Handspring

I was riding and I got thrown off and was too afraid to get back on again after that. Then one of my friends convinced me to try cheerleading. I felt as though cheerleading would be the one sport that I would able to commit to and not change my mind about. I had stuck with it for years and I enjoyed everything about it. From nailing new stunts to sideline cheers at football games to going to Disney for Nationals there was always something to look forward to. I tried out for varsity when I was a freshman and after being an alternate for a week or two I was on varsity. I had finally found something that I was passionate about to stick with. That is until I attempted to throw my back-handspring without a spotter holding me and broke and dislocated my fingers. For those that are unaware, a back handspring is when you propel your body backwards onto your hands in a handstand and then spring up from that in one fluid movement. I didn 't think that that would be the end of my cheerleading career until I sat on the sideline at all the football games and I got bumped down to junior varsity. Now that was not the end of the world I was planning on building my strength back up with my stunting and tumbling while my fingers healed until I sprained…

Dedication. It’s 5:50 pm and I am just arriving at practice. I am 20 minutes late so I have to warm up by myself. I jog back and forth along the runway for about 5 minutes and stretch for 10 before I jump in with the rest of the group. We split up and move to our first event. After the coach tells us what we will be doing for our first event, we start with three main passes. The first being a front handspring step out front handspring. Next, a front tuck and press handstand with a full…

War Horse was originally a children's book written by Michael Morpurgo. After War Horse was written, a man named Tom Morris who worked at Handspring Puppet Company in London had heard about this book and wanted to make this book into a play but using puppets. Michael was not thrilled with this idea but decided to try it out. He was asked to come to London to meet Tom and quit possibly figure out how to put a puppet horse on stage. War Horse is very powerful, showing the relationship between a…

beep beep beep, my dreadful alarm clock goes off it is 6:30 AM on saturday, you are probably wondering why i am getting up at 6:30 on Saturday well good question i have a gymnastics meet. Today is my sister Leela’s first gymnastics meet today and that means my mom will be showing all of her attention to her. Anyway when I finally get up I get in the shower and then dry my hair so when I get done drying my hair so today i am going to do a ponytail and when I am done with that I put my leotard…

Hurricane Gymnastics; on floor,” the announcer announced into the microphone while watching overhead. Third position, handstand, over and kick. My routine was quite marvelous, although not perfect. I’m not a professional; and when it got to my round-off and back-handspring it all went down hill. It seemed as if my back-handspring was on my head; I had collapsed in the middle. That brought my score down. The score that I ended up with is a 7.3; I was not happy, but not mad. I was more of…

I thought that this was because we got a new that has a bad attitude and acts like she just does not care about anything. She is the only one that does not have a back handspring on the team so I took the blame for…

competition you want to look nice and in that process it can help your self esteem boost. Lets say you have just learned a new stunt. You have only practiced a couple of times, but when you compete you get extra points from the judges. You end up winning the whole competition because of that stunt. You won, so you feel prouder of yourself and happy you were able to learn quickly in such a short time. Cheer is a sport because you often have to work hard and push to reach your goals. In…

This weekend I had cheer practice and non-important subjects but I am only going to conclude cheer practice which I was very anxious about. Me and my team always start out with with ten laps around the gym and then warm up/stretch which to me it is very soothing and which is my favorite part. Then to follow up after that the team warms, we then do running tumbling and standing tumbling which is for example a roundoff back handsprings. I always enjoy warming up tumbling because it makes me feel…

Specific tumbling passes include a running round off back handspring, running round off back tuck, and a running round off full twist out. These skills could also be done in a standing position. The running, round off, back handspring, is the most basic tumbling skill. After the athlete masters the basics of tumbling the skills become more difficult. Two of the most difficult tumbling skills for the athlete to achieve are the standing back tuck and the running full twist…

would fall apart if pushed harder? In gymnastics, you are pushed to your mental and physical breaking point. When it comes time to compete, you have to make sure you know your routine and how to make it win the perfect 10. I, as a newly-budding 5th grader, knew this decently well, and my first gymnastics meet was definitely one for the memories. Flipped Out Gymnastics, located in Howell, was where I trained and competed as a level 5 gymnast. But, I wasn’t always an acrobat who had their…