He’d started the day doing one thing doctors said he might never do — walking out of a Ft. Worth hospital at noon. Two hours later he walked again, along a path of love and admiration and prayer from his friends and classmates.
It was three months and a week after a crippling gymnastics accident almost cost him his life, and the 15-year old was happy to be here. …
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On February 18th at a gym in Waco, TX, Blake jumped into a foam pit. He hit his shoulder on the edge of the pit “whiplashing his head into the surrounding concrete“.
There can never be any exposed concrete anywhere near a safety landing pit.
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