.
thanks for the translation.
the background’s incomplete. i’m working on it to get the full picture up.
eve, yo lor… boys and girls should be treated different way lah. otherwise get gender confused.
Capoiera!!! i always forgotten what it is called. Watched a tv movie abt it many many years back (10yrs, may be). Wow, i just like it. Been asking around for a while but none of my friends know anything abt it.
Few yrs ago, saw newspaper article promoting it. they have classes in KL, but Bernard, dont know if they have classes in SP or Pg.
Learning martial art, dancing to the music at the same time. So song….. and the actions… jumping, twisting, flipping, so nice. so unlike those other martial art i’d seen on tv.
Not like taekwondo, eh?
No. Nothing like taekwnodo.