From the moment I open my eyes, I'm trying to free my body. I'm trying to get looser, more flexible, to gain control. Movement is medicine to me.
My dad used to call me 'the human pretzel' because I was able to bend my body, and because my legs are very long.
I have a flexible body.
I actually did a lot of yoga because I found it helped with my core strength and flexibility, which are two things you absolutely need when you're doing martial arts.
If I had been born in the circus, my parents would have pushed me on that little high wire at four years old. That's when the body is most limber to learn those acrobatics.
I can put my legs behind my head and sing 'Happy Birthday.' Because that's something that me and my friends used to do when we were in gymnastics class as kids, and I can still do it. I was doing it since I was 8 and 9. They used to call me Gumby. Very bendy.
I can put my legs behind my head. That's a fun fact that not a lot of people know!
Could you do such things when you were a dancer?' Tara asks her, as Tsukiko pulls a leg up impossibly far over her head. 'I would have had a much busier social calendar if I could,' Mme. Padva replies with a shake of her head.
I'm weirdly flexible, so when I dance, I dance like a 17-year-old girl.
I am not one of those girls who can just land in a split. I need to warm up to be flexible.
I can do contortionist things; it's really weird. But I can freak people out, which is great!
I love my gymnastics and a flexible body, so I indulge in a lot of yoga from that aspect.
