All-Star Cheering With An Injury

[NatalieB97]

If I were you I would be on the ground like "TAKE ME LAWD!"

I saw a photo of a guy holding a layer of his palm in his hand. Yes, his rips were so bad that a layer of his palm came off.

ouch that sounds painful...i'm thankful my hands never got to that extreme

and i did have my few share of times just laying on the ground at practice being like, "i cant do this....what am i doing. lawdy save me!"

 

[Official OWECheer]

ouch that sounds painful...i'm thankful my hands never got to that extreme

and i did have my few share of times just laying on the ground at practice being like, "i cant do this....what am i doing. lawdy save me!"

I think if the USAG decided to suddenly cut bars out of artistic gymnastics, we'd see a HUGE decrease in the number of gym hours. And conditioning. And PAIN.

 

[NatalieB97]

I think if the USAG decided to suddenly cut bars out of artistic gymnastics, we'd see a HUGE decrease in the number of gym hours. And conditioning. And PAIN.

DEFINITELY. bars, for me and for a lot of my old teammates, was the hardest event. it takes the most muscle and a majority of our conditioning was directed to improve our skill on bars

imagine gymnastics with no bars and less than 4-5 hour practices=heaven

 

[Official OWECheer]

DEFINITELY. bars, for me and for a lot of my old teammates, was the hardest event. it takes the most muscle and a majority of our conditioning was directed to improve our skill on bars

imagine gymnastics with no bars and less than 4-5 hour practices=heaven

Being on bars must feel amazing though.

 

[cheernerd5678]

My first year I basically sat out most of the season..... I wasn't very good at stunting so I was fronting one stunt and basing another, marking my standing tumbling, and doing running tumbling. But then I broke both my arms and sat out the majority of the season. When I finally got out of my casts I wasn't allowed to do anything except motions and dance so I nuggeted the rest of the routine. I still loved it though

 

[sarahh_cheers]

one of my teammates is concussed, but he practiced and played a soccer game anyway when his doctor told him not to. tumbling made his concussion worse and now he is out for another 2 weeks.

 

[NerdMobile]

We consulted with a pediatric orthopedic specialist at Childrens' Hospital of Philadelphia for every break. I made the very inquiry you did about so many broken bones. I was told that each break had a cause -for example for the first being shoved forward and bracing herself with her hands straight out, hitting the hard cement backed linoluem tiled school floor with the child who was twice her weight on her back (again this lager child was pushing eagerly though the hall like little kids sometimes do-no malice), and the heel was from slipping off a ladder and landing just so...and though I felt it was implausible to break a wrist on such a soft surface of a tumble track, the Dr felt the power she was pushing through to do the next skill coupled with in accurate hand placement was the cause. If they had not had "casues" then I would have reason to worryShe has actually had two other broken bones- a baseball to her face in PE class (the same week she was pushed down and broke the arm) and a finger caught in the stall door in the girls room that same week. The rest of us have never broken ANY bones so I guess she is taking the family quota all for herself!

 

[cheernerd5678]

We consulted with a pediatric orthopedic specialist at Childrens' Hospital of Philadelphia for every break. I made the very inquiry you did about so many broken bones. I was told that each break had a cause -for example for the first being shoved forward and bracing herself with her hands straight out, hitting the hard cement backed linoluem tiled school floor with the child who was twice her weight on her back (again this lager child was pushing eagerly though the hall like little kids sometimes do-no malice), and the heel was from slipping off a ladder and landing just so...and though I felt it was implausible to break a wrist on such a soft surface of a tumble track, the Dr felt the power she was pushing through to do the next skill coupled with in accurate hand placement was the cause. If they had not had "casues" then I would have reason to worryShe has actually had two other broken bones- a baseball to her face in PE class (the same week she was pushed down and broke the arm) and a finger caught in the stall door in the girls room that same week. The rest of us have never broken ANY bones so I guess she is taking the family quota all for herself!

I broke my arms on a tumble track, so she's not alone!

 

[NatalieB97]

Being on bars must feel amazing though.

it's fun swinging around when you're not injured haha
but the blisters and rips you get definitely dont add to your motivation to do bars