Did you know that I'm an expert at judging Olympic-level gymnastics?
I didn't either until I started watching it yesterday afternoon. Then I started saying things like, "That landing could've been better," and "He didn't keep his wrists straight." (I copied that one off the commentator. I didn't even know that was a thing.)
I can't tell you the proper name of the bar they are swinging on, but clearly, I'm qualified to criticize the athletes. After all, I've been watching it for a whole two hours! As the judges' tallies came in, I found myself nodding in agreement with the scores.
"Yep. He totally deserves a half-point taken off for that!" (Never mind that I don't even know what qualifies as a good score. Apparently, it's anything over a 14??? At least in the preliminary rounds...)
It's fun to judge something I know absolutely nothing about.
But maybe I should leave the judging up to the judges.
I don't want to belabor the point, but maybe that lesson has applications outside the realm of Olympic-level gymnastics.
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