UnoMas
Proud Parent
First, I met JuJu's mom...only for a minute...but I saw her little SUPERSTAR compete and she did awesome! Her team also beat out our team for first place...I also heard that Claire was there but did not get to meet her...too much chasing of my other two, scoring, and videoing to do. Hope y'all had fun! It was a good meet with the exception of the door police making us get rid of all our food and drinks (gymnasts were only allowed one bottle of water...no food! ridiculous!)
My older DD had a good, but frustrating meet. She was in a super competitive age group (has been all year) and she's starting to get a little frustrated with 4th place and lower finishes when she's putting up decent scores. I'm trying to find the right words to say to a little girl who expects high things of herself and does well but not well enough for her taste. Anyway...
First up, bars, her "best" event although I watched her fall ALL WEEK in practice on her shoot through. She does a good routine, takes a step pn the landing, and gets 9.40 for 4th place.
Second, beam...she is coming into her own here. I am super proud! Good routine, pretty sharp and quickly paced, I am impressed! She scored a 9.2, good for...yes...4th place!
Third is floor...oh, floor, how I love and hate floor. She is really pretty good on the little things in the routine but her RO BHS is always a little scary. It can be good...or REALLY bad! (see thread from 3 weeks ago!) She does a good one today!!! She gets a 9.075, good for 7th place.
Last is vault, just not her thing. She does ok. Looks ok to me. I don't get vault at all. In fact I am so sick of watching the L4 vault that I could puke. Anyway, she gets a 8.875. Very tough scoring on vault overall here. This put her in 5th place. (1st place was a 9.150!!)
AA is 36.5 and 5th place. Really, a great score and nothing to be sad about but she was sad that she did not get to stand "on the box...even once!". Ahh, but that's another thread. I am super proud of her. I think she is doing awesome...boxes or not!
The video is up...I had to cover embarrassing screaming with some music so you don't really get the full effect of the announcements in the dark at the beginning (still learning my video editing!) BUT I did get all FOUR events INCLUDING my child actually performing a RO BHS without falling! YAY!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPRQRsWell8
1 more big meet this weekend, then states, then good bye to L4! She is excited and nervous about L5. They don't uptrain much at all so she is going to have LOTS to learn very soon!
Thanks for reading!
My older DD had a good, but frustrating meet. She was in a super competitive age group (has been all year) and she's starting to get a little frustrated with 4th place and lower finishes when she's putting up decent scores. I'm trying to find the right words to say to a little girl who expects high things of herself and does well but not well enough for her taste. Anyway...
First up, bars, her "best" event although I watched her fall ALL WEEK in practice on her shoot through. She does a good routine, takes a step pn the landing, and gets 9.40 for 4th place.
Second, beam...she is coming into her own here. I am super proud! Good routine, pretty sharp and quickly paced, I am impressed! She scored a 9.2, good for...yes...4th place!
Third is floor...oh, floor, how I love and hate floor. She is really pretty good on the little things in the routine but her RO BHS is always a little scary. It can be good...or REALLY bad! (see thread from 3 weeks ago!) She does a good one today!!! She gets a 9.075, good for 7th place.
Last is vault, just not her thing. She does ok. Looks ok to me. I don't get vault at all. In fact I am so sick of watching the L4 vault that I could puke. Anyway, she gets a 8.875. Very tough scoring on vault overall here. This put her in 5th place. (1st place was a 9.150!!)
AA is 36.5 and 5th place. Really, a great score and nothing to be sad about but she was sad that she did not get to stand "on the box...even once!". Ahh, but that's another thread. I am super proud of her. I think she is doing awesome...boxes or not!
The video is up...I had to cover embarrassing screaming with some music so you don't really get the full effect of the announcements in the dark at the beginning (still learning my video editing!) BUT I did get all FOUR events INCLUDING my child actually performing a RO BHS without falling! YAY!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPRQRsWell8
1 more big meet this weekend, then states, then good bye to L4! She is excited and nervous about L5. They don't uptrain much at all so she is going to have LOTS to learn very soon!
Thanks for reading!