Spinning and Spinning Out Of Control

by John

I was flying through the air holding onto the rope, my knuckles were white and my hands had a stinging feeling to them. Spinning and spinning getting dizzier and dizzier, BOOM, CRASH, BANG, my landing wasn't so good.

We were at the rope swing my friends and I built over the summer, in the woods. You would swing over a 40-foot cliff, swing back and land on the dirt, or you would go without your feet in the foot loop swing around the tree and land on a fallen log.

My two best friends Daniel, and David were at the rope swing with me. We were having a spinning competition. I was standing on the log ready to swing back to the starting place. I was going for the 1080´ witch is three full 360´ turns. I swung off the fallen log, my knuckles were white I had 1.5 spins completed, and was getting dizzier and dizzier holding on for my life then my hands slipped off the rope.

As I looked down I saw a bright white flash, then my life flash before my eyes. My ears had a screeching sound in them like someone scratching a chock board with their nails. About 10 feet above the ground I looked down and mercilessly my feet were pointed down. It was all in slow motion. I hit the ground and rolled and rolled. It was like I was in a tornado rolling and rolling not being able to stop. I felt a big pain like someone hit me with a speeding car. I had hit a tree and stopped rolling. I got up about a minute later with nothing but a few scratches and a hurt back.