Bad fall

[Gymn]

Hi everyone
Today I fell doing a casthandstand. I leaned to far forward and I let go. I would have landed on my head but my coach caught me and I was thrown on my back. Well it's a lot better then landing on my head but I hurt a lot and there was only the little blue mat that you put under everything that's only like an inch thick. When I landed I got the wind knocked out of me and I couldn't move my legs or get up. Everyone got really scared especially my other coach. Now I have bruises on my thighs and my legs still hurt.

 

[bogwoppit]

Poor you, falls are scary@!

 

[my4buffaloes]

OUch, hope you feel better tomorrow.

 

[Deleted member D3987]

you'll be back at it in no time!

 

[Sparky]

Usually, in our gym, the athletes are taught how to fall from an ill-timed casttohandstand.

 

[Mack_the_Ripper]

Bars = bruises, huh? It seems odd that this would happen to you...generally from a cast handstand you either arch off and land on your feet/knees if you overrotate, or you just turn out of it. One time during early-morning practice, I was doing cast handstands on a bar that was much lower than normal and instead of turning, I just went over. The bar was too low and fell on my butt! I was perfectly fine but it sure woke me up.

 

[Kiwi]

there was only the little blue mat that you put under everything that's only like an inch thick.

Do you really only have one inch mats under the bars? At our gym the bars have 20cm mats underneath, though they are the firmish kind.

Hope you feel much better soon!