We weren't sure what we were doing up until this weekend. DD went to practice on Weds night and did some stuff on the the tumble trak and some conditioning. On Thursday night a judge was there to score their routines and give them advice on how to better their scores. Poor DD couldn't vault, tried doing bars but her brace kept getting in the way for the shoot thru so she never finished it or even landed it. Did some floor but ran thru where she was to do the ROBHS and again really wasn't able to benefit from the feedback except watch the other girls. Her foot becasme sore and she had to sit with it in the ice bucket which she HATED! Beam was horrible, she wobbled thru all of it and said she was scared she would re-injure herself. I tried to talk her out of the meet Thursday and Friday, since I was afraid she would be more upset with herself & what she was capable of doing with the broken foot. She insisted the foot was only sore after her practice on the floor and she wanted to go. We were supposed to get a lot of snow and were a little worried about the haul up north, but thankfully it wasn't too bad and only took us a little over an hour to get there. The game plan was to go until the coach saw any hint of pain on her face (she wouldn't have complained out loud) and then she was done. We prayed vault wasn't first. So here's how it went.
Coach was late! We had snow and ice the night before and I guess she hadn't planned on digging her car out. Our girls warmed themselves up and when she got there and told them "handstand forward rolls" they argued "but coach we did that already" and she said "well do it again" (LOL). Dd seemed OK and the first rotation was floor. Our highest score this season was 9.1 and we were not expecting anything big after not really practicing too much in 3 weeks. She was AMAZING! I thought she wasn't paying attention to coaches and judge on Thursday, but she kept legs tight and had the best leaps and handstand roll of the whole season. She got a 9.1! I was crying, that was totally unexpected. Up next was.....wait....were they really walking over to vault? Oh, no! All the girls practiced. DD took one practice run and that was it. The plan was to go cold turkey w/no practice as they didn't want her to do anything extra that could re-injure it. Her vault was good from where I was seated but not super good on the score. She really hesitated on the run and it killed her. probably the lowest score in 2 years, 8.8. Bars was next and we took her brace off so it wouldn't cause her to hit the bars like last week on the shoot thru. She warmed up a little with no landings. It was not her best, a little clumsey, but an 8.650 with a painful landing. Ironically we thought vault would hurt more, but it was the landing off bars that caused her some pain. She wasn't showing any pain she off to beam they went. I just have to say that I am still in awe of her beam. It was beautiful and the best routine I have ever seen from my beam challenged daughter. It was a 10 in my eyes! I still can not believe how well she did. She had a couple wobbles and played it safe on the one footed leap and then the 2 jumps, but she help her handstand beautifully (and LONG) and then did a perfect (long handsatnd hold here too) dismount! I was thinking a score of at least 9, but sadly the competetion (will talk about this laster) was killer and scores would out of this universe for other teams who scored 9.8' and even higher in this session. I guess next to all that, DD's beam wasn't really all that and only got a 8.625. When DH gets the video up you can watch and decide, LOL
So, awards....well, in dd session there were 7/8 open. Open means you are a L4 re-peater. In this session there were several girls that were are 7 yr old TOPS team gymnasts listed on USAG site, girls we saw last year who scored 35's at states, and some girsl on their THIRD year of L4! There weer 7 records broken including some broken by the saem girls who broke the record LAST YEAR. My argument on this (for another post) is WHY is your DD is scoring 35, 36's and higher at states do you need to repeat? The scores were so high that the places ened at like a 9.3 meaning all the places were about 9.3 on up to the record breakers of 9.9 and 9.875. So, you can see that coming home w/a medal was probably not happening for us. Our team is not a bad team, we had some 9's but nothing over a 9.3 in our 7's or 8's. Some of these gyms were just so much better... my husband was upset that his DD's team was getting their @ss handed to them. OK, so Mariposa mom (if you are reading) he is like your DH now, LOL! But again, I like that our coach is sweet w/the girls and our gym is not overly competative. My DD loves the gym and thinks it fun and has a good time. We don't worry about scores like this. If she got a 31 she would still be going to L5. We sat by some parents from a gym that were complaining of their DD's scores, poor judging, even parents fighting with each other about their DD's scores..which were like 9.5's and higher. They even made negative comments about our scores because we only posted 8 somethings and a couple nines. I had to walk away, I was embarassed for them that they acted like this and it was only L4! Anyway, awards! They did seperate the 7's for 8's which was good. DD got a medal for floor! 7th place!!!! WOOHOO! She was very lucky as other 7's from her team and even the 8's hardly got anything. We thought all the girls did great and super proud of them all, but up against these other marathon L4 girls our 35's looked pretty pathetic. But, the fact that my DD got thru this and with the fractured foot, she is my hero. i cried the whole day and think anything she does is amazing but her heart and courage make me so proud. More than the score, she was a true champion!
Scores:
Floor 9.1 (7th)
Bars 8.650
Vault 8.8
Beam 8.625
AA 35.175 (12th I think)
Could not even get pictures on the podium since all the other parents were hogging the front area and we couldn't get anywhere near the front.
And now we take a mommy mandatory break for a week to rest that foot!
Coach was late! We had snow and ice the night before and I guess she hadn't planned on digging her car out. Our girls warmed themselves up and when she got there and told them "handstand forward rolls" they argued "but coach we did that already" and she said "well do it again" (LOL). Dd seemed OK and the first rotation was floor. Our highest score this season was 9.1 and we were not expecting anything big after not really practicing too much in 3 weeks. She was AMAZING! I thought she wasn't paying attention to coaches and judge on Thursday, but she kept legs tight and had the best leaps and handstand roll of the whole season. She got a 9.1! I was crying, that was totally unexpected. Up next was.....wait....were they really walking over to vault? Oh, no! All the girls practiced. DD took one practice run and that was it. The plan was to go cold turkey w/no practice as they didn't want her to do anything extra that could re-injure it. Her vault was good from where I was seated but not super good on the score. She really hesitated on the run and it killed her. probably the lowest score in 2 years, 8.8. Bars was next and we took her brace off so it wouldn't cause her to hit the bars like last week on the shoot thru. She warmed up a little with no landings. It was not her best, a little clumsey, but an 8.650 with a painful landing. Ironically we thought vault would hurt more, but it was the landing off bars that caused her some pain. She wasn't showing any pain she off to beam they went. I just have to say that I am still in awe of her beam. It was beautiful and the best routine I have ever seen from my beam challenged daughter. It was a 10 in my eyes! I still can not believe how well she did. She had a couple wobbles and played it safe on the one footed leap and then the 2 jumps, but she help her handstand beautifully (and LONG) and then did a perfect (long handsatnd hold here too) dismount! I was thinking a score of at least 9, but sadly the competetion (will talk about this laster) was killer and scores would out of this universe for other teams who scored 9.8' and even higher in this session. I guess next to all that, DD's beam wasn't really all that and only got a 8.625. When DH gets the video up you can watch and decide, LOL
So, awards....well, in dd session there were 7/8 open. Open means you are a L4 re-peater. In this session there were several girls that were are 7 yr old TOPS team gymnasts listed on USAG site, girls we saw last year who scored 35's at states, and some girsl on their THIRD year of L4! There weer 7 records broken including some broken by the saem girls who broke the record LAST YEAR. My argument on this (for another post) is WHY is your DD is scoring 35, 36's and higher at states do you need to repeat? The scores were so high that the places ened at like a 9.3 meaning all the places were about 9.3 on up to the record breakers of 9.9 and 9.875. So, you can see that coming home w/a medal was probably not happening for us. Our team is not a bad team, we had some 9's but nothing over a 9.3 in our 7's or 8's. Some of these gyms were just so much better... my husband was upset that his DD's team was getting their @ss handed to them. OK, so Mariposa mom (if you are reading) he is like your DH now, LOL! But again, I like that our coach is sweet w/the girls and our gym is not overly competative. My DD loves the gym and thinks it fun and has a good time. We don't worry about scores like this. If she got a 31 she would still be going to L5. We sat by some parents from a gym that were complaining of their DD's scores, poor judging, even parents fighting with each other about their DD's scores..which were like 9.5's and higher. They even made negative comments about our scores because we only posted 8 somethings and a couple nines. I had to walk away, I was embarassed for them that they acted like this and it was only L4! Anyway, awards! They did seperate the 7's for 8's which was good. DD got a medal for floor! 7th place!!!! WOOHOO! She was very lucky as other 7's from her team and even the 8's hardly got anything. We thought all the girls did great and super proud of them all, but up against these other marathon L4 girls our 35's looked pretty pathetic. But, the fact that my DD got thru this and with the fractured foot, she is my hero. i cried the whole day and think anything she does is amazing but her heart and courage make me so proud. More than the score, she was a true champion!
Scores:
Floor 9.1 (7th)
Bars 8.650
Vault 8.8
Beam 8.625
AA 35.175 (12th I think)
Could not even get pictures on the podium since all the other parents were hogging the front area and we couldn't get anywhere near the front.
And now we take a mommy mandatory break for a week to rest that foot!
