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April/May Training

2011-05-03T12:33:00.000-07:00

Since regionals is over we have finally started working new skills! Yay :) We have also been doing a lot of extra conditioning. Some of the new skills I am working on are double backs, bhs back layouts on beam, and toe shoots and toe to handstands on bars.

The biggest challange I am working on right now is the goal dismount on beam that my coach set. It's back handspring two foot backhandspring full. I have the back handspring two foot back handspring, and two foot back handspring layout, but I have to put them together and add a full.

Yerchenkos are going well except that I am crossing my foot over in my hurdle. (That kinda makes my vault funky :P) I doing a bunch of drills and it's slowly improving.

Well that's about all for now :)

State and Regionals

2011-04-13T11:35:00.000-07:00

State: It went well! I qualified for regionals and placed on vault, floor, and all around. Vault: 9.5 Bars: 9.1 Beam: 8.75 (Fell... AGAIN) Floor: 9.35 AA: 36.725 Regionals: I landed my bhs bhs! But then I fell on my full turn :P I was pretty upset. Vault: 9.4 Bars: 9.075 Beam: 8.6 Floor: 9.275 AA: 36.4

Alamo Classic

2011-03-13T18:06:00.000-07:00

On Saturday I had my last meet before state. It was a fun meet. Instead of medals they gave us a plaque and when we got called up for an award they gave us a sticker with our placing and the event name on it. I placed on every event and all around! This Sunday I have my state meet and If I place in the top 15 girls (I THINK... not sure :D) I will qualify for regionals which is next meet.

Vault: 9.45 (FIRST PLACE!!!) I messed up on my second vault but my first pike was pretty good.
Bars: 8.5 (7th Place) I messed up on my pirouette but other than that I was happy.
Beam: 8.725 (6th place) I fell on my bhs bhs
Floor: 9.4 (FIRST PLACE!!!) The floor was super bouncy but my legs were separated on my bhs... :( OOPS

AA: 36.075 (4th place)

Metroplex Challange

2011-01-31T10:13:00.000-08:00

This was a super fun meet! Another one of the team girls (Sami) and her mom came with us and we went and watched a college meet!!! It was a blast. We also all stayed in the same hotel and hung out for awhile Sunday morning before my meet. I competed at 12:00 and the level 7's competed at 5:30.

Vault: Not super great... I had my steps all mixed up. Score was a 9.0
Bars: It's getting a lot better, but my clear hip is killing me!! I can never get it all the way up to handstand. It always ends up about 3/4 of the way. Score 8.85
Beam: Fell on my bhs bhs again..... Other than that it was pretty clean. Score 8.6
Floor: I didn't have very high tumbling but it was still fun. I love floor! Score 9.05.

AA: 35.5

First Level 8 Meet

2011-01-16T13:57:00.000-08:00

Well I had my first level 8 meet yesterday. I was fairly happy with vault and floor, beam was okay, and bars went not so great :P

Here are my scores

Vault: 9.2
Bars: 7.025
Beam: 8.4
Floor: 9.2
Total: 33.825

I didn't get my clear hip to handstand (3 tenths off and no credit for my bonus b skill total of 1.3 points) and my cast handstand on high bar didn't hit vertical all the way (3 tenths off for handstand and no b so 1.3) I was really upset about that :(

I fell on my back handspring back handspring on beam and messed up on my full turn, but it was fairly clean.

Floor and vault were good, just technical things I need to fix. I qualified for state, so now I just need to work on my bars!! (Ugh)

Tsuk

2010-12-06T10:09:00.000-08:00

I am not sure if thats how you spell it but oh well :) We only have 5 weeks until our first meet and I still don't have a very powerful clean chanko pike, so my new coach is changing it to a tsuk pike. I love this vault!! It's a ton of fun! I will do a chanko for level 9 next year though.

AAGI

2010-11-18T07:24:00.000-08:00

Wow. This has been a crazy week. As some of my friends know, we had a coach quit, and a coach get fired. This has resulted in 15 girls (from level 5P-8) in one group, with one coach. This really doesn't work, so several girls from the optional team decided to try out a new gym. We went to AAGI on Monday, and worked out for several hours. Then we went back last night and tried it out again.

We have officially decided to switch. I love this gym sooooo much! The coaches are amazing (they actually COACH us, that's new) and the girls are super sweet. So we have 3 level 7's and two level 8's switching to this new gym. Pretty much the WHOLE optional team. There are several level 4 and 5 girls who are switching too.

My new schedule is 20 hours a week. Monday-Thursday 3:30-7:30 and Saturday from 9:00-1:00. I am not thrilled about practicing on Saturday but I am super excited. Dee, Am, Kay, Jazzy, and I are all going again tonight to start our new schedule. Sydney might also come and try it out tonight.

I am going to miss all my friends at my old gym, but it is time to move on and get better coaching. This gym will definitely help me in my goal of going elite, or doing gymnastics in college.

Up coming season

2010-11-02T16:31:00.000-07:00

As I posted in my lost blog I will be competing level 8. This was decided because my level 9 bars need work (hah!). So what I have been doing mostly is routines and then more routines. I am still doing a little bit of up training, but mostly focusing on form on the skills I already have.

Vault I have started working layouts (yurchenkos) into the pit, and even attempted twisting. I did a 1/2 but that was it :P I have my tuck and pike onto the hard ground which is what I will be competing.

Bars actually has improved SOOOOOO much. I am very happy!!! I can now do a consistent pirouette and a solid vertical straddle handstand on high bar. I have been working on a gienger into pit. Not actually doing it, but working on drills.

Beam is good, I have all my skills just need to work on landing them.

Floor is great. Need to work on getting leaps and tumbling higher. I have worked on some front handspring front layout front tucks on tramp, and I will hopefully move them to the floor tomorrow.

Competition Level and Skills

2010-10-14T10:27:00.000-07:00

This week was a really good and bad week :P One of the coaches who worked with level 5P's got fired. Soooooo all the 5P's (all 10 of them....) are coming with the optional girls. Now we have 18 girls for one coach. (who is only 18!) It is very crazy and we aren't getting much coaching. (Optional girls) But the skills this week were great.

My vault has gotten a lot better, I have gotten to where I can land 4 out of 5 yerchanko pikes! Yay. Bars is still my weakest event but I finally have a consistent routine. Beam I have been landing my back handspring back handspring a lot more, and I got a new mount. Floor is great. Just working on cleaning up my dance and getting my tumbling higher.

On Monday the coaches told us what level we would be competing and what level we would be training next year. Even though I already qualified for level 9, I am going to compete level 8 because of my bars. I will keep training level 9 this year and compete it next year and next summer I will start training for level 10. (YAY... Very exciting!!)

So thats about it except that we had a conditioning and flexibility test. (Sorta like TOPS, except its just within our gym and if you fall you have to do conditioning/flexibility for an hour) I passed both of those so I get to work with the level 4's and 5's on the routines since they have district next week.

Full in!

2010-08-19T05:20:00.000-07:00

I got my full in!!!! I was so excited!!! (That is a double back with a full twist on the first flip) It is on bars and in the pit, but I was still really happy. I will try to get a video of it really soon. The second flip is low, and you can't really see it because the girl was lying down a whale mat and cut of the ending :P

On beam I got a consistent bhs back tuck, and I am flipping my yurchanko pikes a lot higher. Floor I am starting to land SOME double fulls, and bars I am working over shoots, toe shoots, and clear hip handstands to giants.

My coach hasn't decided whether I will be competing level 8 or level 9, but hopefully I will know soon. I should know by the end of September.

Summer Training

2010-08-08T14:04:00.001-07:00

Summer training is almost over!!! But really our optional team will continue "summer" training until the end of October, even though its not summer. This summer has been very productive. I have gotten my switch leap, straddle jump, back tuck on beam. My yurchanko pike on vault, my double pike on tramp, and have started learning double backs of bars as well as blind changes and front giants.

That is what I have been mostly working on. I also recently got my double full on floor but I cannot land it :P which is a problem lol.

Meet Results

2010-08-05T11:28:00.000-07:00

Vault: Competed a pike yurchanko, 8.7

Bars: Fell on pireoutte, 7.8

Beam: Fell on bhs bhs, 8.4

Floor: 9.1

All around: 34.00, would have been a 35 without the falls :P =)

Over all I was pretty pleased. I have a lot to work on but now I am uptraining for level 9 the rest of the summer. We will start working routines again around November.

Wrong blog...

2010-07-15T15:12:00.000-07:00

I accidently put my post on my other blog... oops! LOL. I can't figure out how to transfer it, so here is the link. www.reesrejoicings.blogspot.com Or you can just click here.

Pictures of Karolyi's

2010-06-21T08:28:00.001-07:00

Karolyi's Camp

2010-06-20T18:11:00.000-07:00

Well Karolyi's camp was amazing!! =D It was so much fun! The coaches are really funny.... like really really super goofy. My favorite coaches were Kris and Firgy (A.K.A Chad). Geo was a cabin counselor, she was really nice. My cabin, (6A) was consisted mostly of J&R girls. I had a really good time getting to know them better.

A few of the skills I worked on were, toe shoots on bar, front giants on bar, aerials and back layouts on beam, double pikes/layouts on floor, and lots of drills on vault. My most exciting skill was a double layout with a full on tramp. (Thank's Kris and Clifford! They pretty much just threw me up in the air! LOL :P)

Thank you so much Mommy for taking me and giving up your whole week to stay at the hotel with us! I love you!

I will post pictures soon. I have a ton... I just don't want to take the time to put them on here :)

Chanko

2010-05-26T05:52:00.001-07:00

I did my chanko all by myself, on the big vault and landed it =D This year I am doing a pike chanko and next year I will probably do a layout, maybe a pike again. I am really getting excited about my meet in July!!! I feel pretty good about all my skills, I do not always make my straddle cast handstand pirouette, and my legs are slightly bent on my back handspring back handspring. Not very much, but it would be a deduction.

My wrist had been feeling better but I pushed it to far at practice Monday :P So I am back to wearing my cast and it should be better by the time the gym opens again. The rest of this week we are at the beach!! It is so pretty here!!!! And then next week the gym is closed. When we come back we have one week of practice and then we leave for Karolyi's camp.

Nastia Liukin is going to be at Karolyi's camp three of the days we are there!!!!!!! I am so excited!!! :O :)

Minor Setback

2010-05-18T18:34:00.000-07:00

On Monday I was doing my back handspring back handspring on beam and I landed wrong on my wrist. It was hurting for the rest of practice, so I just did turns, jumps, leaps etc... anything that didn't involve my hand. Then instead of going to floor I went to tramp and just worked skills like aerials, standing layouts and stuff like that.

My wrist was still hurting pretty badly this afternoon so I went to the doctor, and I either have a severe sprain, or I hairline fracture it. =( I was really bummed. I am in a brace until Friday, and then we are going to see if I need x rays. So I will just be doing conditioning, flexibility, and salto's. Before we went to beam we were at vault, and I landed several fairly good yerchunko vaults! I was so excited!! Especially with Steven gone..... But Karen is an amazing coach =D

My newest skill is an aerial on beam. I am really happy about that! I have a video of it on youtube. My first level 8 meet is in July, I am really looking forward to it!!!!

State Meet

2010-05-01T18:21:00.000-07:00

Well my state meet was a great and disastrous time :P LOL.

Vault was pretty good, I got a 9.55.

Bars was much improved, I got my second highest score ever. My hand slipped on my clear hip as I was dropping down so it was very low. I still got an 8.725 though.

Beam I fell on my back handspring back walkover. Other than that it was better..... I got an 8.6

Floor was the disaster. I only took two steps for my full instead of seven, so I landed really early. I just made up some dance until I was back on track. Then I realized that I was ahead of the music after all that make up dancing. So I just made up the rest of the routine, but I found out that after I finished that I forgot my full turn! So I got a whole point off =( I got an 8.65 (Would have been a 9.65!)

All around I got a 35.575. I got 16th all around and 6th place on vault.

Countdown for state......

2010-04-22T19:42:00.000-07:00

2 days!!

Vault: AMAZING!! I really want to win state, or at least place in the top 3. Hoping for a 9.8.

Bars: Getting their.... maybe a 9.0?

Beam: Really improved on this event =D Thank you Karen! Going for a 9.4

Floor: We changed a few parts of my routine so I am dancing where there was pauses. Tumbling and leaps have gotten a lot cleaner. Trying to get a 9.5

AA: I would LOVE to get a 37 and place in the top 10 at state.

Steven and Karen: Y'all rock! I love y'all! Thank you so much for everything you do for me!

Exhibition

2010-04-17T14:52:00.000-07:00

Hey! Well today we had the exhibition. It went pretty well. My bars is soooo iffy. I am doing my giants but I don't have the right body positions. I really need to fix it before state! (But that is a lot easier said then done, I am have been trying to fix it for a while :P)

Beam was so slippery because of the humidity! :O It went really well, I am hoping to get a 9.3 at state. BTW, state is the 24th. Diana and I are in the same age group, junior c. Except that she is a c2 and I am a c3. So we will not be competing against each other.

Floor went extremely well. I really want a 9.5. When I saw my routine I saw a few things I need to clean up. Like my leaps, and arms by my ears etc.... Just a few little things that would really add up!

Vault is also going awesome. Hoping for a 9.6 but we will see =D My all around goal is a 37 and I would LOVE to be state champion on vault or floor. Texas is so competitive though so I probably will not make it :P

For any of those who are interested I uploaded several new videos to YouTube.

Zenith Gymnastics Classic

2010-03-18T15:47:00.000-07:00

Well this meet was not my best... I am totally bummed about bars. I fell on my second giant, and I slipped on my clear hip. I didn't do terrible but I totally lost the 37..... :P oh well I can try again at states.

Vault. 9.275..... 11th place
Bars: 7.5...... no place
Beam: 9.175....... 12th place
Floor: 9.275.......11th place
AA: 35. 255..... 13th place

Why does Texas have to be sooooooo competitive??? :( LOL.

Training Hard

2010-03-11T11:41:00.000-08:00

Well state is coming up soon. I am so happy, state is at WOGA!!! And Nastia Liukin is gonna be there. I really hope I can get her signature. On Saturday I have a meet in McKinney.... ugh LONG drive. :D But my dad is gonna take me so that will be a lot of fun. I am feeling very comfortable on all my routines. Bars is sometimes a bit iffy... it's my worst event but I have improved a lot. My goal for this meet is a 37. With a 9.6 on vault, 9.4 on floor, 9.3 on beam, and a 9.0 on bars. And I really do not want to fall on any events.... We will see what God has planned :) Training is getting really tough... Between balancing debate, school, speeches, guitar, gymnastics, and helping out at home its hard to fit everything in. Diana and I are moving up to level 8 after meet season, I think I will compete one more year. I think it would be awesome to get to level 9 but I don't know if I can fit everything in. Several girls on our team will be leaving soon as they are going into high school :( I am glad I have one more year before HS!!! Gymnastics is a big part of my life and I don't want to give up my dream but we will see what my parents say. Here are a few new skills that I am working on and some goals I have set for this year!

Skills:
Arabian
Double pike
release from high bar to low
front handspring on beam
front handspring front half on floor
whips
aerials
Goals:
1. Get a 37
2. get chanko on vault
3. get pirouettes on bars
4. get bhs bhs on high beam w/o mats
5. Compete level 8 at the meet in June

Heart of Texas Invitational

2010-02-14T17:28:00.000-08:00

Woot Woot! Yay! The Heart of Texas Invitational went amazing! I improved sooo much!!! That was one of the funnest meets I have ever been to. My parents taught at church so Diana came and picked me up. They came at 9:30 and we didn't get back until 5:50!

Vault: 9.475
Bars: 8.75- archy on casts and one leg kinda bent the first giant
Beam: 8.725- fell on series
Floor: 9.3
AA: 36.25
:D I had sooooo much fun! Can't wait until the next meet.

1st meet Result

2010-02-13T18:47:00.000-08:00

Well I had my first meet. It went really well! Tomorrow (sigh.... yes on Valentines day) I have another meet! I am so excited. My parents have commitments at church so I am riding with my teammate, Diana, and her mom.

Vault

Vault was pretty good, the spring board was really springy so I had to much power going over and didn't get enough block. My score was a 8.9.

Bars

Bars was good, I was archy on my casts, and I did the wrong body positions on my giants. But hopefully that will get better tomorrow. Score 8.4

Beam

It was okay. I fell on my back handspring back walkover. And on my full turn there was a big bobble. Step on my gainer back. Score 8.4

Floor

Floor went really well. My leaps were a little low, and I picked down on my full and layout. But other than that it went great!!! Score 8.9

All Around

A little lower than I had hoped for but God is in control. :) AA: 34.6

Meets Coming Up

2009-12-21T09:33:00.000-08:00

Well my meet season is coming up fast and I am getting really excited!! I feel really ready, all I need to do is improve my giants. Floor is great, as is vault. Beam is pretty good, need to get my connection (back handspring back walkover) more consistent. We are on Christmas break but we have a few practices! My birthday is on Wednesday..... Yay!!!! I cannot wait. We had my party Saturday night. The level 7/8 team came over, it was a ton of fun. Then last week at practice we had a Christmas party!!! It was sooooooo fun. Well I have to go.

Wow!

2009-11-06T10:42:00.000-08:00

Its been a long time since i posted :) I finally got my meet schedule! My first one is January 23. I am so excited! I haven't been doing much at gym. Mostly just routines, so there is not much to tell. Been doing a bunch of conditioning too :) I will update as soon as we do something exciting.... whenever that may be....

Front Flip

2009-09-22T13:37:00.000-07:00

I got my front flip on beam! I am so excited! It was on the spring beam though, probably about 15 inches high. I also got my back tuck, and back handspring back handspring. I also did my front handspring, back aerial, and round off. Okay got to go.

Update sorry!

2009-09-12T18:19:00.000-07:00

Sorry about the long wait. I haven't been learning anything new just touching some things up. Here are some of the things I have been working on.

Vault

Round off back handsprings, (the beggining of a yerchanko) Suaks, front handspring fulls, half on half offs, and just improving my front handspring vault.

Bars

Giants!!! Cast handstands, clear hips, piorettes, layout fly aways, straddle up cast handstand. Which I am not having much progress on. :) I think thats about all.

Beam

Back handsprings, back tucks, front walkover cartwheel, front gainers. And then a bunch of jumps.

Floor

Fulls, doubles, front fulls, arieals, roundoff back handspring back layout/fulls.

Well I have to go.

Kay's 1st meet!!!

2009-09-12T18:10:00.001-07:00

Well Kay had her 1st meet and she did great! She was so amazing! Her first event was was bars. She got a 9.5!!! Then she went to beam. She did pretty well. Her score was a 9.2. The floor was really hard but she did fine. There her score was a 9.375. Her second best event was vault with a 9.475. We were SO proud of her her. I will put the places below. I didn't get any videos, but I will try next time.

Vault: 9.475 1st place!!!!!!
Bars: 9.5 1st place!!!!!!!
Beam: 9.200 7th place
Floor: 9.350 2nd place!

AA: 37.5 2nd place!!!!!!!!!!

OOOPS!

2009-08-16T18:15:00.000-07:00

I am sorry I haven't posted in a while. I will tell y'all (if anybody reads this) what I have been working on. The big news is that I got my full on floor! I am also close to my giants. My front handspring layout is coming along nicely and I am close to my back tuck on beam. Vault just working on getting a higher block for my front handspring and still working suakahara's into the pit. On tramp I am almost doing my double by myself and just got my double full. I cannot land it yet though. On tramp I have been working on a lot of different combinations. I recently got a front tuck step out round-off back handspring back full! Its really fun. Another one of my favorites is a front handspring front bounder front tuck. We have also been doing lots of conditioning!! But I am glad because it is making be a lot tighter and stronger in our skills. The level 4's, 5's, and 6's start the competition season on September 12. They are going to do great!!! I want to upload some videos to my YouTube, but I forgot my password so I am going to have to remember it before I can get them up so I will try. :D

Putting it togather

2009-07-30T05:52:00.000-07:00

Well last night at gym I got to do my whole floor routine with music! I also did the tumbling, and I got to do my full! Steven still spotted me though. It worked out pretty well, on my last routine I fell on my front handspring front pike but I still have a while to improve it. I also did my beam routine, I like it a lot!!! I cannot wait until competition season! My old grips tore, but my new pair came in yesterday so I worked on breaking them in. This time I ordered 2 pairs so that if one pair tears before a meet I will have a back up pare that is already broken in. We also did tramp and we got to make up combinations. My favorite was probably front handspring 4x front tuck and then step out round-off back handspring back tuck.

Baby!!!

2009-07-29T05:33:00.000-07:00

I am sooooo excited! Mom had her baby!!! His name is Caleb Michael. We are going to go see him later this afternoon. I will post pictures as soon as I get some.

Learning The Routine

2009-07-23T18:31:00.000-07:00

Today I met with Karen and we started my floor routine. We decided to change my music, its almost the same but our gym already had it so we could get it for free. It went really well and we got more than half way threw! I love it its so cute! I will post a video when it is finished. Oh and I am working on my back handspring back handspring on the high beam, its coming along pretty well.

My Music!

2009-07-18T11:18:00.000-07:00

Well I finally decided on my music. It's called Destination Triumph, here is a link http://www.energymmusic.com/shop/?action=view_product&product_id=165 . I am so excited!!! Can't wait to start my routine!

1st meeting with C.

2009-07-16T18:58:00.000-07:00

I had my first meeting with my choreographer. Her name is Karen. I LOVE her! She is so nice. We are going to start on my floor routine on Thursday. I am really excited. I have not decided on the music but I have it narrowed down to several choices. I had a meeting with Karen and then that night she came to watch us and learn about personalities. We went to tramp and I did double backs and fulls. Then we went to floor and did a bunch of skills to show off our flexibility and strength. I did well on strength but not too well on flexibility. But I still did okay. Then we went to bars and I did some really good clear hips, casts, fly aways, and giants. That was actually a really good practice. Then we went to beam and I showed Karen my skills and the routine that I had made up. She added a hitch kick to it just for me to practice. It's really fun! I also added a back roll on Monday. Then we did a conditioning game where we would have to do 100 push ups on something green and he would keep changing it so we got to go all over the gym doing lots of conditioning. WTYL. (write to ya later)

Not Much

2009-07-13T13:22:00.000-07:00

I have not been doing much at gym. Working on up training skills the last 6 weeks of summer. But on a exciting note I will be meeting with my coach and Mom to see a choreographer on Wednesday. I am really excited. I will post more tomorrow after gym.

Youtube Account

2009-07-06T09:25:00.000-07:00

Here is my user name for youtube! http://www.youtube.com/user/reeceegymrat I am taking off all of the videos on here so I have more room for other things.

Camp Day # 2

2009-07-03T05:39:00.000-07:00

This day was tons of fun. I can't believe that camp is already over! When we got there we played a running game to warm up and then we stretched. Our first event was tramp. (not an actual event but still) We did lots of creative combinations. Like punch back flip, punch front flip step out, and out of that either front handspring front layout or round off back handspring back layout. That was fun, I also did fulls and double backs. Then we went to vault! We did 'chanko drills of the tramp. We placed 2 mats stacked on top of each other at the end of tumble track and then we would do round off back handspring with our hands on the mat. We never actually did the flip though. We Steven we did suakaharas. I did my pike and layout suak. Then we went to beam and did some conditioning. After that I warmed up my skills and did routines until it was time to go.

Camp Day # 1

2009-06-30T14:54:00.000-07:00

The first day of camp was so much fun! I got to work double backs on tramp, back tucks and front tucks on beam, fulls on floor, and pirrouts and giants on bars. It is so much fin! I cannot wait until Thursday for the next practice! And I got two giants in a row! Here is the video. Oh And I am getting a youtube account tomorrow! Yeah!

Double Backs 2!

2009-06-29T14:45:00.000-07:00

Yes Yes Yes! I got my double back with a spot. I am sooooooooooooo excited. I did not land it but I still did it. Here is the video, I am hoping to start a youtube account soon but we will see......

I got my Giant!!!!!!

2009-06-27T13:20:00.000-07:00

I got my giant!! Yeah! Now I am working on two giants in a row over the pit bar. I also landed a full on floor. That was exciting. LOL. I also worked double backs off the tramp. And I did my "routine" on beam. It is not my actual routine just some dance that I added in with my skills since my coach has not choreographed it yet.

Double Backs!

2009-06-25T05:09:00.000-07:00

We got to learn double backs off the trampoline. I did not do mine, I just did a bunch of drills like 1 1/2 and then keep rolling because I tried one but I kept opening up to soon. Diana got hers though. Its really good! I finally got a video of my full! Its a really bad one but I landed it.

Athletic Republic

2009-06-23T12:05:00.000-07:00

There is this really cool sports training center in our town. Its called Athletic Republic. They do not have a gymnastics "coach" but they might be getting one. My Mom is looking into it. The bad thing is that it is really expensive and its 3 more practices a week plus my actual gym practices. The good things are, they have high tech gear and coaches. And it will really help build body strength and flexibility. I might just do it for the month of July, we will see. Now to gym. We ran but strangely no conditioning at the beginning. We were kind of suspicious because we usually have about an hour worth of conditioning to do before we stretch. So we stretch and then go to vault. This time I did my suakahara's without hitting my head! Then we went to floor. After 15 minutes of floor we got sent to gather panel mats to the kinder floor. Each girl put her feet on one panel mat and her shoulders on another one and Steven gave us different body positions to hold. We did that for a long time and then we had to do toss the ball sit ups, ball push ups. (where you have a small ball under one palm and your feet on a panel mat and you do push ups and keep switching the ball to the other hand). Then the worst came. Steven gave us 10 pound weights to carry above our heads while we did lap after lap of lunges. Ugh that was hard. We had a lot more but I am not going to finish the list. Then we went back to floor and I got to do front and back fulls!!! I did my back full with a spot but I still did it! It was so much fun. Then we had more conditioning and we cleaned up mats and we went home.

A bunch of new skills

2009-06-20T14:18:00.000-07:00

On the low beam I got my back handspring back handspring! I also worked on my back tuck. Next up is a front gainer. On floor I got my front full! On bars I got my monkey giant and on vault i got my suakahara into the pit!!!! Yeah! It was a great practice. But once I landed on my neck and now my back is sore. (It didn't really hurt 'cause it was in the pit but it still affected my back).

Monopoly

2009-06-16T09:48:00.000-07:00

We got to play monopoly at gym yesterday! It was conditioning monopoly. Steven wrote down sqaures of conditioning and we would roll the dice and then whatever we landed us and our partners would go do the different conditioning. I got my gainer!!! I am so happy. I am picking out some new music for my floor routine. This is a really cool gymnastics website. www.thechalkbucket.com Its really cool!

48

2009-06-09T09:27:00.000-07:00

Wondering what the title means? I will explain in a minute. Daddy and Mommy go to bible study while we are in gym and Daddy forget his bible so he dropped us off instead of running errands with us and went back home. So we had like 45 minutes before practice started. I read a book and then I talked with some of the new girls. They moved 7 level 4's up to level 5. And the girl who had been giving us trouble they put her in that group! So we all really got to focus last night. We ran and stretched but we did not do any conditioning at the beginning. Then we went to vault and I vaulted really good! After an hour we went to beam and I landed a bunch of my series (back handspring back walkover) so Steven said I could work on my gainers. I got it all by myself!!!! They are really fun!!!!! Then we went to trampoline and did tumbling. I did not land any fulls. :( Oh well I can always improve them. Oh I forget to mention that I had a really stuffy nose. So then we got to floor and Steven tells us to do handstand walks all the way down the floor. SOMEBODY would not stay tight so we kept doing them and doing them. And I cant breath at all because my nose was all clogged up. We did them for 30 minutes and we did 48 laps!!!!!!!!!! Until finally that SOMEBODY made it down the whole floor! Today is June's birthday, she is 14. Right now she has a horse trainer over and they are talking about all of our horses. Okay well I have to go.

New Vault!

2009-06-06T08:56:00.000-07:00

We got to do sukaharas!!! It was so fun! I got mine all by myself into the pit! I also did some really good giants and fulls. I also got my gainer! Yippee.

Giant Video

2009-05-23T14:12:00.000-07:00

Here is a video of my giant. This was my first one of that night so it was not good. And my cast was horrible. (I promise I can do better then that).

Fantastic Night!!!

2009-05-21T05:32:00.000-07:00

Okay so this was Monday, I just did not have a chance to post it. When we got to gym there was a new girl named Cherina (I hope that I spelled that right). She is a level 5. So then we ran and stretched then we went to bars and did a warm up. Then we set everything up for all of the stations. Diana and I stayed the whole time with Steven. AND I DID GIANTS ON HIGH BAR, then I would connect it to a layout fly away. It was a lot of fun!!!!!! After bars we went to beam and I did back tucks and back handsprings, I landed almost all of them. The things that I fell on were my back tucks, it hurts when you land on your heels. Oh well I have a while to improve them. Then Steven said to do Arabians. So I did that for a while. Then we went and tumbled for a LONG time. I worked a bunch of front handspring layouts, and round off back handspring layouts. Then Steven told me to go to the trampoline and do fulls off of it. And I landed ALL of theme!!!!!!!!!!! YAH! I was so happy. Then practice was over and we cleaned up and left.

We are at the beach and it is AMAZING. The beach is beautiful. And the pools are huge. We are having so much fun. I love this vacation. And I am done with school! I am going to post some pictures as soon as I get back. Yesterday we went to the Corpus Christi Aquarium. We saw dolphins, sharks, turtles, otters, lots of different kinds of fish which I cant name. LOL. And we got to PET some sting rays!!! (They had there barbs removed though) They were all slimy.

Guess what???

2009-05-15T13:17:00.003-07:00

I am done with school. And tonight Bubba has mini olmpics. We are going to the beach on Tuesday! YIPEE. So excited. :D

Party and Friday

2009-05-10T13:11:00.001-07:00

On Wednesday we had a party for Kelly. It was fun but at the end pretty much everyone started crying. It was really sad. We surprised her and sprayed her with silly string and then we threw her into the pit! Steven would not help us so we had to do it by ourselves. We also took a LOT of pictures. I only have two on my camera though. Here they are.

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Friday

It started out good we ran, stretched and conditioned and then we went to tramp. Warm up was fine, did some good tumbling passes. Then Steven told us to go to floor. We lined up long ways and did skills and some simple tumbling. (front tucks, back tucks, back handsprings, front handsprings etc...........) After that we set up some stations on the edges of the floor so that we could still tumble. Steven set up a tumbling station where you would do round off and your back handspring would land on a sting mat and then you would do a layout/tuck/full onto the mat. I DO NOT like doing that and so my layouts where really bad. So I never got to do my full. We worked front aerials and one of the girls (a level 5 who is not strong) tried to do it without a barrel mat and she landed on her head!!!! She cried constantly the last 2 hours of practice! (FYI that was Jessica) She is still not being nice. She says mean things and says bad words, and she even talked back to Steven!!!! I was wondering if you'll had any tips on what to do. Diana another level 7 cannot be on team anymore. Her Mom got in trouble with the owners of the gym and since her Mom will not stop coming into the gym and being mean Diana has to stop gymnastics. (unless they go to another gym) I am really going to miss Diana. She was really nice. Oh I figured out my beam mount. I will try to post a video of it soon. After floor we went to beam for about 20 minutes. I worked dismounts, mounts, my series, and jumps. Then I left early because it was Carolyn's birthday!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY CAROLYN!!!

Coach Kelly? GONE!

2009-05-06T11:21:00.000-07:00

I am so sad. Kelly my FAVORITE coach got excepted in to physical therapy school and she has classes during gym hours so she has to stop coaching! OH NO. So you say "well at least you have Erica" right? WRONG. Erica is moving back to Houston. So for level 4-7 we have 1 coach. And almost everybody is terrified of him, Steven is a little grumpy (to say it nicely) sometimes. I cannot believe that she is leaving. We are going to have a party for her tonight. I got this spray stuff and some of us girls are going to surprise her! I did email her and tell her to bring a change of clothes. LOL. We are also bringing cupcakes and cookies. I made her a little teddy bear and I copied all of our gymnastics pictures of the team onto a little memory card to give to her. I am soooooooooooooooo sad. But I am happy that Kelly got excepted for the physical therapy school.

Bummer

2009-04-29T15:22:00.000-07:00

Well gym is closed because if the swine flu. I am so sad. We might not have gym for two weeks. But I got a present That will be a good distraction. Guess what it is? I kid!!!! (that is a baby goat). I named him Snickers. He is a 1 day old boar goat. We got him this morning. His dam (mom) had quadruplets so the owner asked me to raise him. The owner Mrs.Wright has had 33 kids in the last week!!! And she has more to come! So she is too busy to bottle feed him.

1st level 7 practice

2009-04-27T15:31:00.000-07:00

Well my first practice was good and HORRIBLE!!!! When we got to practice we did conditioning and stretched. Then we went to beam and I practiced a bunch of different skills. Like back handsprings, bw bw, different kinds of dismounts, turns, jumps, leaps, etc....... So that was good until Steven made Allie do back walkovers by herself on the beam. Allie has a huge mental block on the back walkover on beam. So she just stood there and could not go back. So Steven gave her 30 seconds to do it or we had 100 squat jumps. She did not go so we had 100 squat jumps. This went on and on and we ended up doing over 500 squat jumps!!!!! UGH. That hurt really bad. But finally Steven told us to go to tumble track and Allie kept working on them with a spot. After about 10 minutes of tumbling Steven sent the level 7's over to the pit bar to work giants. I almost got mine!!!!!!!!!! I have mine on the strap bar but its a lot scarier without the straps. I was so excited!!!!!!!!! Then we had to clean up the gym and go home. On the way home Daddy got me and Allie some shakes!!! They were really good.

OH YEAH!!!!

2009-04-25T14:22:00.000-07:00

I did it!!! I am know "officially" a level 7. We left at 3:30 and went to Chicken Express to get ice. Then we went to the gym and set everything up. My Mom also made lemonade. Some other people brought cookies so we set up a little snack stand. We were all supposed to run on a line but the little girls did not know what a "line" was. They pretty much zig zagged everywhere!!! They were really cute though. Then we did a quick stretch and started warming up the events. We warmed up bars and then beam and last floor. (we warmed up vault when we got to that rotation) then we all got called into groups. I was in the group that went to vault first. I was sooooooooooo happy, I got a 9.2! Then the judge (I forget her name) told was we need to work on. Then we went to bars. She let us do one thing and then we sat down. I was second to last on this event. I was so happy with this event. Well, I usually get a lot better but for my first level 6 meet it was pretty good. I got an 8.5. Then we went to beam and did a couple back walkovers. I was so proud, I did not fall off!!!!!!! Yeah. It was an okay routine. I got an 8.8. Then for our last even we went to floor. Kelsie and Allie wanted to warm up some more tumbling so Jazmin and I worked on dance since we had already warmed up tumbling enough. I got to go first on this event. I thought it was really good but I only got a 8.4. Oh well I will do better on level 7. My all around was a 34.9!!!!!! I was so excited. Jazmin also made it to level 7! So now there will be three of us. Diana (who was already a level 7) Jazmin, and I. After competition the new level 7's had a parents meeting. And then we got to play around. We also helped clean up. Then we left and went out to dinner. It was a ton of fun!!!!!! Here are our scores.

Vault- Bars -Beam- Floor- All Around
Jazmin: 9.0 -7.8 -8.4- 8.7- 33.9

Me: 9.2- 8.5 -8.8 -8.4 -34.9

Nervous!!!!

2009-04-24T07:58:00.001-07:00

I am soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo nervous. My gymnastics meet is tonight!!! YEAH!!!! I am also VERY excited. I really hope that I get to move up to level 7 "officially". I am reading "Where the red fern grows" It is really sad but I like it. Last night when I went to gym I helped switch the bar sets and I watched the cheerleaders. Well I have to go. I will write when I find out my scores!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry!

2009-04-20T13:27:00.000-07:00

Sorry that I have not posted in such a loooooooooooooooooooooooooooong time! I have been really busy! I am very nervous. This is the last week of practice until the exhibition. It is this Friday! I am very excited. We have finally learned the routines! (with tumbling and stuff) I am trying really hard to get my giant. Diana and I kind of have a contest to see who can get the most skills. And she got her giant on the pit bar so I want to get it. Beam is not going very well but that's okay, I will just work really hard this week. I have really been working with Jazmin, she is one of my good friends. She is the only other level 6 who might move up. I really hope that she does. BECAUSE if she does not then I will be competing all by myself. Not fun!!!!! But then she is still a little older so we might not all be together. I am really hoping that I move up. I have gotten my clear hip a lot better but Steven said that is still really low. Gruuu. I know what I will be working on this week. My layout and tuck are a lot better then they used to be. I only have to get a 34.00 so I THINK that I can make it. I will be very sad if I do not. I will have to wait until August to move up. Kelly is going to work really hard with us on routines this week. Chase is getting really big! He has stooped biting mostly. I was in writing class but Nicole Lujeune came over so we stopped and Mommy is talking to her so I get to blog. Finally. We only have 5 more weeks of school. My new room is so pretty!!! I was going to upload some pictures but this old computer does not want to load!!!! Gruuu. Well I got to go. I will start writing a lot more.

Monday Madness

2009-03-31T11:49:00.001-07:00

When I got to gym I was early so I did presses. Then we ran for 20 minutes and conditioned for like an hour. Then Diana and I were done so Steven told us to do handstand holds. I got to where I could hold for a long time!!! (okay, okay, more like 15 seconds but that is really good for me) Diana, Sydney and I had handstand contests. They were so much fun!!! I won several times. Then after we did that for about 20 minutes we stretched. After that we went to bars. We stayed on bars for a really long time! Steven said we were going to work on giants but I ended up just doing my high bar minus giants and dismounts because it was lowered. I did some giants on strap bar though. After bars we went to beam and did five of every skill in our routines. After that he sent us to tumble track. I worked on front handspring layouts a lot. I also worked on my level 8 pass. (round off back tuck back handspring back tuck). Then we got to play a game. While the other girls finished there conditioning from earlier.

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When Laura came I had just finished chores so I went and cleaned my drawers. That took a looooooooooong time! But finally I finished so I started school. I did school. And more school. Then I went outside and played for a while. After that it was rest time. I read a book and worked on my paper. After that it was time to get up and get ready for gym. I packed a Gatorade and some fruit but the Gatorade spilled all over my bag. Oops. We went to Taco Cabana for dinner.

Pictures gruuuuu!

2009-03-22T09:29:00.001-07:00

Okay, I tried to post the pictures but they will not download. So I will try again later. On Friday we had a meet so we got out early but I was squad leading so I stayed. So at 6:30 we got out and went and changed clothes. Then we hung out and chatted with the level three's until the meet started. I took my girls to bars, then beam, floor, dance, and last of all vault. All of the girls do great. Update on my meet. It is still April 24, they are still trying to find a judge. I do not think they will find one though. At practice we did not do much. We warmed up then went to beam, and then to tramp. We are not having any practices next week because it is spring break. They were supposed to schedule three practices but they never did. So I assumed we are not having any. Well I got to go.

I am so sad!!!

2009-03-20T13:11:00.000-07:00

I found out on Wednesday that one of my BFF's are quiting!!! =( I am sooooo sad. (Oh by the its Hillary who is quiting. I am going to post some pictures of her. I am going to miss her soooooooo soooooo sooooooo much. She is quiting 'cause she will be in high school soon, she does swim team and basket ball and because she hurt her knee so she cannot do very much gymnastics. Tonight is her last night. On Wednesday when she told me she said that she really wanted a soda so I went up stairs (to the soda machine) and bought her a soda. The funny things is that Steven showed me that you can just open the door and grab a soda can. LOL. (FYI I stilled paid for the soda). I also made her a card yesterday and I am going to give it to her tonight. I love you Hillary and I am going to miss you!!!! Wait, I do not have the pictures on this computer so I will post them tomorrow!

The Race

2009-03-14T13:32:00.000-07:00

I had the race this morning! I got third place in the age group 11-14. My time was 30:39. I thought that was pretty good for over three miles! If you want a more detailed account go to http://reesrejoicings.blogspot.com/. At gymnastics on Friday we ran, stretched, conditioned and then played a game. The game was Shark's and Minnow's. At the end only Me, Ellie, and Carolyn were left. It was really fun!!! Then we went to floor and warmed up. Then Steven set up some stations for us to do. I started working some front handspring front layouts and layout halfs. Then we went to Steven and worked on what ever he told us to do. I worked on halfs. It was a lot of fun, I have done them on trampoline before but never on floor. I also worked on front aerials and leaps. Then we went to beam and Erica finished my routines and I worked on that a lot. I also did a bunch of dismounts. Then they decided that they wanted to get a couple vaults in so we went to vault. We did not have time to do our whole warm up so we just sprinted twice and then did stretch jumps. Then Kelly told us what to do. My vaults were pretty good but not the best.

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There is a new girl on team named Jessica. She is a character. She does not like conditioning so she hurts herself just before time to do it. She is very dramatic. Sometimes she can be really nice. She is a level 5, I get to "help her with conditioning" since I am a "big girl on team" FYI that means I do most of the stuff for her. Oh well I am hoping that if I am really nice to her that she will stop acting not so nice.

Split Test!

2009-03-10T12:40:00.000-07:00

So we had our split test yesterday and I was really nervous because my left leg split had been off and on. We got there late because I forgot my grips so we had to go home. When we got there we ran and then did some conditioning and Steven told us to go stretch. After stretching Steven told us how the test was going to go and then he gave us 5 minutes to practice splits. I got all of my splits!!!!!!!!!! Yay me!!!!!!! I was so excited. Everyone except two girls had there splits. Allie and Maddie had to hold it for and hour! Ouch, I felt so bad for them. After the split test I went to bars and did routines for a while and then we went to beam and I practiced turns, jumps, leaps, dismounts, back handsprings, and back tucks. Then we went to tumble track. I have been working on some different tumbling passes. I did round-off layout back handspring tuck, and then four front flips in a row, that on was really fun. Today after piano lessons we went strawberry picking!!! It was a lot of fun.

Sorry!!

2009-03-07T12:38:00.000-08:00

I am sorry that I have posted in a long time!!! I have been really busy. We came home to our house for the weekend, so that is why I am able to blog. Kelly finally finished her DVD/book. I am going to post some pictures of Chase soon, I promise. This computer does not have the photos and I do not fell like transferring them to this computer. Steven changed the split test to Monday, so that Kelly can not interfere with him making us hold each split for an hour. She was only going to make us hold it for 5 minutes each split we did not have. We are going to have to go back to the ranch for another week because our Painter never finished the job. I went to Open Gym last night, it was s0 much fun! I only got to stay for an hour. I did a bunch of fulls, but I kept landing on my back. Then i went to beam with Diana and we did some routines. I also went to bars for about 15 minutes and did fly aways and clear hips (free hips). On Wednesday the Young's came over and we went into our under ground cave, I will try to post some pictures of that to. It is not a very big cave thought. I have really been enjoying living at the ranch. It is nice to be in a little cabin with your family and get to do so much outside. I have been working on training Chase, he is getting it but I am not training him to much 'cause he is still really little. There is this really cool website for teens, check it out. http://www.therebelution.com/ There is also a really neat book by the teenager twins boys who host the website its called "Do Hard Things". I am reading it right now. No, I am not a teenager but it is still a good book to read and a very good website. Preteens and Teenagers should really read it, it is a great opportunity to meet some christian kids like yourself.

No Internet

2009-02-23T09:46:00.003-08:00

Tomorrow we are moving to our ranch!!! Only for two weeks though. Joe the painter is going to spray some stuff that we are not supposed to breathe. We already took some of our animals to the ranch. Right now we are watching a movie called "Father Knows Best" it is an old fashion TV show that they put onto a DVD. Oh, so while we are at the ranch we will not have Internet. We will come to the house a couple times so I will try to blog. But I cannot blog very much.

Level three meet

2009-02-21T18:06:00.000-08:00

So we left early and went to pick up some ice from a gas station. Then we went to gym and waited for half an hour before it started. Then we ran and played a game. It was where everyone got partners and formed a circle then one person from each group would get into a handstand and hold it until they said switch and then everybody would ran around the circle and then come and and hold you again. (unless you had fallen) I made it about five times and then my wrists hurt so I came down. Then we stretched and I went to bars. At bars I did normal stuff and then we went to floor and did routines. Then Erica told the squad leaders to go change clothes and form a group, we ended up with double the girls so I had a partner named Kaleigh. She is nine and very sweet. So we got our group of girls and lead them to the first event. For our group it was beam. Everyone fell off except two girls, and they were from our gym!!! Go level three! Then we went to Floor, dance, vault, and bars. McKenzie got 4 blues and 1 red! I am so proud of her. At the end we handed out goody bags and we got the left overs. At the beginning Jackie sang the national anthem! She was amazing!!! She is better then me and only 8 years old!!!!

Kisses

2009-02-19T13:19:00.000-08:00

I am in shock. We got a baby dachshund. He is soooooooooooooooooo cute! I am completely amazed for two reasons. 1. we already have a puppy 2. dad does not like dachshunds (but Mom does). So anyway we called a friend of ours and asked if they had any puppies left and they had one left. So mom went in and asked Dad if we could get a dachshund, Dad said yes, if it could come in the house. (he did not think mom would let it so he figured we would not be getting it) LOL. But she said that it could live in the house. So this afternoon we went and looked at the puppy and brought him home. His name is Kisses. If it were a girl I would have named him Amber. I think that is such a cute dog name. He is a sleep in Junes bed. Tonight we are going to go to the library!

I did not know you were making a DVD

2009-02-19T13:10:00.000-08:00

Well, it turned out she is! For Kelly's school assignment she is also making a DVD. Which is cool 'cause I get to be in it! So last night I got to gym and I was wearing a knee brace. Huh? Simply this, our goat, Star, head butts the dogs. She was going to head butt Chase and so I picked him up. So instead of getting the dog she rammed into my knee. So I did not run when I got to gym but Kelly made me do jumps on the trampoline. Which hurt even worse then running. After that I stretched and conditioned with Jasmine and Sydney, (Jasmine has a fractured ankle, and Sydney had surgery on her knee) while the other girls vaulted. I was so sad because two of my old coaches were there and I really wanted to show them some of my new skills. So after vault we went to back floor and conditioned while Kelly talked to Jasmine's parents about her ankle. After we conditioned we went to beam, which Kelly made me do. Ouch Ouch Ouch!!!!!!!!! Then she said that I had to do a couple tumbling passes for her DVD. I did the tumbling but it was really low because my knee was killing me. We did that and then we got Allie and Tori and brought them home. When I got home I had to let Chase and and play with him for about 20 minutes even though I was so tired and sore. Then finally I got to go to sleep! Yippee.

Chase

2009-02-17T14:21:00.000-08:00

I got my puppy! He is adorable. I will post some pictures soon. I was gone yesterday so I did not go to gym. There is nothing to post. We went hunting but did not shoot anything. We drove 878 miles in three days. (man, I am so tired of the car). Chase bites, and he bites very hard! I am going to have to work on that. Naughty, Naughty! I just got back about an hour and a half ago. Well, I have to go finish school. I will post longer later.

Valentines!

2009-02-14T13:20:00.000-08:00

Happy Valentines Day Everyone!!!

Nothing happened

2009-02-13T09:04:00.001-08:00

Like that title says nothing happened at gym. Unless you count Steven eating six cookies. He would have eaten seven but Kelly begged one from him! When we got there we ran and stretched. Erica made us run back wards. Everyone was tripping! It was kinda funny. I ran into a mat and fell on it. Then we stretched and went to beam, I only did back walkovers, full turns, dismounts, leaps, and jumps. Easy stuff but I want to get the simple stuff down really good. I have gym tonight. Wait, back to practice. After beam we went to vault and vaulted. I vaulted pretty good, not as good as on Monday but still good. Then we went to floor and did two trinity runs. That is where we all line up and start running around the floor. At the first corner I went in and did a front tuck (I was the first person in line) and in the next corner the person behind me would go, then the next person, on and on until everyone had gone and then I would do a back tuck. We did that twice and then we did leaps. We leaped and leaped and leaped until we could leap no more leaps, and then we still had to keep on leaping. LOL. But seriously we did a ton of leaps. And then we tumbled and tumbled. Then we cleaned up the gym. After that since Kelly's back was hurting we did a massage train. Then we left.

High bar giants!!!

2009-02-10T15:02:00.000-08:00

I am so excited! I did my giants on the high bar! I am hoping to get them by myself in about three weeks. Maybe more because I only get to work them on Mondays. When we got to gym they sent us to back floor and told us to jump rope for 15 minutes, then we did beam walks, hollow body holds, superman holds, chin ups, and since I was the first on done Steven told me to hold my bad leg split. Then we stretched for a long long long time. After that we went to bars. I mainly worked on giants, fly aways, and clear hips. But I did a couple full routines. We stayed on bars for an two hours! I got tired of it and my hands and wrists were hurting. Then finally he told us to go to vault. I was vaulting really goo again. I hope I keep vaulting that good. There is one girl from Olympic Hills who is really good. Her name is Jackie. I always got second place in vault, she always got first. So I am hoping to bet her this year! We had a circuit of Vault, Bars, and Tramp. We would do two vaults and then go to tramp and do two tumbling passes. After we finished that we would go to beam and chose two skills and do them ten times. Then we would go back to vault. After doing that for about 45 minutes we went to floor and played games. But these were Steven games. That means that he combined conditioning into the game. Like whenever you got out you had to run laps around the gym. Then we played a running game were we all chased a person and tried to grab the scarf she was holding. If you got the scarf then the other girls would chase you. It was so fun. But all of us were so hot. Then Mrs. Parker took us home.

Fun Friday

2009-02-07T14:33:00.000-08:00

Today was an easy day! And it was fun. We cleaned up mats that the coaches and taken to a school for PE and then we ran for five minutes. Then we conditioned and stretched. Erica took us to floor and we had conditioning races. Allie and I won all of the except one, because it was handstand walks and I never came down but the other girls would come down and take three steps forward and do another two handstand steps. But it was still a lot of fun. Then we worked on easy stuff like front walkovers, and back handsprings. Then Kelly took us to beam. We warmed up and then had contests to see who could hold there handstand the longest. I won! Then Kelly said that we could make up a fun routine, not to change our old ones, just for fun. So we did that and then Kelly took us to bars. We have a set of four bars and they are all connected in the middle and then go out. What we had to do was pull overs on all of the bars and come tag the next person in line on our team. Then we would have to do kips and cast handstands and other stuff like that. Claire (who quite six months ago) came to practice. She has changed a lot! Kelly let us talk with her for about 15 minutes and then we got free time for about 10 minutes. Since it was Ellie's birthday we brought cup cakes. Maddie (Ellie's best friend) also had a birthday that week so she brought ice cream dots. For the last 15 minutes we had snacks and got to talk. It was so fun. Then Mom came and took us to a movie store and to Pizza Hut. When we got home we are pizza and watched a movie for Ellie's birthday. It was a great day!

Double Day

2009-02-05T14:22:00.000-08:00

Yesterday was my day where I go to gym twice. At my afternoon practice we ran, stretched, conditioned, and then went to bars. I did not do anything exciting. I did cast handstands, clear hips, baby giants, and fly aways. I asked my coach to spot me because I have been arching up to cast handstand and I want to get it without an arch. I did that for a while and then we went to floor. When we got to floor I worked on my aerials, side and back, but not front. Then I did front handspring front tucks. I did not do very many of those because I was sticking them so I moved on to other things. Then I did round off back handspring back tucks. Then last I did standing tucks. After that I went to beam, warmed up a little, and then did one routine, then it was time to go home. I did not have Spanish yesterday so I went home and did school. Then Mom and Dad took me to evening gym.
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At evening gym practice we ran, stretched, and conditioned and went to vault. I was vaulting really good! I am so happy. I stuck several and took one step on the rest. We vaulted for a long time. There was a new guy at gym and he was really good! Well, he was pretty good. His tucks and fulls were really high but he has bad positioning. Like bent arms and legs into the round off and legs apart in the tuck. But over all he was a really good tumbler. After vault we went to back floor and conditioned, then we went to bars and conditioned. Then we went to back floor again and did back floor/tumble track. It was so much fun, we got to do front tucks over a pac man! My pony tail kept hitting the pac man! But I could get over it and land it so that was good. After we did back floor for a little bit we went to front floor. We did skills, and then we did dance. Kelly sent us over to back floor again to work on the beginning of our routines. Diana did her routine to the music. After that we went and played a conditioning game. Then we had to clean up the gym. Everyone decided that me and my friend Allie could clean the whole gym by ourselves. They all went home and left us to clean up. But that was okay because my Mom was talking to my coach. They said that I am not going to compete until May because none of the other girls have there skills. The other two girls who were going to compete are gone. Sydney hurt her knee, and Jordan switched gyms. But my Mom is going to talk to the owner of the gym to see if I can compete sooner. I hope I can.

Bad Bar Day

2009-02-03T13:47:00.000-08:00

Man I had a bad bad bad bar day. Like really bad. When we got to gym we ran for twenty minutes. Then we had to do 25 chin up pullovers, 6 laps of lunges forward and backward, and 200 tuck ups. Then we had to do pike presses, those are so hard! After that we stretched, nothing really exciting happened. I did a bunch of full turns, back handsprings, back walkover back walkovers, dismounts, leaps, and jumps. Full turns were pretty good I only fell on 2. Jumps were good I also fell twice on those. Leaps and back handsprings were good I did not fall on any of those. And on my series I only fell once. Then I did dismounts, I stuck several of those which was good. Then we went to bars and put our grips on, Steven timed us, ugh. Oh well, I made it in time. Then we had to do our bar warm up. I got stuck on clear hip clear hip, Steven said I was not going high enough on my second clear hip. Then he said that we could be done warming up and her told us to set up the stations. I started on clear hip to handstand, I did that for about ten minutes and then we switched. I was with Steven next. I did giants, they were okay, not as good as usual. But still decent. Then I went to clear hips. That was kind of boring because I had already done a bunch of them. Then I went to giants on the strap bar, I did a bunch of those. I also did some forward giants. They are a lot of fun!!! Then I went to the handstand trainer and did that. And then for our last rotation I did cast handstand half pirouette. Then Steven told us to clean up the gym and go home. So we cleaned up the gym and went home!

A Simple Gymnast

2009-02-02T12:24:00.000-08:00

Here is a story I wrote. I hope you'll like it.

Sadie took a deep breath and saluted the judge. This was her first meet as a level 10. It was her turn to go on beam, and she was very nervous. The judge saluted her and she walked up to the beam. Mounting it carefully she told herself to calm down, she told herself that she could do it. Deftly she went through the motions. And then all of the sudden she was off the beam, she had done it, the whole beam routine without falling! She got a 9.85. Her coach was very proud of her but did not show it, he immediately told her to warm up for floor. She was first. Bravely she walked up to the floor and started her routine. She had a step on her last tumbling pass but it was a clean routine she scored a 9.7. Not as good as she had hope but a solid score. Next up was bars, her best event. She was dead last. While she was waiting in line to warm up she noticed that the other girls seemed very scared. She wondered why. When she got on to the bar she suddenly realized why. The bar was not tight at all, while she was going it kept wiggling and swaying. Her coach told her to stop warming up. She did and waited for her turn. After what seemed like forever she was called up. She did her routine well despite the wobbling bar. The result was thrilling, a 9.995. Then dreading it she walked over to vault. Vault was her worst event and it had been hurting her knee. But she warmed up. She realized that if she could do a good vault she had a chance of winning the All Around! She was third. Soon she bravely saluted the judge and stepped onto the runway. Her feet flying she hit the board and did an almost perfect vault, stuck and everything! She was so excited! But her knee was killing her. For the second time she saluted the judge and blasted down the runway. As she vaulted she looked for the ground to stick the landing and then it happened. As soon as her feet hit the ground her knee broke, Sadie stuck it and as fast as she could she saluted and then sank to the growned trying not to cry. Jim, (her coach) ran down to here and helped over to the medical station, then she got in her parents car and drove to the ER. That night Jim came to see her. He told her that her vault score was a 9.8! And that she had one every event except beam where she placed third. And she won the All Around with a 39.345! Sadie was very excited. It turned out that Sadie's knee was not broken, she had slightly torn one of her tendons. She had three months off gymnastics. Six months until qualifiers flashed through Sadie's mind. Hopefully she would be able to compete. Then she fell asleep.

Crazy Friday!

2009-01-31T12:30:00.000-08:00

Man, Friday was so confusing! We had to break up into three groups, the coaches would call our names and we would go into that line. Then we warmed up in our groups, and played a conditioning game. Every time you got "out" you had to condition. After that my group went to beam with coach Erica. We had to warm up for 30 minutes! And then finally we got to start actually doing beam. We only got to do one rotation because then it was time to switch events. Next we went to floor with Steven. We did a really fun warm up. We did stuff like handstand straddle down back extension rolls! It was so fun. We also did back handspring layouts, those are fun but kinda hard to get high enough to not scare your coach. LOL. I need to work on going up, (A lot). But my layouts were not that bad. Then we had to go around the floor in a pattern and do the station when every we came across one. Jasmine could not tumble because she has a hairline fracture on her ankle. Then we went to bars with Kelly. I did kip casts, kip squat ons, and clear hips, we also did tap swings. I did not get to work very much with Kelly because she was helping the other girls to connect there kip squat ons. Then she told us to take off our rips and go to vault. We did vault with Kelly. We did vaults and then we had to go do handstand hops, then we did stretch jumps, and then high knees back into line. We did that for a while and then Kelly told us to go clean up. Sydney came to practice for an hour. All she did was chin ups. Then she left, but it was good to see her. I cooked the coaches some brownies, Steven ate the huge two pieces of brownie that a gave him and then Erica gave him one of her brownies! He eats a lot, but he is not fat.

I am going to be in a book!

2009-01-30T08:04:00.000-08:00

One of my coaches (Kelly) has to do a school assignment. She is making a conditioning book for injured and out of shape gymnasts. She is taking pictures of me doing the correct position of the conditioning. So after practice she took some pictures for the book. Back to gymnastics. When we got to gymnastics we had to run for 5 minutes, ran backwards for 5 minutes minutes, skip 5 laps, sashay 2 laps each way and then we stretched and conditioned (like usual) and went to beam. I did back walkovers, leaps, turns, jumps, and dismounts. My back walkovers were really good I passed and worked on my full turns, I fell off a bunch on those! Last night three girls got hurt on beam. Diana split the beam, Jasmine scraped her leg so bad on the beam that it started to bleed a little and Maddie fell on her face! After a long time of stuff like that we went to vault. I have not been vaulting very well. I think it is because we recently started using a different spring board of because I am now going on 115 instead of 110. Then we went to bars and conditioned some more. Then we to floor and played a game. Then Kelly took some pictures of me, I said good bye to the girls and coaches and then I left.

So Fun!

2009-01-26T07:55:00.000-08:00

We got to gym and warmed up and then we went to bars. I started with Steven and did giants, I almost did it by myself! I am so excited!!! Hopefully I can get them by myself in a couple weeks. I am still doing them on the low bar, it is just higher I also worked on Layout fly aways. They were pretty good, but I am scared that my feet will hit the bar so I flex my toes like way. LOL. I do a perfect layout and then my toes are so flexed. In case you are wondering I changed the dates so it looks like I am posting on Monday. I was really busy so I have not had time. Then we went to beam and I did back handsprings, back walkovers, back tucks and leaps. Oh yeah, I did some turns and jumps. Then Steven sent me to tumble track to do Arabians off. I did that for a while and then we conditioned. Nothing really exciting. I will post again soon.

Hunting

2009-01-25T12:19:00.001-08:00

I got back from my hunting trip yesterday. I have not gone to gym since I was on my trip. It was so much fun!!! I left at 2:00 in the afternoon and we got there at about 3:50. We unpacked all of our stuff and put it in our cabin. Then we went out to the place where we were going to hunt and waited until 5:00 to go hunting because it was SO hot. We walked for a while looking for birds but we did not see any, Trigger (our dog) loved it out there he was running around like crazy. We hunted there until 7:00, but we did not find any birds, and then headed up to "Las Tres Hermanas" (the three sisters), I hope I spelled that right. It is a really good Mexican restaurant. After we ate we headed back to out cabin. I did some school and read a book until about 9:30 then Dad and I went to sleep. Except we did not sleep, we did not know that we had to turn on the air conditioning. And then when we figured it out, we could not find then remote! LOL. So we opened the door and window and just laid there. Then I remembered a remote control thing that I thought was for the radio, I gave it to Dad and it turned out that it was for the air conditioning! By then it was about 10:00 and we finally got to sleep. Dad woke me up at 5:30 in the morning because he thought it was 6:30 (the people who owned the cabin had never switched the clock). So I dozed for about one hour and then we got up and packed all our stuff in the car. We got breakfast at a gas station we had egg tacos and I had hot chocolate. Dad got coffee. Then we went to the hunting lease, we got there at 7:30 and we hunted until 10:00, we got four birds then. After we took about a 20 minute break for some water and stuff we headed back out. We hunted from 10:30 to 12:00, in that time we got 6 birds! So we got 10 in total. Since we were already packed up we got in the car and drove home. We stopped at a restaurant for lunch and then we got home. We unpacked and just hung out. Mom made pizza and we ate it and watched a movie. It was a fun weekend!

Surgery

2009-01-22T11:06:00.000-08:00

Sydney is having surgery tomorrow. I am so sad, she will not be able to work out for three months! She pulled part of the bone off her knee when she was skiing. She came to gym last night for about twenty minutes. She has a huge cast! Its from her thigh to her shin. When we go to gym we had to jump rope for twenty minutes and complete a list of conditioning and then we went to vault. I was not vaulting well at all, grrrrrrrrrrrrrruuuuu. We vaulted for about 40 minutes and then we went to beam. At beam I worked on a bunch of stuff. We had to do leaps over a pile of pit cubes on the beam. Kelly said that I was doing good leaps. I am glad because my leap was not very big last season. Then I did full turns, and the beginning of my routine. Kelly made us do the beginning of our routine for like 20 minutes, I got really bored. Then I worked on my dismount, I held it really long. ( I was doing the level 6 dismount). They have gotten a lot better. After that we had to go do twenty kips on bars. Kelly told us where to put the mats and we set up a bunch of different stations. I worked on clear hips a bunch. She made us do them off a mat and then when we came out our feet had to land on the mat, just to make sure we got our feet high enough. After that I went to the station where Kelly was and I worked on my high bar, I did the whole high bar again!!! I also worked some fly-aways. Then I went to the next bar and did my low bar. I was tired then so it was not the best low bar but it was still pretty good.
Then Mom came and picked me up.

Giants

2009-01-20T14:38:00.000-08:00

I worked on giants off of the strap bar, like on the real bar! They were scary when I was about to go but not so bad when I was actually going. I slipped on one but I was already past the handstand so it did not really matter. We spent a lot of time on bars, like 1 hour and 45 minutes. I am so proud of my self, I did my kip on high bar connected to the rest of my routine and with out the extra swing! (most of the time). Then we went to beam and stayed there for about an hour, I worked a lot on my series and my turns and my jumps. My meet is coming up! It is March 7! It is not a real meet but there is going to be a bunch of people watching and we are going to do our routines. Then we conditioned and cleaned up the gym.
Congratulations Drew at your meet!

I am sick

2009-01-17T13:26:00.000-08:00

There is nothing to really post about because I am sick, so I have not gone to the gym. I am feeling better now, but no more practice until Monday. Steven said that we are going to do giants on the high bar instead of strap bar. I am a little nervous because my grips are not broken in yet. But I know Steven is a good spotter. I am going to ask him to spot me on strap bar first so I get the feel of it. (I already have it on strap bar). Sorry that there is nothing to post. I will post on Tuesday.

Front fulls

2009-01-15T13:13:00.000-08:00

Yesterday we did our warm-up and then went to beam. It was so boring because we had Kelly and not Steven. She would not even let me do a back handspring! All I did was turns, jumps, and back walkovers, so boring. We stayed there for a while and then we went to bars we did kips, casts, and clear hips. And then we conditioned. After that we went to tramp and had free time, I worked on front fulls. I did some pretty good ones. Sydney, Allie, and I got matching grips, because we wanted it to be special. And now two other girls are copying us and getting the same grips. Jasmine and Kelsie always copy's us, it is so annoying. So my friends and I decided that we are going to get lime green wrist bands! And a set of hot pink! LOL. Some of the girls on team are so hard to get along with (no names). They always follow me around, copy me, act like they are better then me, and when I get a new skill since they are "better then me" they think they can do it to! Yikes! I did several beam routines and I stuck them!

Sorry!

2009-01-14T13:29:00.000-08:00

Sorry that I have not posted in such a long time! I have been so busy! Steven was having a bad day on Monday! I could tell. I made us condition for the first two hours with no BREAKS!!! Sydney and I were down first so he sent us over to the rope and we had to climb it 20 times. STEVEN! But the rest of the night was fun. We went to floor and did a bunch a combinations that he made up like, cartwheel-back Ariel-back handspring-front Ariel. Which I did not land, at least the front Ariel part! LOL. Then we tumbled and he made us do Front handspring front pike dive roll. HE was being crazy. Maybe I should bring him some cookies so he is not grumpy? Then we went to tumble track and I worked fulls. Then we left. I just got back from my afternoon practice (I have it every other week). We went to vault and I did half on half offs, they are so fun! And guess what? I stuck them!!! Then we went to beam and I did my routine. I also worked some back tucks on the low beam and I stuck two. YEA! Then we went to tumble track and I did fulls, which for some reason I could not stick, I mean I would completely fall to my back. I did that for about twenty minutes and then it was time to go. I still have to go tonight. So I need to go finish some school!

Level 6/7/8

2009-01-11T11:42:00.000-08:00

I know this is so confusing so I am going to try to explain it more. I am a level 7 and working some level 8 skills for next year. My gym is making me do one level 6 meet so that I do not have to compete a full season and just focus on level 7 and 8. I am mostly working on level 7 skills but on floor and beam I am starting to work on level 8 skills. So Pretty much I am a level 7 who has to compete one level 6 meet. My gym would not let me move up in the half way season because they wanted me to score high at level 5. But my gym is not a very competitive. I am hoping to compete level 8 next year but I will probably not be able to. I really need to get my giant. I am having trouble with understanding the right way to do it and I do not want to do it yet except on strap bar. I am going to try to call Hillary and Diana again and see how there meet went.

Call it crazy

2009-01-10T09:13:00.000-08:00

When we got to gym we ran and stretched, (like usual). Except we hardly had any conditioning, I finished my conditioning in 10 minutes. The we went to bars. I remembered my grips! I getting used to them, they are actually helping me now. The only problem I have, is when I jump to the bar before kipping, up I always do another swing so that my hands are for sure in the right position. But I am sure I will take that swing away soon. I did clear hips, kips, casts handstands, fly-aways, and monkey giants. I also did a bunch of big tap swings. Then we went to floor and tumbled for a while, I did not tumble very well. I fell on my front handspring front tuck, and I did not stick my back tuck. Then we went to beam and warmed up, I mean like 15 minutes. And watched Diana and Hillary, who have a meet tomorrow do beam routines. Steven decided we should squeeze in a little vault so we all headed over to vault for the last 30 minutes. I vaulted really good! Then Mrs. Parker (Allie and tori's mom) took us to Rudy's for dinner. We car pool with the Parker's. Allie is my good friend, and Tori is Ellie's friend. Ellie is my little sister. Very off topic but, Allie should me how to text on her phone. I am going to text her a little on my Moms phone. Because I do not have a phone.

Goals

2009-01-09T13:06:00.000-08:00

I am going to write some of my gymnastics goals for 2009. At the end of 2009 I will see how many of my goals I completed.

1. Get my giant
2. Get back tuck on beam
3. get full on floor
4. get 36.00 at level 6 and 7
5. back tuck on beam
6. back handspring back handspring with no pause
7. straddle cast handstand
8. handstand half pirouette
9. stay tighter and more focused
10. go to level 8

Jordan came to practice

2009-01-08T13:35:00.000-08:00

Jordan came to practice last night to say good bye. I am going to miss her a lot. She has already had several practice there and she loves it. Jordan and I talked for a long time last night, I have her phone number so I can call her on the weekends. She is also going to come over to my house soon. She switched to that gym because they practice more hours, and have several coaches that went to the Olympics (Chinese). So she thinks she can go farther in gymnastics.

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When I got to gym we ran, conditioned, and warmed up and then went to beam. Right now beam seems to be the event we are going to most. I did back handspring, back tucks, back walkover back handspring and back handspring back handsprings. After My level 7 season I am going to start 8, I am already training it. The only thing I need for level 7/8 are my giants and I do not need them for level 7, I just want them! I also worked on my jump series and go it really high, my full turns are getting a lot better! Then we went to floor and tumble for like 15 minutes not much hard stuff. Front handspring front pikes, layouts, halves, stuff like that. Then we sat in over splits and took turns doing routines. It was fun to watch the routines. After that we went to vault and did regular front handsprings and half ons. BORING! I can wait to start different vaults. After vault we went to bars. I did cast handstands, kips, clear hips, and baby giants. I am really trying to get my giant. I am so mad, I left my grips at home. Wow, Steven got MAD! I mean MAD!!! He also scheduled a split test for March 6, but I figured out that we can not do it then because He is going to be gone at a meet, and we have a party at the gym that night! HA HA HA! After that we hung around a bit and talked with Jordan. Sydney and I also talked a lot. Then Dad and Mom took me home, they also took Allie ( level 6) and Tori (level 4) who are sisters home. They live about 10 minutes away from us.

Oh My Goodnes!

2009-01-07T13:59:00.000-08:00

Okay my mom was talking to the manager of our gym and Amber and Ana level 5's quit!!! So did Jordan a level 6/7 and she was one of my really good friends. I am so bummed, they coaches are really up set. My goal for the next couple months are to get my giant, full on floor (not tumble track), and my back tuck on beam. Grips are a pain right now. They are really thick grips and they are new so I can not rotate my hands very well. I am so sad about the girls who quit! I can not believe that they did. Jordan is the closet girl to my skill level and so we worked out together a lot. Sydney is my best friend but she has a lower skill level. So now we have 5 level 6's, and 2 level 5's. Next year we will have a bunch of level 5's because we have like 15 level 4's! Crazy. I am bored waiting for gym to start. I have all my school done but it is rest time for the little kids so I have to be still or they will here me and wake up. I will post a much longer report tomorrow.

Arabians!

2009-01-06T13:37:00.000-08:00

Last night practice was so much fun! when I go there we ran for 20 minutes and then stretched and conditioned. I had to leave early so that is why I only got to go to beam. When we got to beam and warmed I started back walkovers, my coach said they were good and to move in to the next skill on my chart, so I did back handsprings and I did it with straight legs!!! Sydney is still having trouble with her back walkovers, she is getting upset because only one other girl does not have her back walkover, and I am her best friend and I get to work on harder skills. So after back walkovers I did full turns and I stuck every single turn! Yahoo. Then I worked back tucks on the low beam. I have my back tuck really good on beam but I keep landing on my heels and it hurts. Steven said to land on my toes and then heels but that is not working. I guess I just need to practice it more. The only problem is that he is the only coach who lets me do harder stuff. Kelly and Erica make me do back walkovers and full turns and that is all. Boring. Then I worked on my level 7 dismount about 20 of those and Steven said he was going to teach me am Arabian! So we went to tumble track and he taught me how to do one! It was so much fun! I really think I was going to have a good bar night but my dad came and picked me up so I could not go to bars. Oh well, we will probably go to bars on Wednesday.

Tips and help

2009-01-05T08:26:00.001-08:00

My friend Sydney is having trouble with some of her level 6 skills, so Steven will not let her work her level 7 skills. She is having problems with her back walkover on beam, she is placing her weird on the beam so she is not lined up and she falls off. Does any one have tips for hand placement? She really wants to get it soon because our first meet is March 7. For me I need tips on not arching on my cast handstand. Is it just practice? Or is there any drills I can do? I would really like it if someone could give me tips. Our coach is just like you'll get it eventually but Sydney (my bff) and I want to get our skills now. Also in your back handspring on beam, how do you keep your legs straight? They are not very bent but they still are a little bit. I will post tomorrow and tell how practice goes. If you'll are wondering why I post in the day its because I am home schooled. They switched practice from 9:00-12:00 a.m. to 6:30-9:30 p.m. so I don't have it until this evening.

Fulls

2009-01-03T13:56:00.000-08:00

On Friday at practice I was working on my layouts and I got them a lot better! So I got to work on fulls. I am doing some level 8 skills, because I already have all my 7 skills, but I can't skip six without competing so I am in level 6. I have been working my front handspring layout and it is pretty good except I need to get it higher. On bars I got my cast handstand from front support, I have always had to do it out of a kip. I am still getting used to my grips, they feel uncomfortable. Oh well, I guess I will get used to them.

Monday!

2008-12-27T05:39:00.000-08:00

I have not had practice sense Tuesday and I am getting a little bored! I am so excited because Monday is our next practice. I really need to work on my dismount on beam, I do not hold it long enough. I am really happy that we are going to score out of level 6, because I really want to do level 7. I have been working on my full on our trampoline at home. And I got it! I am so happy!!! At gym I have only done it off tumble track though. I really want to get my lay outs higher before I try my full. I have also been practicing on our beam. (It is just a piece of wood covered in carpet and put and to blocks) I really want to get my dismount good. Does anyone have any tips? I would really like it if they did. My first meet is in March so we are already learning the routines.

First Practice

2008-12-22T15:18:00.000-08:00

I had my first level 6 practice this morning. It went GREAT!!!!!!!! It was so much fun. IT was my first practice with grips so that was kinda hard, but other then that it went great. I got my back handspring on the beam! I get it several weeks ago and I meant to tell you'll but I forgot. WE went to bars, floor, and beam. Beam was very boring because I already know the routines but a got a bunch of great practice in. WE are having short practices this week 'cause of Christmas so we went from 9:00 a.m 'til 12:a.m and we are going again tomorrow. I am so happy for Allie. She got her whole level 6 bar routine except for her fly-away and she also did an super duper great front flip. It was a great practice and I can not wait until tomorrow!!!!!!

Level 6!

2008-12-19T15:12:00.000-08:00

I am moving up!!! Yahoo. I found out on Wednesday that Jordan, Sydney, Kelsie, Allie, Jasmine and I are moving up to level 6!!!!! Our meets are in March so I do not get very much time to train, three months. Scary. But I already have all my skills so it should not be bad. Whoever gets really good scores at level 6 will then move up to level 7. I hope I move up to level 7, but right now I need to focus on level 6.

Meeting

2008-12-17T14:01:00.001-08:00

Tonight at 8:50 Mom is meeting with my coach to find out if I am moving up. I hope I do. We are also having the Christmas party tonight. I got Sydney a grip bag, Allie Dr.pepper chap stick (from target) Coach Kelly lotion, Coach Erica lotion, and Steven a star bucks card. I drew a girl named Maddie from the bucket so I have to get her a gift, I got her a webkinz. From WWW.Webkinz.com Also here is a link to target www.target.com . I am so excited about tonight, our meeting and our Christmas party!!!! I will post tomorrow and tell you if I moved up. My grips came in but Mom will not let me have them until Christmas.

Grips!

2008-12-13T15:52:00.000-08:00

I can finally get grips. Our gym will not let us get grips until we are at least level 6. And I just moved up so now I can get grips. They still have not told us so Steven told to just go ahead and get grips. I have been conditioning really hard so that I can get a bunch of new skills. What I need right now is my giant and my full. Our gym does not like us to do level 6 so after a month we are going to "test out" of level 6 and into level 7. I am so excited!!!! I will post as soon as we find out who is moving up.

Moving up!

2008-12-10T10:27:00.000-08:00

We are supposed to find out who is moving up tonight or on Friday. Steven already told me and two other girls that we are moving up but I want to see who else is moving up. The other to girls are Sydney my best friend, and Jordan my good friend. I am so excited!!! I got my balk walkover back handspring on the beam. I really want to get my giant. Sorry I have not posted in a long time. I have been really busy.

Stretches

2008-11-29T05:40:00.000-08:00

Here are my stretches, I also try to do these every day.

*windmills
*arms over your head
*pike flexed
*pike pointed
*straddle, right, left, middle
*butterfly
*diamond
*right & left lunge
*right split
*left split
*middle split
*shoulders
*bridge
* wrist and ankles

home workout

2008-11-28T11:47:00.000-08:00

For my home workout I usually do something like this. I try to do these every day. I also increase my numbers every week. I will post my stretches soon.

*5 laps on bike
*2 laps running
*25 arm lefts with weights
*25 hollow body rocks
*25 super girl rocks
*25 crunches
*45 push ups
*15 clap push ups
* 40 lemon squeezes
*25 dips
*25 frog jumps