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This weekend we hosted our 9th Annual Universal International Invite. I've been so busy working to help make this happen. Firday night I helped set up and decorate till about 1:00am and enjoyed every minute of it. For the first time parents, and coaches hanging out laughing and enjoying ourselves. I had a blast. Of course though, I am exhausted from all the activities this weekend. We had teams attend from Michigan, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Brazil, Honduras, Peru to name a few. It was really nice for dd to see gymnast from other countries. It was very patriotic with flags instead of team names. Well dd competed on sunday morning.
I was very anxious for this meet because dd has really been working hard to receive her much needed and deserved 36AA. For the last 3 weeks or so she has been really focused, motivated and her form has really improved.
Well she started on beam and during warm up fell out of her handstand. She looked shocked and disappointed but managed to recover. Her beam rountine was great except maybe her dismount was not as vertical as it has been in training. All in all I thought she looked great! Very tight and crisp! She scored a 9.30 and placed 2nd.
Next up, floor. She has worked really hard to clean up her floor to receive her first 9. She had her best floor routine ever! There was not wobble or extra steps and she even nailed that dreaded leap. She has struggled with her leap all season. However she didn't quite hold her handstand long enough but still managed to receive her highest score on floor yet....a 9.2 and place 3rd.
Then it was off to vault-not one of her best events. Although she has received a 9.15 twice before. At warm up HC was re teaching her the vault. DD was practically doing a front tuck over the mats. HC was nervous and worked with her more so than any other girl. Finally when it counted she ran, jumped, rolled and stood so fast I couln't tell if it was good or bad. She scored a 9.15 (again for the third time-talk about consistency) and placed 3rd.
Finally, bars! DD has always had great potential in this event but for some reason or another has never received a 9. And since it was her last event I had noticed not a lot of 9's being given and was getting pretty nervous. I had already calculated she needed an 8.30 for her 36 so either way I was estatic. At warm up she kept missing her mill circle doing two instead of one. Her coach wouldn't let her off the bar until she nailed at least one. When it counted she had a beautiful bar with mill circle and all and received a 9.25 and placed 1st.
Her AA score was a 36.9 and placed first!! DD was so happy to receive her 36! She came up to me before awards to let me know about her 36 and had tears of happiness in her eyes. She said mama I am so happy, I am crying. I guess she was trying to understand why she was crying if she was happy. Her face and joy was priceless. After award she went outside and did ROBHSBHSBHS. It must of been all the adrenaline because they looked great!
So it looks like dd will be training with the level 4 starting tuesday. She is so estatic!
I have not uploaded the videos yet but I will post them as soon as I do.
I was very anxious for this meet because dd has really been working hard to receive her much needed and deserved 36AA. For the last 3 weeks or so she has been really focused, motivated and her form has really improved.
Well she started on beam and during warm up fell out of her handstand. She looked shocked and disappointed but managed to recover. Her beam rountine was great except maybe her dismount was not as vertical as it has been in training. All in all I thought she looked great! Very tight and crisp! She scored a 9.30 and placed 2nd.
Next up, floor. She has worked really hard to clean up her floor to receive her first 9. She had her best floor routine ever! There was not wobble or extra steps and she even nailed that dreaded leap. She has struggled with her leap all season. However she didn't quite hold her handstand long enough but still managed to receive her highest score on floor yet....a 9.2 and place 3rd.
Then it was off to vault-not one of her best events. Although she has received a 9.15 twice before. At warm up HC was re teaching her the vault. DD was practically doing a front tuck over the mats. HC was nervous and worked with her more so than any other girl. Finally when it counted she ran, jumped, rolled and stood so fast I couln't tell if it was good or bad. She scored a 9.15 (again for the third time-talk about consistency) and placed 3rd.
Finally, bars! DD has always had great potential in this event but for some reason or another has never received a 9. And since it was her last event I had noticed not a lot of 9's being given and was getting pretty nervous. I had already calculated she needed an 8.30 for her 36 so either way I was estatic. At warm up she kept missing her mill circle doing two instead of one. Her coach wouldn't let her off the bar until she nailed at least one. When it counted she had a beautiful bar with mill circle and all and received a 9.25 and placed 1st.
Her AA score was a 36.9 and placed first!! DD was so happy to receive her 36! She came up to me before awards to let me know about her 36 and had tears of happiness in her eyes. She said mama I am so happy, I am crying. I guess she was trying to understand why she was crying if she was happy. Her face and joy was priceless. After award she went outside and did ROBHSBHSBHS. It must of been all the adrenaline because they looked great!
So it looks like dd will be training with the level 4 starting tuesday. She is so estatic!
I have not uploaded the videos yet but I will post them as soon as I do.
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