Injuries

[GymnastRaeRae87]

This is the first time I have gotten hurt in ten years, so that is pretty good. I was doing a round-off 3 BHS back-tuck and I had really long back-handsprings and my back-tuck was really but I went too far and landed on the cement next to the floor. Figures when I do really well I get hurt. There was padding on the ground but when you have all that momentum it's kinda hard NOT to get hurt. I ended up fracturing all my toes (right and left feet) and fractured my left ankle, my right heel, and I had bond bruising in both heels. That was June 12th. My heels still hurt a little bit but my toes don't hurt anymore and my ankle hasn't hurt in a while. For the first three weeks of school I had to use crutches.

This isn't an injury but it's funny: I was doing a private-lesson and I was running towards the vault and jumped in the wrong spot on the spring-board and I penguin-slid across the vault table. My coach and I were laughing really hard. At least there was a pit mat so I didn't face plant into the ground!! HEHE!

[I-Heart-Beam]

Luckily I've never got badly hurt (touch wood) but I could write a book on funny accidents!

I was at an important competition when I tripped over my own feet and forward rolled down the stairs (the floor level was raised) right into one of the judges.

I knocked over the chalk bucket at another competition because I was so eager to go hug my coach after sticking my landing and ran into it, covering the mats in chalk.

Tripped getting onto the podium and fell off it during another competition

My team also have bets on how many times I fall off the trampoline, trip over the paralettes, low beam, mats, my own feet etc each session. I fall over at least 3 things per session on a good night .

[I-Heart-Beam]

whoops missed one. Not me though, my normally completely healthy friend. She broke her leg doing split jumps on the tramp!

[hammy]

How does one manage to break a leg while doing slip jumps on the tramp? There have been numerous occasions where gymnasts at my gym have flown off the trampoline (we have a big net made of used tramp beds behind one tramp), and some of the funnier ones were when we got stuck in the net.

[I-Heart-Beam]

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Originally Posted by hammy How does one manage to break a leg while doing slip jumps on the tramp? There have been numerous occasions where gymnasts at my gym have flown off the trampoline (we have a big net made of used tramp beds behind one tramp), and some of the funnier ones were when we got stuck in the net.

i have no idea. She was practising and then we just heard this almighty CRACK and she collapsed. It was pretty scary, luckily that's the only broken bone in the gym so far! (fingers crossed)

[maddiekate]

at my gym, we arent allowed to step on the pad covering the springs, because supposedly someone stepped on it and shattered their leg. I totally even believe its possible.

[maddiekate]

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Originally Posted by maddiekate at my gym, we arent allowed to step on the pad covering the springs, because supposedly someone stepped on it and shattered their leg. I totally even believe its possible.

oops, i mean:

I don't even believe its possible.

[MaggiesRanda]

I have a funny injury. So we were on vault and I did a really good round-off, stuck it and everything too! I go to walk off the mat and ended up rolling and spraining my ankle and I was out for two weeks! Not just gymnastics either, my high school soccer coach yelled at me for getting hurt becuase I couldn't play the next day! (I was a freshman starting varsity). But I have done a few faceplants!

[GymnastRaeRae87]

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Originally Posted by I-Heart-Beam Luckily I've never got badly hurt (touch wood) but I could write a book on funny accidents! I was at an important competition when I tripped over my own feet and forward rolled down the stairs (the floor level was raised) right into one of the judges. I knocked over the chalk bucket at another competition because I was so eager to go hug my coach after sticking my landing and ran into it, covering the mats in chalk. Tripped getting onto the podium and fell off it during another competition My team also have bets on how many times I fall off the trampoline, trip over the paralettes, low beam, mats, my own feet etc each session. I fall over at least 3 things per session on a good night .

Isn't it funny how gymnasts can be so clumsy?

[GymnastRaeRae87]

Oh! I have a funny one but it isn't an injury! At practice one night (demonstration team) one of the kids was tumbling and then kicked the chalk bucket an got chalk all over the ground..we called him the weather man because it looked like it was snowing. He also broke one of the boards in the floor because he tumbled so hard! Needless to say he was strong!