Posts : 2030 Join date : 2009-03-31 Age : 60 Location : Clarkes Beach Newfoundland
Subject: FROSTY FLIP 2011 Sun Feb 06, 2011 3:13 pm
Kayla competed in her first competition of the year on Sat. She is now in Level 2 so the skills are more difficult. Now she has to look cute AND perform! I was sooo proud of her. Her results were silver on beam, floor and vault. Bronze on bars and bronze overall.
On the bars she attempted the dreaded "kip" for the first time in competition. She was sooooo close, but no cigar. Then she fell on her squat-on. But god love her little soul, she took a deep breath and continued on with her routine. I was so proud. There are alot of them that break down in tears if they aren't perfect - and I'm not a fan of that. I was so pleased that she could just suck it up and was beaming because she almost got her kip. THAT'S MY GIRL!
When she did her beam routine she nailed her back walkover and full turn. These are the two moves that she was worried about. And then she fell off on her cartwheel. She was rotted! She's been doing the cartwheels on the beam without any trouble for a few months. What a monkey!
Her floor routine was fantastic. She was SO full of herself. It's her favourite apparatus and she likes to "add" dance moves - which drives her coach nuts. Luckily she only added a little hand movement right at the end of the routine. No such thing as too much drama as far as she's concerned!
Vault was amazing. She is so light that she can't get any bounce out of the spring board so they have started using the mini trampoline with her. So she has to run, hit the spring board, bounce onto the mini trampoline and then get over the vault. It's really funny to watch! But she got it done and we were all soooo pleased. First competition that she's been able to get over the vault by herself. I guess being 47 lbs now pays off. HA HA!
Here are the videos that I uploaded to Youtube. Hope you like them!
FIREBUG
Posts : 184 Join date : 2009-03-31 Age : 63 Location : NOVA SCOTIA
Subject: Re: FROSTY FLIP 2011 Tue Feb 08, 2011 10:47 am
Good for her. Well done!
teekathepony
Posts : 640 Join date : 2010-05-07 Age : 38 Location : Northside East Bay