I love when my kid gets in the zone when it's time to compete. She tunes everything out except her coaches and teammates. I love the determination in her eyes.
I love when 20 to 36 individuals can truly come together and form one team and they get that look in their eyes that THEY KNOW THEY ARE ONE WITH EACH OTHER. They will fight for every stunt, every section, every pass and not let the other down. They pick one another up, not tear one another down. When they know they own that routine and they believe in it and each other. When they do both the improbable and the impossible simply because they believe it can be done. it is no longer where they are from, but where they are going together.
When that happens, no matter the level of the team, I get nothing but chills up and down m,y spine.
i loved doing something for ME, and being good at it. having to explain to my mom what a full or a double down is every time she asked me how practice was, because she hardly ever came to watch because it scared her (she'd be the gasping mom every time a stunt fell or i face planted, which always happened when she was there!) i loved when she'd go in to talk to say hi to nelson, she'd just say "alison is happy, so you're doing a great job," and then leave. but the bottom line was, it wasn't her sport, it was mine.
and i just loved being in the gym, with my friends, until nelson kicked us out. it was like our safehaven from real life. there were never any problems in the gym. there was just the gym. no school, no drama, no home problems, no deaths, nothing. just us, our coaches, and the gym. and the bond we formed is still there, even though were litterally all over the country!
hmm probabaly when you go to competitons and when your about to go on and you hear everyone chantting for you and you know that everyone is foucsed on you its an amazing feling!!!!! i never feel those feelings only at competitions!!! =]
