Creative Writing: Gymnasts

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In gymnastics people tend to get hurt a lot. Some gymnasts will suffer through the pain, but that’s not a good thing to do. Most coaches will encourage you to tell them, but every once in awhile you’ll have that one coach who won’t. When I first started gymnastics I didn’t really have a great coach. His name was Mr. Mark, and he would always get at least one girl to cry by the end of practice. No one really liked him, but he taught us a very bad lesson. The lesson was hiding the pain we felt. One time, one of my teammates named Sky fell off the beam. She said to Mr. Mark “Sir my arm really hurts.” “You’re fine. Get up and keep practicing!” Mark exclaimed. We all were very worried about her and a couple days later she came back with a cast on her arm. Mr. Mark told her to keep going even though she hurt herself. That’s what made her arm worse. I finally left that gym and went to a new gym. My new coach, Ginelle, was an amazing coach. All my teammates were so amazing and we all had nicknames. My nickname was Emmy G. I had hurt my ankle at one of the practices, but since I had gone to my old gym for about 5 years I tried hiding that it hurt. Haley, one of my teammates asked “ Are you ok?” …show more content…

Obviously I wasn’t cause my eyes were tearing up. I walked up to the bars, and I saw Haley walk over to our coach and say something to her. I jumped on the bar then fell off cause of the pain at that moment Ginelle called me over. “Emmy G, do you need to tell me something?” she

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