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. I was just looking out my window at all the bare trees and the bright green grass trying to distract myself. We were pulling into Toledo Gymnastics Academy, went over the bump of the curb, and pulled into a spot adjacent to the long brown building. My mom and I got out of the car and shut our doors with a loud BANG! We pulled the heavy glass door open and walked into the …show more content…
I said excitingly to my coach,”I’m good to go.” My coach answered in reply,”Good.” Then I began to do my stretches while the rest of the team was working on their over-splits. When I was done catching up, we had to work on our bridges and our coach said,” Do two bridges for 30 seconds, ten jump-overs, ten jump to handstands, ten leg-lifts, on both legs, and ten elbow rocks.” After doing that tiredly, for a little these than five minutes, we went to the other side of the floor to do our warm-ups. It was then that I had started worrying even more about my roundoff backhand spring. I had that deep feeling in my stomach that there was either something very good, or bad about to happen. As we went through about half of the warm-ups planned, the coach said,” Roundoff backhand spring.” I waited until the rest of my teammates had done it and asked my coach,” Will you spot me?” She then said yes and I wasn't as worried. I ran as fast as I could and and flipped through the air and was happy when I felt my coach’s hand on my back because I knew that I would not fall. My coach then said,” Good job, next time you are doing it by
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. I was just looking out my window at all the bare trees and the bright green grass trying to distract myself. We were pulling into Toledo Gymnastics Academy, went over the bump of the curb, and pulled into a spot adjacent to the long brown building. My mom and I got out of the car and shut our doors with a loud BANG! We pulled the heavy glass door open and walked into the …show more content…
I said excitingly to my coach,”I’m good to go.” My coach answered in reply,”Good.” Then I began to do my stretches while the rest of the team was working on their over-splits. When I was done catching up, we had to work on our bridges and our coach said,” Do two bridges for 30 seconds, ten jump-overs, ten jump to handstands, ten leg-lifts, on both legs, and ten elbow rocks.” After doing that tiredly, for a little these than five minutes, we went to the other side of the floor to do our warm-ups. It was then that I had started worrying even more about my roundoff backhand spring. I had that deep feeling in my stomach that there was either something very good, or bad about to happen. As we went through about half of the warm-ups planned, the coach said,” Roundoff backhand spring.” I waited until the rest of my teammates had done it and asked my coach,” Will you spot me?” She then said yes and I wasn't as worried. I ran as fast as I could and and flipped through the air and was happy when I felt my coach’s hand on my back because I knew that I would not fall. My coach then said,” Good job, next time you are doing it by