Okay - My turn! I wish we would have been in the same session as some other CB'ers. But we got stuck with Sunday afternoon. Drove in Friday night. Spent some quality time with family. And then headed to Navy Pier Sunday morning. We walked "vendor row" before the meet and I let Beetle pick out 1 thing. Knowing Awards would take forever!
Beetle and I got there early, my Mom and family members that live in Chicago said they would come later. I told them they should be there by 1:00 - 1:15... I was worried they wouldnt make it. I would have felt bad.. pay $15 to get in the door then miss an event!
Onto the meet, She did Olympic order. Her fav...
Vault. She is now tsuking confidently. Landed 2 nice tsuk's. She took a 1/2 a step on each vault. Turns out my Mom & Cousin's wife (who was a gymnast at Brown) saw both vaults. My other family missed the 1st vault but saw the second. whew!
Bars. I thought her bars looked pretty good. She didnt hit the handstands on her casts.. I think judges killed her score because of it.
Beam. I know she has a strange series but I think it was connected. We were facing the end of the beam so I don't know if her leaps hit 180 but they must not have. She got a terrible score. When she got off the beam her coach said 'that should be about what you got last meet... 8.8'. It was almost a point lower.
Floor. Looked pretty good. Still don't know why she is scoring lower mid season than she did early in the season.
Onto awards
Vault 8.8 Tied for 2nd! She took the 3rd place medal. 1st was 8.9 (she really is bummed about that extra step now!)
Bars 8.3
Beam 7.9 (any comments???)
Floor 8.8
AA 33.8 - placed 10th.
Video at: YouTube - Chicago Style Invite
I have a new camera now.. Still getting used to it.. but I didnt do too bad.. I only cut off her legs a couple times!
http://www.youtube.com/user/3ninoslocos#p/a/u/0/QbszDyUz5EA
Anyway.. left Navy Pier around 6:00 Sunday night.. Drive all the way home.. hit some terrible weather and roads.. pulled into my driveway at 1:45 am. I am STILL tired.
Beetle and I got there early, my Mom and family members that live in Chicago said they would come later. I told them they should be there by 1:00 - 1:15... I was worried they wouldnt make it. I would have felt bad.. pay $15 to get in the door then miss an event!
Onto the meet, She did Olympic order. Her fav...
Vault. She is now tsuking confidently. Landed 2 nice tsuk's. She took a 1/2 a step on each vault. Turns out my Mom & Cousin's wife (who was a gymnast at Brown) saw both vaults. My other family missed the 1st vault but saw the second. whew!
Bars. I thought her bars looked pretty good. She didnt hit the handstands on her casts.. I think judges killed her score because of it.
Beam. I know she has a strange series but I think it was connected. We were facing the end of the beam so I don't know if her leaps hit 180 but they must not have. She got a terrible score. When she got off the beam her coach said 'that should be about what you got last meet... 8.8'. It was almost a point lower.
Floor. Looked pretty good. Still don't know why she is scoring lower mid season than she did early in the season.
Onto awards
Vault 8.8 Tied for 2nd! She took the 3rd place medal. 1st was 8.9 (she really is bummed about that extra step now!)
Bars 8.3
Beam 7.9 (any comments???)
Floor 8.8
AA 33.8 - placed 10th.
Video at: YouTube - Chicago Style Invite
I have a new camera now.. Still getting used to it.. but I didnt do too bad.. I only cut off her legs a couple times!
http://www.youtube.com/user/3ninoslocos#p/a/u/0/QbszDyUz5EA
Anyway.. left Navy Pier around 6:00 Sunday night.. Drive all the way home.. hit some terrible weather and roads.. pulled into my driveway at 1:45 am. I am STILL tired.