Many people will come across a point in there life where they are facing challenges and don't know how to overcome them. Whether if something small or big, it's still a challenge and some may want to overcome them. I've had a challenge in my life that I overcame. This challenge was me getting back into tumbling. I have been doing dance and cheerleading my whole life and tumbling is part of both sports. I started tumbling when I was seven years old. I remember when I first threw my back handspring and I just wouldn't stop. I would tumble everywhere and I loved it. As I was growing up I started with the harder tricks such as tucks, standing back hand spring tucks and running tricks as well. I had all of those tricks and I loved doing them and trying to perfect them every time I threw one. When I started Varsity cheer as a freshman I was always in the front for the tumbling sequence. My friend and I were the only freshman who had the harder tricks.
I tumbled all throughout my freshman year and competed through competitions and everything. One day when I was tumbling at dance class, I found myself unable to do it. My body was stopping me. In my head I knew I could do it. I was thinking to myself, "what is going on, this isn't right." I started to get nervous and I just couldn't do my tricks. My body wouldn't let me do them. When I tried to do it I was just scared and I didn't want to throw any of my tricks. My friends kept saying to me, "come on bri, you go it, you could do this in your sleep." I would always say I know to them. I remember this day like it was yesterday.
I decided that day that I was going to wait until the following week to just try again and to do my tricks. That I was just having an off day and that the next time will be fine. Soon enough next week came and I was right back where I was the previous week. I just couldn't do it, I was scared. I didn't know how to overcome this, I started to cry and got so frustrated because I knew I could do my tricks. I thought to myself, what if I take baby steps. What if I start from the beginning and start off with a back walk over ( a trick you usually get before a back hand spring.) I figured that this method would work. So that's what I did. I started off slow.
This took quite a bit, maybe more than 2 years. I was in a FUNK. I couldn't get out of it and I knew that I had to. I wanted to get out of it and tumble like I used to. As time went on I finally started to get back into the swing of things. I finally was tumbling again. I never felt so relieved in my life. I was such a great feeling. I realized that this challenge that I was overcoming taught me how to be confident and to never give up on something that you strive so hard for and something that you enjoy doing. It taught me how to be brave and to never doubt yourself in anything that you do. It was a great lesson for me, and when I overcame it, it was the best feeling in the world. It felt like a million weights off my shoulders and I wasn't in that funk anymore. I have to say it wasn't easy overcoming it, I had to work really hard for it. I did though because I knew that I wanted my tricks back and when I love something I'm going to give 100% effort to do it. And thats exactly what I did!
Always believe, even when you think you can't do something... YOU CAN :)
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