(SPORTS SWAP)
Margarita Mamun. Russian. Rhythmic gymnastics.
This is Mamun's moment.
Dedicated, funny and very calm.
How did she do that?
A gold medal performance for Margarita Mamun.
Heather O'Reilly from United States and I play football.
Oh, what a brilliant goal!
Determined, athletic, fierce.
That was sheer quality.
I'm very proud I won gold three times.
Can't beat that.
(FOOTBALL/GYMNASTICS) (GYMNASTICS/FOOTBALL)
- Hi. - Hi.
- I'm Heather. - I'm Margarita.
- Nice to meet you. - Nice to meet you too.
I do rhythmic gymnastics.
Margarita Mamun!
Today is your turn.
- What do you think? - Well, I'm a little nervous.
I have no rhythm, no flexibility,
I've never done this before but I'm so excited to learn.
(THE SPORT COMBINES BALLET, GYMNASTICS,)
(DANCE AND APPARATUS MANIPULATION)
I'm a very tenacious, aggressive player
and I think that generally the women's soccer world
would say that fluidity and calmness and rhythm
are certainly not the first words that they would think
when they think of Heather O'Reilly
on a soccer field.
So football is the world's most popular sport.
Did you play football growing up?
No, I didn't play and I'm so excited to play it now.
I have coordination,
some feelings with the apparatus -
and I will try my best!
(THE INITIATION)
I want to see what can you do.
- OK. - Maybe like this.
Wow, that was awesome.
Now it's your turn.
I don't know if I remember every step, but...
Ah, no problem.
OK.
Maybe like that. Yeah.
It's good.
- OK. - How did you find it?
Very hard.
How many years have you been doing this?
13 years.
Wow. So, do you think maybe in 13 years
I can do what you do?
Maybe, yes.
I think I nailed it, personally.
No. I was terrible, it was so hard.
What Margarita does is amazing.
The grace and poise that she shows
in doing rhythmic gymnastics is really impressive
and it's not easy.
I think that anybody who thinks that that can pick this up
and do it right away is dead wrong.
Is that supposed to be like that?
OK, so we're here on the football pitch.
The game is all about dribbling,
scoring goals, shooting, being confident.
We're going to put a few of those skills together
and it's going to look a little bit like this.
Now it's your turn.
How can I do it?
Like here.
Oh, close.
Nice! Yeah, you got to celebrate.
So, what did you think of that?
It's hard.
To look, it's very easy, but to play, it's very hard.
To do like this and...
Yeah, I know. I thought it was good.
I think that you have really good ball control
for not having played and I think that part of it
might be from your rhythmic gymnastics.
You have very good control of your body.
So, the footwork will come.
(THE BASICS)
Let's start to learn some basic elements.
OK, I think I need that.
OK, one turn.
- We have to sit like this. - OK.
You can try with me.
- Yes. - And do this.
Great, and like this.
OK, we can do some balance,
- like this and this. - OK.
Like a ballerina.
Yes. Great.
- And maybe some leaps. - OK.
Lift...
Leap.
- Yeah, great. - Thank you.
We can do it with the ribbon.
- OK. - Yes.
- Don't move your arm. - OK.
- Only the wrist, like this. - OK.
Yeah. Like this, great, and move faster.
- Da-da! - Ah, much better.
You can do like this.
(THROW AND CATCH)
Ah cool. That was awesome.
- Yes. - OK, same thing but leap
and catch it in the air.
You can do it, you know how to do these basics and...
- Put together. - All together, yeah.
OK.
Yeah. That's great.
Thank you.
I want us to work on ball control
a little bit more, right in this space, just dribble
around all the areas of your foot, inside outside.
Inside outside, I know.
Yeah. OK, so now we're going to get
the stepover involved.
So, take your touch, step over the ball
and use the other foot to push it past your defender.
- You can try. - OK, please.
Good. OK, now we're going to focus
on the shooting element of this exercise.
You want to bend it.
And what I mean by bend it is you don't want
to use your laces, you don't want
to use the inside of your foot.
You want to use the spot right in between.
Give that a try.
Nice!
- Yeah. - That was awesome.
Now we're going to work on side volleys
and what you want to work on is getting
your leg up using your laces,
keeping your chest over the ball,
putting in the back of the net.
- Your turn. - Wow, am I...?
You have the flexibility.
So?
Ah, good try.
I will try the best. OK.
- Close. - I have to close. Yeah.
Yeah.
(THE CHALLENGE)
OK, this is your moment
to show all the moves in the routine.
- Good luck. - OK. I think I need it.
(TO PERFORM A ROUTINE WITH THE RIBBON)
Thank you.
Oh, I dropped.
It was great.
With your drop, it doesn't matter.
And your smile in the end of your routine
is the best moment and judges will like it.
Thank you, you're a great teacher.
Thank you.
I have never used the ribbon in that way,
so it's completely new to me, completely foreign to me
and I'm such a competitor and perfectionist
but in something like this you just have to,
like, let all of that go and just have fun
and try to learn and do the best you can.
(THREE ATTEMPTS TO SCORE A GOAL)
Here's the challenge.
We're going to put together everything
that you learned, all three skills.
You're going to dribble,
do an inside-out move on the first defender,
then do a stepover move on the second defender,
pass the ball to me and you're going to side volley
into the back of the net.
Good.
That's OK. Two more chances.
You can do this. You got this.
Good, good. Nice.
Getting closer. Good work. Here we go.
Good. Yes.
- Good. - Yeah!
I'm very happy to do this challenge
and I'm proud of myself and herself
because she is a great teacher.
Very good, yeah.
In gymnastics, you don't have these celebrations.
- Awesome! Good stuff. - Thank you!
(SHOWBOATING)
Since you're so graceful, I think that you can handle
some of these skill challenges.
So, pop it up, cradle it, back to the ground.
Good.
Nice!
Let's see what kind of tricks you can do.
Yeah.
Try that. You can maybe do it better than me.
Ah!
- Look at that! - Yeah.
I can't even do that.
(SPORTS SWAP)
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