Whilst in the early years of Junior school I decided to join Gym Club, which was an after school club in which we'd do cool Gym type things. If we were good, we'd eventually earn badges which could then be sewn onto our gym outfit. The girls would have a leotard and thankfully the boys would just wear a T-shirt and shorts.
The thing is, being Spike, I was useless. I was always the child at school who was picked last to be on sports teams, which really you couldn't say I was even picked, I was just the last one left and had to join the team who were last to pick.
So anyway after about a year of being in Gym Club I finally managed to do a headstand with knees bent, which did earn me a badge, which was apparently ordered but I never received. It seems that everyone else had several badges sewn to them, and I believe I was the only child in the club not to have one single badge sewn to thier kit. Anyway I still enjoyed it even though I was useless at most of the tasks we had to do.
There was one day at Gym Club which I don't think will ever escape my memory, and I remember recently mentioning it to Claire (she was also a member). She'd completely forgotten about it, but when I reminded her she found it hysterically funny and remembered.
So, on this day in Gym Club we had Michael Jackson playing and we were told we were going to practice doing a Michael Jackson lean. The teacher, who was called Mr Stacey, chose me to go up and demonstrate. Why on earth out of all the children there he chose me to demonstrate this I don't think I'll ever know.
I had to approach a mat and lean forward like Michael Jackson would do in his videos. Now I'm not sure if it's that I wasn't paying attention to what exactly we were supposed to do, but apparently we were meant to lean forward as straight as possible, and then when we started to fall we'd put out our hands to stop us falling flat on our face.
Well as I was quite trusting of Mr Stacey, and as there was a mat in front of me, I didn't realise this, so I just leant forward, my body was totally straight, and I think this was possibly the most amazing thing I ever accomplished at Gym Club. A few seconds later......THUD! I went splat on my face, still with my body totally straight. I still remember when I got up and seeing the look on all the other childrens faces. There was no laughter, just concern, especially from Mr Stacey who couldn't believe what I'd just done and was genuinly worried about me.
I have to admit that it did hurt a bit, and I don't think I'd ever be able to do it again, but it'd have been a great comical effect if it was in a slapstick comedy film. Not long after that I decided to quit Gym Club, due to the lack of badges and I'd rather have been at home watching childrens programmes.
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