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Mack_the_Ripper
Well, I'm done competing now! It was my best meet of the season, but it still wasn't great. Ugh. It doesn't really look like my routines are going to get any cleaner, either...
UB - 8.675 - 2nd place; I finally made my giant with straight arms in competition! Yay! I've been doing it in practice for a while but I just get scared/"go safe" and not aggressive at meets. Clear hip wasn't to handstand though, and my flyaway was early.
BB- 8.75 - 1st place; I was so nervous in the warm-up my legs were shaking! I managed to connect my acro series, which I was nervous about, but then I fell on the full turn! Ugh! I stepped into it funny and my big toe got caught on the side of the beam.
FX - 8.9 - 2nd place; whoooooh! I finally fixed my legs being uneven in my leap and tour jèté! I had fun doing the routine, too.
VT - 8.8ish - 2nd place; vaults in the warm-up were good but I got nervous and slowed down on my first vault. They flashed the score after the first vault and it was 8.35, so I ran like dogs were after me on the second!
AA - 35.15 - 2nd place; My goal score for the season was to get a 35, so I met that! I almost met it once before but was like .15 too low or something. I was a little disappointed that my age group (15+) was so small because it feels like the places don't count, but at the same time, it doesn't seem fair either to put me in a 13+ age group since I'm 17 and I would be competing against mostly kids who are 4 years younger than me and haven't gone through puberty yet.
And on to level 8 (maybe)! Funnily enough I'm least worried about getting my floor skills. Beam is the issue...I'll probably have to do a FHS-cartwheel even though my cartwheels right now are not consistent (I was never able to do one properly, but then again I didn't have a great coach in level 5 either).
UB - 8.675 - 2nd place; I finally made my giant with straight arms in competition! Yay! I've been doing it in practice for a while but I just get scared/"go safe" and not aggressive at meets. Clear hip wasn't to handstand though, and my flyaway was early.
BB- 8.75 - 1st place; I was so nervous in the warm-up my legs were shaking! I managed to connect my acro series, which I was nervous about, but then I fell on the full turn! Ugh! I stepped into it funny and my big toe got caught on the side of the beam.
FX - 8.9 - 2nd place; whoooooh! I finally fixed my legs being uneven in my leap and tour jèté! I had fun doing the routine, too.
VT - 8.8ish - 2nd place; vaults in the warm-up were good but I got nervous and slowed down on my first vault. They flashed the score after the first vault and it was 8.35, so I ran like dogs were after me on the second!
AA - 35.15 - 2nd place; My goal score for the season was to get a 35, so I met that! I almost met it once before but was like .15 too low or something. I was a little disappointed that my age group (15+) was so small because it feels like the places don't count, but at the same time, it doesn't seem fair either to put me in a 13+ age group since I'm 17 and I would be competing against mostly kids who are 4 years younger than me and haven't gone through puberty yet.
And on to level 8 (maybe)! Funnily enough I'm least worried about getting my floor skills. Beam is the issue...I'll probably have to do a FHS-cartwheel even though my cartwheels right now are not consistent (I was never able to do one properly, but then again I didn't have a great coach in level 5 either).