Analysis Of Tumbling And Trampoline

Tumbling and Trampoline Tumbling and Trampoline is a sport that most people don’t know about, and I am a member of this discourse. All of us belong to a discourse and that is why I intend on not only talking about my discourse, but also the discourse J.D. Vance had from the book “Hillbilly Elegy.” I have been in Tumbling and Trampoline since I was 3 years old it is just like it was yesterday I was walking into the gym for the first time. I remember being extremely excited and thrilled to learn something new even at such a young age. I want to start off by telling you how I became a part of this discourse and why I think it’s so important for kids to be a part of a discourse. As Lisa Delpit stated, from “The Politics of Teaching Literate Discourse”
These words originate from Greece. Although my sport is called Tumbling and Trampoline, my sport originates from Gymnastics. The word gymnastics in Greek even means to “exercise naked.” One example would be when we use the term, Randi. This is not a name of a person when we talk about this. When a tumbler says the word, Randi it means that they are going to perform a 2 ½ from twisting somersault. Another example is when a coach tells one of their athletes to push through. Most people would think that the coach is meaning just to push through the pain, but they are wrong. When a tumbling coach says to push through they mean to push through on a skill like a back handspring. You push through your shoulders to be able to do more or to make the skill look sharper. These are just a few examples of my discourse, now I am going to talk about J.D. Vance’s community discourse from the book “Hillbilly
I can complete agree and relate to this point. Tumbling and Trampoline was not my only discourse I was involved in when I was in high school. I was also involved in Varsity Cheerleading. I believe that since I did Cheerleading in high school it helped me grow within Tumbling and Trampoline. In Cheerleading we focused on tumbling, begin balanced and working together as a team. I could incorporate these skills in Tumbling and Trampoline, because we tumble, we have to be balanced to do most skills and we have to work together as a team to help each other to be the best athlete we can