(Note: I use AI to help me translate my stories from Japanese to English.)
I could do a backflip when I was in junior high school. A backflip is a backward somersault done in the air with the arms and legs stretched out straight. Gymnasts often do backflips.
When I was in junior high school, I used to wrestle with two of my friends during lunch break.
There was a large mattress in the gym storeroom, and we played on it. We dived, attacked, and tackled each other there. The mattress was well cushioned, so we didn’t get hurt.
One of my friends liked professional wrestling, and he imitated a famous wrestler. I laughed a lot because his imitation was very funny.
Then we thought it would be fun if we could do a backflip.
We practiced backflips hard in the gym storeroom during lunch break. Since we practiced on the mattress, we weren’t scared.
When one person tried to do a backflip, the others supported his body and helped him. We failed again and again.
After practicing hard, we finally mastered the backflip. In retrospect, it is hard to believe, and it feels like a mystery, but we all managed to master it.
We showed our backflips to our friends at school. The floors in the classrooms were hard, so it was dangerous to do a backflip there.
One time, my friend failed to land properly when he did a backflip. He hit his head on the floor. He didn’t get injured, but it was dangerous.
Our friends often asked us to do backflips, so we did them many times at school. They praised us, so we were happy.
There was also a time when this backflip was very useful.
When we were doing mat exercises in physical education class, we showed our teacher our backflips. The teacher recorded my backflip with a video recorder. I was nervous, but I was able to do it.
As a result, I got a perfect score in PE.
Now I can’t do a backflip anymore. It feels very scary to try it.
Doing a backflip was a small success experience for me. It gave me confidence.
Doing backflips is also an enjoyable memory for me.
We played together in the gym storeroom during lunch break. When we become adults, it is difficult to play like that.
We are no longer in contact with each other. However, I can still remember them vividly.