A female gymnast in a blue and pink leotard performs a split handstand on a balance beam against a dark background in an illustration style.

You said: help create an image of how my back handspring on the beam went wrong. I want like a person doing what I did. This is what went wrong: I turned from sideways to face the end of the beam, my feet faced forwards and my body standing tall. My arms and legs were both shaking, I could feel the vibration through my feet. As I lifted my arms above my head to present and initiate the start of the skill, another sudden image of falling. I brought my arms down, so they were slightly angled down to the end of the beam, my fingertips touching. My legs were wobbling, lacking tension and stability. I proceeded to rapidly swing my arms back behind my hips to initiate the arm swing and create the primary force but as they swung forwards again, they stopped. I hesitated. I panicked and decided to chuck it from the position I was in- my shoulders angled backwards, my arms stationary in front of me and my legs trembling beneath me. I’d lost not only the force from the arm swing but the power from my shaky legs was weak with the bend not sufficient and the tension lacking, not giving me a strong enough take off. This meant I wasn’t high enough and my back handspring was low. I took off arching backwards but not upwards. Consequently, I didn’t have enough time in the air to extend my arms behind my shoulders effectively before my hands hit the beam (in the spilt handstand shape) and they therefore touched too soon and abruptly. My shoulders were closed with my head sticking out causing See more