to crawl or not to crawl....

After our discussion today Jax I have begun some research on the 'kids who don't crawl have poor hand eye coordination' topic.

Points to note:

-I am unable to find any further info on these apparent ' adult crawling classes' - and am therefore starting to think that maybe they are a cover for some other kind of 'adult only' based activity
-I have discovered that there are many kids who don't crawl before they walk (or only crawl for a very brief period of time - such as 3 weeks or so - before walking)
-It proved to be a very 'distressing' subject for many parents (they think their child is somehow disadvantaged or has some sort of disability)
-Many people link this non activity (not crawling) with lack of intelligence
-Only 1 out of the 7 links that google presented me with  (that I actually looked at that is, there was pages of them...) actually linked poor hand eye coordination with non crawling behavior, the rest all seemed to be geared generally towards the 'does my child have a disability' area
-I am sure there are many more arguments/opinions/facts surrounding this subjet but these are the ones that have stood out in my mine, I am open to any kind of feedback or discussions on the subjet


So.... I am hoping that the big wide interweb world might enlighten us further on this pressing subject.

After reading many different opinions and sites regarding babies who do not crawl before walking (or do so for only a short few weeks) I now am questioning many things.

I am someone who was walking at 9 months of age.  I only crawled for possibly a few weeks (if that - I am working on a survey for my mother to fill in so I have more accurate facts on this subject) but I am someone who wants everything I want yesterday.  If someone else is doing something I want to do it too (within reason - if someone else was jumping off a bridge I'd be the one questioning why it was such a good idea) so therefore when my sister 2 years my senior was running about and opening cupboard doors (the only door locks that exisited in our childhood were elastic bands around handles or chairs pushed up against them) I wanted IN on the fun she was having!

One theory that I have read tonight however is that some children don't crawl as it causes them pain, this pain often linked to their spines be unaligned usually a result of a difficult entry into the world.

I must say that according to my mother she didn't exactly have a dream birth with me and being the middle of the night in the country (and given that I was 2 weeks early & the doctor who apparently had a date at the golf course bright n early the next day was far from impressed about a difficult birth on a Saturday night/Sunday morning) it was a bit of a rushed job which according to the chiropractor I saw in my late teens was probably the reason why I was having so much lower back pain & spinal issues.

I now wonder - did I not crawl because it caused me pain?
And if this is why I was not able to crawl and if not crawling has resulted in my poor hand eye coordination (which therefore means my unknown dream of being a hip hop dancer or ever participating effectively in a zumba class is impossible as I am uncoordinated) is someone to blame for this?

I now want to participate in these so called 'adult crawling classes' and to learn how to crawl so if I decide that I want to take up dance or do a zumba lesson and not feel retarded but where do I find such a class?

I invite any comments, feedback, suggestions or opinions on this pressing topic.

Because, it's a gonna be a problem for me!