Granny Smith
Proud Parent
Dd competed this past Sunday. Definitely not her best meet, but we had still had fun! We drove down on Saturday and got there just in time to go meet up with her teammates and we went out to dinner. The girls had a great time and just enjoyed hanging, as did us parents.
Report time on Sunday was 10:35, funny time - not 10:30, not 10:40, but 10:35.... anyways!
Dd had 34 girls in her age group - yes, 34, that's quite the number! I think for awards they either went out 11 or 12 places. Dd once again started on floor.
Floor - I thought her floor routine was on par with what she usually does. She said that she liked the floor, she thought that it was fairly bouncy and that she got good height on her tumbling - I'll agree with that. Her score was 9.35. Since it was the very beginning of the meet, I wasn't sure how this score would do. I tried to look up at the score board every now and then and it seemed that she was holding. She ended up with 2nd place.
Vault - Vault was going to be pretty tense this meet because 2 of our girls were flipping the Yurchenko for the 1st time. Dd's warm up was not good at all. She starts to unravel. She's getting upset and HC takes her to the side and has a talk with her. This is the exact reason why dd is doing 8 and not 9 - mental reasons! When things are going her way and she has control, she is amazing. When things are not going her way, she starts to panic. She did both vaults and landed on her feet for both of them, first vault was much better and I think that is what she was scored on. Her score 8.6 - gulp, kinda low, yikes!!! No placement - just missed though, so no biggie!
Bars - How could she top the last meets routine??? Well, she couldn't. I think she was still crazed from vault. She casted up to do pirouette, had to come back down and kip cast again, she got her pirouette in that time, it was decent, but I know she was just trying to get it done. She squats, jumps to HB goes to do clear hip, hits first HS, clear hips and then peels off the bar (just like she did so many times last year!) She gets back up finishes with her 2 giants and flyaway. Her score was 8.65 - oh well, bummer! Funny thing is even with the fall she placed 7th.
Beam - last again! Now beam really confused me. She finally hit a routine, no falls, some bobbles here and there, but a good solid routine. Her score really surprised me, I guess I thought it should of been higher - she got an 8.625 which was good enough for 7th place. I was kinda bummed though, she's scored higher this year with falls. I don't know, maybe I'm just being mom and thought it was better than it really was!
AA - 35.225, she placed 6th. When we went to awards was the first time I got a chance to talk to her and she said she did really bad. I told her that I didn't think so, that scores were pretty low all around for the whole meet, wait and see. I think she is encouraged and is making lemonade out of lemons because she said to me yesterday that she did not have a good meet and that she was still able to pull off 6th place (out of 34 girls no less). I said you are exactly right. We did have a conversation about how she can not let vault or any event for that matter get to her. She has to believe in herself and stay glued together. I honestly think that her mind is her biggest challenge in the sport of gymnastics, it's not her skills, she can achieve skills, but she can not always win the battle of the brain!
Next meet, this Sunday - it's the 1st Sectional. Not really concerned how she does as long as she makes a 32 AA. Haven't put the video together yet, will soon and then I'll get it posted!
Report time on Sunday was 10:35, funny time - not 10:30, not 10:40, but 10:35.... anyways!
Dd had 34 girls in her age group - yes, 34, that's quite the number! I think for awards they either went out 11 or 12 places. Dd once again started on floor.
Floor - I thought her floor routine was on par with what she usually does. She said that she liked the floor, she thought that it was fairly bouncy and that she got good height on her tumbling - I'll agree with that. Her score was 9.35. Since it was the very beginning of the meet, I wasn't sure how this score would do. I tried to look up at the score board every now and then and it seemed that she was holding. She ended up with 2nd place.
Vault - Vault was going to be pretty tense this meet because 2 of our girls were flipping the Yurchenko for the 1st time. Dd's warm up was not good at all. She starts to unravel. She's getting upset and HC takes her to the side and has a talk with her. This is the exact reason why dd is doing 8 and not 9 - mental reasons! When things are going her way and she has control, she is amazing. When things are not going her way, she starts to panic. She did both vaults and landed on her feet for both of them, first vault was much better and I think that is what she was scored on. Her score 8.6 - gulp, kinda low, yikes!!! No placement - just missed though, so no biggie!
Bars - How could she top the last meets routine??? Well, she couldn't. I think she was still crazed from vault. She casted up to do pirouette, had to come back down and kip cast again, she got her pirouette in that time, it was decent, but I know she was just trying to get it done. She squats, jumps to HB goes to do clear hip, hits first HS, clear hips and then peels off the bar (just like she did so many times last year!) She gets back up finishes with her 2 giants and flyaway. Her score was 8.65 - oh well, bummer! Funny thing is even with the fall she placed 7th.
Beam - last again! Now beam really confused me. She finally hit a routine, no falls, some bobbles here and there, but a good solid routine. Her score really surprised me, I guess I thought it should of been higher - she got an 8.625 which was good enough for 7th place. I was kinda bummed though, she's scored higher this year with falls. I don't know, maybe I'm just being mom and thought it was better than it really was!
AA - 35.225, she placed 6th. When we went to awards was the first time I got a chance to talk to her and she said she did really bad. I told her that I didn't think so, that scores were pretty low all around for the whole meet, wait and see. I think she is encouraged and is making lemonade out of lemons because she said to me yesterday that she did not have a good meet and that she was still able to pull off 6th place (out of 34 girls no less). I said you are exactly right. We did have a conversation about how she can not let vault or any event for that matter get to her. She has to believe in herself and stay glued together. I honestly think that her mind is her biggest challenge in the sport of gymnastics, it's not her skills, she can achieve skills, but she can not always win the battle of the brain!
Next meet, this Sunday - it's the 1st Sectional. Not really concerned how she does as long as she makes a 32 AA. Haven't put the video together yet, will soon and then I'll get it posted!
Mom, the big cheerleader here... 
