Where it all begins.. part 2

My mother was super excited once I started learning what she called "big girl skills" as was I. Except when there was a little mistake that happen. My mother thought that I could do my back handspring all by myself which she may have been corrected but I didn't think so. With this she decided to spot me and her being my mother I trusted her like anyother 6 year old does and this is what happened. She said "I have you just go", so when I went I jumped right back onto my head. From that moment on after I cried a little I never bent my arms in a back handspring EVER AGAIN. I learned the hard way but guess what it was a quick lesson. I eventually went to a different gym the called Baystate Gymnastics Academy. This is where i stayed for many years but I had many other options. When I was six and a half, right before going to Baystate my mother took me to a gym called Paramount Gym in Seekonk I'm pretty sure. This was a very competitive gym and I was only really good at two of the four events. I got evaluated and they said the same thing I was really good at two but just okay on the others. Before going to that gym my mom told me that they suggested I go to another gym to train to be an individual competitor. Apparently, I was really advanced for my age and all the gyms wanted me. One day my mom got a call from some gym and they wanted me to leave school, and go train for the Olympics.

 My mom had sat me down to see how I felt about it and I said "No" looking back at it now I wish I would've said yes. I told my mom I wanted to do regular gymnastics and stay with my friends. Instead of her making me go, I got to stay with my friends. Even until this day I wonder what my life had been like if I would've said yes. How much different would my life had been? Well I will never know. But the one and only thing that stuck with my for all the years I had was that no matter how big the expectation was or how difficult the skill was as long as it was broken down into pieces and I never gave up I always achieved my goal. Oh wait one last thing, gymnastics IS A SPORT for some reason boys don't agree I just needed to make it clear!