Frustrations

Last night at gymnastics practice I became very frustrated. To the point of tears and I have not been to that point in forever but last night it was just too much to bear. After coming back from my surgery and time off I have had a little bit of a hard time getting back into doing some of my skills. Last night I could not for the life of me do a full twist. Well this really got to me, not because no I cannot do the skill. Because yes it is a hard skill to do, but the part that got me was this is a skill I have been doing since I was about eleven years old and I have been competing since I was thirteen, and what all of a sudden I do not remember how to do it. That frustrates me a little bit, well okay I’m lying that frustrates me a lot. I tried really hard to not let it get to me, but I finally got to the point where I just lost it, which is never good because it throws off your whole night at practice. I finally got it back into gear and continued tumbling, no I never actually got that skill completed last night but I was able to get myself into check so that I could complete other tumbling passes and work on my floor routine. In gymnastics sometimes you just have those days when you are off and cannot do something, and I just think sometimes its better to move on and not dwell on that for the rest of practice.