Gymmonkeymomma
Proud Parent
Little Monkey was all pumped up for States. She has been working really hard with the coaches, tweaking everything, etc. She has been absorbing their lessons like a little sponge. That's why today was such a sad ending to an otherwise awesome season!
We had an 11:30am report time, so I figured we'd leave by 10:30 to get gas and get on the road for a 40 minute ride. At 10 am Tess discovered that her grip bag was not in her gym bag. Thankfully we were all ready to leave so we jumped in the car and ran to the gym - meanwhile I was texting the coaches, director, gym owner and his wife to see if the gym was even open. One coach texted back that she remembers seeing the bag in the bathroom yesterday. Seriously? ????? There could have been a mass text or email last night saying did anyone leave a grip bag since we had girls competing in 2 locations today! We got there, gym was open, it was in the bathroom, UGH.
I think there were 43 kids, they placed out 10 places.
This was the same venue that Blackie described, so 2 flights to each squad, alot of down time in between events.
First event - floor, she felt confident about the changes/corrections. A little bobble - 9.0 (10th place was 9.1).
Vault - run was good but took big step back. 8.9 (10th place was around 9.3 or 9.4)
Bars - during warmups of the first half of the squad there was a fire alarm pulled it was a long wait. Then she had to rush thru warmups -4 girls 4 settings each girl got 2 turns rather than being able to "share" the warmup time with someone else. Routine starts, arms a bit bent on kip but nice cast, she fell on squat on not once but twice - I'm sure she lost the skill too. 7.1 Bars placed out to around 9 so had she nailed it like she has done before, she probably would have placed.
Beam - rock solid beautiful routine right up to the dismount, where she just folded over out of her handstand, got up and fell backwards. WTF? She has never fallen out of her beam dismount, she is known for her strength!! 8.1. Probably would have place on beam too...but oh well.
All this she came away with smiles, gotta love this kid. We asked if she wanted to do level 6 again and try again at states and she said NO. She's done compulsories. I wish her last Level 6 meet would have ended better. I think AA 33.15 is her lowest all season.
She is excited to get to practice tomorrow and start working on new skills and routines! Level 7 here we come!
We had an 11:30am report time, so I figured we'd leave by 10:30 to get gas and get on the road for a 40 minute ride. At 10 am Tess discovered that her grip bag was not in her gym bag. Thankfully we were all ready to leave so we jumped in the car and ran to the gym - meanwhile I was texting the coaches, director, gym owner and his wife to see if the gym was even open. One coach texted back that she remembers seeing the bag in the bathroom yesterday. Seriously? ????? There could have been a mass text or email last night saying did anyone leave a grip bag since we had girls competing in 2 locations today! We got there, gym was open, it was in the bathroom, UGH.
I think there were 43 kids, they placed out 10 places.
This was the same venue that Blackie described, so 2 flights to each squad, alot of down time in between events.
First event - floor, she felt confident about the changes/corrections. A little bobble - 9.0 (10th place was 9.1).
Vault - run was good but took big step back. 8.9 (10th place was around 9.3 or 9.4)
Bars - during warmups of the first half of the squad there was a fire alarm pulled it was a long wait. Then she had to rush thru warmups -4 girls 4 settings each girl got 2 turns rather than being able to "share" the warmup time with someone else. Routine starts, arms a bit bent on kip but nice cast, she fell on squat on not once but twice - I'm sure she lost the skill too. 7.1 Bars placed out to around 9 so had she nailed it like she has done before, she probably would have placed.
Beam - rock solid beautiful routine right up to the dismount, where she just folded over out of her handstand, got up and fell backwards. WTF? She has never fallen out of her beam dismount, she is known for her strength!! 8.1. Probably would have place on beam too...but oh well.
All this she came away with smiles, gotta love this kid. We asked if she wanted to do level 6 again and try again at states and she said NO. She's done compulsories. I wish her last Level 6 meet would have ended better. I think AA 33.15 is her lowest all season.
She is excited to get to practice tomorrow and start working on new skills and routines! Level 7 here we come!