My First Backflip

      One of the most memorable days in my life took place in the fall of my sophomore year. I had just recently started riding mountain bikes, I used to ride BMX until I knocked my front four teeth out when I took a spill. After this incident, which occurred during my freshman year, my parents and I both agreed that I should no longer ride bikes of jumps. I sold my BMX bike and purchased a mountain bike so it wouldn't force me to hit jumps. However this was not the case. 

      Now it was fall of my sophomore year. This was my most memorable day. It was a Saturday morning when I texted my friend Chad. He is one of my best friends and is a sponsored mountain bike rider. I texted him if he could come over that day because I needed him to give me some help for the flip. I had the perfect jump set up in my yard for backflipping. My neighbor and I built it with his father a few weeks prior to this day. Sure enough my friend Chad wanted to come over, and was excited for me to flip. I was beyond scared. He brought pads for me to wear that protects your spinal cord if I fell. However, I couldn't make him drive over for nothing, so there was no backing down. I went for my first flip attempt in the late morning around eleven o'clock. I messed up on the flip terribly and broke my handlebars, I should have broken my neck. Luckily, my neighbor had a spare pair of handlebars in his basement that he let me use. Then it was back to flips. It took me nine tries total of me just crashing attempting the flip. I finally landed the backflip on the tenth attempt and was so happy. If I was not wearing those pads he let me borrow, I probably would have been seriously injured. But I had just landed my first backflip on a bike. All my friends ran up to me and started hugging and clapping for me. They were all excited too. This was my most memorable day. 

      Looking back at this day to where I am today with biking, I have succeeded greatly. I have no learned some other tricks, and have even rode in a competition. I was awarded an award at the competition too which was awesome. Now I love biking so much and can do backflips whenever I please. And I no longer fall on them like the first time when I tried them. Chad and I have been working real hard lately at riding and learning new tricks. We are having a professional filmer come and film us to make and edit so we can get sponsors for biking. I can't wait. From when I landed my first flip to now, I believed I succeeded tremendously.