I thought to myself, “a backbend, the most common trick. Looks easy. Let’s do this.” As my inflexible, brittle body tossed into the bridge position nothing seemed right. I struggled for hours in attempt but I could not manage to get my left arm, or shoulder in this case, to rotate the proper way to hold myself up. In a fit, I ran to my mother asking her why this was happening and it was then she had explained to me that there was a problem during my birth. I was stuck and the doctor had to make the urgent decision to either dislocate my left should, possibly leaving me paralyzed, or result to a C-section where I would ultimately suffer the consequences of hypoxia. After learning of this, I started to expand my sport interests, mainly looking for those that did not involve the use of my upper