Where it begins...1

Now we are going waaaaay back here. When I was first ever introduced to gymnastics I was only three years old. So obviously I didn't know anything about it. My mother told me as i started growing up why she put me in gymnastics. As she says "you would try to do flips on your bed." So this is how I started my gymnastics journey. I started at a small place called Little Russels Gym. It was an middle aged lady that had gymnastics in her basement but with all the proper equipment. By the age of 4 I could do I forward roll on the beam. In case your wondering what a beam is, it is about 5 inches wide and you don't only have to walk on it but you also have to preform other skills. Ohh and I don't want to forget to mention that this object is off the ground the lowest are floor beams but the ones you preform on are roughly about 2 feet off the ground and then you go up from there as you get older.

This was my first show in gymnastics ever and I was super nervous. That was something I never grew out of unfortunately. Along with this being my first show as you can see in the picture I had no teacher around helping me. All of my routines preformed at this gym were completely by yourself I mean unless you where new and still learning the basics. As time went on I got better and better for my age. The year later when I was 5 years old I was working on my cartwheel on the beam and a back handspring on floor. Unfortunately I do not have picture of me doing my back handspring but boy do I wish I did. But my cartwheel on the other hand I do happen to have. Yes, it is in the same leotard that I am wearing doing my forward roll in the picture above. That's only because I didn't grow much.My time at Little Russels had to end shortly after I started learning these tougher skills. Simply because the girls in the gym said I wouldn't be able yo fit my running skills that I had to learn next in the little space I had.