This week I accomplished...

[katy]

connected two full bar routines! super bad form on the second half, and i bent me legs so the didn't tap the ground after my straddle back. please tell me routines get easier.
i'm getting a floor routine in two weeks. i can't wait.

 

[grizzoline]

Routines do get a lot easier... just getting used to the connections. Though I still have a hard time doing toe shoots out of a connection

 

[katy]

very happy with practice this week. i was looking for C dance on beam and i learned a leap 1/2 and a wolf 1/2. i even did them on the medium beam. it isn't big enough yet, but i was very pleased because we never did any jumps with twist when i was younger. we never even did split jumps or wolfs. it was sassones(sp?) and pike jumps.
also tried a whip on floor. haven't done that since i was playing around in L8! i think i might want that for my two salto pass.
bar routines still really take it out of me. the form totally falls apart on the high bar, and then i have to catch my breath.

 

[nicci1999]

I think I got my FHS back YAY! Bars is still pretty inconsistent, but I did a few vaults with my pike virtually gone, and I think I may be getting the hang of doing a "proper" handstand on beam. I used to just almost jump into it, now I am doing it with more control, even though its nowhere close to vertical anymore. Aw well, better to correct it now I guess.

 

[teena82]

This week I accomplished ripping in the same spot for the 4th time in the last 6 weeks while working my kip. I even ripped through the tape I used on it. Good news is I've actually started shifting my wrists and re-gripping but my right hand seems to always go before my left. Perhaps that's why I keep ripping my right hand. I've been putting it off but I think I'm going to start using my grips next week.

I didn't post it last week but I finally got my SBH. Now I need to get over my fear of connecting it to my round-off.

--Teena--

 

[Geoffrey Taucer]

All of a sudden, my cross on rings is consistant, flat, and.... not all that hard.

Two weeks ago I could barely hold one slightly above horizontal for three seconds. Yesterday I held one for an easy eight seconds, and could hold a conversation while doing so.

(I'm still false-gripping it pretty majorly, but I'm going to spend the next couple months trying to get it without a false grip)

 

[GikiGirl]

So followup about my blind changes, I made at least one at the three practices I had after first getting it last month, so it wasn't just one of those 'luck' things that I didn't really have. However, I won't be able to practice for awhile, because I had to have another abdominal surgery last month. In about 6 months from now I am going to have additional surgery so just when I might be ready to return to the gym I will be out again. i am going to do what working out I can on the side as I am able and get back into it as soon as I can. Right now I am just limited to walking and gentle stretching. So that's why you guys won't see me posting to this thread in the near future. It's fun to read everyone's accomplishments! I so wish more adults would do gymnastics so it would be easier for us to have good training situations!

 

[katy]

i learned for the aau level 8, that there is no point in doing C dance skills because they are only counted as B's. they are looking for form. so i changed all of my C's back to B's. and low and behold, routines are a lot easier.
i made two kip cast handstands on the high bar on tuesday!!!
did my cartwheel bhs on high beam (kind of). we had three 8 inchers stacked up underneath.
lets start a new thread for accomplishments in 2010. this one is getting really long..

 

[nicci1999]

Agreed here Katy. Awesome to hear your routines are going as well as they are!!! I have started working on FHC, and kipping drills, as well as continuing squat on drills. Cartwheel on beam is feeling pretty confident, handstand still not so much b/c of the double jointed shoulder. Also working drills for FHS on vault as well(real FHS over vault lol)

 

[katy]

to anyone who subscribes to this link and doesn't check the adult forum often....
we have started a new 2010 accomplishments thread. join us there to track everyone's progress