After 13 years of cheerleading, I have learned that there are many ways that you can get hurt. I would never listen to my coach when he would tell me that I needed to stop or that I needed to change the way I would tumble. He would try to teach me the correct way, and I would just brush it off because I thought that I knew everything about tumbling. But of course, I didn’t. I was working on my fulls and my coach kept telling me to use my hips to spin.
“I am getting all the way around, so I don’t need to change anything.” I kept telling myself. I would do it and land up right, with my knees slightly facing the right.
“If you keep doing that you will tear your ACL or you will break something. I need you to do as I told you and use your hips.” My coach would yell at me every time I landed. I would nod my head, go back to the corner of the floor, then do it again. My coach would get so mad, but as far I knew, I was landing it and that’s all I had to do. …show more content…
In my back handspring, my hands had overlapped and I didn’t get a good set out of it like I needed. I set as much as I could and wrapped, but I didn’t make it all the way around. The top half of my body made it to the front, but my knees were still spinning as I landed. I felt a shock wave of pain, and heard a loud pop. A pop that was so loud, it sounded as if it hadn’t originated from my body, but it did. I collapsed and started screaming. The pain I felt was unbearable, like hundreds of knives going into my knee. My coach ran over and started yelling for someone to call my
“I am getting all the way around, so I don’t need to change anything.” I kept telling myself. I would do it and land up right, with my knees slightly facing the right.
“If you keep doing that you will tear your ACL or you will break something. I need you to do as I told you and use your hips.” My coach would yell at me every time I landed. I would nod my head, go back to the corner of the floor, then do it again. My coach would get so mad, but as far I knew, I was landing it and that’s all I had to do. …show more content…
In my back handspring, my hands had overlapped and I didn’t get a good set out of it like I needed. I set as much as I could and wrapped, but I didn’t make it all the way around. The top half of my body made it to the front, but my knees were still spinning as I landed. I felt a shock wave of pain, and heard a loud pop. A pop that was so loud, it sounded as if it hadn’t originated from my body, but it did. I collapsed and started screaming. The pain I felt was unbearable, like hundreds of knives going into my knee. My coach ran over and started yelling for someone to call my