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SECOND ROTATION BY JEREMY BECK KELLER HIGH SCHOOL TEXAS
There was once a time when a friend
told me to tuck and go for one more rotation. Who does he
think he is, I thought. Is he my coach? Is he out of his mind?
But aside those questions and the fear of doing the double in
the first place, I also acknowledged that State was
approaching and I wasn’t supposed to be on high bar in the
first place.
And how I wished I would have taken the time to listen…to take in his polite encouragement and understanding…and just GO for it. When I was hit by the car, it was only a mere 4 days after Flip Fest. And there I had learned the skill in which he so firmly believed I could do - the double back. But not only had I done it on high bar, but on rings, and on tumble track, and even on the rod floor. Pommels you don’t even do back flips and hell no to doing them on vault and P-Bars. |
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But I ask myself, why would I regret doing the doubles, the first time my friend persuaded me? And I think it is because if I had learned them then, I would have done more of them, and in result, I could have possibly had an easier time learning them now
Instead, I’m like a baby all over again, re-walking my steps, back up to double-backs. I had made the mistake of not listening, which has now led me where I do not want to be.
And now I feel I must be the encourager…not as the power-hungry bastard I’m known as, but as a friend to another. My friend is now at a crossing of choice. But this is one he cannot re-step or turn back to. He believes there is only one choice amongst the two: gymnastics or judo.
He knows he’ll never be worth anything with his first choice, he’s even told me this, while the other sport he feels he does…and he has fun doing it too. Now I’m not saying that he doesn’t have fun doing gymnastics. Even he can admit that there are many fun qualities that come with it: the amazing skills, the showing off of the amazing skills, the first place ribbons gained by doing the amazing skills, and the friends that he knows are never completely stupid…but just a little. The only reason I am not recognizing the fun of judo, though…to be honest…is that I don’t do judo and it’s not my place to say whether it is or it isn’t. I can only take my friend’s word for it that it is. And he’s probably right. I think it would be fun to do.
But what makes him pick judo over gymnastics is not over a foolish choice as he might think I would say, but because he has a good value in himself, in which I wish that everyone else can have. He is modest.
What my friend does not realize is how good he really is. He’s not good; he’s great, amazing, marvelous…words can hardly describe his gift. He does not realize that others would kill for the remarkable talent he has…EVERY SINGLE DAY! I know for I am one of them. He does not realize how many people wish he would continue, to keep going. Secretly, they are all saying “Don’t give up; we are still holding the rope for you!”
I also know that he can go somewhere with this gift that he has…and many friends agree...Rogge, Cody, Jordan, Kristi, Coach Morgan, Coach Garmon, even Sergeant...And not that he “could” go somewhere…he CAN go somewhere with it. But this goal can only be accomplished if he sets his mind to it, and believes in himself. I personally know that he is smart; he knows he’s smart, and he has the power to reach this goal with little persuasion of his friends and himself. Jesse Snow can become a champion among men in gymnastics. But it all has to start with his choosing and no one else’s. Not even I have the power to choose for him. But I can influence him as much as I can and with all my might, to show that I really do care for him. I hope with these thoughts and encouragements and understandings, he may take my advice, and go for that second rotation.
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