Well. I found something that Daniel is even worse at than he used to be at diving. Cartwheels.
We were playing on the beach in Mexico over the weekend when Anna Swayne started shooting videos. She told me to do a cartwheel because she had some creative plans for the video that I didn't really understand or try to understand. I just did what I was asked to do.
I'm not great at cartwheels. I'm ok at them. But not great.
Daniel, obviously wanting to be a part of whatever was happening, started making what MUST have been his very first attempts in his life at doing a cartwheel. And, just like with the diving, he seemed to think that what he was doing constituted respectable gymnastics.
In the below video you will see me do two cartwheels. Then, just as I go into my third attempt, Daniel enters the scene with a "cartwheel" of his own.
I swear to you he didn't believe that mine and his cartwheels looked any different until we sat him down and forced him to watch this video, at which point he nodded and said, "oh, I see. The legs should be a little more vertical."
Yes, Daniel. That's the problem. The legs just need to be a little more vertical.
(I suggest watching this in full screen mode--the video is very small)
Hahahahaha! Yeah, just a little more verticality ought to do the trick!
ReplyDeleteI am literally loling at this and crying I'm laughing so hard (at work). If your youtube views are unusually high on this video it's just me rewatching it all day. I've watched it 4 times already.
ReplyDeleteI guess abs only get you so far.
ReplyDeleteHe must have just eaten some eggs left on the counter for several days.
ReplyDeleteYou may want to share this important PSA with Anna, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt9zSfinwFA and perhaps Daniel wouldn't have had to so awkwardly roll into such a skinny video frame.
ReplyDeleteHere's the VVS video in a hyperlink.
DeleteOh my gosh. Thank you so much.
DeleteHaha... My husband was telling me this exact same thing last night and I didn't get why it made a difference. This video made way more sense than he did. Maybe I'm a visual learner. I have been taught. :)
DeleteThat video was...so...totally...AWESOME!!!! LOL
DeleteThanks for posting it.
if i hadn't read the story, i would have just thought daniel happened to stumble and fall in front of the camera.
ReplyDeleteI think every video on the entire Internet should be deleted and replaced by this one.
ReplyDeleteCan we take a moment, between all the laughing at Daniel, to recognize that Eli is surprisingly good at cartwheels?
ReplyDelete"surprisingly" is what makes this sentence ;)
DeleteI noticed that too! Bravo, Eli. The gymnast in me is very proud.
DeleteI see no difference! ;)
ReplyDeleteSo at first, when I read the title of this post, I was thinking, "Eli's kind of being a punk toward Daniel. We can't all be "okay" at cartwheels, after all."
ReplyDeleteBut then I watched the video. And I can't help but think that it's all a fake, and totally intentional. Because I feel like my cute little niece, who is only 19 months old, could probably do a better cartwheel than whatever the heck it is that Daniel demonstrated in the aforementioned video. I mean, *I* could do a better cartwheel, and I've not done a proper one since I was a tween. (And when I say "a proper one," I do mean I could actually do it back in the days of my youth.)
I can't thank you enough for sharing that video.
Please bless that none of my friends whip out their cameras next time I do something clumsy.
This is the new best day of my life.
ReplyDeleteAgreed. That video just made my life. The diving was fun too, but that was… indescribable.
DeleteEli's reaction after Daniel attempts the cartwheel is almost as funny as the cartwheel itself. I feel like that explains their relationship so well. Daniel doing something hysterical and Eli throwing his hands in the air and shaking his head, wondering, "how did I end up in the middle of this mess?"
ReplyDeleteYup. It's still funny after watching it 20 times in a row.
ReplyDeleteBWAHAHA Oh my gosh. Yes--A little more vertical!
ReplyDeleteOr maybe it's all in the wrists...?
Oh my heavens that made my night! Thanks for the laugh Eli and know that now you have the perfect birthday present for Daniel's next birthday. Gymnastics lessons!
ReplyDeleteNot being able to do cartwheels properly or naturally must be a tall thing. I'm just over 6 ft and have never been able to do them. In fact I was asked to leave a gymnastics class in elementary because I was so bad at them. Ha ha! Once you get the feel for it and lots of practice you can do them though. ;) Kudos to Daniel for trying on film so we can all enjoy!
ReplyDeletehahahahahahaaha!
ReplyDeleteThat's what I looked like when I was like 5.
This is exactly what my cartwheels look like. Except I think I actually get my feet off the ground for half a second.
ReplyDeleteOh goodness, I am laughing so hard at this that my husband came over to see what I was watching. I agree that my favorite part is Eli's reaction at the end!
ReplyDeleteSadly my cartwheels are much closer to Daniel's than Eli's.... my mom tried for years to teach me, but I never could do it! And I'm 5'4", so can't blame it on height.....
This gives me conflicting emotions- on the one hand it's hilarious, but on the other that is how I do cartwheels and Daniel's diving is about the same as my diving, so it also makes me sad. More hilarious than sad, though.
ReplyDeleteI actually got kicked out of gymnastics as a child for doing cartwheels like that.
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