This person is correct, and it makes me sad

This world could do with more whimsy

They do spin, but you have to get her just the right kind of dress that puffs out just right and she'll be spinning in no time. Bonus if the dress also had pockets. She'll smile HUGE, put her hands in the pockets, pull the sides of the skirt out and proudly proclaim it has pockets.

I simply can't cartwheel anymore in my middle aged body hahaha

Boys still play swords with sticks, that never ends.

Women should randomly knock out a couple of cartwheels during the day.

Weighted pockets, for increased angular momentum

Honestly this. I will hurt myself sleeping with my head tilted 5 degrees the wrong direction. I will 100% hurt myself if my head is near the ground and my legs are in the air.

Love a good twirl in a fun dress or skirt!

You ever see a kid playing and another kid says “can i play with you?” Then they’re just playing together.

While I like the idea of this, sometimes I just want to be alone. And somebody asking me to play would ruin my entire day.

Maybe they learned more about how gross the ground is. Easier to do it as a kid when you’re not thinking about the amount of dried dog (or human) piss that might be there.

The patriarchy is allergic to whimsy

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.

As a guy who weighs way to much these days, I for some reason am foolish enough to think my arms will be fine but I'd still somehow break my hip.

In reality I'd probably just faceplant or break my neck lol.

How'd he go out? That fucker tried whimsy at 36 without even trying to get in shape first

In this scenario are you at the park playing by yourself, or does someone just skip into your living room hop to a stop and ask if they can join you while you scroll Lemmy? Because the second one makes me smile inside... I would laugh if someone did that to me. And my knees woupd crack as I tried to stand up to join them, lol

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.

We live in concrete cages. My wife drunkenly attempted many cartwheels on our grassy campus grounds in college

Being a whimsical person is the easiest way to be the change you want to see in the world.

Everyone has access to whimsy, even if you are in prison or being tortured.

i cant think of a scenario where I'm “playing”. Maybe that’s my problem

I mean... I saw a policeman do a cartwheel today.

Seeing the smile from loved ones getting a dress with pockets is a fresh slice of Christmas each time. Pockets are like a gift within a gift.

Relevant fat kid does a backflip

the matriarchy more maybe

*me climbing up a high ledge as a kid, precariously balancing on the edge of a precipice*
Mum: "GET DOWN FROM THERE NOW! NOWW!"
Dad: *sips beer and says nothing*

I don't know about the rest of the boob havers around here but I quit doing cartwheels the first time my tits hit me hard in the chin doing a cartwheel. Safety consciousness takes some of the whimsy out of it.

And in my case, I can easily do a pull-up but couldn't do a cartwheel to save my life.

My boobs don't do that bc they aren't as big as yours, but with the droopage of my advancing years they might soon. I'm more worried about landing wrong and breaking a hip.

Not that I go to them, but gyms could have a space with mats and a spotter for this kind of thing.

You just gotta cartwheel harder so centrifugal force keeps the ladies in line

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.

Or just spin horizontally for a while?

Dad: "try not to die today"

Can confirm. My wife loves to spin in a fun dress. Bonus if I spin her around like professional dancers would.

I worked with a woman that would do cartwheels sometimes. She was around 30 iirc and mainly did it because people would question her ability to do cartwheels

I blame government for not providing infrastructure.

Finally, I can combine my love of women with my love of beyblades.

I'm not done with you!

Now I'm done!

I am happy to report as a 50+ dude I still do cartwheels on occasion. I've done a few in the last couple months even. If kids are around we just might get in a cartwheel competition. If I'm walking someplace with a long hallway, a cartwheel calls. They always make people happier at a hospital. Do more cartwheels!

Haha this made me smile!

I’ll be real honest here….I don’t think I ever cartwheeled as a child either

But I’ll get a few more whimsical twirls in when I wear dresses now! Thanks for the inspiration!

hmmm. They're pretty close to the center of mass in middle age. I fear the best you could hope for is a separate, but you'd have to be booking it

Twirls with dresses are full of whimsy and beautiful... please keep it up! It always makes people smile!

I wish I could spin until I was dizzy with kids too, but alas that's been a sure way to get myself sick all my adult years.

baeblades

I do an annual forward and backward summersault just to see if I still can. Backwards is possible, but I’m starting to make creaking sounds

Fuck that's good.

Remember the time Italians thought a cartwheel was enough evidence for murder? Pepridge farm remembers.

I do actually randomly cartwheel, just to make sure I still can. I'm going on 60. Hopefully will be able to cartwheel for a long time more. It's a funny trick when little kids are doing it and I do one with them, too.

Hand, hand, foot, foot. I still can & I'm barely even middle aged anymore. It's mostly momentum.

If I'm walking someplace with a long hallway

There's a maintenance tunnel that runs between a couple of buildings where I work, housing a bunch of pipes for the boiler system. It's probably 15ft wide, about 500ft of smooth concrete, with the two ends angled down towards a drain in the middle.

Every single time I'm in that tunnel, I wish I had a skateboard... I haven't been on a skateboard in 30 years... One day I'm going to break a hip in that tunnel, get fired, and lose my health insurance but it will be awesome, and I'll have the biggest smile on my face the whole time!

A lot of this is just growing and aging. Child bodies are great at flipping and spinning. Adult bodies less so. Older adult bodies break in ways that don't quite heal all the way.

You're living the dream for all of us who don't, and giving me hope that there's time to get into cartwheeling again.

What?

When I was little I used to jump off of stairs to just skip a bunch because I could be bothered.

Now if I go down the stairs and I step off the last one a little wrong My whole day is ruined.