Reflection #4

Reflection #4
After last week, I was looking forward tonight. It was such a disaster; I have no idea where the hell my head was. This week is most definetely going to be better, it has to be.
I walked right into the gym and went right to Lucia, and I said to her, “I’m getting my full tonight if it’s the last thing that I do.” She said okay like it was nothing to her. Told me you better with all that talk. At that same time keeping in mind what Mrs. Burke said to me earlier today about yeah you have been telling me for weeks that you was going to get your full. Stop talking about it and do it. I had to.
We started today off with some conditioning, the basic jumping jacks and regular tuck jumps and splits. I assumed that because we have no competition coming up today that we would just work on getting new tricks on the floor. Because I really hate when we start on the bars. I loose all my strength right away.
Tell me why as soon as we got on the bars, I complained to myself because last week I could not get a pull over to save my life. I chalked up my hands, went right to the bar and just stared at it. Lucia kept telling me to hurry up but I was so hesitant. I jumped up to the bar and went right over like a solid board. I was so happy at the same time as angry at myself because it was easier than I thought it was it was just last week I had so many things going on in my head. It was almost virtually impossible for me to get it. So I did it over and over again till I got too tired. Then we moved right to the floor.
I started on the floor with my back-hand-springs and some front flips. It was all good but I wanted to save a lot of my energy for the highlight of the night. My full-twist. She said get ready because you are going to do your full-twist next and I said yeah right, I’ll do my layout first. She laughed at me. So I did my layout and she asked me if I was ready and I thought I was but no I wasn’t. I couldn’t even do the half from two weeks ago. I decided to do the exercise that she gave me two weeks ago, about when you come down from the layout; twist at the end, so I did it once and then I said that I am ready. I ended up doing one more layout. It was time. I stood in front of the mat after everyone else went and waited. I waited and waited and waited, to confuse my mind, Lucia told me that it was just a layout, it worked. So I ran and I hurtled and I went and twisted. I FELL!!! Right on my side. Turns out that I worried too much about the twist and not the height, I said alright, I got this. I was not scared at all any more. I stood again with hesitation in front of the mat. I went and I twisted again I landed and fell. But oh my god, I did it. Woo!!! Now I was ready to get it good. I said ready Lucia; this one is going to be for you. Remember; third times the charm. I stood again and went for it. I did it. I landed practically straight up and sharp with the arms. I could not believe that I just did it. I have only been doing acrobatics for a year and a half and I did it. Nolan Burke got his full-twist. First student ever in Providence Turners to get their full-twist. It was definitely a night to remember.