Sunday, August 12, 2012

Rhythmic Gymnastics Team Competition Contact Sport?

I was watching the rhythmic gymnastics team competition today, and it occurred to me that maybe more Americans would like this sport if it was more competitive in the traditional team sports sense, like with soccer or football. And then I started thinking about how this sport might work, with two teams out on the mat competing against each other. So I figured they could use all 5 rhythmic gymnastics apparatuses, with one person on each team (of 5 women) having one of the apparatuses each. And so the object of the game is that they have to get their ball to the opposite corner of the floor exercise mat and jump through one of the hoops to score. And then the other apparatuses, besides the ball, could be used to try to stop them; like for example, they could try to tangle each other up in the ribbon apparatus, trip and whip each other with the rope, beat each other over the head with the clubs, trip and block each other with the hoop, etc. And the 5 team members would be constantly passing all the different apparatuses around to each other, and trying to capture the other team's apparatuses, etc., and all while they're doing all these ballet-like pirouettes, leaps, contortionist moves, etc. Now wouldn't that be great? (You know you'd watch it!)