reflection #1

Reflection #1

Finally, the writing portion of this class is over! Next is internship, I hope I can do this. Today I had my first day of internship. I am taking gymnastics at Providence Turners. It is an urban gymnastics studio. I had started two weeks before we had to but tonight was the first night that I got really into it and started to do the workouts and all of that stuff that goes along with it. What did I do? Well, I started on the floor to warm up. So I decided to tumble a little as my work out. The spring floor is so much different, it kills me. A back hand spring on the spring floor in comparison with the hard wood floor is tremendous. I barely have to push, when I went to do my tuck I was afraid I was going to over rotate and land on my head so I didn’t go to high just so that I would get used to the bounce first. So LaChia, who is my coach tells us to flip fast so when it was my turn I said okay I’ll flip fast I have no problem with that. I did five back hand springs and I rebounded out of that and landed on a group of little girls. It was so funny, the little girls were all shocked and what not. When we went for the second round going the opposite way, I put down a mat so I wouldn’t land on the wood again, the girls all sat on that mat, I said to them, didn’t you learn your lesson? They looked at me and said oh! I just laughed. Equipment, oh my god it is so much fun but so hard. We got on the bars. I got a pull-over in one week so I was really happy about that. That is when you do a 360 around the bar. Not as easy as it may seem. Takes a lot of arm strength, I most definitely have to start doing more pull ups and pushups. I started working on a bigger cast because I want to get a giant. That is when you swing around the whole bar. It is very difficult but I know that I can do it. Next the vault, boy was that fun. I ran so fast towards it and sprang off and I over rated and kind of landed on my face, I laughed at myself, but then after that I started to do it right. I was really focusing on how to hollow my body out. Keeping your body straight while performing those tricks is hard to do. I am so close though, I know I will become great in no time. My goal on the vault is to get a front tuck and maybe even a full off of it, heck even a layout would be awesome. For real though, I do not think I could see myself doing a round-off on that spring to the vault. That is crazy, knowing me though, I’ll do it. Last, but certainly not least, I tried out the parallel bars. I was able to do a handstand on them, well on the lower ones, next week I’m going to try and get a hand stand on the high parallel bars, but I learned how to swing and to get off of it while swinging. All in all, I did exceptionally well for my first day and I cannot wait until next week. Woooooo!!!