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Buckeye Classic 2011 E1 Level 7

 

 

 

 

Circle of Stars Beam Photos

(beam was the only event where the photographer took photos of em)

 
 
 

Season Four Level Seven Meet Two

Season Four Level Seven Meet Two

State Meet Photos

Got my cd yesterday!  (no bars or vault)

 

 

 

 

 

Level 6 Bar Routine

Level 6 Floor Routine

Gymnastics Season Four Level Six Meet Three

 

Floor: 8.650
Bars:  8.250
Beam: 8.800
Vault: 9.050
AA: 34.750

I *think* those were her scores.   Overall it was a good meet for E1.  She got totally hosed on her bar score - it wasn't an Olympic routine but it was as good as the routines that scored 8.65 & 8.90.    The best thing about the meet was that she stayed on the beam! 

Level 7 Floor Routine!

E1's Level 7 floor routine - dance passes only.  (When you see her just run across the floor - that's where the tumbling passes will go)

The video is not embedding correctly so here is the link:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NA2UAkpDi1s

Note: E1 has three more Level 6 meets and will not compete Level 7 until January.

E1 has all her level 6 and 7 skills,  AND the head coach told her group that it is time to come up with a list of songs they would like to be considered for their level 7 floor routine!  SQUEEEEEEEE!

Parade!

 
 

More Gymnastics

E1 had a fun week at senior camp, although this year she did not feel like she got to work on upskills very much (skills above her current level).  So that was a little disappointing. It also seems like the price of camp goes up a little each year (or at least does not go down) but they continue to cut things out.  E1's first year they got to go to a pool and Magic Mountain and her second year they did a ropes course at Camp Mary Orton.  This year (her fourth) they didn't even do any crafts.   Again, E1 had fun so I guess that is what really matters.

I will admit that I am a little burnt out on kid sports.   Sometimes the financial & time commitment are draining but usually I am okay with those (or just shove them back into the deep recesses of my mind and don't acknowledge them!).   The mind numbing soul sucking parts are slimy coaches ( not at gymnastics), rabid "MY KID IS THE BEST EVER AT THIS SPORT!! parents, fake phony leeches, tween girl drama (man am I sick of E1's complaints in this area!  whether it is her perception or she really is dealing with some divas I just. want. it. to. stop. ) and on and on and on.  

B won't let us move to the Caymans and set up a money laundering scheme (I haven't worked out all the details beyond me sitting on the beach with a margarita while the kids splash in the ocean) so I guess we are stuck with soccer and gymnastics for a few more years.......

This & That

eta:  E1 has had straight A's all year!  Z apparently made the honor roll last quarter??? It's so hard to tell - the middle school has gone "green" and doesn't print out grade cards.  The on-line system is NOT intuitive,  is frequently not up-to-date, and I'm not always sure what his final grades are.  He has gotten better *overall* with getting stuff turned in on time.  And on his WEP (written education plan), his teacher wrote:  "After a transition period (HA! <------- that's frm me, not the teacher), Z has adjusted well to 7th grade. He is well-liked by teachers and peers, and he has a great sense of humor and always offers insightful discussion".  PHEW! 

Today at school, E1 gets to watch THE movie and listen to THE talk.

This week, Z starts registering for his 8th grade classes.

Right now, I am feeling OLD.

I was thisclose to getting the girls to switch to cheer.  Sigh.  Oh well, they are super psyched about gymnastics right now and that's pretty cool.  E2 wants to get her backhandspring! and become a level 4! and she is never going to quit gymnastics!  E1 LOVES that they now get the head coach for beam some nights and is actually enjoying working on the TOPS skills for 10 year olds.

Z's coach? The one who replaced the guy (who took a promotion and moved to Kansas) who replaced the jerk who dumped them after 2 1/2 years (for a Gold girls team)?  Has been detained for immigration issues.  It just never ends for that poor kid and  I am SO over Worthington Crew Jrs.    EVERY freaking year there is drama, frustration, lies and disappointment.   Z could have done an upper tier rec league for a tenth of the time, money and irritation and been no worse off than he is right now.   Makes me sad that Z is so loyal to a club that doesn't seem to give a crap about his team. 

Poor Grandma T.  Got sent home from the hospital the day after her accident with an undiagnosed and untreated fracture in her ankle.   Unbelievable.

LOVE LOVE LOVE the weather this week.  Not too hot, not too cold, just right!  With lots of blue skies and sunshine.  I hope the rest of May is just like this.  Because we all know how I feel about hot muggy Ohio summers.

#1 All-Around with a 36.875!

1st Place All-Around!!!!!

Competitive Gymnastics: Season 3 Level Five: Season One Meet: Seven

[no meet photos - I took Z to his soccer game and B took E1 to the meet]

Vault:  9.025 (2nd)
Bars:   9.000 (3rd, amazing score considering her disastrous squat-on; almost fell off)
Beam:  9.050 (1st)
Floor:  9.300 (1st, and her highest floor score this season!)
AA:    36.375 (2nd)

Competitive Gymnastics: Season 3 Level Five: Season One Meet: Five

Vault: 8.900
Bars:  8.700
Beam: 9.450
Floor: 8.750

AA: 35.800 (I think she got 4th place?)

Competitive Gymnastics: Season 3 Level Five: Season One Meet: Four

Vault: 8.550
Bars:  9.050
Beam: 8.800
Floor: 9.025

AA:  35.425 (6th "I was just happy I placed!")

10/28/09

Technically this is more E1 before gymnastics (with her Vera bag for her grips) than E1 after school (especially since she changed clothes):

Competitive Gymnastics: Season 3 Level Five: Season One Meet: Three

Vault: 8.600 I don't know what's going on with her vault (2nd)
Bars: 8.350 The consensus is she got robbed (2nd)
Beam: 8.750 She didn't fall on her cartwheel and was doing so well until she got a time warning! (2nd)
Floor: 9.175 I thought her score should have been a smidge higher (2nd)
AA: 34.875 Not a bad score of course, and she did miss most of her practices last week due to illness.  I'm just not sure her heart is really in it anymore (if it ever was) and her teammates are blowing her out of the water. (2nd*)

(*there were only 7 girls in the 9Old group and the other teams didn't not score very well)

No matter what, she is TOPs with me!

 

 

TOPs Testing 9 years old

(won't know national best/averages until after all testing is complete.)

This year:

Bridge (Shoulder Flexibility)

E1: 5

Right Leg Split:

E1 -  11.00

Left Leg Split:

E1 -  5.00

Leg Lifts:

E1 -  8.00

Cast Handstand:

E1 - 0.00

Vertical Jump:

E1 - 15.25

Press Handstand:

E1 - 1/10

Handstand Hold:

E1 -  0.00

20 Meter Sprint:

E1 - 3.28

Rope Climb 12 feet:

E1 - 9.47

Last year:

Shoulder Flexibility:

National Average - 4.64

     National Best - 5.00

                   E1 - 4.00

E1 points awarded: 4/5

Right Leg Split:

National Average - 11.06    

     National Best - 15.00

                   E1 -  6.00

E1 points awarded: 6/15

Left Leg Split:

National Average - 10.48

     National Best - 15.00

                   E1 -  5.00

E1 points awarded: 5/15

Leg Lifts:

National Average - 13.88

     National Best - 20.00

                   E1 -  6.00

E1 points awarded: 3/10

Cast Handstand:

National Average - 1.27

     National Best - 5.00

                   E1 - 0.00

E1 points awarded: 0/10

Vertical Jump:

National Average - 13.62

     National Best - 20.00

                   E1 - 11.50

E1 points awarded: 3.5/10

Press Handstand:

National Average - 2.09

     National Best - 5.00

                   E1 - 0.50/10

E1 points awarded: 1

Handstand Hold:

National Average - 12.57

     National Best - 30.00

                   E1 -  3.90

E1 points awarded: 0/10

20 Meter Sprint:

National Average - 3.59

     National Best - 2.91

                   E1 - 3.61

E1 points awarded: 5.5/10

Rope Climb 6ft:

National Average - 5.36

     National Best - 1.59

                   E1 - 4.40

E1 points awarded: 7.5/10

Total Points Awarded:

National Average - 50.41

     National Best - 86.50

                   E1 - 35.50

Team Camp: Day 3, Picnic

E1, after the dunk tank:

Team Camp: Day 2, Crazy Hair Day

Team Camp: Day 1, Crazy Hat Day

Gratitude

What I am especially grateful for this week:

1. E1 had a GREAT practice today!  She made her back walkover on the high beam (and got to ring the bell), did an aerial, and got to ring the bell for her Yurchenko drill.  She has been scared. to. death. to do the walkover so today was HUGE!

2. E1 and E2 had a ton of fun at a birthday party at their gym today.

3. Z had a blast playing paintball yesterday!  The team voted on MVP and he did not win, but he did get 5 (of 12) votes so that was nice!

4. Yummy meals and family time this week at Cracker Barrel, Buffalo Wild Wings and the Rusty Bucket.

5. Z had a big math project/presentation due this week and got 100 pts out of 100!

6. Hot Fuzz - what a funny movie!

7. Our new air conditioner!!

8. eta: E1 really enjoyed her field trip to the Ohio Caverns - although I think the highlight was the mood ring (lost this weekend in a porta potty tragedy) she bought at the gift shop!

Team Banquet

 

The year-end banquet for E1's gym was very nice.  And E1 got MVP for her level!  (They take everyone's top 3 All-around scores and the highest one for each level is MVP)

Yeowch

The good news is that E1 did a back walkover on the high beam.  The bad news is that attempt 2 was not quite as successful. 

Beam Burn:

Matchy Matchy!

Final Level 4 Meet aka State Championships aka 38! and 2nd?????

 

Vault: 9.650 (2nd)
Bars: 9.725! (1st!)
Beam: 9.300 (2nd)
Floor: 9.325 (2nd. Last Level 4 Meet, Last Event and at the last moment, she didn't stick the landing. [says her shoulder popped on her backhandspring and hurt so that threw her off])

AA: 38.  And. came. in. SECOND! First place got a 38.15.  Oh well.  State Champ would have been a great way to end the level but what can ya do?  She is Bars State Champ, and received her highest bar and vault scores ever.

E1 and I were there from noon until 10pm.  We stayed to watch one of her teammates and to find out if her gym took first place. It did! The girls were SO happy and E1 got to bring the trophy home for the night!  It was a very long day, but very fun!

What's the opposite of ni hao?

 

One of E1's coaches is going back to China after State Meet, so last night we did a few group photos with her.  We'll have all the girls sign the photo's mat, frame it, and give it to her at State.  

Today's gripe: What is wrong with teh internets/our computer/our internet service provider?  I have had SO much trouble accessing twitter, facebook and typepad today. Probably a sign to get off the computer and do laundry!

Level 4: Season 2, Meet 10

Bars: 9.275
Beam: 9.500
Floor: 9.650
Vault: 9.175
AA: 37.600 (1st!!)

Season Average:
Bars: 9.3175
Beam: 9.1975
Floor:  9.3525
Vault: 9.2175
AA:  37.085

Bars (very relieved to get a blue ribbon - there was some harsh judging):
 

Beam:
 

 Floor:
 

Vault:

More Meet Pix

 

 

 

Puma

SO glad I ordered the photo cd from E1's big meet - so nice to have decent gymnastics photos for a change!!

Level Four: Season 2, Meet 9

Bars: 9.475  1st
Beam: 9.500 1st
Floor: 9.600 2nd
Vault: 9.375 tied for 8th
AA: 37.950  1st

Season Averages:

Bars: 9.322
Beam: 9.164
Floor:  9.319
Vault:  9.222
AA: 37.028

Level Four: Season Two, Meet Whatever

Bars: 9.375 (2nd)
Beam: 9.250 (1st)
Floor: 9.300 (3rd)
Vault: 9.175 (4th)
AA: 37.100 (2nd)

Not bad for a little girl who was a. very stressed about this meet (our gym hosts it, there are three gyms going on at once, lots of people, lots of noise, etc) and b. is now pukey sick. Poor Puma.

Level Five Routines

Vault:

Bars:

Beam:

Floor (enjoy the stripper music!):

E1's First Level 5 Meet

E1's First Level 5 Meet: January 31, 2009

Vault: 8.400
Bars: 8.650
Beam: 8.650
Floor: 8.075
AA:  33.775

E1's First Level 4 Meet: September 29, 2007

  

Vault: 8.750
Bars: 7.300
Beam: 6.800
Floor: 5.600
AA: 28.450

 

Meet Seven

 

Bars: 9.450 (2nd)
Beam: 9.650 (1st, and her best beam score ever!)
Floor: 9.150 (3rd - floor scores were low across the board)
Vault: 9.200 (tied for 2nd, took 3rd)
AA: 37.45 (2nd place by .025)

Rock On, Puma.

• There were approximately 400 gymnasts at the meet this past weekend, from Level 4 -10. 

• There were only two scores above 9.7, one of which was E1's 9.7 floor score.

• There were only 15 scores between 9.5 and 9.599, two of which were E1's 9.5 vault and 9.55 bars scores.

• There were only 11 all-around scores above 37, one of which was E1's 38.15 score.

and.........

• There was only ONE gymnast whose all-around score was above 38. *smile*

Level 4 Season 2

Bars	8.850	9.175	9.200	9.375	9.450	9.550
Beam	8.575	8.725	9.050	9.050	9.275	9.400
Floor	9.300	9.225	9.275	9.000	9.325	9.700
Vault	8.850	8.700	9.300	9.600	9.300	9.500
All-Around	35.575	35.825	36.825	37.025	37.350	38.150

Season #2, Meet #4

Meet #4:

• Bars: 9.375 (2nd)
• Beam: 9.050 (2nd)
• Floor: 9.000 (2nd)
• Vault: 9.600 (1st)
• AA: 37.025 (2nd)

Meet #3

• Bars: 9.200 (2nd)
• Beam: 9.050 (5th)
• Floor: 9.275 (2nd)
• Vault: 9.300 (1st)
• AA: 36.825 (2nd)

Meet #2

• Bars: 9.125 (2nd)
• Beam: 8.725 (4th)
• Floor: 9.225 (2nd)
• Vault: 8.700 (6th)
• AA: 35.775 (2nd)

Meet #1

• Bars: 8.85 (4th)
• Beam: 8.575 (3rd)
• Floor: 9.30 (1st)
• Vault: 8.85 (2nd)
• AA: 35.575 (2nd)

Big Sis Little Sis

E1 got a great big sis this season.  B is very encouraging and has given E1 several cards and little gifties.  E1 really looks up to her - B is an elite gymnast who is also an excellent student and is very sweet.

Season #2, Meet #3

Meet #3

• Bars: 9.200 (2nd)
• Beam: 9.050 (5th)
• Floor: 9.275 (2nd)
• Vault: 9.300 (1st)
• AA: 36.825 (2nd)

Meet #2

• Bars: 9.125 (2nd)
• Beam: 8.725 (4th)
• Floor: 9.225 (2nd)
• Vault: 8.700 (6th)
• AA: 35.775 (2nd)

Meet #1

• Bars: 8.85 (4th)
• Beam: 8.575 (3rd)
• Floor: 9.30 (1st)
• Vault: 8.85 (2nd)
• AA: 35.575 (2nd)

Season #2, Meet #2

Meet #2

• Bars: 9.125 (2nd)
• Beam: 8.725 (4th)
• Floor: 9.225 (2nd)
• Vault: 8.700 (6th)
• AA: 35.775 (2nd)

Meet #1

• Bars: 8.85 (4th)
• Beam: 8.575 (3rd)
• Floor: 9.30 (1st)
• Vault: 8.85 (2nd)
• AA: 35.575 (2nd)

Tops Testing 8 year olds

Shoulder Flexibility:

National Average - 4.64

     National Best - 5.00

                   E1 - 4.00

E1 points awarded: 4/5

Right Leg Split:

National Average - 11.06    

     National Best - 15.00

                   E1 -  6.00

E1 points awarded: 6/15

Left Leg Split:

National Average - 10.48

     National Best - 15.00

                   E1 -  5.00

E1 points awarded: 5/15

Leg Lifts:

National Average - 13.88

     National Best - 20.00

                   E1 -  6.00

E1 points awarded: 3/10

Cast Handstand:

National Average - 1.27

     National Best - 5.00

                   E1 - 0.00

E1 points awarded: 0/10

Vertical Jump:

National Average - 13.62

     National Best - 20.00

                   E1 - 11.50

E1 points awarded: 3.5/10

Press Handstand:

National Average - 2.09

     National Best - 5.00

                   E1 - 0.50/10

E1 points awarded: 1

Handstand Hold:

National Average - 12.57

     National Best - 30.00

                   E1 -  3.90

E1 points awarded: 0/10

20 Meter Sprint:

National Average - 3.59

     National Best - 2.91

                   E1 - 3.61

E1 points awarded: 5.5/10

Rope Climb:

National Average - 5.36

     National Best - 1.59

                   E1 - 4.40

E1 points awarded: 7.5/10

Total Points Awarded:

National Average - 50.41

     National Best - 86.50

                   E1 - 35.50

Season #2, Meet 1

This year:

• Bars: 8.85 (4th)
• Beam: 8.575 (3rd)
• Floor: 9.30 (1st)
• Vault: 8.85 (2nd)
• AA: 35.575 (2nd)

Last year:

• Bars: 7.30
• Beam: 6.80
• Floor:  5.60
• Vault: 8.75
• Total: 28.45

Eeek!

E1's first meet is Saturday @ 4:30!  Here we go again!

She'll have to score nines if she wants to continue working on the higher level skills.  I hope that gives her some incentive. 

Day Eleven

Z was in a goofy mood this morning that was not conducive to picture-taking.

E1 made her backhandspring on the low beam last night!

Miss Fantastic Gymnastic

Tonight at practice, E1:

• did three cast handstand to vertical in a row (2 crisp 3rd sloppy)
• made a kip-cast-clear hip
• did an "awesome straight leg all the way up" rope climb

Saturday (maybe, might have been a different practice) E1:

• Almost did a giant