Next Level Oct 2017

Falling Is Inevitable in Tumbling Learn How to Fall Properly and Avoid Injury While being physically tough is important to any athlete’s performance, mental toughness is just as crucial. In tumbling, mental toughness means absorb the impact of a fall over a greater area of their body, which greatly reduces the chance of injury or pain.

Safety rolls, also known as recovery rolls, are performed when an athlete is off balance. The athlete should roll in the direction they are traveling and resist the body’s natural tendency to stop their forward momentum. When we teach kids to fall, we ask them to

focusing on the present and not being afraid to fall. The best way for an athlete to overcome their fear of falling is to learn how to fall.

make fists with their hands, pull their arms in toward their body and across their chest,

Falls are common in any gymnastics, tumbling, or cheer

environment, especially as athletes

learn new skills. Unfortunately, falls can have negative effects on future performance, and fear can potentially lead to mental blocks. However, it’s important for athletes to understand that learning a new skill involves messing up time and time again. Knowing how to fall, then, becomes the key to an athlete’s confidence and willingness to learn new skills and improve.

and roll in a tucked position. If practiced enough, recovery rolls will become an athlete’s instinctual reaction to falling.

Tumbling falls are inevitable, but that does not mean an athlete should be afraid to fall. With proper technique and watchful coaches, your athlete will learn how to properly fall to avoid injury and maintain the drive to improve.

Teaching an athlete how to fall properly can be done through demonstrations and by practicing safety rolls. Safety rolls allow athletes to

2 Corinthians 3:17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

STUFFED Jack-O-LanternBell Peppers

Meme Corner

Recipe courtesy of Allrecipes.com

Ingredients

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6 bell peppers, any color 1 pound ground beef

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2 cloves garlic, minced

(Recipe courtesy of tasteofhome.com.) 1/2 cup chili sauce

1 egg

1/4 cup prepared yellowmustard

4 slices whole wheat bread, cubed 1 small onion, chopped 1 small tomato, diced

3 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce

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1/4 teaspoon salt

1/4 teaspoon pepper

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 F. Grease an 8-by-8-inch baking dish. 2. Lightly mix together the ground beef, egg, bread cubes, onion, tomato, garlic, chili sauce, mustard, Worcestershire sauce, salt, and pepper in a bowl. 3. Wash peppers and cut jack-o’-lantern faces into peppers with a sharp paring knife, making triangle eyes and noses and pointy teeth smiles. Slice off tops of peppers and scoop out seeds and cores. Stuff peppers lightly with beef stuffing and place into the prepared baking dish so they lean against each other. 4. Bake in the preheated oven until peppers are tender and stuffing is cooked through and juicy, for about 1 hour.

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