Fundraiser

It's that time again! I'm selling Fatboy Ice cream as a fundraiser for National Championships. I am selling original and Nut sundae. There are 30 per box and each box is $25. If you live close to me I would love if you bought some to help send me to Nationals!!

I QUALIFIED!!!!

So I Qualified for the US J.O. National Championships! We had State Championships this weekend and here are my results!

Floor- Level 8 age 15+ 13th place with a score of 53.7 (qualified!!)
Double Mini- Level 7 age 15+ 5th place With a score of 58.6
Tramp- Level 7 age 15+ 7th place with a score of 23.1

So not my best on Double mini but it was still pretty good! I got my highest score on Trampoline that I have ever gotten! (even though I didn't place very well). I did great of floor even though my place doesn't reflect it. My coach thinks I should have placed higher (we had about 20 girls in my division) but I qualified and to me that's all that matters! I am so excited for Nationals! YAY!

State Championships

So as of right now there is 1 day 16 hours 4 minutes and 58 seconds until I compete at the Utah State championships! I just made my T shirt and took off my nail polish and I am so ready!!! I have one more short workout tonight and then its show time!!! good luck to all my team mates and Good luck to everyone else competing this weekend! gO fLiPsIdE!!!!

Note to self

Its going to be hard. Its going to hurt. But in the end it is going to be oh so worth it. Just keep pushing give your all and you will thank me in the end.
-Future self

Quote #173

"sometimes you miss the memories, not the people."
-unknown

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USA Gymnastics Magazine April/March 2012

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Team Tshirt Idea {bleach!}

Hey guys! So State meet is in a week and I just thought I'd post a T shirt Idea that my teem did last year and are doing again this year! Its really cheep and super easy and I think they look awesome! So here is what you need
*Plain colored T shirt (use team colors)
*Bleach
*Q-tips
*cardboard
*cold water

Take your T shirt and place a piece of cardboard inside of it so that the bleach doesn't bleed through. Then take you Q-tip and dip it in bleach and use it a paint brush to write on your T shirt. After you are done writing you can splatter it if you want (this makes it so that any drips that you make don't look like mistakes, plus It looks cool!) Your T shirt will start to lighten and continue to lighten until you put it in cold water. Let it soak for a few minutes then wash it and your done!

Kalon LUDVIGSON (USA)

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Me?!? Quit!?! NEVER!!! Quote #172

Hey guys!! Yes, I know I haven't posted much lately...sorry about that. I have been SUPER BUISY with theatre stuff, school stuff, and what not. BUT now I am starting training for State, regionals (hopefully), and NATIONALS!!! Regionals are in Beaverton, Oregon; and nationals are at Long beach, California!!! It's time to get my tumble on!! Only two weeks until State Champs!! And boy do I have work to do! Only 52 days untill summer! (not that I'm counting down or anything...) I'm super stoake to finally get out of Jr. High and move on to bigger things. And although this whole theatre thing has been a riot, Its not really what I want to do with my life and I have missed tumbling IMMENSLY! Literally! I have missed so much tumbling for theatre its crazy! So although its been fun, I think I will rejoin my team at the gym. (by the way, I have missed so much tumbling that when I finally came back one of my team mates said that she thought I had quit! Me?!? Quit!?! NEVER!!!) So that was my tumblers lament! I'd like to leave you with quote from our beloved prophet durring conference last week. :)

"Effort is required, but it is effort that you will never, ever forget." -President Monson

english assignment

So I did this assignment for English and I thought I'd share it with you because it's content is a little bit like the content of this blog. So here it is.

When people find out that I "tumble" they imagine me swinging around two bars spaced one higher than the other, and they picture me dancing around on a big square piece of carpet placed on top of springs. They imagine me running at full speed a stationary thing and placing my hands on it and vaulting over. They imagine me doing a little dance on a 4 inch wide block of wood. The truth: I have never stepped foot on one of those 4 inch wide blocks of wood, nor have I ever touched a vault, or done a so called "floor routine", and as s far as bars go, the most I have ever done is swing around my trampoline frame after we have taken it down for the winter. When I say I "tumble", I mean I am a power tumbler. Let me guess, you have no Idea what that entails. Power tumbling consists of 3 events, Floor, Double-mini, and Trampoline. When I say floor I don't mean I do a dance across a square spring floor, I mean I do flips down a long runway made out of fiberglass rods, covered in foam and carpet. I'll show you a video later. You probably have 0 Ideas about what a double mini is. Lets just say it looks like this:

You jump on the first angled part, do a trick, then you jump on the second flat part, do a trick off the trampoline and land on mats. It's super fun and I love competing it! When you hear the word "trampoline" I'm sure you picture that black bed, round thing sitting in your backyard. The kind of trampoline I bounce on is defiantly NOT the run of the mill, back yard trampoline. The kind of trampoline I am talking about is rectangle, and stands about 4 feet high. It costs thousands of dollars, and can send you up to 30 feet high. (I don't jump quite that high, with fear that on my descent to earth, I would miss the trampoline.) It is extremely powerful and lets just say, I wish I could have one of these in my back yard! Now you might have an Idea about what power tumbling is, but I can assure you, you have never seen anything like this before. Now I would ask you if you want to see what power tumbling is really about, watch this video. This is Kalon Ludvigston, from Idaho. Watch this and it will blow your little mind. I promise you, you WILL NOT regret it!


CLICK HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Shocked right? I know it is pretty amazing! That amazing guy that you just watch flip through the air like a barbie tossed in the air, and land on his feet is Kalon Ludvigston. He is the world champion from Idaho. I get to see him do that every month at my meets. I have gone to a few camps that he has done and he knows my name. Pretty cool right?! Now as you can see Power tumbling, and gymnastics are NOT the same, even though they are both run by USAG. I might be bias to power tumbling because, well I'm a power tumbler. But in my opinion, even though I LOVE watching gymnastics, power tumbling is way better!

Hello world! {I'm back!}

So I know I haven't posted since last month! ops! I have been SUPER BUSY lately and have not had much spare time. But I'm back now and I am going to try to post as much as possible during this exciting competition season. Starting with a recap of my tumbling competition on March 17th.

Kalon Ludvigston Invitational March 17th 2012
So on Floor I finally landed my full in competition! yahoo! I placed 6th and was really happy with a score of 52.70. Now I just need to get that score up to a 53.20 so I can go to nationals. On double mini I took 2nd! I was super happy with this! I scored a 57.50. I need a 58.10 to mobilize so hopefully I can get that soon. And then on tramp I did one of the best passes I have ever competed and I actually finished the pass this time! (unlike my last two meets) I took third place with a score of 22.00. It was a good meet and I was happy with it. :D