Handspring

I have, even if it’s a silly spelling test. This year, I’m also going to try to get a back tuck, or back flip. I’m on a dance team and I would really like to do it in one of my dances. To achieve a back tuck, I will practice on nailing my back-handspring and work on it every day to be comfortable to do a backflip. But, when I’m older, I want to be a dermatologist. I will achieve getting this by having a successful job, doing well in school, studying hard, and going to college. Also, when I’m…

The physics of gymnastics is a very complicated topic to study due to the many different factors involved in the stunts. What is gymnastics? Gymnastics is exercises developing or displaying physical agility and coordination. The modern sport of gymnastics typically involves exercises on uneven bars, balance beam, floor, and vault (for women), and horizontal bars, parallel bars, rings, floor, vault and pommel horse (for men). Vault and floor exercise are both unisex events and all of the events…

was to accomplish three outstanding routines back to back. Two of my other level ten teammates went first and then it was my turn. I took a step into the corner of the floor, took a deep breath, and started to run. I did my round-off, then a back handspring, and then my one and half back twisting flip. My body was sky high. It felt like I was floating through the air like never before. Next thing you know, I landed on the outside of my ankles. Within seconds, I was laying on the floor,…

increased within the last few seconds and as the music started, I took a deep breath in attempt to relax myself. I was now in the spotlight, with more than a thousand of my peers watching me. As I completed my first tumbling pass, a roundoff back-handspring back tuck, a jolt of energy rushed though my body, and at this very point my confidence not only in myself, but also in my team grew sky high, as I said to myself, “We’ve got this!” For as long as I can remember, my mom always wanted me to…

Then I realized I was up next on beam. “Up next on beam is Julianna Smith.” announced the announcer. My heart was pounding, my palms were sweaty, and stomach started hurting even more. I mounted on the beam. I did my first skill which was a back handspring step out, layout step out. I stuck it perfectly. I feel so confident when I’m on beam. This was the only time that I felt like I could do anything in the world and that was how I felt now. After I did my standing full twist, I knew all I…

Cheerleading is a sport including many incommensurable activities such as dance, tumbling, jumping, and stunting, for competition or to cheer on a team. It is a very difficult sport that is much underappreciated. Cheerleading is a difficult activity which takes very hard work and dedication. Many cheerleaders obtain injuries from the hardcore sport. “Today, cheerleading involves skills which require the strength of football, the grace of dance, and the agility of gymnastics. Complex maneuvers…

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water mat all day. My aunt and uncle also have a water mat and a paddle board, or as I see it, take-turns-and-go-away-so-you-don’t-fight-with-each-other paddle board. Both are so much fun. But I think the water mat is my favorite. I get to do back handsprings, back tucks, aerials, front flips, and handstands off of it. My brother and I also wrestle on the mat. The wrestling matches usually, but not all the time, took ages, but in the end,…

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Cheerleading is something that has changed drastically in the past years. In the past couple of decades cheerleaders have left the sidelines and have stepped up to the mat. It is now a competitive sport. ”Cheerleading isn 't about winning, it 's about being better than you were yesterday”-unknown. Cheerleading has grown so much, now cheerleaders are focusing on making themselves and the sport better. The orgins of cheer origionally started in Great Britian.In 1883, they started the trend of…