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Labels: cheerleading
So said the emcee at Cheerobics. After we've been in the sport for a while, we tend to forget that it is a highly dangerous sport. I forgot until my mom reminded me of it, telling me about a Chinese gymnast who fell and broke her backbone or something doing the uneven bars, and ended up being paralysed from the neck down. I cannot imagine being a wheelchair from my teenage years, the way she will be. Landing on one's head is no small matter. I've been able to laugh off such incidents whenever they happen to me, because I've been lucky. How long can one's luck continue? We shouldn't leave such things to chance. It didn't really occur to me that such accidents may continue happening even after I leave, maybe because such things mainly seem to happen to me. Yet if we don't brush up on our spotting, somewhere down the road someone's bound to get seriously injured. I can imagine the hoo-ha that will occur, and I'm sure that the NUS big shots will dissolve cheerleading.
Let's not test our flyers' luck anymore.
Suddenly I think that it's damn scary, which is not a good thing, because I've yet to try basket toss back tuck again since last Thursday. Landing on head, landing on back... Scary. I've always thought that having some injuries is part and parcel of trainings, and those who don't have Lady Luck on their side may break an arm or a leg. Broken bones, I can live with that - or so I thought. I forgot that the spine can be broken too.
As mentioned before, I'm afraid of dying.
What am I doing in cheerleading then???