Unknown Athleticism

All my life I have been an active kid, ever since I was able to walk I have been active in sports, if I had to guess. I started off playing basketball and soccer I still play basketball now, but I stopped playing soccer because I didn’t like the coach I had. So when I stopped playing soccer I was bored because basketball only goes on for about three months a year, So I needed something else to do to fill in my time. So I started getting into Trampoline tricking and trying to learn from watching YouTube videos on tutorials for tricks and flips and stuff.

I started off with watching a back flip tutorial. This was the first flip I ever attempted during my flipping journey . I watched videos all day trying to figure out the best way to learn safely. I went outside on my trampoline and attempted it after hours of not committing to the flip. I finally decided to be confident and just send it and out of nowhere I did it and landed right on my feet. After I learned this trick I was so happy and amazed on how I just taught myself how to do a flip with no help just tutorials. It was so unexpected because I woke up that morning not even expecting to attempt a flip then out of nowhere a few hours later I landed it. After this I started practicing everyday and I eventually got better and better, its crazy on how unexpected this was I didn’t think that practicing flipping would take me anywhere.I then got the confidence to try it on the ground using matts, I landed it using matts after a lot of practice. After that I decided to take it to the ground where I got really nervous. I had been studying the tutorials for this trick for a long time, but I was still really nervous. It took me some time, but I got the confidence to go for it and I landed it on the first try.

And after I landed the back flip on the ground I had built up a ton of confidence because I went from not even knowing how to do one on the trampoline to being able to do it on the ground. I got so much confidence in myself that I decided to keep practicing my tricking skills, and try to learn some different flips and see if I could be serious in acrobatics. I started studying flips from tutorials and I ended up learning how to do a back flip, side flip, gainer, and a front flip. This was an unexpected result for me because I didn’t think watching a tutorial on how to do a back flip on a trampoline would take me this far in acrobatics.

This is an unexpected result for me because I went outside for one day and started practicing flips not expecting it to be anything big, and now it turned out to be one of my biggest hobbies. This unexpected result relates to a movie called The Karate Kid. This connects to my unexpected flipping experience because in the movie The kid was hurt during the fight and he got up and did this crazy unexpected martial arts flip and won the fight. This was cool to connect to because it was unexpected just like my back flip.

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