Reflection #2

Reflection #2
I was so pumped to go to class today. Internship is so much; well I mean when we do workouts it’s not as fun but still it’s better than having to be in some kind of office or something. I went in internship today with a goal. That goal was to get my full-twist. I kept bragging to Mrs. Burke about how I was going to get it like nothing. To be honest, I was so scared. I have a full-twist on the trampoline but doing it on the floor is something that is completely different. You have to use so much more strength than you would be using on the trampoline. So if you do not set right, well then you will not be able to do a full-twist. I was shaking even before I got there.
So I’m there at Providence Turners and we started off just like any other day. We started to stretch, do our splits, jumping jacks, tuck jumps; everything to get your blood pumping. I hate how we start after the work-outs we start right on the bar. It kills me because it takes all of my strength and aaaahhhhhh. You know what kills me? The pull-ups man! The pull-ups; I do two of them and I’m dead. She was giving me a routine. I guess it’s a level four because she is trying to get me ready for competition in two weeks. Oh yeah, and on top of that they want me to start competing. That makes excited at the same time, worried like there’s no tomorrow. I can’t even get a pull-over and they want me to start competition, yeah right. I kind of cheat sometimes. I climb on the low bar and stand on it and then jump to the high bar so I can do my kip swing and my regular swing and turn while swinging. It feels so much easier. But I really have to stop slacking because competition is coming and I know that they are all counting on me. Really, I really do think they are counting on me. They keep telling how far I have come in just three weeks. I’m amazed at myself.
So the real highlight of my evening. THE FLOOR!!!!! I was so ready to go on the floor. So we started just like we always do. We started to go across the floor. I skipped doing those little jumps and the little cartwheels across the floor because it was just a waste of time, I already have all those tricks so I’d rather just work on my back-hand-springs and am on my way. I started off with the tucks and then I started doing my back-hand-spring back-tucks. Which I really have to work on because I’m setting anymore and it’s really starting to disappoint me. Then again it could be because of the floor. Well any way, I start doing my layout and Lucia mentions to me, why not do your full now. I was like, what? Come again…hahaha. I told her that I would do my layout until I felt comfortable and then I would try and do it. She told me when you do your layout don’t try the full just yet. On your way coming down from the layout, turn your body at the last minute to a half; just so that way I would at least get the feel. After I did that my body just naturally turned like I had already knew how to do it. I was so excited. I go my half-twist. I never thought in a millions years I would actually get it on the floor, but I did. Go me! I kept doing it over and over and I fell a few times, but I did. I would have had my full, but I was leading with my hips and not with my shoulders and head so I wasn’t rotating at the proper speed to get me around. As soon as I got my half-twist, I rushed over to my cell-phone and called my dance teacher to tell her, because I knew she would be excited for me and I was right. As soon as I told her, she was like you better get your full now. I laughed in accomplishment. I don’t think I had ever been so excited before. Watch, next week I’m getting my full. There’s nobody stopping me now. Nothing can stand in my way. That’s how confident I am…let me stop before I get too confident and break a leg.