It was a great morning. I knew I was going to be swimming and spending time on the lake all day, and it was going to be a great Fourth of July. During breakfast, I asked my mom if I could have someone over. She said I could and then we could all go to the fireworks. I texted my friend Ryan and asked if he wanted to come over. In about an hour we were at my house hanging out deciding what to do. Our plan was to jump off the boathouse for a bit, go to Braun Bay and then see the Meredith fireworks that night. My brother Cody then jumped in on the idea and invited Alec to hang out with us. So all of us walked down to my beach and put up the ladder to our boat house. We all scrambled up to the top and started doing flips for boats going through the channel into the cove. The past two years …show more content…
Last year, my best trick was a double front flip; this year, I wanted to try a double backflip. This thought has been on my mind for a long time. So Ryan and I were at the top of the boat house and I told him my idea of trying one. He wanted to try one too, so we made a promise to each other that if one of us tried it the other had to as well. As the day went on, we started thinking about it more and more. Then Ryan told me to videotape him so I pulled out my phone and started recording and he did it! A double backflip and landed it perfectly. Right when I realized what happened, I knew I was going to be forced into trying one too. When he popped out of the water we were both hyped and went back up and talked. He said that it was my turn to do it. I tried to talk myself out
Did you know that Alan Gelfand was the one who invented or created the ollie. “The ‘Secret History’ Of Skateboarding’s Most Fundamental Trick” Alan really didn’t even mean to create the ollie in the first place. He was actually trying to do a lipslide with his friend Jeff but instead he did what his friend called an “ollie pop”. Soon after that word got around that Alan created the new trick called the ollie. After that, Alan was asked to be photographed doing his brand new trick the ollie. And then not long
Every year I am always wanting to land all new types of tricks. One trick that I wanted to learn was a 360. I have always wanted to try this trick, but I never had enough courage to do so. One day I went out and decided I was going to go for it and give it a shot. Me being able to just try the trick put me out of my comfort zone by a great deal.
I wake up to the sun shining through the window and the faint laughter from my family downstairs. It's the first day of our annual trip to Rhode Island. I lie in bed for a few moments and think about one thing. Rhode Island. I wouldn’t rather be anywhere else than here. I glance at the clock and it is only eight in the morning, but everybody is already up, enjoying breakfast, and getting ready to head to the beach. It's not supposed to rain until later in the day, so hopefully we can enjoy our day at the beach before it rains. I eventually make my way out of bed and tiptoe across the frigid wood floors and join my family downstairs. Everybody is up except my brother, Thomas.
Once upon a time, in a cabin far away, it was Halloween night October 31st 1973. A group of friends decided to go to a cabin in the woods to celebrate their favorite holiday together. Busses packed full of people were going to the party that me and Skyler had planned. We invited almost the whole school. Finally after hours of searching for our final destination we arrived. Skyler and I were the first to be at that raggedy torn down cabin. We brought the lights and the beers and the snacks , we spent hours and hours of decorating and setting up finally Andy showed up to help with all the heavy work.
We woke up early the next morning to start heading towards the river. When we got there I was happy to finally be out of the truck. I was ready and prepared to get in the water. Especially because it was so hot!
“Come on, “ my counselor Emily screamed from shore. The quick rapids made it very difficult to dig our paddles into the river. My cabin was stopping to eat lunch on our Tuesday canoeing trip. On Saturday, we had traveled down to Brownstown, Indiana for a week full of friends, fun, and God. My church stayed at a retreat center called Pyoca. Every year on Tuesday, we would go on a canoeing or rafting trip depending on the water levels. Emily, Annabelle, my canoeing partner, and I sat along the sand bank waiting for other canoes to come in. Many other groups slowly went by, while we patiently waited for other groups to come in. I was so hungry, I couldn’t wait. Canoeing had zapped all of my energy, and had made me really hungry. I began to quickly wade out into the river, so I could help the other canoes come in faster. Someone screamed, “Be careful” from the bank. Nate Epple, a counselor of
This 4th of July I went to L.A. with my roommate to visit his family. I had been promising myself that I would go to the Queen Mary in Long Beach for the last three times I was in L.A. and this time I was determined to go. So After I had seen the fireworks at the La Verne high school.
As a kid, I had all the confidence in the world. The only problem was that I had no idea how to use that confidence to learn to juggle. You start with one and work your way up, but that’s not as simple as it may seem. I would spend all of my time before, during, and after school learning how not to nail myself in the face with my rainbow juggling bags. It was 20 rotations that I had to be able to
Nervously, I pushed my empty plate of sushi aside as I looked across the table at my new friends. I was staying with a host family in Tokyo, Japan, to study abroad and this was my first dinner with them. I was about to tell them about my life in America. Now that all eyes turned towards me with eager expectation, I hesitated, but I quickly decided that a few items I had brought along from home would help them understand my culture and worldview.
I began my approach towards the end of the board, feeling the course material under my bare feet, as I coached myself through my dive. Okay, push with the leg, STAY BALANCED, knee up, patient with the arms, swing, jump, and throw! As the board tossed me up into the air, I threw as hard as I could and grabbed the back of my legs. Wow, that was a pretty good takeoff, I thought. As I flipped, I realized that I had plenty of time to make this dive, and I began to smile as a spliced through the water.
Being raised in a small town lower classed city called Cleveland Texas, my goal was to make it out of the rural area. The blue house is what I called my childhood home, even though most of the blue paint was chipped off and you mostly seen wood with a few areas of chipped blue paint. Before, getting to the house you had to go about a half mile down a red dirt clay road before getting to what looked like a small blue shake. Living in the home was a total of ten people, which included myself, mother, father, three siblings and three older cousins that stayed with us at the time. There were three small bedroom that did not include any type of closet, a full sized bed, and two dressers with a small TV with the fat back attached to it. It also had
If you ask anyone what home means to them more than likely you’ll get several different opinions. In my case home has never been a specific place it’s always been wherever my mom was! My Mother and I have been moving from place to place ever since I could remember.
Growing up in the city of Washington, DC in 1976, I used to sit on my parents’ bedroom floor, watching TV. I decided to turn the channel one day to the Olympics. I noticed that there were these girls, who were doing some amazing flips. I’d never seen anything like it before. I knew nothing about the balance beams, vaults, and the floor exercises. It was like I jumped into a whole new world.
Thinking of surfing brought me to think about my brother who is a surfer. I reminisced about the times he and I had sat quietly in the ocean waiting to see that perfect bump in the horizon. He taught me a great lesson in surfing; you don’t always have to pick the first option because there are more opportunities to