Next year?

[mac.n.cheese.flipz]

Assassin's tango is awesome music and paks are very pretty =)

[gymfreak4ever]

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Originally Posted by mac.n.cheese.flipz Assassin's tango is awesome music and paks are very pretty =)

Paks are gorgeous when done like Nastia. Thats why I choose that release.

Keep working on that giant! You'll get it

[mac.n.cheese.flipz]

I totally agree! Nastia's paks are just stunning to watch. I was really sad when she got to close to the bar and collapsed at the trials =(

[MadKate]

I love watching pak saltos, too. When I see routines at that level without them I'm just horribly disappointed. I haven't paid attention to the COP, I just want fanservice!

I've got a couple goals, starting with the most likely:
Stick with this stuff at least until December, and without getting injured
Pick up skills I have had at some time before in my life (which aren't many)
Make it over the vault table with just a springboard and not a mini tramp, even if it is just to flatback on mats, I'm not getting picky on landings here
Get a bit stronger and more flexible

The less likely, but I still *really really* want them:
Stick with gymnastics for a full year, without getting injured
*Finally* learn a back handspring!
Get over my innate fear of flipping backwards so I can do a back tuck on tramp (I've always been ok with front stuff, since I've got that built in crash mat on my butt, not being able to see my feet when I land bothers me less than not being able to see where I'm aiming when I take off)
Pick up some sort of actual *skill* on beam that is not actually a dance step, preferably on a high beam, preferably enough to combine into a low level routine
Get somewhat stronger and more flexible

The highly unlikely, but would be incredibly cool:
Get sufficiently flexible in the right spots to be able to do walkovers, as a kid I had plenty of friends that could do them that never took gymnastics, but I was never flexible in the right spots to do it myself even with taking classes. Then somehow manage to do one on beam. ;-)
Get enough elements together that it would be possible to compete at the lowest Masters level - beam seems to be the limiting factor.
Convince my coach to actually let me do it, even if she does think I'm completely out of my mind. ("Don't worry, I'll find my own leo, you can pretend you don't know me, I won't be offended...")

Anyone think this is remotely possible for an out of shape 27 year old who (while I'm at least of normal weight for my height) is rather tall and can't even touch her toes at the moment because of genetically short hamstrings?

[gymgymgymnast08]

I should add to mine that I want to learn a standing back tuck. We're working on new things to add to our beam routines and most people learn a standing tuck. But I like can't do it. Which is weird because by level 8 I should be able to. But everyone was like amazed when I'm like yeah i can't do that. then i showed them and they were like ohhhhhhhh haha

[anniegymnast3]

For next year i plan on moving to level 10 and my goals are:

Bars: blind into front giant and maybe a gienger

Vault: yurchinko full

Beam: (my choach sais he wont let me compete 10 unless i have this series) flipflop stepout layout stepout layout stepout (ya its pretty tough) and a front aerial

Floor: triple full, double pike, double back, and front handspring double twist front tuck.

Ya!! i REALLY hope i get all of that. i know its alot of work but im ready and i and very comitted! right now im on the right track for vault and i have everything i want on floor (just onto an 8 incher instead of the real floor) and i have my blind front giant with a spot ( its a little scary but i think and hope it will get more comfortable the more that i do them) and im doing gienger timers into the pit. and on beam i have that series on the low beam. Its pretty scary tho but thats ok...i know that my coach wouldnt push me to do all these new skills if he didnt think that i would be able to learn them! im trying really hard so i hope it will all end in my favor!!

[gymkat]

LOL if it makes you feel better, I was a L9, and I couldn't do back tucks on beam either. I worked on them for a little while, but I had some weird technique issue where I'd randomly stop rotating and fall face-first onto the beam. It was always random too; I wasn't even tired most of the time!

[NYgymfan]

Well I made a huge decision regarding next year today.

I told my soccer coach I will not be playing on the team this fall because I've decided to do tumbling as my main sport! So I will be in the gym a lot more often now. Tumbling is absolutely amazing and I've totally fallen in love with it. Right now I can do a bunch of skills, but mostly only on tramp/tumble track and my form leaves a lot to be desired, so I really want to work on it more and make it "gymnast quality" (as opposed to "cheer quality"). I think I can get pretty good at it in a year, and then who knows what will happen when I get to college. So I'm almost looking at it like a once in a lifetime opportunity, since I don't know if I'll be able to continue with it in college or not.

Next week we are having a tumbling camp at my gym, which is going to be so much fun! Tumbling all day everyday, but we will have social time in the middle of the day to kind of break it up a little.

[gracefulone]

Wow that was a big decision. Good luck with your tumbling, and have fun at that camp next week!

[gymgymgymnast08]

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Originally Posted by NYgymfan so I really want to work on it more and make it "gymnast quality" (as opposed to "cheer quality&quot. I think .

haha no. you def don't wanna be tumbling like a cheerleader. unless its one of those cheerleaders who actually is possibly an athlete and does like double fulls. I respect that kind. I guess.