Handspring

“Breathe in, Breathe out”, I said to myself as my heart was pounding out of my chest. The team that I called family for the past 6 months was sitting in a circle. Our eyes closed and holding each others nervous sweaty hands with a grip so tight I thought our lives depended on it. In that moment I remembered how I first got into cheerleading. Which changed my life forever. I was in 6th grade at the pep rally where they recognize the football, volleyball players and of course the cheerleaders…

section so when you run and tumble they really hype you up! The very first time I’ve ever tumbled on Bosse’s gym floor I was a freshman. My coach made everyone who knew how to tumble run and do 5 back handsprings in a row while everyone who couldn’t tumble spell out Bosse every time hit a back handspring. I actually honestly didn’t think I’d be able to keep up but I did! Let me tell you that there’s no better feeling than your hands hitting that freshly waxed hard gym floor. When it was time to…

“If I were Shannon Miller this would not happen,” I often thought as I positioned my body onto the bar. I hated heights and even being a few feet in the air on the highest uneven bar unsettled me. It seemed as if I were on the peak of a mountain top and my oxygen supply was thinning out. Each exhale made me dizzier and before you know it, I would be climbing down in a hurry, anxious to see my score even though I knew it would be low. I hated the fear I felt about practicing on the bars and how…

The collaborative experience described in the essay “Eyeball to Eyeball,” does resemble an activity where I had to collaborate with other people. I will be giving two examples of when I needed to collaborate with other people. The first example is from when I was on the Gymnastics Team in High School, we had to collaborate to make floor and beam routines. To make a floor or a beam routine, was no easy tasks. Multiple people would be involved, including the person who would be performing the…

6 practice and now was in level 7 I cross compete with 2 teams. We were missing 2 flyers so the 1st day was more of a tumbling day. We were working on roundoff back tucks and standing tucks. The majority of my team needed help on roundoff back handspring back tuck or just roundoff back tuck, so we made a station where you had to run do a roundoff and then tuck and land on your back on the mat. Then you would go ever to the spring board and get spotted jumping off the springboard and doing your…

Starting Cheer I was standing watching the parade downtown Middleville with my Mom when I saw the Middleville competitive cheer team The cheerleaders dressed in red, black, and white uniforms were doing ‘flips’ or as I later found out, handsprings. I turned to my Mom. “I want to do that!” “What? Walk in a parade?” She asked confused as the parade kept moving downtown. “No, do flips.” Later that week my mom signed me up for the competitive cheer team. At the age of four I would be placed on…

had a fear of heights and falling. When I first joined the cheer team, I faced a challenge of being one of the flyers. Before I joined the cheer team, I’d been in tumbling. I was practicing so I could try out. I had to know how to do a back handspring, walk overs, handstands, cartwheels, and many other things. When the time finally came, I had to go to the cheer clinics where they would teach us a cheer, a chant, and a dance. We learned them all in one day and practiced the other two days.…

Gymnastics you ask what is it it’s a sport that is performed in the winter Olympics. Yes it is a sport some people say it is not a sport but it is because it uses the performance of exercises requiring strength, flexibility, balance and control. It’s actually two types of gymnastics there’s artistic and rhythmic. Yes they are different because rhythmic gymnastics you do Gymnasts performing as in jumps, tosses, leaps and other moves with different types of apparatus. Rhythmic gymnastics is the…

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…

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…