The coach successfully secured the little gymnast

In the video below you can see how a deft coach was able to catch a gymnast right in the air after she performed her exercise unsuccessfully.

The video, filmed at a competition in Nashville, Tennessee, US, shows the young gymnast running down the track towards the gymnastics bridge to perform her trick. But after repelling from the projectile and somersaulting, the trajectory of her movement changed, which is why she began to move away from the mats.

And everything could have ended quite badly if not for the quickly oriented coach, who, standing nearby, took a couple of steps towards the girl in order to effectively catch her in time.

The video was taken by the girl's parents, who traveled from Boston, Massachusetts, to the competition on February 7th.

“When you compete on vault, you have two attempts - the judges choose the best one, and this is your result,” they captioned the video. “It was my daughter’s first jump, and when she jumped and somersaulted with her back turned, she was carried to the side, which could have caused her to be seriously injured. But her coach saw that she was in an uneven state and ran over to catch her before she could fall to the floor.”