Gym class was so defeating for Christa Crawford Valency that she transferred out of her private Los Angeles high school.
"The P.E. teacher was a former professional football player. He was ... 'We're going to run stairs,' and I was just, like, throwing up. I could not keep up," Crawford Valency, 31, said. Though she surfed and did martial arts, the "suicide runs" and competitive volleyball games required skills she hadn't acquired.
"I was having panic attacks," she said.
Now a teacher herself in Chula Vista, California, Crawford Valency makes sure her fifth- and sixth-grade students acquire fundamental skills like visual and spatial awareness that will help prepare them for whatever sport or dance they may pursue later.
"Just enjoy movement more," she said. "It's a lot less threatening."
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