9/20-9/24 Past

So let’s travel back a few years to when I was just getting out of 4th grade and at the gymnastics gym for summer camp. I have been working out there all summer just trying to get all my tricks completed and perfected for meet season. I was aiming to be level six. Being in level six means more work and more willingness to take risks. There was a group of girls working for the same position as I was. Whoever got the tricks got to be in level six, and whoever didn’t stayed in level five. I wanted that place on the team and there was no way I was staying in a certain level for two years in a row. I remember thinking that it was so unprofessional and only the bad, lazy girls stayed on the same level for two years in a row. I had my routine set on bars and I was so excited. Vault was all set too. The only events I was struggling on was beam and floor. On the floor I needed my round off back hand spring back tuck which is a back tuck. I remember it being so difficult and I couldn’t just get it by myself. I was afraid and always needed a spot. Until one day, my coach told a little white lie and said she was spotting me when she really wasn’t. She kept telling me that I had it all by myself but I was too scared. And that one time she didn’t spot me I did it all by myself! The rest of the day I did my back tuck about twenty times, I was so happy. Since that day I’ve been able to do my back tuck!