"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go"
T. S. Eliot

Saturday, November 17, 2012

Synergy Gym

Took Sophia to her gymnastics class this morning. This place is run by a couple of Russian gymnasts that were olympic athletes and University of Iowa coaches. The place in North Liberty was full of beautiful young girls of different ages. They also hire some staff to help run the place. Sophia enjoyes her class very much. She is petite but strong and flexible. Can't wait to see her doing more advanced exercises. Of course, they must take years to learn. Sophia trains on Saturdays only. Probably, she can do more during the summer. Maybe she can combine swimming and gymnastics.
Dmitri Trouch said hi to me (see 7:24 min). He is the father of Assen's classmate at Borloug and one of the owners of Synergy Gym. I have seen some videos of his performances and he is just incredible.
I also took Assen swimming at the Field House last night. There were about six children in his sophomore class. They had two instructors. I did not count how many laps they swam, but for sure, they did more than what I can do. Assen also swims only once a week. Assen is not the best swimmer in the group, but he has been slowly improving. He is good at backstroke, but he stops and turns around everyother stroke... There was a young girl swimming like a fish. She looked older in the water. But she looked like eleven or twelve when she was outside the water.

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