Gymnastic Video

This is a combination of different videos from my gym. Some of them are from an Aurora meet in 2011. Others are from the summer of 2012 and this past season. There is no particular theme of the videos. They are all random clips from our workouts or meets. Most of them are close teammates and part of our level 9 team. Eric, Ryan, and I make up our level 9 team. The other two little kids shown are Eric and Gunter. Gunter is a level 5 and Eric is a level 6.

Nebraska State Gymnastics

This is a video of Nebraska State's Big Ten gymnastics competition. It is one of my goals to make it onto Nebraska's gymnastics team. Two kids from my gym have made it onto Nebraska's team as well as a friend of mine from Boulder. It would be amazing to get a full ride to Nebraska for gymnastics. It has been a goal of mine for many years. It is very hard to get a scholarship for gymnastics though. They don't hand them out easily. You have to be an amazing gymnast to even get to the team and only the best get a scholarship.

New floor!

So my coach just told us that this summer we are getting a new floor! A new spring floor. This is really surprising because the gym's owner usually won't buy any new equipment. We have had the same old equipment, including the floor, for years. The only time he will get something new is if it breaks. It will be really nice though. Our floor is a really old crappy one. Everybody hates. When we hold meets at our gym every other team complains about it. For once, we will have the nice floor. Also, it should help our tumbling a lot. Whenever we go to other gyms our tumbling improves and it is because of their floor.

This is Ohio State Gymnastics

Grant from the clinic that we had at out gym went to Ohio State. He is in this video. Men's College Gymnastics has gone down hill a lot even since he was in this video. There is only like 25 colleges that even offer a men's program anymore. Then very few of them give scholarships for colleges.  Very rarely does a student get a full ride for gymnastics. Also, the programs are diminishing because there is no funding for them. In the 90's there was a lot more colleges that had men's programs. Most of them were stopped because of lack of funding. Some programs actually have no funding. They just have to work off what they have.

Clinic with Grant

Last Monday we had Grant, a well known judge and gymnast, come in and do a clinic with our team. Grant went to Ohio State for gymnastics. He was a very talented gymnast and was very good. He could have gone to the Olympics most likely but decided he wanted to choose the college route. Once in college he broke his back twice but ended up winning many competitions. It was good to have him come in and work with us. He showed us a whole new warm up that we have started doing. He also showed us some new strength we can do including new bungee strength. Overall it was good for him to come in.

Off Season

Now that it is off season our workouts are way different. We do lots and lots of basics. The first half of practice is just basics on different events. We are also doing tons of strength. Wednesdays and Fridays all we do for 3 hours is strength. Also, since I had my boot on for awhile all I was doing was strength so I have been doing lots of strength recently. Since I have been doing so much, it makes my gymnastics much easier. I can do all of my skills easier because of my new strength. Hopefully next year I will have some new strength based skills.

Injured

So the first day back after Regionals we decided to have a gym party. I was double bouncing people on tramp and when i jumped on to double bounce a kid, my ankle rolled really bad. It swelled up some and I couldn't walk on it. The next day we went the doctors. I had to get an X-ray. They said that i had a severe sprain but also that my bones in the back of my foot had started to fuse together. I had to go see a specialist. Luckily he said I didn't have to have surgery and that everything would heal. They gave me a big boot to walk in. So I have just been going into the gym and doing lots of strength. Its slowly getting better and hopefully i will be back to normal soon!