WAG Our worst fails!

[TheXcelSilverGymnast]

Hi Everyone,

Let's all share our worst fails! (can be at a Compitition, Practice,home, ETC)

Mine:

this was a couple of days ago. i was doing a side HS dismount on beam (Side HS or quarter turn is the reqiurement for Silver at our gym) and just before i hit a HS, my legs curled into my stomach, i went the way a quarter turn goes (i dont have one yet) and i FACE PLANTED into the mat. I'm ok, just with a sore nose!

 

[superNova08]

Oooo! I got a good one.

I was practicing full turns on beam. I had just moved them up to high beam. I got 3/4 of the way around, my foot slipped, and I landed on the beam... on my chest. Just some badly bruised ribs and hairline fractures... nothing major. Was out for a few weeks.

There was also the time when someone told me a half-on vault was just a round-off over the table. My shoulder didn't agree with that so much and crumpled under me. Just a sprain but I was in a sling for 2 weeks.

 

[TheXcelSilverGymnast]

Oooo! I got a good one.

I was practicing full turns on beam. I had just moved them up to high beam. I got 3/4 of the way around, my foot slipped, and I landed on the beam... on my chest. Just some badly bruised ribs and hairline fractures... nothing major. Was out for a few weeks.

There was also the time when someone told me a half-on vault was just a round-off over the table. My shoulder didn't agree with that so much and crumpled under me. Just a sprain but I was in a sling for 2 weeks.

ouch!

 

[Mthegymqueen]

Not a physically painful fail (but mentally painful to 9 year old me), but at one of my first meets ever, we were on vault, and I was doing the xcel bronze vault (handspring flat back), and I did not get up into a handstand and face planted onto the mat.

Fun Fact #1: My profile picture is from that video of me face planting
Fun Fact #2: Out of about 10 girls, I got 1st place on vault at that meet (and my first time EVER getting 1st on an event)

For a physically painful fail story, this happened a few weeks ago, but I have done this specific fail more than once. I was on beam doing a full turn, and my big toe had gripped the beam as I was spinning and pretty much bent half way in a direction it should not go and I slipped off the beam.

 

[estamey21]

Most famous fail was when I miraculously transported into a cartoon universe as I was falling to my death.

I was on high bar facing away from the low bar and went for a front giant. At the bottom of my giant, I peeled off the bar and flew into the low bar. The low bar caught my calfs which caused me to flip backwards. I did a back flip over the low bar and almost landed on my feet. All this happened in under a millisecond so I couldn’t plan for the landing. Just physics and luck got me back to planet earth unscathed.

 

[TheXcelSilverGymnast]

Not a physically painful fail (but mentally painful to 9 year old me), but at one of my first meets ever, we were on vault, and I was doing the xcel bronze vault (handspring flat back), and I did not get up into a handstand and face planted onto the mat.

Fun Fact #1: My profile picture is from that video of me face planting
Fun Fact #2: Out of about 10 girls, I got 1st place on vault at that meet (and my first time EVER getting 1st on an event)

For a physically painful fail story, this happened a few weeks ago, but I have done this specific fail more than once. I was on beam doing a full turn, and my big toe had gripped the beam as I was spinning and pretty much bent half way in a direction it should not go and I slipped off the beam.

wow! what is it with those full turns?

 

[TheXcelSilverGymnast]

Most famous fail was when I miraculously transported into a cartoon universe as I was falling to my death.

I was on high bar facing away from the low bar and went for a front giant. At the bottom of my giant, I peeled off the bar and flew into the low bar. The low bar caught my calfs which caused me to flip backwards. I did a back flip over the low bar and almost landed on my feet. All this happened in under a millisecond so I couldn’t plan for the landing. Just physics and luck got me back to planet earth unscathed.

OUCH!!

 

[Geoffrey Taucer]

Gonna preemptively say no videos please

 

[GymnastGirlypop]

I have so many…

One specific one I remember was going for a front handspring front tuck, I want for the front handspring but I guess I just decided that was a no, so I threw myself onto the floor on my stomach instead of tucking.

I have fails on all events, but one on bars, I had just caught the high bar and was doing my kip, but I came of the bar right after I had finished my kip, I was falling down and hit my whole upper body on the bar but then was able to catch it with one hand.

 

[AmiaRay]

I peel off of the high bar, came down towards the low bar, hit by shins on the low bar and spun around to my back. I did that twice.

Another time, working yurchenkos on vault, I did the RO and bailed on the handspring, thinking that I had missed the springboard. In fact, I hit the spring board perfectly and flew over the table and into the pit. It was fun.

 

[GymnastPotterhead]

Another time, working yurchenkos on vault, I did the RO and bailed on the handspring, thinking that I had missed the springboard. In fact, I hit the spring board perfectly and flew over the table and into the pit. It was fun.

Funnily enough, the yurchenkos at my gym do that as a timer before doing their handsprings.