Anna had her 4th little in-house meet that her gym does for the pre-team kids and for the first time EVER she actually did a little handstand on the high beam! I was completely and utterly shocked. She's never, ever done one before on the high beam, not even in practice. She can do them pretty good on a low beam, but gets too scared once she's up on the high beam and doesn't really want to even try. Usually she kicks her back leg up a little and the front foot only gets off the beam maybe an inch or two. I couldn't believe she actually got her feet together and everything! Beam was her first event and after seeing her do that I could have cared less how the rest of the meet went (not that I would have been anything but proud of her at the end anyway...but you know..). She looked over at me after she was done and I could tell she was so proud of herself. I love seeing her conquer her fears...and beam is definitely a fear for her.
Here's a video of her whole meet. Feel free to not watch the whole thing, because it's kind of long. Beam is towards the beginning of the video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLRmpIVuxdw
If you watch it all you'll notice that she gets totally distracted on floor. My best friend and her daughter came to watch and it really distracted her...and she has very little focus to begin with..lol.. So she got turned around and forgot her backwards roll completely. Oh well, I still think she did really cute!
I love seeing the progress though. She may look all loosy-goosy (which she still is compared to a lot of girls in her group) but she's gotten SOOOOO much better with keeping her legs straight and toes pointed.
Anyway, I'm so proud of her so I just wanted to share. Now. If she could just figure out that darn mill circle and her bars dismount. She's been struggling with those FOREVER.
(Oh and even though they got scores, I realize that they are probably super high for the "quality" of the gymnastics. They have a few of the higher level girls doing the "judging" and I think they just throw out scores mainly based on form, not so much on whether the girls can actually do the skills.)
Here's a video of her whole meet. Feel free to not watch the whole thing, because it's kind of long. Beam is towards the beginning of the video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLRmpIVuxdw
If you watch it all you'll notice that she gets totally distracted on floor. My best friend and her daughter came to watch and it really distracted her...and she has very little focus to begin with..lol.. So she got turned around and forgot her backwards roll completely. Oh well, I still think she did really cute!
I love seeing the progress though. She may look all loosy-goosy (which she still is compared to a lot of girls in her group) but she's gotten SOOOOO much better with keeping her legs straight and toes pointed.
Anyway, I'm so proud of her so I just wanted to share. Now. If she could just figure out that darn mill circle and her bars dismount. She's been struggling with those FOREVER.
(Oh and even though they got scores, I realize that they are probably super high for the "quality" of the gymnastics. They have a few of the higher level girls doing the "judging" and I think they just throw out scores mainly based on form, not so much on whether the girls can actually do the skills.)