gymnast

Now, I've been a gymnast for most of my life, and I've generally been a lazy gymnast.

Who would your money be on to learn baseball, weightlifting and cross country skiing: a swimmer or a gymnast?

In baseball, maybe the gymnast, but the extended reach of the swimmer and his/her ability to bat harder might win out.

A gymnast has an amazing mental model of their body and it's relation to space and the things in that space.

Anyway, aren't some gymnast exercises very demanding, and demand a lot of functional strength?

It's like a sumo wrestler who suddenly decided he should be a gymnast.

That closing line is the equivalent of a gymnast sticking a landing.

But consider a more realistic hypothetical: Put a swimmer and a gymnast in a room and tell them only one of them can come out.

Give me a gymnast and powerlifter who weigh the same and I expect that the PLer will smoke the gymnast at bench press and the gymnast will smoke the PLer at planche pushups.

In cross country skiing, the gymnast, for the following reason.

A gymnast moving into breaking stands out by a mile.

I was a gymnast for 18 years (from 2 - 20 years old).

As an example, a female friend of mine was a gymnast growing up and she was most definitely in an "aggressive", competitive environment.

Better yet ask them what makes an awesome gymnast, they'll usually tell you it's more about having "no fear" when going for stuff.

It would take quite a literary gymnast to get violence out of commands such as, "Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living being."[1] Jain protests can involve fasting[2], but never violence.