Hey guys it's Anna and welcome back to my channel after watching the Olympics I was
inspired to try a new sport so today I'm going to be attempting rhythmic gymnastics with
the help of one of the USA's national team members the amazing Elena Shinohara
since I don't live in the US Elena and I are going to be connecting through zoom today
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I have never done rhythmic gymnastics before so I am very nervous especially because at
the end Elena will be judging how well I can do the routine so let's just go ahead and
give this a try so I was thinking we could just start with like some basic tricks and
then kind of move into like a little routine if that works you want to put your ribbon
in front of you kind of and then you kind of go do like a no-no motion you're like,
no, no, no, no do that motion and it turns into a snake
yeah you just have to keep doing it really strongly yeah yeah exactly exactly nice so
like with that for you probably you can do like a little scorpion is that what it's called?
Scorpion?
Yeah you can do scorpion oh wow it's hard to balance when you're like focusing on the
ribbon we usually do relevés oh nice nice anna that is so fun you can do
a lot of things with snakes or you can do a penché
so we just did like the horizontal snakes we can also do vertical like it looks like
grass cool so do you do it like up and down kind of thing?
Yeah like that we just use our wrists going side to side
so that was snakes and then we also have spirals so we have circles this one's a little bit
hard you want to try to keep your elbow straight and it's just it's just like circling around
with your wrist like this
I'll need to work on this one it's fun though it's a good challenge yeah it's hard
I think that's kind of it it's not getting tangled yeah and then go small and then you see how
you get a knot whenever in rhythmic gymnastics we have a knot nothing gets counted anymore
so you want to make sure you un knot it or else your other elements are going to be harder
because your ribbon like a whole mess oh that would be like such a nice picture okay
one day maybe we should like get like together with Jordan and then we can do stuff together
that would be cool yeah that would be so cool we can also do just circles
I do that a lot just like a full on circle just like the whipping the ribbon yeah yeah
yeah either circle I feel like circles would be circle into your back walkover circle circle
and then back walkover I don't know if you would rather have it from the scorpion into
the little I don't know what do you call that 270 degrees split or you can start from the
back switch into the 270 prefer whichever you prefer
they both look cool to me um I think this scorpion's a good starting move
no we are not allowed to do like aerials or back flips or back hand springs but you can make up Anna
rhythmic gymnastics I don't think I'll do the aerial then just so we can keep it rhythmic
gymnastics like
I think I'm going to practice it a bit feel free to give me any critiques or whatever
you want I want to know the truth so feel free awesome you're like learn really quick
though because it's like, it's like actually like really really hard to learn within like
what was it an hour I'll practice it some more and then send you the finished routine
so you can watch it definitely yeah so yeah well I'll be in touch bye!
It's now a few days later I haven't had the chance to practice anything Elena taught me
in our zoom call yet but I'm going to do that today so that she can critique me doing the
whole routine also I know when I show the routine this is more of a ballet leotard than
a rhythmic gymnastics one but it's the closest thing I could find
so that's why I'm wearing it with that said let's just go ahead and get into my attempt
of a rhythmic gymnastics ribbon routine
that was amazing Anna I loved all your splits
it's always amazing to watch you do all your over splits especially that 270 degree one
that was super cool and then the ribbon parts you with the snakes I remember when we worked
together it was like pretty hard for you to do and it kept on getting tangled up
but this time when you were doing the scorpion with the snakes it was really nice really
beautiful and I also liked your leap with a full split and a nice circle the ribbon
looks so beautiful but um the only thing I would critique about is just you not holding
your ribbon the whole time sometimes when you were doing like the over stretching parts
um you kept your ribbon on the floor that would be a little bit of a deduction
but since you were amazing with your ribbon and it's your first time and you have super
flexibility and the whole routine I will give you a 10 out of 10 thank you so much Elena
for teaching me rhythmic gymnastics that was so much fun and also thank you guys so much
for watching don't forget to give this video a thumbs up
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