- Aug 26, 2008
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Ok, so I've had my first meet. And it was not pretty. Not pretty at all.
Going into the competition I felt good. I was prepaired, my coach and I had worked really hard, and I was exicted because this was the first time I would do all my new routines for all four of the apprateuses. (sorry if i spelt that wrong). Well, I nailed vault and had a very good score. Then I went into bars. That's when the trouble started. I started and it was going well. I was hitting the bar right nailing the turns and then as I was turning I slipped feel onto the lower ball and smacked down on the floor. I had broken my wrist. It hurt so bad. The team doctor came and looked at me. I said I wanted to still compete (I'm an idiot aren't I?) but the doctors and my coach didn't want me to. Nevertheless I said I was going to, so they said fine but minumum hand worked. So I went to beam.
If you haven't noticed by now into this I am incredibly stupid. I start out in my routine with two double-back hands and then rebound to a front one. (it's not as complicated as it sounds). Problem is when you have a broken wrist you can't rebound. Period. So as I tried to rebound I landed and slipped. As I tried to stay on I fell and I broke my ankle and ripped a leg muscle. My coach was abouselty not letting me do floor; I was to miserable and crying to hard to care. So I was rushed to the hospital, diagnosed, and am out for two months. So I am basically sitting on the coach, typing with one hand, a cast on the other, and a huge leg cast. So life is not looking pretty right now.
How about everyone else? Anyone had meets? How'd they go?
Going into the competition I felt good. I was prepaired, my coach and I had worked really hard, and I was exicted because this was the first time I would do all my new routines for all four of the apprateuses. (sorry if i spelt that wrong). Well, I nailed vault and had a very good score. Then I went into bars. That's when the trouble started. I started and it was going well. I was hitting the bar right nailing the turns and then as I was turning I slipped feel onto the lower ball and smacked down on the floor. I had broken my wrist. It hurt so bad. The team doctor came and looked at me. I said I wanted to still compete (I'm an idiot aren't I?) but the doctors and my coach didn't want me to. Nevertheless I said I was going to, so they said fine but minumum hand worked. So I went to beam.
If you haven't noticed by now into this I am incredibly stupid. I start out in my routine with two double-back hands and then rebound to a front one. (it's not as complicated as it sounds). Problem is when you have a broken wrist you can't rebound. Period. So as I tried to rebound I landed and slipped. As I tried to stay on I fell and I broke my ankle and ripped a leg muscle. My coach was abouselty not letting me do floor; I was to miserable and crying to hard to care. So I was rushed to the hospital, diagnosed, and am out for two months. So I am basically sitting on the coach, typing with one hand, a cast on the other, and a huge leg cast. So life is not looking pretty right now.
How about everyone else? Anyone had meets? How'd they go?