Reflection #7

Before I get into detail about tonight, I just want to say that tonight was an awesome night.
We started off on the bars which killed me like always but tonight I tried a lot. I was really going for the pull-up followed by the pull-over. I didn’t get it, but you know. You can’t always get a trick right away; sometimes it takes a lot of times to get it. That is a lesson that I learned. Patience is a virtue. Oh, so turns out that I was always holding the bar wrong, but with the way that they want me to hold it, it feels really awkward and I think I felt a future rip on my hands. For some reason, I love to get rips because I feel like if you have rips on your hand, you can actually say that you put some serious effort into whatever you were working on. Rip, here I come. The boys bar was up today. Thank god, I hate having to worry about piking your legs because we are going to hit the low bar. It gets so aggravating.
I hate it when people do not listen to their freaking coach. It gets me so angry. We boys had the same coach from last week. He is one of the boy’s brothers and because of that that kid will not listen to him like he would to the main coach. It gets me so perturbed. Just listen, it’s as easy as that. On top of that, the coach’s son will not even sit down. I understand that he is little and will avoid paying attention the whole time but still if this was some suburban studio with rich people and stuff, he would not act like that. He would respect it more. I know that when I was in karate when I was really young, I was obedient. I payed attention in class and constantly listened. I wanted to learn. I felt like punching him.
I got to do the vault today. It got me really happy because I haven’t done the vault in some time. I get really into it. I salute and everything. I fun at full speed and hollow out and go for it. You look at some of the girls that practically walk and when they wonder why they don’t make it over you want to punch them because they are idiots. It makes me laugh.
Okay, so the way that I look at things is that I think that a boy should be able to do all the things that the girls can do and the girls should be able to the same thing that the boys do, so what I started today was the balance beam. It was a little rocky at first to get to be honest; it is coming easy to me. I got right on there and asked for help. I asked them to tell me what I was doing wrong and to just keep critiquing. So far I have a split leap, a tuck jump, a cart wheel, and a round off off the beam.
Right before I was going to leave, I saw one of the girls on the beam and I noticed that she is good but she doesn’t know how to connect her tricks together. She can do a tuck of the beam and she can do two back-walk-overs on the beam, so I thought why not help her connect them. I went over and over with it. I helped her get her tuck better and showed her where she should start so she would end in the right spot for her tuck. I had to help her get comfortable with the feet placement for her tuck because she was doing the tuck with her feet together and not one in front of the other. But I fixed that, right before I was leaving, I told her to do it and she did. The coach’s didn’t think I could teach her, but I did. I was so happy for her and she told me that now she feels really confident in doing it and I told her do not work on it with anyone else; only me. She laughed and said don’t worry I won’t.