Thursday, November 4, 2010

the balance beam

Recently while cooking dinner I heard a crash from the other room, followed by Nate unhappily grunting.
me: Are you okay?
Nate: Yes.
me: What happened?
Nate: I fell.
me: Do I want to know what you fell off of?
Nate: The windowsill.

After a discussion about the drawbacks of walking on windowsills, we talked about the benefits of using a balance beam instead and watched a few videos of Olympic gold medal routines. Nate then wanted to try out his own routine, which he promised would be like the ones we'd viewed, "but this one will be much better." Here's Nate's better-than-gold routine:

1 comment:

laura said...

Love the face balance at 1:00. Also love Haley being such a good observer :)