Blackie6
Proud Parent
You know DD was supposed to take a week off after states right? Well, only lasted two practices because here at home she drove me nuts....NUTS! She pulled out her balance beam (a small 5ft one we got yrs ago) and decided to up-train herself by doing backwalkovers. She made up her own routines and I had to judge them. Thankfully she had throw pillows out for the "misses". We sent her on Sat to practice still on restriction, but at least something to do, she was bored at home. On Tuesday she went to the Ortho who wants her out another 2 weeks! A new x-ray shows she has a little cyst (2 actually) in her foot where the hairline fracture is. Of course I have to ask "is it from gymnastics" wondering if this is the begining of all those gymnastics related injuries. Doctor says "no" but feels it did cause a weekness in her foot and that is why the fracture happened there. So, we go back in 6 month just to re-check. Meantime, DD is happily participating in restricted practice. For those never injured it means LOTS AND LOTS of tramp and tumble trak. My DD is having the time of her life doing back tucks, front tucks, running down tumble trak and doing a somersault up onto a higher mat. She can't vault yet so this in place of vaulting. Bars, she is loving. Now that they are finally working L5 skills she is practicing her kips. Sometimes she has them, sometimes not. Sometimes she gets them with straight arms, sometimes they are ugly. Her hands are horrible though, getting really sore and calloused. I guess I will look up the last post about rips and prevention. They also had their first practice trying squat ons and just jumping off from standing up position. Then the coach had them just swinging from the high bars. DD has her brace on but kept forgetting that she should not be jumping down.
Even though they are done with states they are attending one last meet as L4's. I did not want DD to participate in this last one (yeah I know I said that about the last 2) but she wants to do it. She can go back to practice 100% after Feb 2nd and the meet is on 2/14. The vault might be a problem though, except for the 2 ugly vaults at states she hasn't vaulted since mid December.
But watching her tonight was like watching a different girl. She was so excited to be doing new things finally. All the girls were funny, running back and forth to the bars trying to get their kips. Where do they get that energy from and how come I can't have some, LOL
Even though they are done with states they are attending one last meet as L4's. I did not want DD to participate in this last one (yeah I know I said that about the last 2) but she wants to do it. She can go back to practice 100% after Feb 2nd and the meet is on 2/14. The vault might be a problem though, except for the 2 ugly vaults at states she hasn't vaulted since mid December.
But watching her tonight was like watching a different girl. She was so excited to be doing new things finally. All the girls were funny, running back and forth to the bars trying to get their kips. Where do they get that energy from and how come I can't have some, LOL