new skills...

Last week and this week were great for a few of the new level 4's Suzie Moore, Sam Eagan, Maddy Croteau and Julia Delisle. All of them got their front hip circles!! Christina Marra got her long hang kip. Way to go girls!!!

Some Giants

We did some giants on Thursday, it was lots of fun. This is the first video I've put together so hopefully it'll be fun for you!

Just for Fun

I showed this video to the kids yesterday, they got a big kick out of this crazy guy doing crazy things.

1st time skill!!

Great Job Laura Martens!!! Laura got her kip today!!!

Friday 6-5-09

We've been using Fridays as "Goal Days", the rest of the week I plan each event for the kids but Fridays are theirs to work what they choose to work. Today had some pretty cool stuff. Ellie has improved her back hip circle so that she can start to pull her hips away from the bar. Maddie and Dom did some flyaways off the low bar. Kylie did her first cast to flyaways. Rachael did tsuks over the cheese mat without a spot and did a giant with virtually no spot and was close to landing a couple of full twisting layouts. Alli did some great 1/2 twisting layouts. Jessi is continually moving her handstand to back handspring up to higher beams.

Then we conditioned...

Today for the conditioning at the end we did a fun little 10 minute workout. The goal was to do as many rounds as possible in 10 minutes. One round was 5 pull ups, 10 push ups, 15 air squats. The scores are below.

Cari 10 Rounds
Alli 8 Rounds
Ellie 9 Rounds
Kylie 12 Rounds
Jessi 10 Rounds
Jordan 12 Rounds
Rachael 13 Rounds
Dom 11 Rounds
Dan 10 Rounds

Can't wait to see everyone on Sunday at the Banquet!

Conditioning on Friday

We did a bit of a conditioning contest on Friday. It was a short and intense workout that was pretty hard but lots of fun (fun in an "I'm glad to be done with that workout sort of way"). I decided to join the kids with this one.

The Workout
21 Burpees,
21 Pull ups,
15 Burpees,
15 Pull ups,
9 Burpees,
9 Pull ups

We did this for time.

Times,
Ellie 6:51
Marissa 4:55
Dom 6:39
Steph 5:15
Alli 6:35
Cari 6:08
Dan 6:36
Jessi 5:42
Jordan D. 5:44
Kylie 6:57

Tuesday 5-19-09

Today was a great workout!  Lots of skill work accomplished!!  Maddy did her first back tuck on the tumble trak without a spot and Cari did her first giant without spot.  The level 5's got their first training with flyaways and the girls did personal record (PR) workout on beam, meaning they did 5 of a next level skill on a beam higher than they previously had, everyone set a couple of PR's tonight!  Awesome job girls.