The Day I Broke My Elbow
“Saige its your turn,” called the coach. I was just talking to my friends. I don’t know how hard it is for the coaches to realize we need a social life as well. But I stood up anyways and put some chalk on my hands and walked toward the bar. We’d been practicing our routines for months now to get ready for the competition in Singapore and so we needed to practice our routines as hard as we could. We were even called on Wednesday to do it. I started with the pullover and then to the cast and backhip circle. I knew this routine by heart and could do it all by myself. I did the shooting star as Phoebe, a girl in my group, called it and then back on the bar to jump on the high bar. It was time for the fly away the big finish. Like in plays and performances this was the best part it was the big finish the one you couldn’t mess up. I did it. It all happened so fast I flipped and then I felt air rushing past me. I was falling, and I couldn’t stop myself. I landed, you could say it was an okay crash except for the crack and the bone being pulled apart from the skin. The pain was minimal but it got harder and harder until the pain was excruciating. I guess that’s how I ended up in the hospital.
I just finished my drink and was heading back inside to go to the bars to practice our routine for Singapore. The competition was in 3 months but we needed the practice. I walked in through the door and past the beam and to the bars. Our coach was already there waiting. I always wondered when the coaches got a drink and went to the bathroom. We started with practicing fly away. The hardest and most fun part in our routine, I guess that’s always true the most dangerous is the most fun! I knew how to do the fly away but the coach thinks we need all the practice we can get. I agree. We were starting the full routines by ourselves, I always picked last but know since Laila, my friend, was in our group for SACAC she needed to practice with us, so I went first. I finished and then did the usual, sat down and started talking. The coaches didn’t like it when we talked but our coach didn’t do anything and just ignored us, but then again he never was angry. My group never talked about anything normal just random stuff. Now it was my turn again.. I knew I was just waiting for him to call me I wasn’t surprised when he called me and said, “Eden your turn,” Eden is my sister and he also had her but in another group. I told the coach always if you don’t call my name I won’t listen so he called me, “Saige it’s your turn”
But how did I know I was going to break my elbow…
THE END
I just finished my drink and was heading back inside to go to the bars to practice our routine for Singapore. The competition was in 3 months but we needed the practice. I walked in through the door and past the beam and to the bars. Our coach was already there waiting. I always wondered when the coaches got a drink and went to the bathroom. We started with practicing fly away. The hardest and most fun part in our routine, I guess that’s always true the most dangerous is the most fun! I knew how to do the fly away but the coach thinks we need all the practice we can get. I agree. We were starting the full routines by ourselves, I always picked last but know since Laila, my friend, was in our group for SACAC she needed to practice with us, so I went first. I finished and then did the usual, sat down and started talking. The coaches didn’t like it when we talked but our coach didn’t do anything and just ignored us, but then again he never was angry. My group never talked about anything normal just random stuff. Now it was my turn again.. I knew I was just waiting for him to call me I wasn’t surprised when he called me and said, “Eden your turn,” Eden is my sister and he also had her but in another group. I told the coach always if you don’t call my name I won’t listen so he called me, “Saige it’s your turn”
But how did I know I was going to break my elbow…
THE END
