Descriptive Essay About Gymnastics

Basic gymnastic skills came easy to me, so I did very well in events and moved up in competition levels rapidly. Yes I ate, breathed and slept gymnastics, but I may have given less than 100% effort in training at times because things came so easily to me. After 9 years of training, accomplishing advanced skills became difficult and I stopped advancing like I had so easily done in the earlier years. I became stagnant in my completion level and obtained a couple injuries that ultimately ended my ability to continue as a competitive gymnast. At the time I did not see this as failure, I felt it was just an accident and life was unfair. Because the majority of my life had revolved around something I could no longer do, I became slightly depressed and really didn't know what to do with my extracurricular life. I tried track, dancing, basketball, swimming, and cheerleading. Since cheerleading contains many gymnastic-like similarities, I felt comfortable in that environment. As with gymnastics, I excelled quickly as a leader and as a mentor to younger girls and being co-captain and captain of the cheerleading teams, I had additional responsibilities other than just my individual success. Since injuries in cheerleading are common and I know first hand how an injury can adversely affect ones happiness, I found myself focused on injury prevention to my own body and to the other girls on the

When I joined the Upper Bucks YMCA gymnastics team my freshmen year, I did not realize how much of my life would have changed. I took gymnastics classes ever since I was six, and even though the coaches would pester me about joining the team, I never felt the need to participate in gymnastics competitively. It wasn’t until I began to practice with the team girls that I realized how much I was missing out, and I never regret the day that I became a member of the Upper Bucks gymnastics team. Not only was it a place where I challenged my gymnast abilities, where I learned what it meant to be healthy, and where I discovered the thrills of competition, but it is a place that I call my second home. I met girls of all ages coming from different

On my way to the competition, as I always have, I inserted my earbuds into my ears and watched as our car passed hundreds of trees. Every gymnastics meet created such a sickening feeling in my stomach and made my head spin. My father asked if I felt alright. I lied and told him I felt fine. I jokingly said that I only imagined myself at the top of the podium; a first place medal around my neck. My parents tried to encourage me to accomplish this. Therefore, they promised a stuffed animal and an ice cream cone if I won. I made a half-smile because I doubted myself too much. If only I knew what would soon happen to permanently change myself as a gymnast. When I arrived, all of my teammates crowded around me and pulled me into the gymnasium. Because we were competing at our ‘home meet’, a gymnastics competition at my team’s gymnasium, I felt more comfortable. After warm-up, I went to vault. I did not feel pleased with my score, but

For my report I decided to do it on gymnastics. My report will include the history about gymnastics. I will talk about how to do gymnastics and the benefits for doing gymnastics. I will also explain how I am involved in gymnastics. In the late eighteenth-and the early nineteenth-century gymnastics began. It started in Germany. Johann Friedrich Gutsmuths and Friedrich Ludwig Jahn created gymnastics. It is different now because back then they did not have all of the things that we have now. To do gymnastics, you need lots strength and flexibility. Some of The rules for gymnastics are that on floor you have to stay inside the line so if you are doing flips on the floor when you land you must be inside the line Gymnastics is good for you because

I was a competitive athlete in all around gymnastics, until I had a traumatic brain injury, which resulted in an end to my career. My plan was to compete at the collegiate level as I study at a college of my choice, but due to an injury my plans quickly changed. As being a gymnast in my past, it has created me to be who I am by the way I act and the qualities I have as a person. I have great communication skills by being able to talk with anyone about anything that they need too. I am always willing to learn new things by others and I am not afraid to have them teach me something that I don’t already know. I have great leadership skills with having a lot of experience with a group of people. I will never give up on anyone no matter the circumstances, I will go through whatever it is to make sure all of the people that I know are happy. I have and almost always keep a positive attitude towards things and other people, and will push them to their limits to make sure they are the best that they can be. I am very enthusiastic and hope to

The coaches said that we weren't gonna get the results until a couple days, but those days I was so anxious. Finally the day we were gonna find out the results came. My mom opened up her email and she found out that I made the team with some of my fellow friends from school. I was so excited for my first day to come. That first season of competition was very nerve racking but at the same time so fun. I even remember at one competition I placed first all around in my division. After the first season of competing on silver, my coach wanted to see if I was ready for gold. They put me through one gold practice and I moved up to the gold team. I didn't know a lot of people on that team, so I had to make

Other than those words, she did not speak a word to me. The athletic trainer gently sat me down to the side of the field by the fence, then she swiftly walked towards my coach. She spoke a few words to my coach and they both looked in my direction.

Most of my life was consumed with the sport of gymnastics. I remember the rush I would get as it was my turn to compete in front of the cheering crowd. In those moments nothing else mattered; just me, the chalk on my calloused hands and the equipment in front of me. I have competed in gymnastics ever since I was five years old. I spent six days a week in the gym practicing all year round and even volunteered part of my time to a community program teaching gymnastics to children. Gymnastics had a tremendous role in shaping me into the person I am today and it is also what led me to want to become a Physician Assistant.

One big controversial topic asks is gymnastics a sport? Women's gymnastics consists of four events; vault, bars, beam, and floor and is included in the summer Olympics. All of these events are difficult in their own ways. gymnastics is a sport and you have to have a lot of strength to do the skills. This sport requires different abilities like agility and rapid movement, There's a lot of pressure, and it can provide many different opportunities.

I love the adrenaline rush and when the ref raised my arm up high when I won a match. I loved being able to do a sport I was great at for once. I was quick, knew a lot of moves, and knew how the wrestling worked. I just always hated the nervous feelings I always got before a meet. My nerves would make my stomach feel upside down and cause me to think twice about wrestling just in case I ever got hurt. But Like I said before this meet was different. Ten minutes after my successful match I was feeling overconfident and didn’t have that nervous feeling I had at the beginning of the meet since I had won a match so quick. I was called to be next for my second match that night and still was feeling way too confident. I never should have thought my match was going to be as easy as my last. Once my strap was on and shook hands with the other wrestler right before the whistle blew I was pulling moves like crazy. The different wrestling moves I used worked many times but the other guy, oh no. He was good. He knew how to defend himself from me and tried to get me mad by always pulling on my head down. That was irritating to me because I chipped one of my front teeth. So in my mind after about 2 rounds with this guy, I told myself I needed to finish him and win like I did the last match. Yet again, I still had that overconfidence in me. I tried to bring him down which almost worked, but he aimed for my ankles and pulled me up. I didn’t want to go down so

My father have always wanted me to be an open-minded girl with different interests, and my parents tried to give me any opportunity to explore myself and find my true passion.

What if in a matter of seconds all your dreams that you have worked your entire life for shattered before your eyes? What if this happened all while millions of people were watching? Would you still get up and try again? Shawn Johnson has conquered many challenges throughout her gymnastics career all while being watched by millions of people. In the book, “ Winning Balance,” Shawn shares some of her challenges and how she overcame them. The theme of this book is to never give up and keep trying even if it seems as though you have already lost. One quote from the book that really portrayed this theme is, “ Sometimes the real victory comes from simply not giving up. Just remember: God is big enough to handle every challenge, and he is loving enough to calm every fear.” ( pg. 91) The setting of this book takes place in Iowa as well as the 2008 Olympics in Bejing, China.

As I got an invitation to go to open gym with my friends, my main thoughts were, “I hope I can get some new skills tonight.” Little did I know, my thoughts about four hours later would be, “I have never been so upset, angry, or disappointed in my life.” As I walked into the cold, noisy gym, I was prepared to achieve my round off back handspring back tuck. I assured myself that I would be able to do it successfully. I wished that the ground was as soft and comforting as the dark trampoline with orange and blue bumpers. Seeing girls doing back walkovers on the thin, beige, four- inch beam, swinging their bodies around the slippery, uneven bars, and flipping themselves into the sky blue, squishy mat made me tell myself, “If they can do that,

"Hold your horses, we'll be up in a minute!" I yelled back as Ally left. "Let's go Rachel!" I said grabbing my trusty Trex water bottle from the bench as we then left. We both raced up the stairs, not wanting our teammates mad at us.

At the age of three my parents decided to put me in gymnastics, I excelled immediately and after a couple months I entered into the pre-competitive program. My love for gymnastics continued and I became a provincially ranked, high level gymnast until the age of fourteen when I shattered my ACL and meniscus in my knee which required surgery. However, my years of gymnastics taught me a great deal of skills that I carry with me to this day. Primarily, I learned exceptional self-discipline, time management, and balance (metaphorically and physically). Gymnastics is exhausting on the body and the mind as you need total cohesion of both to excel. During my peak, I was training five hours per practice, upwards of five days a week and during the summer I would train six hours a day, six days a week. Gymnastics taught me that if you want something badly enough you will work as hard and as long as it takes to reach your goals. After shattering my ACL I pushed to continue training and I competed in my final competition and was the provincial champion on the bars event for my age category. I refused to let this surgery end my career. Six months after the surgery, I joined a competitive cheerleading team who I competed with for three years. Cheerleading was very different for me because it required all of the skills I had learned from gymnastics and on top of that I had to learn how to work with a team. I believe gymnastics is a huge part of who I am and has helped me to become the