Just wanted to take a quick minute to THANK YOU all for your advice, stories and posts about DD's not so great meet. I truly appreciate you all taking the time to respond with such encouragment & it means so much to me. I guess I get so frustrated when SHE gets frustrated. After that meet I felt like we were going backwards. I am glad she is not like me, I would have thrown the towel in by now with gymnastics and this schedule. I know she is trying hard and I know it doesn't come easy for her. I know it hurts when teamates outscore her. I know this season it will happen often, we are up against girls who have repeated L5 or come from gyms that are just more compatative than ours is. I actually picked this new gym for that reason (less compatative and less $$) and I know she will do another season of L5. Even if we stayed at old gym she would have done another year at L5 so it is nothing I didn't know. For those of you that remember the story of her falling off bars (thanks for reminding me!) at her first L4 meet (2 yrs ago) and LOL thru the routine, she did the SAME thing at the IGC meet on the beam. She just wasn't focused and DH and her brother may have just been too close to the beam so she was distracted. Anyway, she LOL both times she came off. Yes. I love that she can LOL at herself and her mistakes, but this new coach did not find it funny (UGH!) at all.
This weekend is sectionals and we are again up against some of the bigger and better L5 teams of the state. One team was at the IGC camp meet w/us and will just blast us in scores. We are still taking baby steps, just telling her to try for the 32AA so we don't have to go to the other 2 sectionals. She told me today on the way to the gym that at practice this week she had awesome vaults and she is trying for a 9. I told her try for just 8's this weekend! And, if we don't make it we can try again next month. I guess as a parent you just want them to achieve at a meet what they have spent so many hours at the gym practicing. We are not looking for big scores, just trying to keep up with the team. She is not the worst on the team, several do not have kip and can't even go to L5 sectionals yet. Some have opted to go to the L4 open sectional so they can at least compete at a state meet even if it isn't the L5 state meet yet. So she has come a long way and should get easier as she does the routines more and more. I will keep you posted on our outcome this weekend, good or bad, we are still very proud of her determination.
This weekend is sectionals and we are again up against some of the bigger and better L5 teams of the state. One team was at the IGC camp meet w/us and will just blast us in scores. We are still taking baby steps, just telling her to try for the 32AA so we don't have to go to the other 2 sectionals. She told me today on the way to the gym that at practice this week she had awesome vaults and she is trying for a 9. I told her try for just 8's this weekend! And, if we don't make it we can try again next month. I guess as a parent you just want them to achieve at a meet what they have spent so many hours at the gym practicing. We are not looking for big scores, just trying to keep up with the team. She is not the worst on the team, several do not have kip and can't even go to L5 sectionals yet. Some have opted to go to the L4 open sectional so they can at least compete at a state meet even if it isn't the L5 state meet yet. So she has come a long way and should get easier as she does the routines more and more. I will keep you posted on our outcome this weekend, good or bad, we are still very proud of her determination.
