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Well first meet of the season went good with some really big surprise! This was a judges cup and they gave out written critiques to take home.
She started on floor. This is by far her favorite event. She looked really good to me, but of course I am her mama. I saw a few mistakes but apparently there were many because she only scored an 8.225 which was good for 6th place in her age group 6-8 year olds. Her team mates took 1st and 2nd. The critique mentioned form issue, bent legs, bent arms etc. (basically everything but no large deductions just small)
Next up was her nemesis......vault! Now I mentioned earlier that our goal was to just get over and score. At training she is famous for running into the mats over and over again. At warm up she was looking good but of course coach was there lightly helping. She was first up, ran with her usual baby steps but had a good approach to the spring board and did a decent vault with little pike. She scored a.....get this.....9.125. 3rd highest in her team and good for 4th in her age group. Her critique mentioned....get this...Great Form!! Who would of known! lol! It also mentioned increasing her run. But we'll focus on the positive for now. Her first 9 and in vault nontheless!
Then it was off to bars. Her bars were great 4 months ago but lately has been very inconsistent with her very evil mill circle and dismount. Well she started her routine. Everything looked good until she did an extra cast before her shoot thru. She has never done that at practice. She told me after the meet that she doesn't know what she was thinking. I personally think she had some hestiation on the shoot thru and tried to buy herself more time....lol. The rountine was pretty good otherwise for her and she scored an 8.45 which was good for a 6th place tie. Critique mention big deduction for adding an element and archy casts (which is a bad habit she developed at old gym and still trying to correct).
Last but not least was beam. Beam was a big surprise too! She normally looks so good up there but not at this meet. She was wobbly from the very beginning. Never quite seemed to find her balance. She looked like she forgot her routine half way through it and fell on her dismount. She mounted the beam again and just tried to get over not sure that counted for anything other than more deductions. She scored and an extrememly low....7.1
ooch! Didn't think it was that bad! Of course she did not place. She ended 7th AA and her team took 1st! She was extremely happy and proud! The whole team went out for lunch and it was a great day!
Coaches talked to the parents and said there is still lots of work to do but they were proud! Olivia will not admit to disappointment but I know she will turn it around at gym. Competing usually acts as a great motivator and she will work harder. Coach is also rewarding every girl that scores a 9.5 or higher a free leotard of their choosing. This morning she said she IS getting a leotard. I told her well then you know what you must do...to which she responded work harder and focus.
I am uploading her videos now and will have them posted ASAP!! Thank you all for sending vault fairy. Now we need beam fairy at the next meet.
She started on floor. This is by far her favorite event. She looked really good to me, but of course I am her mama. I saw a few mistakes but apparently there were many because she only scored an 8.225 which was good for 6th place in her age group 6-8 year olds. Her team mates took 1st and 2nd. The critique mentioned form issue, bent legs, bent arms etc. (basically everything but no large deductions just small)
Next up was her nemesis......vault! Now I mentioned earlier that our goal was to just get over and score. At training she is famous for running into the mats over and over again. At warm up she was looking good but of course coach was there lightly helping. She was first up, ran with her usual baby steps but had a good approach to the spring board and did a decent vault with little pike. She scored a.....get this.....9.125. 3rd highest in her team and good for 4th in her age group. Her critique mentioned....get this...Great Form!! Who would of known! lol! It also mentioned increasing her run. But we'll focus on the positive for now. Her first 9 and in vault nontheless!
Then it was off to bars. Her bars were great 4 months ago but lately has been very inconsistent with her very evil mill circle and dismount. Well she started her routine. Everything looked good until she did an extra cast before her shoot thru. She has never done that at practice. She told me after the meet that she doesn't know what she was thinking. I personally think she had some hestiation on the shoot thru and tried to buy herself more time....lol. The rountine was pretty good otherwise for her and she scored an 8.45 which was good for a 6th place tie. Critique mention big deduction for adding an element and archy casts (which is a bad habit she developed at old gym and still trying to correct).
Last but not least was beam. Beam was a big surprise too! She normally looks so good up there but not at this meet. She was wobbly from the very beginning. Never quite seemed to find her balance. She looked like she forgot her routine half way through it and fell on her dismount. She mounted the beam again and just tried to get over not sure that counted for anything other than more deductions. She scored and an extrememly low....7.1
ooch! Didn't think it was that bad! Of course she did not place. She ended 7th AA and her team took 1st! She was extremely happy and proud! The whole team went out for lunch and it was a great day! Coaches talked to the parents and said there is still lots of work to do but they were proud! Olivia will not admit to disappointment but I know she will turn it around at gym. Competing usually acts as a great motivator and she will work harder. Coach is also rewarding every girl that scores a 9.5 or higher a free leotard of their choosing. This morning she said she IS getting a leotard. I told her well then you know what you must do...to which she responded work harder and focus.
I am uploading her videos now and will have them posted ASAP!! Thank you all for sending vault fairy. Now we need beam fairy at the next meet.
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