Gymnatics Fanatic Purity Test

Has gymnatics fanaticism corrupted you?
Check all boxes for which your answer is "yes".
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Updated 7-16-04
  1. Have you ever used a Barbie doll or other toy as a gymnast?
  2. Did you do so after you stoped playing with toys?
  3. Have you ever made a pet do gymnastics?
  4. Have you ever missed something that you would have gone to otherwise but missed because gymnastics was on?
  5. Do you have competitions from years before you started watching gymnastics?
  6. Have almost every competition for at least the last 4 years
  7. 10 years?
  8. 20 years?
  9. Ever thought of taking off work or rearangging your work schedule during the Olympics so you could watch it?
  10. Did you actually do it?
  11. Ever cried when a gymnast lost their chance at a medal or Olympics?
  12. Have you ever called people by the name of the gymanst that they look like? Or do you ever remember peoples name by remembering which gymnast shares that name?
  13. When someone says something about Cancun or the caribbean you not exactly sure where that is but you know where Ukraine and Belarus is?
  14. Do you know the three letter abbreviations of more than 10 countries? With none of them guesses.
  15. Have you spent many hours downloading routines?
  16. Do you have more than 1GB worth of Gymnastics?
  17. More than 5GB?
  18. More than 10GB?
  19. Do you have notes for your Gymnastics tapes that tell you more than which meet is at what time? (Like Gymnast, Country, Appartus, Etc)
  20. Have you had dreams about gymnasts winning medals or retiring and you woke up excited or upset and had to find out if it was true?
  21. Have you had Gymnatics posters and pictures up all over your wall?
  22. Have you ever found yourself in line with a bunch of kids waiting for an autograph?
  23. Have you ever had the dream of being a gymnastics photographer?
  24. Bought a new camera because the one you had doesn't work for gymnastics?
  25. Did you take a photography class so your gymnastics picture would be better?
  26. Ever had a fantasy gymnastics team?
  27. Which placed in the top 20?
  28. In the top 10?
  29. Ever done the virtual gymnastics thing?
  30. When listening to the radio, or a cd think that the music you are listening to would make good floor music?
  31. Do you then in your mind edit the music, choreograph a routine for it and think of the gymanst that should use it?
  32. Are you a member of the gymnastics Tape Trading Club?
  33. Do you have your own gymnastics website?
  34. Do you have 2 or more gymnastics websites?
  35. Have you ever purchased gymnastics gear although you don't need it (for instance, own a leotard or grips...but not need them)?
  36. Do you read any and all non-fiction gymnastics books known to man?
  37. Do you read any and all fiction gymnastics books know to man?
  38. Have you seen the movie Little Girls in Pretty Boxes?
  39. Have you read the book Little Girls in Pretty Boxes?
  40. Have you written a critique of Little Girls in Pretty Boxes?
  41. Is there at least 5 gymnastics websites bookmarked?
  42. Are you a member of any gymnastics forum or webring?
  43. Can you spell and pronounce(or at least how it is pronounced in your country) at least 10 soviet or former soviet block gymnasts names?
  44. Do you get annoyed when people talk to you during a routine?
  45. Have you ever been actually trained in gymnastics (training in any shape or form)?
  46. Ever hurt yourself doing gymnastics in your living room?
  47. Ever spent hours making a charts, tables or graphs from competitions?
  48. Ever found yourself looking around a site in a language you don't understand because it is about gymnastics?
  49. Have you gone back to that site?
  50. Do you know the names of 5 gymnastics photographers?
  51. Do you have a favorite photographer?
  52. Can you remember exactly why you missed part or all of a certain meet? (oh I didn't see the 2000 RCA Gymnastics I put it on and the power went out 5 min later)
  53. Ever used other things like a grocery cart or curb as a bar or balance beam?
  54. Do you ever jump off the last few steps and pretend you landed a dismount?
  55. Have you have ever gotten angry about someone dissing a gymnast you don't even like. But because of their ignorance you passionately defend the gymnast as if they were your favorite.
  56. Have you ever waken up early or stayed up late to watch a meet?
  57. Have you ever waken up early or stayed up late to read the quick hits?
  58. Get the nervous feeling in your stomach before a meet and you aren't even in it?
  59. Have you ever had your mood change and stay that way for the whole weekend when your favorite won an important meet?
  60. Do you ever randomly blurt out the winners of the last meet to people who don't care?
  61. Do you talk to the commentators?
  62. Do you correct the commentators?
  63. Do you get offended when someone makes a prediction and they left out someone who should "clearly" be mentioned if you mention this other gymnast?
  64. You consider 5'4"/162cm to be tall
  65. You have a code that represents a gymnasts birthday, winning score, etc
  66. People let you know when they see a gymnast in the paper or on tv.
  67. A non-gym friend tells you that gymnastics will be on and you won't believe it until you see it
  68. When they are correct you say why didn't I know about this before?
  69. Have watched a meet in another lanuage
  70. You smile when you see or hear the word gymnastics
  71. You then get slightly irked that it was a false alarm
  72. You list gymnastics in your hobbies and you are not a gymnast
  73. Have you ever watched a routine through your fingers?
  74. And this gymnast was not related to you.
  75. Do you see it as your duty to educate your friends and acquaintances about parts of a controversy that the media didn't mention?
  76. Have you ever had to remind yourself to breath while watching a routine?
  77. Have you ever finished watching a meet to find yourself with stress related pains?
  78. Have you ever done something from this test just so you could get a higher score?