I haven’t been around much life has been hectic with being back at work full time and beyond, being an involved mom, and trying to release some SuperMom expectations [my own my husband and kids seem to be so much more forgiving]. It helps that my husband truly is SuperDad I’m even making him a cape. Actually that’s kind of a joke, our son and his wife adopted her nephew [who just turned four and is into super heroes]. I made him a cape and he was thrilled but upset I didn’t make one for dad or grandpa so they could be super heroes together because “Superheroes always need back up“.
Our gymnastic daughter has been having a bit of a difficult time with some other things but being in the gym really seems to ground her so we’re trying to go with it. She had a good second L9 meet a few weeks ago. Her bars rocked and she remembered her beam routine! She did two different vaults for the first time. She did a Tsuck-layout first and then a Yurchenko Pike. They both looked pretty good to me. I think the Tsuck started from 10 and that may be why it scored higher. She thinks that is just more evidence that she is not meant to do Yurchenko entries but her coach feels that she really needs to compete a few before she convinces herself she that she won’t do better with them. He has said that if she changes her mind about elite gymnastics later he thinks a lot of coaches will be more impressed with advanced Yurchenkos than the Tsuckahara variations. I presume he means that they have higher start values [are they still called start values in the international scoring now?] but at least in L9 it seems that the Yurchenkos and Tsucks are similar start values. I thought her floor routine was a little better in how it flowed. Her tumbling has always been strong but really showing off the routine is not one of her strengths. I think some of this is just because her self confidence and self esteem is still not where we would like it to be. I also think that some of this is just that she doesn’t spend a lot of time really running through routines and that shows much more on floor than anywhere else. Vault and bars are basically skills oriented so if the skills are done well then they will score well. Beam and floor is where some of the score comes from their artistry which includes how well it flows and how smooth things look [as I understand it at least]. I think if she spent more time just running through her floor and beam routines they would look better but the nephrologist wants us to keep her training hours where they are so I guess this won’t be happening. Alas, it is what it is and her dad and I are so proud of her for just getting out there and doing it.
She ended up with strep throat last week which shouldn’t sound like a big deal but it was her first febrile illness since everything we went through last year and the initial CK her pediatrician checked was borderline so she admitted her. She did really well with a few days of IV fluids and antibiotics which is great and I am so thankful for that. We let her go to Saturday practice to condition and she’s back on her regular schedule now. She is supposed to have her last meet next weekend so she is looking forward to that and it looks like she should be ok to compete.
On the positive side the reality that this minor illness of childhood wasn’t much more of an issue than it would have been for some other child is encouraging. Also the HC that we’ve sort of been coexisting around seems to finally understand some of our concerns. We had an honest conversation about all of this and he conceded perhaps he hadn’t really understood. He also understands that the next six months may be very difficult because of some of the surrounding legal issues and he says he wants to be helpful. To be fair, I think he really has always wanted to be helpful he just didn’t always understand what would be most helpful and thus said and did some things that really weren’t.
Thank you to all of you who listened and advised us as we were navigating through some of the worst of this earlier this winter.
Our gymnastic daughter has been having a bit of a difficult time with some other things but being in the gym really seems to ground her so we’re trying to go with it. She had a good second L9 meet a few weeks ago. Her bars rocked and she remembered her beam routine! She did two different vaults for the first time. She did a Tsuck-layout first and then a Yurchenko Pike. They both looked pretty good to me. I think the Tsuck started from 10 and that may be why it scored higher. She thinks that is just more evidence that she is not meant to do Yurchenko entries but her coach feels that she really needs to compete a few before she convinces herself she that she won’t do better with them. He has said that if she changes her mind about elite gymnastics later he thinks a lot of coaches will be more impressed with advanced Yurchenkos than the Tsuckahara variations. I presume he means that they have higher start values [are they still called start values in the international scoring now?] but at least in L9 it seems that the Yurchenkos and Tsucks are similar start values. I thought her floor routine was a little better in how it flowed. Her tumbling has always been strong but really showing off the routine is not one of her strengths. I think some of this is just because her self confidence and self esteem is still not where we would like it to be. I also think that some of this is just that she doesn’t spend a lot of time really running through routines and that shows much more on floor than anywhere else. Vault and bars are basically skills oriented so if the skills are done well then they will score well. Beam and floor is where some of the score comes from their artistry which includes how well it flows and how smooth things look [as I understand it at least]. I think if she spent more time just running through her floor and beam routines they would look better but the nephrologist wants us to keep her training hours where they are so I guess this won’t be happening. Alas, it is what it is and her dad and I are so proud of her for just getting out there and doing it.
She ended up with strep throat last week which shouldn’t sound like a big deal but it was her first febrile illness since everything we went through last year and the initial CK her pediatrician checked was borderline so she admitted her. She did really well with a few days of IV fluids and antibiotics which is great and I am so thankful for that. We let her go to Saturday practice to condition and she’s back on her regular schedule now. She is supposed to have her last meet next weekend so she is looking forward to that and it looks like she should be ok to compete.
On the positive side the reality that this minor illness of childhood wasn’t much more of an issue than it would have been for some other child is encouraging. Also the HC that we’ve sort of been coexisting around seems to finally understand some of our concerns. We had an honest conversation about all of this and he conceded perhaps he hadn’t really understood. He also understands that the next six months may be very difficult because of some of the surrounding legal issues and he says he wants to be helpful. To be fair, I think he really has always wanted to be helpful he just didn’t always understand what would be most helpful and thus said and did some things that really weren’t.
Thank you to all of you who listened and advised us as we were navigating through some of the worst of this earlier this winter.
