- Jan 17, 2008
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Finally - 1st meet of the season.. I can't believe it took so long to get here! After the injury prone fall Beetle had, I was really nervous for her this meet. I knew she wanted to have a good meet, as a 2nd year level 8. She has worked so hard to come back from these injuries. A few months back judges from our state sent emails to all coaches explaining they would be tighening up some scoring this year. We saw it too.. LOTS of 7's out there.. very few 9's.. but if you got one, you deserved it!
Onto the meet -
Much to Beetle's dismay she started on beam. Arg.. I think the fairies detoured south for warmer weather. She didn't get connection for her flight then Fell on her bwo. On the bright side - gorgeous switch leap. Stuck the dismount - 7.45.
Floor - She really is poised out there and knows how to show it off. She was a little piked in her full twist and had some bent knees in her front lay out. The judges seemed to like it! 9.15!
Vault - a week ago she balked on her Tsuk's. So her coach had her stop working them onto competition mat and had her work handsprings all week long. She was very upset a Handspring is a 9.0 start value at L8. Not to mention she hasn't competed a Handspring in 2 years. Well well well what do you know.. the kid knows how to Handspring after all - Stuck it COLD! 8.575 (and like some very bright people have said.. the Stuck handspring scored better than many bad tsuk's)
Bars - She had some really nice routine's in warm ups. I was hoping she would be able to do one of those for the judges. She was close..She did kip Cast to HS And just sat there... after a couple years (or seconds) she turned the pirouette. but tapped her feet on the kip. Didn't quite hit Handstand one her cast before her clear hip but did before her giants stuck the landing. Score.. 8.35
And guess what ladies and gents... That is good enough to qualify her for State! WOO HOO! What a relief to get that done in the first meet!
One thing that some of us mom's were complaining about for this meet is the really large age groups. There were 35 kids in Beetle's age group. They went out 10 places for medals (Bog - it felt like we were in Canada!
)
Beetle received a 10th place medal for vault finished in a 8th place tie for floor she got the 9th Place Medal.
She finished 15th in the All Around with a 33.525. She was Happy to qualify for state. She thinks she could have had a much better day, I am trying to keep her focusing on the positives!
We had a great time with Gym Monkey's Mom and her DD at the college meet the night before the meet. So fun!!!
Onto the meet -
Much to Beetle's dismay she started on beam. Arg.. I think the fairies detoured south for warmer weather. She didn't get connection for her flight then Fell on her bwo. On the bright side - gorgeous switch leap. Stuck the dismount - 7.45.
Floor - She really is poised out there and knows how to show it off. She was a little piked in her full twist and had some bent knees in her front lay out. The judges seemed to like it! 9.15!
Vault - a week ago she balked on her Tsuk's. So her coach had her stop working them onto competition mat and had her work handsprings all week long. She was very upset a Handspring is a 9.0 start value at L8. Not to mention she hasn't competed a Handspring in 2 years. Well well well what do you know.. the kid knows how to Handspring after all - Stuck it COLD! 8.575 (and like some very bright people have said.. the Stuck handspring scored better than many bad tsuk's)
Bars - She had some really nice routine's in warm ups. I was hoping she would be able to do one of those for the judges. She was close..She did kip Cast to HS And just sat there... after a couple years (or seconds) she turned the pirouette. but tapped her feet on the kip. Didn't quite hit Handstand one her cast before her clear hip but did before her giants stuck the landing. Score.. 8.35
And guess what ladies and gents... That is good enough to qualify her for State! WOO HOO! What a relief to get that done in the first meet!
One thing that some of us mom's were complaining about for this meet is the really large age groups. There were 35 kids in Beetle's age group. They went out 10 places for medals (Bog - it felt like we were in Canada!
)Beetle received a 10th place medal for vault finished in a 8th place tie for floor she got the 9th Place Medal.
She finished 15th in the All Around with a 33.525. She was Happy to qualify for state. She thinks she could have had a much better day, I am trying to keep her focusing on the positives!
We had a great time with Gym Monkey's Mom and her DD at the college meet the night before the meet. So fun!!!
The last meet that dd was in had only (10) 9s awarded the entire session for all of the events. Those that came to 8 because of the watering down are really getting dinged. I'm actually happy to see that, not the dinging, but the higher standards that the judges want to see.
