8-Year-Old National TOPS Gymnast Grows a Mermaid Tail

April 23, 2011 – Anna Stone of Louisville, CO, won a spot on the elite TOPS National Gymnast program this year, where she was able to attend intensive training in Houston with top national coaches. At only eight years old, she was among the top 57 gymnasts in the country for 2010, and is on track to work her way to the Olympics.

Now nine, her gymnastics training has been going on since she was three. She is highly gifted and motivated and spends over 18 hours a week training at Xtreme Altitudes Gymnastics Studio in Lafayette, Colorado. She is one to keep your eye on.

This year she is not only a top national gymnast, but with the AquaTails mermaid company she has grown a mermaid tail! She is one of AquaTails’ top mermaids and their youngest, performing neat turns and tricks underwater in her blue mermaid tail, showing her great flexibility as a mermaid as well as a gymnast.

Swimming in a mermaid tail is a new trend growing by the thousands all over the world. This new sport is called mermaiding, or mer-swimming to accommodate the growing number of mermen joining in. It combines the skills of deep-diving and breath-holding found in free diving, the grace and beauty of water ballet with a splash of fantasy thrown in. Children and adults alike love it, it is fantastical, fun and sexy.

Girls especially love it, as it allows them to be like Disney’s Ariel in The Little Mermaid. And Mermaid Anna shows them the way, with her graceful movements underwater in her beautiful AquaTails’ mermaid tail.

You can see videos and photos of Mermaid Anna on the AquaTails’ site as well as their blog, Mermania, where you can learn how to become a mermaid yourself. Sprout a tail of your own and join the underwater world!

 

 

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