We’re back from a wonderful weekend full of family fun! Niagara Falls is a great place to have a meet! Wax museum/haunted house/giant ferris wheel overlooking the falls/maze/rainforest café, and of course, the hotel pool and hot tub!! All topped off with a Qualifying score and a chance to put a face to the name of a fellow chalk-bucketer!!
The meet was well run, and we were once again, fortunate enough to be surrounded by some great parents.
Bean started on floor and did a wonderful job! With my parental glasses on, it was clearly a winner!!! The judges thought a bit differently, scored it 12.7-good for 3rd!
On to vault. Well, lets just say I earned a few dozen more grey hairs. 1st warm up, Bean hit the board wrong and did a fast handstand walk over it. Next, she tried another handspring (not the full) and splatted on the other side of it. By this time, we had a lot of support and encouragement from parents around us. It was so nice, they were all convinced she’d nail it. It wasn’t meant to be. 3 more practice vaults and 2 for the judges all landed on various body parts that included her face, but never her feet.
This was the first meet to include tears. So much frustration from my little girl, who had been landing that vault beautifully in practice all week. Fortunately, the judges saw more right than wrong with the vault, and scored it 11.95-and she took 7th.
Next Bean was on bars. Warm ups were lovely, every handstand hit, and a gorgeous, stuck fly away! With the judges eyes on, it wasn’t quite as pretty. She missed her handstands, and as a result had her start value decreased. Her giant looked great, and the flyaway was good and high. A few leg separations and a few little steps on landing gave her a score of 12.9-2nd place.
Lastly, it was beam. A fairly solid job (in mom’s opinion!) a little wobble here and there, but nothing to write home about! She ended with a 12.8-which gave her 3rd.
Overall score-down slightly from last meet-50.350, 1st place All Around!!!! And fully Qualified! I am SO proud of her for putting the horrible and scary vault behind her and going on to de her thing so well!
Thank you all for your good luck, it seems to have worked again!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTUAi0R3Auw
The meet was well run, and we were once again, fortunate enough to be surrounded by some great parents.
Bean started on floor and did a wonderful job! With my parental glasses on, it was clearly a winner!!! The judges thought a bit differently, scored it 12.7-good for 3rd!
On to vault. Well, lets just say I earned a few dozen more grey hairs. 1st warm up, Bean hit the board wrong and did a fast handstand walk over it. Next, she tried another handspring (not the full) and splatted on the other side of it. By this time, we had a lot of support and encouragement from parents around us. It was so nice, they were all convinced she’d nail it. It wasn’t meant to be. 3 more practice vaults and 2 for the judges all landed on various body parts that included her face, but never her feet.
This was the first meet to include tears. So much frustration from my little girl, who had been landing that vault beautifully in practice all week. Fortunately, the judges saw more right than wrong with the vault, and scored it 11.95-and she took 7th.
Next Bean was on bars. Warm ups were lovely, every handstand hit, and a gorgeous, stuck fly away! With the judges eyes on, it wasn’t quite as pretty. She missed her handstands, and as a result had her start value decreased. Her giant looked great, and the flyaway was good and high. A few leg separations and a few little steps on landing gave her a score of 12.9-2nd place.
Lastly, it was beam. A fairly solid job (in mom’s opinion!) a little wobble here and there, but nothing to write home about! She ended with a 12.8-which gave her 3rd.
Overall score-down slightly from last meet-50.350, 1st place All Around!!!! And fully Qualified! I am SO proud of her for putting the horrible and scary vault behind her and going on to de her thing so well!
Thank you all for your good luck, it seems to have worked again!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTUAi0R3Auw
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