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For my bumper sticker quote, I chose, "Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string." The funny thing about finding this quote is that i use this saying almost single day in my life, and have for a very long time. I have been doing gymnastics and recently started doing competitive all-star cheerleading. This quote is usedthroughout both sports, but one big thing you use it for in both sports is tumbling. The element of tumbling is very difficult at the level I am at and requires more than a little luck and quick movement. The skilss i do and have been doing since the age of about 6 require intense mental toughness and physical ability. How does tumbling tie into my bumper sticker quote? Well, for people who have tumbled for the majority of their life and are very experienced will tell you that tumbling does take a certain amount of phsycial strength and agility, but to actually do these skills you have to have a ridiculous amount of self trust and mental prepareness. To do skills, you have to first tell yourself what you’re going to do. Because tumbling is dangerous, you have to mentally prepare your body of what you’re doing so you do not mess up and get injured. There are a lot of cases in which people are afraid to do a tumbling skill and they freak out mentally and get hurt. What causes this psychological block? What causes it is any bit of self doubt or fear of throwing a skill. Every person who has ever done intense training and hard tumbling skills will tell you this same thing; it’s 90% mental and 10% physical. If you do not tell your body that you are going to tumble and do your skill, then you aren’t going to.  Before I tumble I literally have to say in my head that I can do it. It also helps when my teammates give me encouragement because it gives me more confidence that I will throw and complete my tumbling skill. That is where the //trust thyself// comes in. Therefore, if you have confidence in yourself, then that is all you need to accomplish something, //the iron string//. Granted, sometimes your body will not allow you to do anything that it cannot do physically, but it’s all in your head!  My coaches also tell us a variation of this saying before we compete because during the beginning of our competition season we would get very nervous and our stunts would fall. Our coaches told us to stop thinking so much about the “What if’s?” when we weren’t sure about something. They told us that we need to have self-belief and confidence in what we do or we weren’t going to succeed. If you have one small bit of doubt or disbelief in something, that minimal thing can overshadow any mount of trust you have. You have to have complete and utter faith in yourself or you will never complete anything. 1203543553