Abominable Bars

You know that feeling, the feeling when you know you have to do something but you really don't want too? Well that is the feeling that a lot of gymnasts get in the deep pit of their stomachs when they are about to compete bars at a competition. It's for me the most difficult event to compete. It makes me the most nervous and some how it just seems to be the event that causes me the most problems. In practice I enjoy bars. It is the most challenging and the one that makes my adrenaline pump every time. But in a meet it is most often my down fall. I dread going to the bar at a competition because if the whole day has gone well I know that thirty second bar routine can be the end of the joy and happiness. But every now and then I will surprise myself and hit the bar routine of my life to pull out that needed score. But bars has other difficulties too. Its a very mental event, it is so easy to let your mind psych you out before you even try a skill. Bars also can be hard because sometimes it is painful. You get rips on your hands and your wrists. You bruise your hips and to be honest sometimes inflicting pain on yourself doesn't sound too appealing. Bars is a test of courage, patience, physical and mental strength, and the true determination of a gymnast.