Crash And Burn

Mayday in studio one.

I don’t know what happened, I honestly don’t. One moment I was flying through the air; the next something hit my head, and sharp, abrupt pain spread like a spider’s legs through my mouth. Severely disoriented, it took me several moments to realise my front flip from the trampett had gone horribly wrong.

After reviewing what of my memory is tangible, I have managed to gather the key points of the horrific accident. I was turning in the air – as I was supposed to, but I must have rotated too slowly, because I hit the ground with the back of my neck, my momentum pressing the rest of my body down onto me, instead of continuing the rotation so I’d end up on my back. Imagine my body basically breaking at the middle, legs crashing with my head. 

Thick pain throbbed heavily through my left thigh, the leg rendered in such a bad state I needed two people to support me to the toilets. Rinsing my mouth with cool water, red liquid and slime splashed into a white sink to the sound of a disgusted groan.

….I’m making this sound really dramatic, aren’t I? It wasn’t actually. Well, yeah, I landed wrongly, got a bump on my thigh and three small “holes” in tongue from biting it, but that’s also all. I didn’t hurt my neck at all, which is quite surprising and quite lucky, I suppose. We were practicing fall-techniques, “falling” in different ways and landing in a secure manner on our backs. It gave me quite a shock, but that’s also all. 

I just felt like being a Drama Queen. Have a lovely weekend.