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So Liv had her third meet of the season. It was also Halloween themed with lots of candy and goodie bags. Liv had a blast!!!
Here's the valuable lesson I learned: No lotion before competitions!
DD skin was dry and I applied lotion all over her body. Big mistake! While she was warming up on bars the first time she fell out of her backhip circle (very unusual!). Her second time up she did the same thing! Her coach puts her back on the bar and she tries again and this time flies over the bars and does a face plant on the mats. HC grabs her by the wrist and marches straight towards me. I was still confused as to what was going on. HC asks me if she has lotion all over her body and we proceed to wipe her down with baby wipes. When it actually counted she did a great bar rountine but did not quite make her mill circle. That was ok, though.
Then it was off to floor. She has really improved on floor. She's alot tighter, pointier, and less wobbly. Well at compeition she did something that I have never seen her do before. She falls on her butt landing her roundoff. I don't know if it was too powerful, it was the sugar, but she recovered nicely and continued her routine. Not her best!
On beam she did great except for a major bobble coming down from her handstand which is also very unlike her. All in all it was not her best meet but she was thrilled because she received her first trophy.
Here is her video: YouTube - Level 3 Age 5 Meet 10/26/08
Here's the valuable lesson I learned: No lotion before competitions!
DD skin was dry and I applied lotion all over her body. Big mistake! While she was warming up on bars the first time she fell out of her backhip circle (very unusual!). Her second time up she did the same thing! Her coach puts her back on the bar and she tries again and this time flies over the bars and does a face plant on the mats. HC grabs her by the wrist and marches straight towards me. I was still confused as to what was going on. HC asks me if she has lotion all over her body and we proceed to wipe her down with baby wipes. When it actually counted she did a great bar rountine but did not quite make her mill circle. That was ok, though.
Then it was off to floor. She has really improved on floor. She's alot tighter, pointier, and less wobbly. Well at compeition she did something that I have never seen her do before. She falls on her butt landing her roundoff. I don't know if it was too powerful, it was the sugar, but she recovered nicely and continued her routine. Not her best!
On beam she did great except for a major bobble coming down from her handstand which is also very unlike her. All in all it was not her best meet but she was thrilled because she received her first trophy.
Here is her video: YouTube - Level 3 Age 5 Meet 10/26/08
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