a brighter corner

This sad little blog has been neglected for over a year. My life, however, has gone on and I have not stopped writing entirely. I have continued my life story on my blog feelmysunlight.blogspot.com

I am still tumbling and enjoying my time as a coach. Someday I may return to this little corner of the internet, but for now I am exploring the realms of Feel my Sunlight and am content with staying there. See, Power Tumbling is just one piece of my life, and this blog only tells that part of the story, my other blog, however, tells the whole story.

I am sad to say this blog probably won't be continued much except for an occasional post here and there, or for the times I am having nostalgic moments and want to travel back through old tumbling thoughts and experiences. As for the future, follow me on Feel my Sunlight. It's a lot brighter there.



-WhitneySue

I'm back!

Well, I have been slacking haven't I? I post often on my other blog www.feelmysunlight.blogspot.com but I figured I sould continue posting on this lovely blog... wether or not anyone reads it.

So a few weeks ago I sprained my ankle. It has been giving me problems ever sence. Well, just this last weekend I was doing fulls and sprained the same ankle. Again. UGH! I went to the doctor and he said I had a "high" ankle sprain as well as a regular ankle sprain. I took the week off but am going to try to go back next week. This next weekend I am supposed to compete at my 3rd meet of they year, but unfortunatly I don't think I will be ready by then and will have to scratch. In two weeks I will be competing at the Kalon Ludvigson Invitational and am so excited! This is a meet with international compeditors and hopefully I am all healed and ready to rock it by then. Fingers crossed. Did I mention the doctor said no tramps? ya.

I just finished watching American Cup. These new upcoming gymnasts are amazing and I can't wait to see what they bring to the sport over the next four years. Congrats to USA's Jake Dalton and Katelyn Ohashi for taking gold at this event. GO TEAM USA!


eat. sleep. tumble.

  

Tumbleing Comp.

Well we had a tumbling comp today. It was a fun long day in Saratoga Springs. I placed 3rd and am happy about it! Congrats to all of my competitors and team mates! You all did super dandy! I just have to say I love my team and I love all of the girls I compete with! We have way more fun than rivals should. Thanks for all the support! Next stop: Logan.

update update update

Hey friends! Remember me? Ya I'm still here and yes I am still tumbling.

At my last meet I placed 4th over all with a score of 53.00. There is room for improvement but hey, it was the first meet so I won't complain!

We have our next meet this weekend and I am so excited!

On another note, I am going off sugar for the next 6 months {with the exception of 4 days a month when I get a treat}. We are doing this just for fun as a way to start eating healthier. I have convinced several people to join me in this challenge... so I am offering the challenge to YOU. What are you going to do to clean up your diet?

This year should be fun! It has already started off on a good note! My coach promised every single one of us that we will have either a 6 pack or an 8 pack by regionals... wish me luck! ha This should be hard, but I can't wait!

I promise to try and post more often.

 To get more updates on our team go to www.teamflipside2013.blogspot.com!
Or visit my personal blog www.feelmysunlight.blogspot.com

Love you guys!
-Whitney
Eat. Sleep. Tumble.

Coach Ashlie

This post goes out to a great coach.

This coach has pushed me hard, and never let me take the easy way out.

This coach taught me that I will fix it, and I will never go back.

This coach taught me that great success doesn't aways involve tumbling.

This coach left on her mission today.

ASHLIE! I love you so much! You have been one of the greatest coaches that I have ever had. You have pushed me harder, and gotten me further. You helped me get over fears, and helped me overcome obsticles. You have fixed my bad habbits, and taught me new skills. You have taught me to work hard. You have taught me that it doesn't matter if it felt funny, you go for it! You taught me to pray before I compete. You taught me to trust. You taught me that sometimes the most success we will have in our lives, doesn't involve tumbling. We love you so much Ashlie. We believe you will make a great missionary. 18 months will fly bye. We will be right here waiting for you when you get back with a few new tricks to show you. Your testimony has strengthened mine. We will always have your voice playing in our heads as we tumble. Good luck! We are praying for you! Love you!
-Whit


"Lift and finish!"

After Ashlie's Mission Farewell talk on Sunday.



Ashlie's last night in the gym. Her last night as coach for the next 18 months. Like my leo?? Ashlie gave it to me.

I'm ready, I'm pumped!

I know I have neglected this blog due to my love for my other blog, but lately I have had an itch to bring this blog back to life. I've had an itch to re-visit some old gymnastics videos from a few years ago and remember why I am so committed to what I do. This awakening has come mostly from meeting my Olympic Idols {click HERE and HERE}

So as far as my tumbling life goes, I have a new coach. My old coach is going on an LDS mission! {click HERE for more information} I am super excited for her, but am going to miss her a lot. She pushed me really hard, and got me really far this year, and I am worried I won't progress as fast without her. But I do really love the our new coach, so I hope that I will stay motivated, and that I will push myself harder than ever before, and that I will go far this year.

I have a feeling that this year is going to be my year. That this year will be different. That this year I will excel further, and fly higher than I ever have before.

So with that I want to come back to this blog. To document it all. My thoughts, my emotions, and my dream for this sport that I love so much.

I'm ready, I'm pumped! So bring it on 2012 because I'm ready!

I'm gonna make this place your home

A little girl once sat on her living room floor, mezmorized by the flipping gymnasts on the screen. She watched them soar through the air, and land perfectly on a mat while the croud erupted in screems and cheers for the gymnasts. She dreamed of one day meeting these gymnasts. See, this little girl was not like the other girls, while others sit on pinterest fangirling about One Direction, and Justin Bieber, She spent long hours in the gym, and always had her nose barried in USA Gymnastics magazines. Some of the other girls had their walls plastered with pictures of their favorite actors, or their favorite singers, but she had her walls plastered with posters of her favorite gymnasts. She wondered what she would say to them if she got the chance.

This little girl became one of the "big dogs" at her local gym. She worked hard. When ever she would start to lose sight of her goals she would watch the recaps of her favorite Olympic moments, and remember the joy she felt when she made her first National Championships, because to her, a National Championships was her Olympic Games. She watched the recaps of her favorite athletes, and their greatest moments. She dreamed of meeting them.

This little girl turned 16. For her 16th birthday she asked for tickets to the Kellogg's Tour of Gymnastics Championships. She wanted nothing else. The show would be held at the Maverik Center on September 27th 2012. She expected to go with just her parents. She expected to sit far away. But she didn't care. She just wanted to go.

One day she got her tickets...and then some more came from her dads work... and then some MORE came from her aunts work. She counted the stack of tickets in her hand. She counted again, certain that she had made a mistake. She hadn't. 21. 21 tickets to the Kellogg's Tour of Gymnastics Championships.

She invited all her closest friends. She invited her family, she invited her favorite team mate. She picked her seats.

She sat on row 11, close enough to see the faces of the athletes.

The grand day came. At the moment she saw the arena she started to squeal with her team mate. She joined the rest of her friends that rode in the other car, and together they entered the arena. They got signatures from her favorite colledge gymnastics team. They went to see what was upstairs. A lady approached her. A lady she did not recognize. The lady told the girls father that she had one extra meet and greet pass. One extra pass that she wouldn't be using. The lady asked them if they wanted it. The girl stood in shock. She was going to meet her idols! She started jumping up and down. She started squealing. The lady handed her the red wrist band and left. This lady never will know the joy this little girl felt that day.

The group split up to go sit in their seats. The girl and her favorite team mate headed down to row 11, seats 18 and 19.

They took pictures of the arena. They cried when they heard the audio from some of the greatest Olympic moments. They cried when their favorite gymnasts came out. They cried when they heard the song Home. They watched the greatest performance they had ever seen. They took lots of pictures. When it was announced that the show was over the girls stomach flipped. She was about to meet her biggest idols.

The found the girls parents and she took the camera. She said she would meet them in the front soon. She left all by herself. She joined the mob of people with red wrist bands. She bought a program. She waited. She walked into the room. The view of her favorite athletes blocked by a line of people, and a big meet and greet sign. But she knew she was now standing in the same room as the last two Olympic all around gold medalists. She saw her favorite athletes. She talked to them. They said happy birthday to her, she tried not to cry. This moment was a dream come true.

She walked out of the arena and hugged her team mate. She showed the signatures to all her friends. She got floated the whole way home, while playing the song Home by Phillip Phillips on her iPod. This song will never play the same in her mind. 

gym update

Wow Its hard to keep up more than one blog at a time. I can't believe its almost the end of September and I haven't posted at all this month! whops!

So, what to post about???

Going 8 again on floor this year, going 8 on double mini, and going 7 on trampoline (I missed my mobility score by .2 of a point!)

I am competing level 8 with the highest DD allowed. I am not sure what I will do for double mini passes this year yet.

As far as team mates and coaches there have been some changes as of late. Some team mates have moved, or quit. I miss them a lot. One of my coaches is leaving on an LDS mission in about a week, and won't be back for the next18 months. Our new coach, Jake, will take her spot. Jake is awesome and we have already learned a lot from him. We will all miss Ashlie, and can't wait for the next 18 months to be over.

We have bumped it up a few notches in the gym in order to be ready for comp season comes January. We are working hard, but having fun.

Summer Tumbling

These people are my favorite!

Remember how I said I wouldn't forget this blog when I got my new one?(www.feelmysunlight.blogspot.com)

Well, I haven't been the best. I have posted lots on my other blog though!

So I thought I'd do a quick post on my tumbling this Summer, since my summer ends next week.

I've blogged about Nationals, and I've blogged about the Olympics, so here is an update on what has happened recently and what is to come with my workouts.

We had our Nationals team sleepover. That was a blast! We ran around the gym and wacked eachother with foam sticks, played tag, and laughed a lot. We discussed leotards, and fundraisers for next year. Around 1 am we tried to put in Stick It. The projector wouldn't work so we propped Jills laptop up on some mats and gathered around it. It was hard to hear, but we didn't mind much, because most of us have the entire thing memorized. We got to sleep around 4 am. It was a blast, and I can't wait for next years sleepover.

My workouts have been fantastic these last couple of weeks. Hard work pays off. We have been working our butts off. We have realy amped up our workouts recently. Our team is closer than ever and the atmousphere at the gym is just fantastc. I'm hitting new things constantly, and so are my team mates. By the time comp season gets here Flipside is going to be rock solid.

There are some changes happening in the gym that I thought I'd share.

My coach, Ashlie, is going on a mission next month. We are so excited for her, but we will miss her greatly! We have a new coach, Jake, who is going to take Ashlie's spot while she is gone for the next 18 months. I'm so excited to have Jake as a coach. He is doing great and he is realy fun. My Team mate B is moving next week and it will be realy sad to see her go. She has been a great friend. There are some other changes happening in the gym such as new passes, and times of workouts. Tumbling is going great. I can't wait for this new season to start in January.

It is my coach Jill's birthday today! She turned 40 and yesterday we decked out the gym in streamers, posters, and balloons. That was fun. Jill has been my coach since I was about 11. I was on her first comp team ever. HAPPY BIRTHDAY JILL!

Tumbling!!!

 Update! I decided to update this because a few things have changed.
I am sorry if any of this information is incorrect about anyone.

I started a hair blog and had so much fun with it I decided I would start another blog about my number one love and that's tumbling. first I want to tell you a little about my tumbling history.
I started Tumbling when I was seven years old at Tiffany's Dance Academy. The first day I went in My teacher kept asking me if I had ever taken before. I hadn't and she didn't believe me. When my mom came to pick me up she asked her and she assured her that I've never taken before. My teacher told my mom I was to good for this class and I needed to come to an intermediate class.
After A year at Tiffany's my mom decided she wanted to start me with a different teacher because the teacher I was with was really a dance teacher and not a tumbling teacher and my mom didn't think I was learning as much as I could.
So after a while looking around I started tumbling at "Jill's house" I tumbled with my best friend in Jill's unfinished basement. Jill was a good teacher and I had a blast learning from her in her unfinished basement on that one mat we had until she decided she wasn't going to teach any more.
After another couple of months of looking for a knew teacher I started at Flipside Tumbling where I am now with Jill (a different Jill) as my coach. Jill was an Elite world champion. She told us about her last competition she ever went to. It was in Japan and she took gold. (a good way to end I think)
When I started at flipside we had one long mat and one long tumble trampoline that comes about up to my knees. After a while we got a spring board that was about half the size of a competition spring board.
I learned my back handspring and was invited onto Flipsides first comp team in 2006. I went to my first competition in October of 2007.
In about 2008 we moved buildings and joined "Lance" (one of my coaches) at his gym down the street. Jill and Lance shared the gym until they decided that Jill should own the gym and she bought him out. Lance still coaches for us and is a head coach next to Jill.
In 2009 we moved buildings yet again to the building we are in now.
In 2008 we got a double mini. Most of you are probably wondering what a double mini is. It is a trampoline that has two parts the first part is at an angle and the second part is flat. I will do another post on all the equipment.
Last year we got a competition trampoline. I love that thing It is so bouncy but it makes it really hard to control your body.
So the three events in power tumbling are, Floor, Double mini trampoline, and trampoline. I hope this makes sense.

This year I competed level 7 and am hoping for level 8 next year witch means I could go to nationals!!! I'm so excited!!!

Last year I competed level 6 once at regional. Then once this year for my first meet. Then moved up to level 7. And cruised through it. I have the passes for level 8 and am working on my full so I can get higher difficulty.

*This year I have been working to move up to level 8 on floor. I  got my full and now I am putting together the passes. On DM I am going to do Level 7. Last week I got my spotter pike jump brani  tuck! A level 7 pass I might use. I am working to get level 7 on tramp to but we will see. I am stuck on the porpoise tuck. Now my coach is Stephany who is AMAZING! She was an Elite tumbler and was also a gymnast. She went on an LDS mission and when she came home she walked onto the BYU gymnastics team. And she still has it!
She decided to compete last year. She slaughtered at nationals taking third in level 9. She competed against kids way younger than she is and she has two kids. She is an awesome coach and has us do really good conditioning. (some people are not so great full for the in tenseness of it  but I sure am do to the fact that I could now beat almost every boy at school in an arm wrestle and every girl for sure. Thanks Steph!) She is really good at teaching you new skills and making us have beautiful whips. She is the best Double-mini coach and the only Double-mini coach for our team.

All in all, I love tumbling and hope I didn't lose any of you when you where reading it. I tried to make it as easy to understand as possible. I think its almost like learning another language. So sorry if you can't understand I'll try to put videos on to make it easier. so bare with me.

That's my tumbling life!!!