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So Baby Bog had her first meet today. I'll fill you in on the background. She is 9 and every year until this year there has been a category for her age group at our Avance level until this year. Two host clubs have decided that this will not continue and therefore for her first two meets BB is masqurading as an 11 year old and competing in the 11/12 yr old category under an assumed name. The last two meets have her category and they will do a sparate medal ceremony etc.
All that to say she was up against 30 girls, some of whom were enjoting their 3rd year at thhe Avance level. I am very proud of how she did. If they had separated the girls she wouldv've come 1st on floor, vault and tramp and 2nd on the other two.
First up beam, ick, she fell on her half turn pivot turn, she should've got back up and repeated the skill, she didn't, ooops. She finished the rest of the routine okay, even stuck the dreaded cartwheel. But she put her hand down after her dismoung. Two falls at 0.8 each plus 0.5 deduction for no turn. Still I was impressed.
Floor was next, I thought she did a lovely job on the whole, she got a decent score even though there were soem knobby knees there!
Trampoline, all the girls said the tramp was dead and they sure looked like it didn't bounce too much. She did okay and seemed happy ish with it. It is the first year for tramp to be part of our circuit regional and it is fun for the girls, but they do not spend a lot of time on practice.
Vault, let me just say how proud I am of her, she has NEVER gone over the vault alone at gym, just splatted. Well she got over it and was very happy. The first vault was very ugly, didn't upload that, she laughed as she landed as it was So bad. Her 2nd vault though she did a good job, not an awesome score at all, but still an acheivment to be proud of.
Bars was last, this is normally great for her, but she said the bars were like sandpaper and there was too much chalk on them. She fell off on her squat on, which never happens. She finished fine though.
I won't bother with the scores as they are not out of 10 and are bonus based and confusing. I have no idea how she did overall as they don't let us see them until later in the week.
All in all she is happy, she has one more tough meet like this, then her last two she will be in a very small group her age group and will have a chance to place on the podium.
So Baby Bog had her first meet today. I'll fill you in on the background. She is 9 and every year until this year there has been a category for her age group at our Avance level until this year. Two host clubs have decided that this will not continue and therefore for her first two meets BB is masqurading as an 11 year old and competing in the 11/12 yr old category under an assumed name. The last two meets have her category and they will do a sparate medal ceremony etc.
All that to say she was up against 30 girls, some of whom were enjoting their 3rd year at thhe Avance level. I am very proud of how she did. If they had separated the girls she wouldv've come 1st on floor, vault and tramp and 2nd on the other two.
First up beam, ick, she fell on her half turn pivot turn, she should've got back up and repeated the skill, she didn't, ooops. She finished the rest of the routine okay, even stuck the dreaded cartwheel. But she put her hand down after her dismoung. Two falls at 0.8 each plus 0.5 deduction for no turn. Still I was impressed.
Floor was next, I thought she did a lovely job on the whole, she got a decent score even though there were soem knobby knees there!
Trampoline, all the girls said the tramp was dead and they sure looked like it didn't bounce too much. She did okay and seemed happy ish with it. It is the first year for tramp to be part of our circuit regional and it is fun for the girls, but they do not spend a lot of time on practice.
Vault, let me just say how proud I am of her, she has NEVER gone over the vault alone at gym, just splatted. Well she got over it and was very happy. The first vault was very ugly, didn't upload that, she laughed as she landed as it was So bad. Her 2nd vault though she did a good job, not an awesome score at all, but still an acheivment to be proud of.
Bars was last, this is normally great for her, but she said the bars were like sandpaper and there was too much chalk on them. She fell off on her squat on, which never happens. She finished fine though.
I won't bother with the scores as they are not out of 10 and are bonus based and confusing. I have no idea how she did overall as they don't let us see them until later in the week.
All in all she is happy, she has one more tough meet like this, then her last two she will be in a very small group her age group and will have a chance to place on the podium.
