Blackie6
Proud Parent
Very hectic weekend, we had a blast in Wildwood. DD entertained everyone in the hotel by doing BHS and stuff poolside against my wishes on the concrete! OUCH! Wondering if all your gymies are the entertainment at out door events, because my DD had an audience on all 5 floors! She spent the weekend running around and staying up late. Last night we did boardwalk for several hours (and also got front of her hair braided) since the kids had wristbands I wanted to get my monies worth. We got back into hotel late & I didn't get started on rest of hair until about 10:30pm. Hard to get her to bed so probably about 11 or 11:30ish. I figured we wouldn't do all that well today anyway so I didn't want her to feel like she was missing anything going on at the hotel. Got kids up at 8am and we were on the road at 8:30am. We got to meet about 3 hrs later in plenty of time.
Now I am not as good as most here w/the meet play-by-play. I was just praying for a 30 to make sectionals. Being tired, nervous and having a splitting headache, I was just watching and taking a couple pictures. DH had the video camera since I shake too much. But here goes:
Beam is first. In warm-ups she did not land one cartwheel so I am feeling a little worried. She did cart wheel with HUGE boble/save and holds her handstands beautifully again. Moms at other end said oh's and ah's again, LOL. Lots of little wobbles & still needs to clean up, but an 8.5.
Floor is next. My DD has hard time keeping her one leg straight, always a bent knee and her splits are horrible, she needs lots of work on this one. She just recently learned routine and is still having problems with the directions, new L5 music and the ending with the step, step courtsey stuff....I actually think she forgot something and was behind on music. It looked bad in practice in begining of week and I was expecting about a 6.5. but she did a little better than that for a 7.8. Still needs tons of work.
Bars. having some issues in practice now with the squat on. She is having a hard time doing it and the jump to big bars. She recently started doing more of a straight leg,pike looking thing before she jumps to high bar which sometimes works weel and sometimes not at all. At warm ups she was not even getting squat on or kip well but competed and got score of an 8.0!
Vault is last, thankfully! Hate vault, can't believe it used to be her best scores and placed at states on vault. Since the incidents last year and transitionig to table and heel problems half the time she isn't even going over! In warm up she didn't go over at all! Now I am scared and upset they didn't coax her over to end the warm up on good foot. She vaulted and it was ugly. The second vault she sort of stayed on the table in a handstand (she loves handstands and problably enjoyed that!) and sort of fell over. A generous 7.3 and the worst on the team, OUCH!
Good news is we survived our FIRST Level 5 meet with our new gym! Did better than I expected and she qualified for the sectional on her very first meet! We are very proud of her! She knows her work is cut out for her this season & we are not expecting 35's and 36's this year, but she is very happy to be doing level 5 and that makes us happy too!
UB 8.0
BB 8.5 **5th place
FX 7.8
V 7.3
AA 31.60 ** 7th place AA
We just found out we are going to a meet at IGC camp at the end of October now so we have another month to work on all this, yeah!
Now I am not as good as most here w/the meet play-by-play. I was just praying for a 30 to make sectionals. Being tired, nervous and having a splitting headache, I was just watching and taking a couple pictures. DH had the video camera since I shake too much. But here goes:
Beam is first. In warm-ups she did not land one cartwheel so I am feeling a little worried. She did cart wheel with HUGE boble/save and holds her handstands beautifully again. Moms at other end said oh's and ah's again, LOL. Lots of little wobbles & still needs to clean up, but an 8.5.
Floor is next. My DD has hard time keeping her one leg straight, always a bent knee and her splits are horrible, she needs lots of work on this one. She just recently learned routine and is still having problems with the directions, new L5 music and the ending with the step, step courtsey stuff....I actually think she forgot something and was behind on music. It looked bad in practice in begining of week and I was expecting about a 6.5. but she did a little better than that for a 7.8. Still needs tons of work.
Bars. having some issues in practice now with the squat on. She is having a hard time doing it and the jump to big bars. She recently started doing more of a straight leg,pike looking thing before she jumps to high bar which sometimes works weel and sometimes not at all. At warm ups she was not even getting squat on or kip well but competed and got score of an 8.0!
Vault is last, thankfully! Hate vault, can't believe it used to be her best scores and placed at states on vault. Since the incidents last year and transitionig to table and heel problems half the time she isn't even going over! In warm up she didn't go over at all! Now I am scared and upset they didn't coax her over to end the warm up on good foot. She vaulted and it was ugly. The second vault she sort of stayed on the table in a handstand (she loves handstands and problably enjoyed that!) and sort of fell over. A generous 7.3 and the worst on the team, OUCH!
Good news is we survived our FIRST Level 5 meet with our new gym! Did better than I expected and she qualified for the sectional on her very first meet! We are very proud of her! She knows her work is cut out for her this season & we are not expecting 35's and 36's this year, but she is very happy to be doing level 5 and that makes us happy too!
UB 8.0
BB 8.5 **5th place
FX 7.8
V 7.3
AA 31.60 ** 7th place AA
We just found out we are going to a meet at IGC camp at the end of October now so we have another month to work on all this, yeah!