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Originally Posted by LloydLungs
Incidentally, not to take away from the other events -- but is it just me or is the balance beam 20x harder than anything else they do? I'm completely blown away that any human being can stay on that thing, even a tiny one.
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My sister was in gymnastics for a few years (12-14, around those ages). One of the things that made her stop was that she was too scared to do the balance beam. They start them off with the board basically on the ground or an inch or two off the mat, but she just couldn't get over her fear of falling off it even with the beam on the ground.