Xtreme Aerials, three weeks before Level 5 State Championships

Tonight we attended the Xtreme Aerials Fall Classic in Lafayette.  Emily placed 6th all-around in her division which did not please her.  She wants all 9's for Level 5.  I've been told by other moms that she's doing really well, but she's not happy.  She wants to be the best, and is not happy with her record in this Level 5 season.  I think she's done really well - she doesn't.  I'll be reporting in during State.


So here's Emily's scores since the start of this season, there's only one more event - that's the State Championships on December 10th-11th.  They are scheduling the girls in different flights based on their highest meet all around score.  Emily's highest all-around score for this season is 36.1 at the TIGAR Cartwheel Carnival.

9-18-11 Aerials Fall Festival, Colorado Springs.
Vault 8.45 (6th),  Bars 8.05 (5th), Beam 8.95(2nd), Floor 9.0 (2nd) All Around (3rd)  34.45

10-01-11 TIGAR Cartwheel Carnival, Wheat Ridge
Vault 8.75 (7th), Bars 8.6 (8th), Beam 9.4 (1st), Floor 9.35 (1st) All Around (2nd)  36.1

10-15-11 JUDGE'S CUP  (This was disastrous - Emily was coming back from a wrist sprain and basically only conditioned up to this point)
Vault 7.75 43rd),  Bars 8.4 (27th),  Beam 6.7 (she fell three times) (66th), Floor 8.875 (22nd)  All Around 31.725 (57th)  This meet was a reality check for Emily. She now realizes that she can't take 10 days off resting an injury and then jump into a meet head first with virtually no practice.

11-12-11 MILE-HI Salute, TIGAR, Wheat Ridge (this was supposed to have been a Savage Meet)
Vault 8.5 (5th),  Bars 7.95 (?),  Beam 9.15 (1st),  Floor 9.4 (1st),  All Around (2nd Place) 35.0

11-20-11 XAG Fall Classic, Lafayette
Vault  8.65 (13th),  Bars 8.4 (2nd),  Beam  9.425 (2nd),  Floor 9.475 (1st),  All Around (6th Place) 35.95

Harvest Time!

It's October in Colorado and we're still seeing 80 degree days.  Global warming at it's worst.  Yesterday Emily and I went to the pumpkin patch north of Broomfield, CO.  It was a fun time.

Emily picking pumpkins

When we were done with the pumpkin picking, just before you get ready to leave there, they have a petting zoo, face painting, and a hay bale maze.  So of course, Emily just had to go there...

practicing her scale....

 After being sick on Friday, she had too much time off from practice and just HAD to do a few gymnastics moves... I don't understand this need to perform but then again I just looked at Nastia Liukin's photos from England
http://www.visitbritain.com/en/US/Britain-Bound-Nastia-Liukin-Day-One.htm
and I got emotional which really surprised me... it was like watching Emily... they're all someone's little girl and the drive which all the really determined gymnasts seem to have is evident when they can't hold back and have to bust a move anywhere...!

...always a gymnast!

TIGAR Gymnastics Cartwheel Carnival

Emily's first 'home meet". She did well for her second meet of the season. Scores were Vault 7th place with a 8.75, 

 Bars 8th place score 8.6,

 Beam 1st place with a 9.4

and Floor 1st place 9.35.

She placed 2nd All Around. I've put her videos up on YouTube. We did not film the awards ceremony as I was running concessions throughout the entire meet and my soon to be son in law stood in for me as videographer. He did a GREAT job with my lousy little Vivitar cheepo video camera. Here's the YouTube of her floor routine: and here's the video of her beam routine: http://youtu.be/iSSqBPatWIc

Aerials Fall Festival, Colorado Springs

Today was Emily's 1st competition as a Level 5 gymnast. Her scores were 8.45 on Vault (6th place), 8.05 on Bars (5th place), 8.95 on Beam (2nd place) and 9.0 on Floor (2nd place). She was placed in the Age Division "Junior B" with a total of 18 girls competing at that level and finished All Around 3rd place. The TIGAR 4,5, and 6 girls did fairly well in their first outing of the season. We've got a huge crop of Level 5's. It's almost embarrassing, but really kind of fun when you hear the parents screaming from the stands when they step out on the floor... I found a site called www.mymeetscores.com and discovered that my Emily is listed twice, once under the proper spelling of her name Emily Boyet, and then again as Emily Bpyet which lists the information from the CGI meet in February 2011. So I tried to find someone to contact at mymeetscores.com, but their "help" page has no help options. So I wrote CGI to see if they could fix it... we'll see what happens. I noticed that there are alot of misspellings on this site. Searching for Elizabeth Leduc for instance, will bring up at least 4 different spellings and scores for the same individual. It would be nice to be able to consolidate the scores on this site, without anyone monitoring the entries, makes this site pretty much "garbage out" and not at all easy to decipher if you're looking for your kid's scores on line. Somebody somewhere, hear my plea! Fix what ails MyMeetScores.com! I am sure Lizzy's parents would appreciate it, I know I would... Maybe you all should reference the kid's USAG #, but not print it on the site? That would be the easiest check. I don't think their USAG member number ever changes, but hey, what do I know?

This Saturday is National Gymnastics Day!

TIGAR Gymnastics will be doing their part to help with the Guinness Book of World Records for most people doing a handstand at once!

This ought to be fun. I will be serving hot dogs. I can't do a handstand, I am far too old.

Hope to see many faces there this weekend. We're fundraising for Children's Hospital!

Emily made it to Level 5!

This past weekend 7-9-11, there was a mock meet at TIGAR complete with Jana Prochazka (Colorado State Judging Director), and Carol Bunge (brevet judge & USAG Region 3 Technical Chairman.)complete with USAG applied scoring.

Emily's level 5 scores were Vault 7.9, Bars 7.9, Beam 7.3 and Floor 8.5. The judges scored all of the girls very hard, but they also gave them pointers on what they were looking for. They also went over what the deductions were for each fault. I think all of the girls did rather well and for the $25.00 fee, it was WELL WORTH IT! Last year during Emily's level 4 season, they also had a mock meet, with just Jana. I am so happy that I have been able to have Emily at TIGAR.

Spring has sprung

Well, we had the grand opening at the new gym! The new gym is 18,000 square feet. To think that this gym hasn't been open an entire year yet and we've already outgrown the old space! During the grand opening this past weekend we were graced with the presence of Svetlana Boguinskaia, Rustam Sharipov and Anna Smirnova.

I sat and watched them work on Saturday. I have to say that I was so totally impressed. These three wonderful champions worked with all of the kids, in every level and not only did the kids learn new skills, but they also bonded as a team.

This was absolutely a fabulous experience for the kids and I am so appreciative for having been able to allow my child the opportunity to learn from true Olympic champions!

Svetlana Stabourova, Emily's coach from the beginning is pictured on the right of the photo with the blond hair standing next to Anna. She is the BEST EVER! Emily mastered her back walk over, and back hand spring yesterday, with encouragement from her coach. Wow, last week Emily was afraid to perform a back walk over on the low beam, this week she's performing level 6 skills without a bobble!