Gymmonkeymomma
Proud Parent
Good news is that Little Monkey qualified for Sectionals.
The frustration news.....and meet report:
First off, it seems that scoring is tougher in the southern part of the state - maybe Granny Smith can comment. This was our first invitational meet that was "down south" but it seemed across the board the scores were low.
Bars was first. You all know about LM's issues with jumping to HB. The past 2 wks she's been doing great and then Friday and Sat before the meet she just shut down at practice. She had 2 diff coaches (not the regular one who works with her on bars) and they had different settings and she was all in a tizzy. I knew it was not going to be pretty. During warmup she kept missing the squat on/jump. You could see she was not even trying. And she did not once do her dismount. She was last up for our team. Squat on- fall, climbed up, pathetic little attempt did not even touch HB, another fall, coach puts her up and then SPOTS HER on the layout flyaway!! I was in shock b/c I've seen her do the dismount 100 times!! So let's see, 2 falls, a spot, missing skill - 6.1
Beam - she attempted ONE bwo and fell off, feet never touched during warmups. Everything else looked good. During the routine. BWO, falls off to side, gets up tries again falls again. Everything else was ok with a wobble or 2. Two falls and missing skill - 7.0
FX - decent routine but during her split she PUT HER LEFT HAND DOWN ON THE FLOOR....WHAAAAAT?? UGH. 8.4 but good enough to tie for 3rd.
Now we're sweating it out because she needs 8.5 to qualify. Both decent vault attempts, first one better than 2nd. 8.65 for AA 30.25.
For her age group which normally is 7 to 9, this meet was 8-10. First place was "only 34.xx" and 2nd place was 32.xx - so if you add back in the falls, the spot, the missed skills she would have done pretty well.
LM was happy as a clam and asked if she could have a new leo (hmmm, NO)... it was a long day and a 2 hr ride home ahead of us. On the way we talked about beam and I asked why she thought she kept missing the BWO when she had done them so beautifully at practice for weeks. She says that in the gym they keep a mat under the high beam and yesterday (at the meet) was the first time she didn't have a mat and she was afraid she was going to fall. I'm thinking that was NOT the time to yank the mat, shouldn't she have been practicing w/o it at least for a few days??? :shocked: And the layout - DD said that she hit her feet the day before and was afraid of hitting them again so she asked for the spot.
The frustration news.....and meet report:
First off, it seems that scoring is tougher in the southern part of the state - maybe Granny Smith can comment. This was our first invitational meet that was "down south" but it seemed across the board the scores were low.
Bars was first. You all know about LM's issues with jumping to HB. The past 2 wks she's been doing great and then Friday and Sat before the meet she just shut down at practice. She had 2 diff coaches (not the regular one who works with her on bars) and they had different settings and she was all in a tizzy. I knew it was not going to be pretty. During warmup she kept missing the squat on/jump. You could see she was not even trying. And she did not once do her dismount. She was last up for our team. Squat on- fall, climbed up, pathetic little attempt did not even touch HB, another fall, coach puts her up and then SPOTS HER on the layout flyaway!! I was in shock b/c I've seen her do the dismount 100 times!! So let's see, 2 falls, a spot, missing skill - 6.1
Beam - she attempted ONE bwo and fell off, feet never touched during warmups. Everything else looked good. During the routine. BWO, falls off to side, gets up tries again falls again. Everything else was ok with a wobble or 2. Two falls and missing skill - 7.0
FX - decent routine but during her split she PUT HER LEFT HAND DOWN ON THE FLOOR....WHAAAAAT?? UGH. 8.4 but good enough to tie for 3rd.
Now we're sweating it out because she needs 8.5 to qualify. Both decent vault attempts, first one better than 2nd. 8.65 for AA 30.25.
For her age group which normally is 7 to 9, this meet was 8-10. First place was "only 34.xx" and 2nd place was 32.xx - so if you add back in the falls, the spot, the missed skills she would have done pretty well.
LM was happy as a clam and asked if she could have a new leo (hmmm, NO)... it was a long day and a 2 hr ride home ahead of us. On the way we talked about beam and I asked why she thought she kept missing the BWO when she had done them so beautifully at practice for weeks. She says that in the gym they keep a mat under the high beam and yesterday (at the meet) was the first time she didn't have a mat and she was afraid she was going to fall. I'm thinking that was NOT the time to yank the mat, shouldn't she have been practicing w/o it at least for a few days??? :shocked: And the layout - DD said that she hit her feet the day before and was afraid of hitting them again so she asked for the spot.