Lol! It was a wobbly mess of a landing, but she stayed on that darn beam!!! Believe it or not, the beam doesn't get my belly in a knot as much as bars do...she was afraid she was going to miss the squat on! It ended up being beautiful, but then the flyaway is terrifying too! It looked so good to start, her feet did land first, but she ended up on her butt! She said she let go too late? Oh well, good learning experience and she still got second on bars! Thanks everyone!
Xcel gold. The goal is to score out of 4/5 and start optionals in the fall. I think she could score out of 4 right now, except for the darn kip! And she has all the 5 skills but needs to polish FT and flyaway. Those are very new. Thanks!
And there is platinum and diamond too. I think diamond is about equal to level 7? Maybe 8?
Yes she gets skills in odd orders! She's working Giants on strap bar, but that darn kip!!! I'd call her a 4.5 I guess? Lol! That's why Xcel is nice actually. They can compete skills from different levels.
EXACTLY! I was going to say that actually, that I bet at some of you guys' gyms that is exactly what would happen and she'd be bored stiff. Clearly that kip needs to be SOLID before she starts optionals (right now it's 2 MAYBE 3/10! Ouch!) but I love that she can experience learning and competing these bigger skills while working on her nemesis...HC told me she hit a layout of the floor the other day! And yes, I'm quite sure you're in a much more competative area than us. It's NCAA men's bball or bust around here! LOL! I keep teasing my husband that we'll have to move to Texas..haha! Thank you for the good mojo!
