This is the blog i’m going to use for English 2-Honors. I will write here at least once every other week. I’m super excited to be able to write here and develop my skills as a writer.
I first started doing gymnastics when I was 7 years old. It started as a one night a week event for fun. As I got older, it became more competitive and the coaches became tougher on how I learned to do flips and tricks. By my 8th grade year I was able to do a lot of tricks on all six events. On the floor I was able to do a back-handspring into a back full, and was one of my strongest events. On high bar I could do giants and would get rips on my hands, which would stay on my hands for about a month. On rings I could do double back flips onto the ground and land it with not a lot of trouble. On vault I could do a suke. (Basically a round-off backflip onto the ground from the vault.) On P-bars I could do a kip and stay on without flying off and hurting myself. Finally on pommel I could do hip circles while traveling. I don’t consider pommel as a strong suit for me at all. In short I was able to make progress on every event. However this progress came at an extensive cost.
After about 8 years in doing gymnastics, I quit. I started wanting to do it for fun, but the coaches wanted me there at all hours of the week and were trying to catch me up to all the other kids who did this professionally. I wasn’t enjoying going nine hours a week, three hours a day, and then not gaining anything from it. When I quit my dad nagged about it constantly wanting me to join to get some of my physical strength back. Me quitting gymnastics caused a lot of my strength to disappear and I got out of shape. (Compared to what shape I was in before.) Overall I don’t regret my decision to quit. Part of me still wishes I was in it still because of how much I enjoyed it, but the other part of me is saying I love not having to deal with the coaches.
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