Research Paper On Gymnastics

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Learning how to do gymnastics
Imagine if around you there were people taunting you by doing things you couldn't do. How would you feel? Well, this is how I felt in fifth grade. I would watch other girls do cartwheels or other amazing flips and tricks. Whenever I would tried to do a cartwheel or handstands I would fall on my face.

This caused me to go home one day in tears. My grandma asked why I was crying. I told her what was happening at school every day. That weekend she took me to this gymnastics place. When I walked in there the people were doing flips off other people. This girl named Jessica took me on to the springy floor, where the other people were doing flips on. She asked me “What can you do?” “nothing

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