Week 13

As I walked into the gym the lights were dim and I could see the dark shadow of a few people sitting on the floor. I had just arrived at cheer practice and was not looking forward to all the work we had ahead. All us cheerleaders were waiting patiently in the dark gym for our coach to appear. After waiting for a couple minutes the lights in the gym turned on blinding us with there rays of brightness. As the coach walks in she hollers, "5 laps then get on the line." This means we had to run five laps around the gym, then stretch and get ready to tumble on the baseline of the basketball court. After she said these words, you could hear grunts and sighs come across the whole gym. When we were finished running our laps our coach made us get on the baseline and repeatedly throw tumbling tricks. If we threw our tricks without landing at the same time then we had to do them again. We practiced our gymnastics tricks for a good half hour of our practice and I just kept wondering if it was ever going to end. Every minute I looked up at the clock and it seemed like the time never moved. When we finished tumbling we moved on to stunting. Stunting is what consumes most of our practice time. During this practice we first worked on basic stunts and then move on the harder ones. We could never end on a stunt if it did not hit and land as it was supposed to. This practice was already not going to well. In many of he stunts one build group would hit and the other one wouldn't and it kept alternating throughout the practice. Also, many people were getting hurt during these builds. In one stunt a flyer was falling and she happened to brake a girls nose. The practice ended up being very dangerous and it just wasn't going well. Our coach finally decided to let us go because of all the injuries that where happening, but before we left we all had to run stairs. Stairs were the worst thing that we ever had to run. After a point of running them your legs start feeling numb and you feel like your not even in control of them anymore. These stairs were long very long and never ending. Every time I would climb them I'd look up to see how many were left and it made me feel as if I was running in place, going nowhere.