Bionic Teutonic

I’ve been starting to get down back handsprings on the tumble track at circus. Last night, with only 4 of us in class, we spent the entire time doing tumbling, which was fantastic for about the first 3/4 of class. I’d been doing standing back handsprings and then moved on to round-off back handsprings and then back to standing back handsprings. Something about the difference in the way you throw your body when you stand vs. doing a round-off beforehand made it so that on the second go around, I basically just threw myself straight into the tumble track. I looked down at that point and saw my middle finger totally dislocated, bent almost 90 degrees off to the left. Scared the shit out of me. It didn’t even hurt that badly, but the sight of it was extremely unsettling. Fingers are not supposed to bend in that direction. I had to pop it back into place. Today my middle finger is about twice the size of the others.

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