Handspring

is September 17, 2016, almost a year since my accident and I’ve come a long way since then. My ankles healed and I’m back to cheerleading with no complications, I’ve even been going to tumbling and working on my back handspring, which brings us here. At tumbling, a back handspring is easy because the floor is springy but the track at a football game is a whole different story and I have to do it today. My heart is racing as we walk over to the other side of the track to do our “hello” cheer to

Gymnastics was a big part of my life and I was very excited when I got my first complicated skill it had taken me about 2 years to get the skill. It was Saturday and my day started off by eating some breakfast, my mom had made pancakes and bacon and they were delicious. I finished off my breakfast and my dad told me to go get ready because we were going to run some errands and so I did, I picked out this red shirt with free shoulder it was kind of big on me so, it looked like a dress but I liked

weren’t for gymnastics, I highly love gymnastics and It really makes me work hard for the things I want to happen! So I had been working on my round off back handspring for quite a long time. About possibly three years. Though I had gone to several clinics and still I didn’t get my back handspring. Well a lot of people I knew had theirs already which made me feel more upset. I tried a lot of times and I would always have mental blocks and I felt like I didn’t try hard enough

I look around and my eyes land on Tessa. She leaps back straight onto the now yellowing trampoline. Her steady hands push off the large red target in the middle. Her back handspring is flawless. As she straightens out and salutes her arms she smile and puffs out her chest. My heart aches. “I bet she never messes up.” My teammate Taylor whispers to me. Jealousy strings through her words and I can't help but want to do one myself. I want it to be great. I want it to be better than Tessa’s. Tessa

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Back Handsprings My bare feet pushed against the navy blue, spring boarded floor. A wide mirror, that took up nearly the entire wall, casted back the reflection of the gymnastics battling their mind sets. I faced the mirror. My coach along my side had put his arm against mu back a clear sign to throw my backhand spring. My mind rattled, as I felt the sticky, heat of sweat starting to form against my hair line. My legs trembled, the kind of trembling that is so violent you forget to breath. What

I studied Chinese Kung Fu. I went to class every day, practicing the different things that my coach wanted us to learn. One of the skills that we learned was how to do a handspring. After about a year of study, the coach told us to practice the handspring without using our hands. At first, I was too afraid to try the handspring without using my hands. I was so scared that I would fall and hurt myself that my body just would not cooperate with my efforts to try. Instead, I would find myself using

Douglas won the 2012 World Olympics. One of the signature tumbling passes of gymnasts around the world is the round off back handspring back tuck. This tumbling pass is not as easy as it seems. What people don’t realize is that in order to have the perfect technique like Douglas’, you must gain momentum during the round off, maintain good body control during the back handspring, and get as much height as possible during the tuck. The first step of the tumbling pass is the roundoff. The athlete stands

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basement with the finished, yellow walls and the soft, brown carpet. I could hear the thud of the feet against the floor when she landed her back handsprings, while I watched her. Her hands bounced off the floor like she was on a trampoline. I thought I want to be able to do a back handspring just like Mia. "Mia, can you help me try to be able to do my back handspring?" I asked her. "Sure!" she replied joyfully. She got up and showed me how to do it. I can do that. It doesn't look that hard I thought