Excellence - Russian Rhythmic Gymnastics

Self-Achieved Self-Goals

Larry Neal Gowdy

The RT News article and video at Inland Visions | Unstoppable Movement: The Grace & Power Of Russian Rhythmic Gymnastics (and also viewable at Inland Visions | Unstoppable Movement: The Grace & Power Of Russian Rhythmic Gymnastics) is quite excellent. For those of us who rarely get the opportunity to witness people striving to achieve personal quality, the video is strongly moving for it illustrating that some people actually do strongly exert self-effort to achieve self-goals.

Highly noticeable, and highly praised, is that the individuals are well-dressed, clean, tidy, attractive, devoted, skilled, intelligent, physically symmetrical, and exhibit no disquality traits. For some of us, we are far more highly impressed by individuals' skills, behaviors, and personalities than their sport rankings.

"It's a game to them". The video has several comments as the one in the screenshot, and I strongly agree with all of them. As a parallel, I began playing chess because it was fun and a personal challenge. However, when chess tournaments began to become competitive, I quit playing chess because it was no longer fun; it was no longer a game for enjoyment and relaxation. In all known forms of skill, the best talents are of individuals who perform their skill as an enjoyable self-competing game.

"Proving to yourself what you can achieve" is an excellent statement. For many of us, the one and only judge of our talents and abilities, is ourselves. If an individual self-chooses the self-demand to achieve a lofty self-chosen goal, then the individual may indeed attain the goal.

If the young ladies in the video are so obviously devoted at their age, then it is assumed that the rest of their lives will surely continue to be a striving for personal quality: very honorable.

The video is quite excellent from start to finish, and well worth watching.

Personal Opinion

To me, rhythmic gymnastics has considerable similarities to ballet and the Chinese Shen Yun dances, but, rhythmic gymnastics is favored because of its individualism of self-achievements, while bypassing ballet's organized conformity and Shen Yun's ideological message. Too, ballet and Shen Yun have males dancing like women; that creeps me out. (grin)

Sky Grace

Related is the Sky Grace website that provides sizable quantities of more information about rhythmic gymnastics.