MAG Blackjack/ Winter Cup

[ZJsMom]

Is anyone else going? We leave on Thursday. DS competes in the Friday level 10 session. Looking forward to seeing how our guys look heading into Rio.

 

[profmom]

Jealous!!! Have a great time!

 

[profmom]

Oh, by the way, can you do me a favor? When he steps out onto the floor to compete, can you please in your very best loudest fangirl scream yell, "GO STACEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!" at Stacey Ervin for me?

 

[lilmisssunshine]

How'd your guy do?

Can anyone explain the scoring/sessions to me for a meet like this? We've got boys from our gym who were there and I was trying to be a supportive team parent by checking out the results. Some of the best boys in our gym (maybe FS boys?) were listed twice, in different sessions. I wondered if maybe this was like "regular JO routines" vs elite routines? Or maybe the top gymnasts from initial sessions then competed against each other to find final champions?

I also noticed that some of the AA scores from lower levels (8) were higher than AA scores from higher levels (10). Is that like...a move that's a high-point move in L8 becomes a low-point move in L10? Are the L10 guys trying tougher moves and not hitting them?

As a L4 mom, everything the older guys do looks so hard to me. haha!

 

[profmom]

They had a tech sequence session there. Those routines are scored out of 10. The L10 routines are harder than the L8 L9 routines.

 

[skschlag]

how did it go?

 

[Mom2twingymnasts]

Can anyone explain the scoring/sessions to me for a meet like this? We've got boys from our gym who were there and I was trying to be a supportive team parent by checking out the results. Some of the best boys in our gym (maybe FS boys?) were listed twice, in different sessions. I wondered if maybe this was like "regular JO routines" vs elite routines? Or maybe the top gymnasts from initial sessions then competed against each other to find final champions?

I also noticed that some of the AA scores from lower levels (8) were higher than AA scores from higher levels (10). Is that like...a move that's a high-point move in L8 becomes a low-point move in L10? Are the L10 guys trying tougher moves and not hitting them?

There was a Technical Sequences session on Friday morning. The TS routines are out of 10 points and judged rather strictly. Judges are looking for perfection in the basic elements. The boys would then compete their optional routines on Saturday or Sunday depending on their level. Optional routines will have a much higher start value. There also can be L8s or L9s with higher start values than a L10 or they may just score higher because they have a cleaner routine.

 

[Mom2twingymnasts]

DS competed at BlackJack. He won pommel, highbar, pbars and All-Around for Tech Sequences on Friday. On Sunday, he was competing L9. He competed pbars and highbar. When warming up floor, he got lost warming up his 2 and half. He ended up on his back, smacked his head on the floor. He has a concussion.

 

[skschlag]

Oh no! Poor guy had such a great start. How is he doing now?

 

[Mom2twingymnasts]

Oh no! Poor guy had such a great start. How is he doing now?

He still has some dizziness, slightly slurred speech at times, and he is extremely tired.

 

[skschlag]

oh man, I am so sorry. Hope he starts feeling better again soon!

 

[sce]

DS competed at BlackJack. He won pommel, highbar, pbars and All-Around for Tech Sequences on Friday. On Sunday, he was competing L9. He competed pbars and highbar. When warming up floor, he got lost warming up his 2 and half. He ended up on his back, smacked his head on the floor. He has a concussion.

Oh no, so sorry. Glad TS went so well. Hope the concussion recovery goes well.

 

[ZJsMom]

Oh gosh. I hope he's feeling better soon. It seemed like there were a lot of injuries at that meet. Some of DS's teammates had weird falls. One crashed on high bar snf bit through hisome tongue.

 

[sce]

Oh gosh. I hope he's feeling better soon. It seemed like there were a lot of injuries at that meet. Some of DS's teammates had weird falls. One crashed on high bar snf bit through hisome tongue.

 

[gracyomalley]

He still has some dizziness, slightly slurred speech at times, and he is extremely tired.

darn! Took DS about 6 weeks to get back to normal after his last year - we did find that it was really important in getting him cleared to return to gym that we see concussion specialists who understood gymnasts - esp when doing balance testing, etc, otherwise they would have sent him back before he could even read again!

I had all three of mine impact tested this year so that if they ever have another concussion we have a baseline - (the testing required for football, soccer, etc...). Tried to get the gym team on board with getting everyone tested, and HC did too, but sadly only a few kids actually came on the days arranged...

Hope he's back up to speed quickly and sounds like his gymnastics overall is doing wonderfully