9.7

    My 20 is to get a 9.7 on all four events during a  gymnastics competition this season. I have been a gymnast for 14 years. I started at 2 years old in a class that was one day a week. I really loved it and  fourteen years later I am training 36 hours a week as a level 9 at Great Lakes Elite Gymnastics.Gymnastics has been my passion since I started at 2 years old. All the hard training is for competitions that happen between the months of November and May every year. At a competition you do your routine in front of 3 judges on each event and they give you a score out of a 10.0. Getting a 10.0 means your routine is perfect and you did nothing wrong and it is very rare that a person receives a perfect score. Each skill you do your legs have to be together and completely straight, your toes have to be pointed, and your arms can not bend. Every time you do one of those things the judges deduct .1 out of 10.0. So if you do one skill and your legs are bent and not together  and toes not pointed your already at a 9.5. I want to get a 9.7 on every event because I work so hard every day and it feels great to know that your hard work has payed off.  I have never gotten a 9.7 on all four events at one competition but I have gotten multiple 9.8's but not more than one in a single competition.