Personal Narrative-The Joy Of Gymnastics

The moment my neck hit the spring floor and my body shook with impact, I thought I would never have the courage to tumble again. Even with getting a concussion from tumbling I was able to still manage to get past that setback and achieve my current and future goals through practicing. I believe that practice will create courage.

Starting in seventh grade I took upon a new challenge, cheerleading. I had never done anything in my life that was related to cheer other than when I was a child doing gymnastics. When beginning tumbling, things started off slow, I learned little by little. I started off with one tumbling class a week, and then eventually made my way to joining my middle school cheer team. As about a month or two passed, I gained

But suddenly things took a big turn. It was mid-February when things went wrong. I was doing my round off backhandspring back tuck. The skill was still new to me and I was just getting in my repetitions. It all happened in slow motion. I remember the round off, I pushed through my fingers and swung my legs beneath my hips. I then throw my hands over forming a back bend and I spot my fingertips touch back down. Next was the tuck, I rebounded through my backhandspring and spotted the wall. I told myself, “hands up, then knees”. However, my body started to flip but not all the way. I got stuck in mid-air. From there, I remember my heart dropped and then my body. Things went black for two seconds, but I began to see again and all I saw was stars. I see a blur of bodies come near me asking if I was okay. I told them I was but I knew for a fact something was wrong. I proceeded to tumble the rest of practice but only with a spot. However after practice that night my family and I began to get worried as my symtoms of a concussion were getting more severe. The next morning my doctor had confirmed that I did infact have a concussion. As a result I would be out of cheer and tumbling for four weeks, but I would be back tumbling just in time for