I will never forget the time I threw a round off back-hand-spring. It was about 7:30. I’d been practicing for three and a half hours, and it was time to warm up tumbling. I was up first. Fear took over my body as I began running to do my back-hand-spring. I hurtle and do a round off with a lot of power, but a back-hand-spring does not follow. As I frown and begin walking to the front of the spring floor, my coach conforts me and told me to try again. I start running again, but this time instead of being afraid I was terrified. As I hurtle, I tell myself i can do it, but my heart was still pounding against my chest. I did a round off and prepelled myself backwards into the air. It didn’t take long for my face to cash into the ground at what felt like 100 miles per hour. I stand up, holding back my tears. The coaches tell me to sit out for a while and drink some water. I no longer felt afraid, terrified, or upset. I was frustrated and I was mad. I wasn’t mad at the coaches or the girls on my team. I was mad at myself. Sitting down and thinking about it wasn’t helping. In fact, the longer I sat there the more frustrated I got. at one point I thought I would get up and leave and never come back. Finally, I decided to get up, I was determined to do my round off back-hand-spring. I stepped on the back and blue striped mat and ran with a ton of power. Then I threw it and landed! I was so proud of myself and honestly really shocked. As 2015 continues I plan to improve my tumbling even more!