Parents Brag Alert....Level 5 38.5

[lovofu]

Hi again, It was a strange meet....second to last before States....38.5 AA 9.8 on Floor (best ever), Beautiful Beam routine...9.45??? Strange and bars and vault great...

She was most happy she "got over the vault" LOL. Love this kid....last meet as a 7 year old and her teammates took first second and third in the 7-9 age group!!! Awesome ladies all of them...


YouTube - Chantilly Academy Sophia

 

[lilgymmie7]

AAH! I couldn't watch the video yet! I am going back... I am sure she rocked those routines again!! She is fantastic! Is she 8 now? "Her last meet as a 7 yo..."?

 

[lovofu]

Not processed yet!

She'll be 8 on April 5th

 

[clrmom]

Great job! I love watching your videos as she is a joy to watch. It was funny to watch another team's girls watching and commenting as she was on floor.

 

[cadybearsmommy]

She did great as always!

 

[3rd_time_around]

That was awesome!! Such a cutie, loved her!

 

[Shewhodrives]

A m a z i n g!

 

[Deanna]

Beautiful as always. Glad she "made it over the vault"..lol. WTG to your DD

 

[gymjourneymom]

Hi again, It was a strange meet....second to last before States....38.5 AA 9.8 on Floor (best ever), Beautiful Beam routine...9.45??? Strange and bars and vault great...

She was most happy she "got over the vault" LOL. Love this kid....last meet as a 7 year old and her teammates took first second and third in the 7-9 age group!!! Awesome ladies all of them...


YouTube - Chantilly Academy Sophia

Very nice! Congratulations! I don't understand part of your post though. Would you please clarify the "beautiful beam routine...9.45??? Strange and bars and vault great..." what are you trying to say here? I don't understand?

 

[Mariainlv]

Great job!! She is awesome!!


GymJourneyMom I think she was confused at the score, she thought it was low. (just what I think she meant) As far as vault and bars, she did well as usual.

If Im wrong Lovofu I appologize

 

[Blazing15]

She did so amazing again. I loved watching her. She does so for only being 7.

 

[ek2]

Her routines were beautiful!
I do think that individual judges like to "see" different things and therefore score harder on those elements. For instance, my daughter was at a meet and was scored low on vault... she usually places high on that event... but at this particular meet her score was in the 8's. The judge wanted to see different hand placement on the table and therefore gave her a lower score even though she did the exact same vault as she did the weekend before that scored a 9.5.

 

[gymjourneymom]

Great job!! She is awesome!!


GymJourneyMom I think she was confused at the score, she thought it was low. (just what I think she meant) As far as vault and bars, she did well as usual.

If Im wrong Lovofu I appologize

That is what I was taking it to mean also. But I was hoping I was wrong. That us why I hope lovofu will clarify for herself. Sophia's routines are beautiful. And a 9.45 & 1st place is WONDERFUL!!!! Questioning a 9.45? If that is what lovofu is doing here, I can only hope that with experience, hopefully will come some humilty. I'm sure many other gymnasts at that meet would have been more then happy to see a 9.45 flashed for them. There is bragging & then there is gloating. I think parents need to model good sportsmanship too. JMHO. I'm going to venture to guess that someday down the road, when skills get more difficult lovofu may be happy & proud to see Sophia "get a score of ONLY 9.45". Congrats to Sophia she is a lovely gymnast! Lets hope she always brings in such "lowly" scores,LOL!

 

[mariposa]

I have been trying to figure out what to say. I, too, was hoping that lovofu was not questioning a 9.45. I agree 100% with what GJM just posted. It was what I was feeling but not knowing how to put it.

Sophia is a lovely and very talented little gymnast, but I will be honest in saying that I would love to see lovofu participate more here on the forums and not just post brags (and I see nothing wrong with brag posts, but if you are going to post a brag, go and check out some other brags and comment on their gymmie, too!) and disappear until Sophia's next meet. When I see a parent post and practically complain about a 9.45 (she got 1st place with that score, so obviously judging was tough and consistent), it leaves a sour taste in my mouth.

 

[MdGymMom01]

To be able to survive as a gymnast (and gym parent) for the long haul, there needs to be humility (and lots of it) because as we all know, the gymnastics journey can end in an instant.

 

[lovofu]

Wow...I do post on others "brags" etc but find little to offer when there are posts about gymmies who have great challenges learning skills etc and don't feel my perspective would be well received when my daughter is earning 38.5. My ??? on the 9.45 was only that is was a beautiful routine.....better than any other meet this season and her "usual" score is a 9.7 or higher. I was not disappointed in the 9.45....and neither was my daughter. I don't know how this thread turned into Lovofu needs to be more humble and participate more. I don't see that reaction on other threads but I think it's easier to sympathize with challenges than the other way around. I do feel very alone in this journey...other team parents treat myself and my daughter much the same.....when Sophia has a bad day at practice they are like "whatever....it's Sophia and she always earns high scores so no big deal". I will tell you that managing a child with these kind of results is no less difficult than managing a child who must repeat level 4 because they can't get their kip. Sophia has goals and dreams and as you can see from her video she is a gracious, darling child and that is no accident. We talk long and often about appreciating what you have been given and her humility comes naturally. So enough about my lack of participation.......I had found this the one place where I could celebrate her accomplishments but find this dialogue to be wearing and inappropriate...I was just posting the video for the folks who have expressed interest in her season and future. Thanks Lovofu

By the way I was not gloating....is it gloating because her results were so good? WOW, I just stated the facts.....can't change them....and the next meet may be wholly different...Our motto in our house is you can only control your performance and no one else, not the judges or other girls...only you! So Sophia does not "count" on a 38.....or any placement and the last meet was just as happy that her teammate took first in vault because "She works so hard, she deserves it"....

 

[AlexsGymmyMom]

I agree with what everyone is saying! I would be estatic if my DD recieved a 9.45. She has only gotten 1 score that high ever and to be honest the judging was very easy at that meet! Sophie is an awesome gymnast and hopefully she can sustain this performance level.

 

[lovofu]

Since you wanted more from me...here is some more...I've been told my daughter is given easier judging because of who she is, because she's Chinese, because she's cute, because of a million things....rarely because she NEVER misses practice, she works very very hard, she sets goals for herself without prompting, because she is focused, because she knows that you practice like you compete and because she plain LOVES this sport. I'm flabbergasted that this forum embraces the parent with boo hoo posts needing support and reacts like this to this post. Is this forum only for problems?

 

[lovofu]

Her scores this season are one meet 37 and five over 38.....that's her normal...and what she measures herself against...different for every gymnast.

 

[lovofu]

I would like to know how the original post was gloating? It was as much about her teammates as her.