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I support women's right to vertically rotate 360⁰
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The real reason though is simple:
When you are younger, your center of balance is way more core and your arms/legs weigh a lot less.
As you grow your limbs become way heavier.
Think about how easy it is to pick up a 7 year old vs a 30 year old.
Well, when you do a cartwheel, you are also having to move the body of a grown adult, your own body that is.
So its possible if you are very fit, of course.
But for an average person, good luck haha.
General rule of thumb is that a cartwheel is similiar to a pull up.
Remember how easy pull-ups were when you were a kid? Same principle.
I don’t think this is correct.
I’m a middle aged man in poor overall shape but I can still do cartwheels.
I’ve never been able to do a pull up.
Cartwheels don’t require much strength. You aren’t on your arms for very long and don’t actually further extend your arms during the period when they’re touching the ground.
What cartwheels do require is coordination, flexibility, and balance.
… and practice. Lots of practice.
If I had to guess for most people the limiting factor as you age would probably be flexibility.
That’s assuming you knew how to do them when you were young. I learned it in my mid twenties, but would not envy someone trying to learn it in their mid forties or later.
And in my case, I can easily do a pull-up but couldn't do a cartwheel to save my life.
It's the lots of practice part
Lots of practice means lots of failure on the way.
Failure to do a cartwheel at 10 means trying again. Failure to do a cartwheel at advanced ages means a week of pain.
Relevant fat kid does a backflip
I'm not done with you!
Now I'm done!
Hand, hand, foot, foot. I still can & I'm barely even middle aged anymore. It's mostly momentum.