Makayla Varnell

Ms. Newby

Comp 7 Period 5

29 November 2010

Trusting isn’t Always a Good Thing

            I was at Cheer Eclipse when Level 2 Electra and Level 3 Starblaze were starting stunt wars. We were doing stunt wars because my coaches thought it would be fun plus they like to prepare you for competition because of all the deductions given by the judges.  We had rotated off the mat so each team would have the space to stunt.

 Our coach told our team that we had to do our baskets and pyramid.  We had not practiced our new choreography in the pyramid so I was a little nervous.  The trick I had to do was to switch legs, and the job my bases had to do was to toss one of my feet and catch the other in a different position. When trying this I had unbalanced myself when they had caught my other foot and fell backwards.  I thought I could rely on my bases to catch me, but I guess I couldn’t  because when I was falling , I fell straight on my head. The first thing I was doing was Panicking as I was surrounded by my team with their faces in shock. Not long after I figured out that I was healing back as my back spot was pushing forward. I had fell right over her and then hit my head. I felt a little dizzy and tense after that incident.  I was just laying there and shouting “I can’t see,” over and over again my body felt stiff so stiff that I couldn’t move my shoulder or neck.

My coaches told my grandmother to take me to the hospital. As my coach carried me out to the car, I had felt a pounding in my head that went throughout my body. After I had gotten out of the hospital they told me that I shouldn’t do cheer for about four days so I could rest my neck and my back.

The next day it had made my back sore and I had been receiving headaches more than usual. I have learned from now on, you can’t always rely on everyone to catch you when you fall.