Weekly Work 9/20/13

This week I was at gymnastics Monday through Saturday  for 6 hours each practice. I will had my goal of getting a 9.7 on each even in  my head all week. I also be practiced with my coach one on one 2 hours after practice 3 days this week. During practice I did all my routines and worked on new skills for the competition season. When I stayed after practice  my  coach gave me techniques to make each skill deduction free along with a lot of conditioning so I am getting stronger and the skills become easier. My coach also made me start from basics which means doing simple stuff like back tucks, handstands, back handsprings, cartwheels and round offs so I can make sure that I had the correct body positions and good form to make the harder skills like round off back handspring full twist look better. This week I struggled on floor. During my routine I was off on the music and I ended too late every time. I fixed it by taking out some stuff in routine so I could be with the music and end on time. If you don't end with the music its a deduction. I also struggled with one of my tumbling passes. The first pass I do in routine is round off back handspring full twist front tuck. Every time I did that I would fall on my knees. My coach helped me stick it by making sure when I do the front tuck after the twist my chest is up and I look at the wall so my body isn't leaning forward.

Outside of practice I watched videos of myself from competitions last year and I had to figure out what skills did not look good or the skills I had to work on the next day at practice. I also watched videos of Olympians and I watched all their body positions and how they go about doing each skill. I also watched for how the they did their routine. I looked for smiling and good clean movements on floor, powerful run on vault, body positions on bars, and balance and extension on beam.

I struggled a little bit this week because I wasn't feeling well and I was really exhausted.It was really hard for me to push myself through each 6 hour practice but I ended up doing it. Because I was so tired it effected my skills on beam. I was off balance and I couldn't stick alot of routines. Tuesday I ended having to do 60 of each correction because I fell so many times during my routines.