Personal Narrative: My Double Front Flips

Improved Essays
In the first place i noticed is the smell it smell. It smells like a whole bunch of chalk,it also smells like sweat and salty tears.I also noticed that i hear all the coaches giving amazing corrections. This is a story about how i overcame the biggest fear of my entire life my double front flip.

At first i want to talk about is getting ready and prepared to do my double front flip . So first thing that i did is well i warmed up of course. I stretched out my hole body,my legs,my arms, my wrists, you get the gist. And then i started just started working on just one front flip at a time. And then when i was finally ready i got up on my tip top of my toes and went.

Next i want to talk about is finally doing it. So i got up on my toes

Related Documents

  • Decent Essays

    My Triple double The first triple double in my life came on December 5 in the championship game. I woke up looking fowler to going to the heat game with Devin Caputo and pastor Victor Carter. So I up at 12:00pm in the afternoon and my mom came and got me from Justin Ray’s house. My mom was coming from a stress reliever spa day.…

    • 599 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Superior Essays

    I remember my coach (who was younger than me, Mr. Chris Heaton) teaching me tricks on how to perform a double and a front flip full twist. These unique movements were challenging, but highly enjoyable. Luckily, I had enough power to catapult myself for performing some moderately difficult dives. I'll never forget the feeling of hitting a perfect, for me, double somersault.…

    • 1785 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Kaleena Siers Ms. DiSalle ELA7 asfkgsubc I was in my dad’s white pickup truck slowly making my way to gymnastics practice. All I had been thinking about was trying my roundoff back handspring since I woke up. I had just stopped doing physical therapy for my achilles and was really worried about trying my new flip. I kept thinking in my head how things could go drastically wrong.…

    • 468 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    I was raised by a single mom of four who doubles as my role model. She worked at least two jobs at a time to support me and my sister, who was three years older than me. She is what I think of when hard work comes to mind. My mother has always had high expectations for me, she's always wanted me to do well. Her constant motivation and encourgement, it has consequently rubbed off on me.…

    • 294 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    It had been two weeks since Steve and Two-Bit got jumped. The rumble was scheduled for Saturday night in the same place we fought the rumble after Bob. Darry figured that two weeks was enough for Two-Bit to heal enough to fight, hopefully. Soda and I had planned our sneaking to the fight down to the very last detail.…

    • 1215 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    When I was growing up and my brother attended high school, I always enjoyed going to Friday night football games and watching the best part of the game: the halftime show. While I sat in the stands, my brother would be marching sets, creating intricate formations and blasting his trumpet at fortissimo. I dreamed to be a part of the sets of formations and play difficult music at rapid tempos. Once I entered middle school, I immediately signed up for band and assigned to play the oboe, a woodwind instrument in the double reed family and, arguably, one of the most difficult instruments to master. I didn’t know then, but I later found out that this activity would push me out of my comfort zone and learn not only challenging sonatas and melodies, but also life skills I would need to achieve my goals.…

    • 767 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Chop It All Off Two years ago, I had long, luscious, golden blonde hair that fell down to my waist, and I absolutely hated it. Everyone else seemed to love it, though, so I kept it. I dealt with the static, the lengthy drying time, and the hours of styling that I had dealt with ever since I was little, all because I wanted to be loved and accepted. I wanted to fit into the box of typical girls my age who all had the exact same haircut so that I would be considered “pretty” by the rest of my classmates, but I felt miserable in that box and I didn’t know how to escape.…

    • 1396 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Superior Essays

    The Arrival I had originally planned to travel to Rio on September 5th through September 12th. A perspicacious and experienced hunter named Rainsford accompanied me. It was nighttime when I first spotted land of any sort. It was vaguely visible and was opaque, so misty that even Rainsford couldn’t see it. Utterly tired, I began drifting off, dreaming of the adventures we were soon to face.…

    • 1120 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The day on the front was like no other, it was peaceful, dreamlike. All the airplanes had ceased fire, the tanks were no longer being operated. It was so hard to believe that all of a sudden everything had changed. My no-good rifle had malfunctioned and shot me in the leg. I was taken to a hospital next to a local train station; the hospital was dark, gloomy, and had a prominent stench of death.…

    • 1246 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    I was cleared from both my doctor and physical therapist to compete once again. My team and I walked across the gym to our next event, the vault. Like my front handspring, I had practiced this hundreds of times. All I had to do was run down the runway, jump on the springboard, and use the power from the springboard to flip over the vault. It is the same concept as a front handspring, but with a giant spring board that gymnasts use to get over the vault table.…

    • 2007 Words
    • 9 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    My favorite mistake would have to be when I totaled my car. Sometimes you think that this is the worst day of my life. You make such a big mistake, and think my life is over. That was me 9 years ago. I had the day off of work.…

    • 607 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Prologue The docks were busy. Men bustled around, tossing nets into barges and slipping coins into pockets with wary glances. One man in particular stood at the edge of the docks, looking down into the water. He swayed forward a little, as though contemplating jumping in, then pulled back.…

    • 312 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Looking through my sights I just see the two lines I’m a hunter in the grass like I’m hunting two lions I put twenty in my clip like I put in two dimes Running through a field like I’m dodging two mines I’m stuck behind a wall like a pair of two mimes I think above the world like I carry two minds I’m the better half of myself you see…

    • 147 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    “Blood, sweat, and chalk; never tears.” These words have guided my gymnastics career throughout high school. Pretty much starting from the beginning, I had to re-learn many skills and tricks that I had lost after quitting gymnastics for dance lessons in fifth grade instead of joining the competitive team. I lived for gymnastics and I still do. Walking into the gym always boosts my mood and gives me a rush of determination.…

    • 476 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    This goal consumed my life by taking every opportunity I could to spend at the gym. The blue mats became a more familiar sight than my own house. Coach G began making jokes that I was there more than she was. As I continued to work, I began to see improvement in my tumbling. Slowly, I was starting to get more skills and my coaches were noticing.…

    • 787 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays