Any gymnnasts out there?

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Looks like Henry Rollins

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No...but the gymnast/singer/songwriter writes with word smithing skills that are similar.

Hint---think a bit more folky sound with a very wry twist in many of his songs
 
Hint 2:
"That's the way that the world goes 'round.
You're up one day and the next you're down.
It's half an inch of water and you think you're gonna drown.
That's the way that the world goes 'round."

Tom took me to practice when I was in second or third grade. I kept up as well as could be in the power calisthenics. Coach came up to me afterwards and said whether I wanted to or not at the time that I was "On The Team." Big stuff. The team won 1979 Minnesota H.S. championship.
 
My team mate, Paul Hiltunen, brought a cassette of JP's first album to practice on day.

From the first lines of 'Illegal Smile' I was taken! I have that whole album memorized, scratches, clicks and turning it over too!

http://www.jpshrine.org/lyrics/liner/notes_jp.htm

On another gymnast/arborist note...Jeff Jepson and I were in the same gym 8-9 times in my senior year at various meets or invitationals. He worked P-bars, I was on side horse, at different schools in the same conference. Little did we know that we'd cross paths and become friends many years later.
 
I think that gymnastics is one of the best foundations that you can lay, that will help you to be a better climbing arborists in later years.

Unfortunately, my high school didn't offer it, though I've always loved to watch it. My youngest daughter was on a team for four years and she can climb like a monkey.

Have you ever seen Kurt Thomas' hands? He is a small guy, but his hands are like a stevedores, back when those guys used to load and unload ships by hand! His fingers look like bananas.
 
I was a gymnast for 8 years in my younger days. (8-16 y/o)

Fun as hell, although the worst thing I did for my body in the long term. It's almost like the body develops too fast, our boys team looked like mini body builders.

To this day I suffer from it, yet benefit. I suffer in the terms of two slipped vertebra in my lower back. I benefit from my ridiculous upper body strength, it really helps getting around in the trees.

One of the kids from my team stuck with it pretty far, he suffers from a learning disability now from whacking his head. Ya, pretty serious.
 
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