Senior Season--Tennis

So far my senior season of tennis is going really well. I have mixed feeling though, in the past 3 years i have always been 2nd or 3rd singles and just waiting for when i was a senior because Laura was going to graduate and allow me to be first singles. But this year we have 2 new really good freshmen making me be third singles. My goal for this season was to be number one. That is not going to be the case. I just have to look at the good side which is this means the team will be in a really good position for the next 4 years while we have 2 good first and second players. Also with me being 3rd singles this means that I will most likely be able to win more games, I will feel better about my self if I am wining more games.

I am preserving in my activities because this is my fourth season of tennis, and even though i did not get the spot that i wanted i will continue to play.

I am also developing new skills because in practice each day I am learning new things.

Gymnastics on Thursday

Gymnastics this thursday was even more fun than it normally is. This is because the team girls were gone so it was only the prep-up team. This meant that I got more attention which resulted with me learning how to do a back tuck. I only started learning so i was still doing it into the pit but it was still really fun! its a lot easier than I thought also.

8. I developed new skills because i was learning how to do a back tuck

Gymnastics on Thrusday

At gymnastics on Thursday, everything went well my hands were still really hurting so I spent most of the time on the trampoline and the tumble track. I worked on my back flop things, front tucks, front bounders, and front handsprings, then on the tumble track I worked on front pikes and also running front tucks. I was successful at everything except for the front pikes. Then I went to floor and worked on aerials, they are really hard. I still didn't go for but I will on thursday!

Developed new skills- have never done a running front tuck

Gymnastics 1-19-10

At gymnastics yesterday, I had a lot of fun! I was on trampoline again, doing the steps to start to learn back tucks, and I was also learning the steps to do side aerials. These are cartwheels without hand! They look pretty easy actually, I almost had it! Then I went to bars and was doing my pullovers again, but when i saw my dad I wanted to show him just one more, and then my hands ripped. I think that it is really bad but the girls who are there do not think that it is bad at all.

I undertook new challenges because of the side aerial.

I also developed new skills, every time I go to gymnastics I learn new skills

Gymnastics Day 2

This year I will be doing gymnastics twice a week, Tuesdays and Thursdays!

This thursday I learned a new skill ALL BY MYSLEF!!! ( but with some guidance from a 9 year old!) I learned how to do a pull over on the uneven bars. I was so happy when I figured it out!

I was on my own set of bars working on it, but then the little girl Suri was there. I needed more chalk on my hand, it makes your hands feel a lot better. The little girl said to try to keep my head to the bar longer. So i did that the next time and I got it! I was so excited! Suri didn't see it but the girl Kimmy did. She was the girl that I followed around the first day that I went. Kimmy is very nice and also REALLY good at Gymnastics! She seemed really happy for me! I was so excited! I had been working on this skill last year but I couldn't get it! but I got it this time!

I also did other things on Thursday but this was the main achievement that I made!

I worked collaberatly with others because of Suri showing me how to do it!

Also I learned new skills because I learned how to do a pullover!

Here is a link to a pullover online!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkw4G_KAqeo

Rebounding Class

Today I went to the gym and participated in a Rebounding Class. This class is like a dance kind of work out Class but on mini Trampolines. I liked it but me being tall and having strong legs made me be out of time because i jump to high. I don't know if I will go back to this class mainly because normally i cant make it due to school, but it was fun, but really hard.

I undertook new challenges because its a new class and it was hard

I developed new skills because I have never tried to dance on a trampoline before

Math comp.

Last Wednesday, there was another math comp, i didn't do as well as I though. but it was still fun.I think that i only got 3 right but thats still good their are really hard.

I undertook new challenges because they are really hard.

I developed new skills because the math is tricky and now i know how to solve those problems now.

Surf Club

I made the next deposit for the trip the other day. This is making it seem more and more real!

I am showing perseverance because i said i would pay to be able to go on the trip and I am paying slowly but surly.

And also by paying fr this trip I am developing new skills by learning how to save money and also when we get to costa rica i will be further learning how to surf!

NEMC

Today was the new england math competition- i though that i could have done better but that is ok. I got three out of 6 correct.
I challenged my self with doing the competition also because its math that you rarely ever use. I think that their fun because they are hard problems but they are do-able
also i learned new ways to go about solving difficult math problems.

Soccer this summer

I haven't been able to play in the league for the past 2 weeks because we went of a family vacation up to Sorrento Maine. And the week before that i was not able to play due to injuries that i got from gymnastics. I just submitted the adult supervisor form, because now the season is over.

Throughout the season i developed new skills because i was playing with people who were much better than i was, now im excited to show my school coach my new soccer skills.

Also i undertook new challenges because i had never played at this level of soccer before.

Gymnastics 7-15

Okay so this week at gymnastics was really fun!!! ( I didn't go last week because i couldn't get a ride home) But yesterday at gymnastics i started to learn how to do a back flip. what i was doing were drills to get it. what i would do is jump then land on my back and then on the rebound bounce i would flip over and land on my feet. It was really fun i did other drills also but i had the most fun with that one!!!
then i did some stuff on beam like trying to do a handstand but i stubbed my toe REALLY bad so now today it hurts to walk. so i got out of doing beam which is my least favorite of the events and then i went to vault which is really fun! probably my favorite. on vault i did the same thing that i did a few weeks ago where you go over the real vault with a little trampoline thing. i had help the first and second times i did it and then i was able to do it all on my own!

I worked together with others because i got help going over the vault and also i was asking people questions if i was doing stuff right and also other people were showing me how to do different things

I also developed new skills because I'm starting to learn how to do a back tuck and that is brand new!

Soccer June 18 2009

Last Thursday We played Orleans, this was fun, i was in better shape, i could feel it already, i wasn't in complete pain the next day from working out so much which was really good! Another good thing about playing orleans is that when we play them I'm playing my old assistant coach. That was fun he remembered who i was and my name even though he hasn't been the assistant coach in a few year. We ended up wining 7 to 3. I played for DY this time and there was one sub so i still go a ton of playing time but i did get subs- I'm one of the lowest level players on the team but its still really fun to play

5 because i came back even though the first game that i went to was really hard and i was really soar the next day.

8 because i am getting stronger and more in shape and when im getting more in shape it allows me to focus more on soccer and not have the issue of having to run to the ball.

Front Layout at Gymnastics

This week at gymnastics I learned how to do a front layout. That is developing new skills because i learned something new. A front layout is a front flip but you are straight in the air like a pencil. I have increased awareness of my strengths because i know that I can now do that, and it was hard, and lastly i undertook new challenges because i had never done that before.

almost getting a pullover

This week at gymnastics was fun, i worked on bars for just about the whole time. I am so close to getting a pullover. I really want to get it, what it is where you pull yourself over the bar so that you are ontop of it. It sounds easy and looks easy but its not. I've been working on it for a while and i cant get it, but its close. I have to get my hips to the bar when i'm upside down instead of my legs.

after bars, we went to floor and did basics, which is going over basic moves, they were all dance things, like jumps and stuff, have never done that stuff before, i think that i like real tumbling better than that stuff.

1 because by almost getting a pullover, i am increasing my knoledge of my groth, everyweek i get closer to getting it.

4 becaue while i'm doing all of these i have to be working collabratly with others, sharing the bars with them, or them showing me how to do something, or them actually helping me do something.

8 because every week i am devloping new skills, a pull over and dance moves this week

New Vault

Two weeks ago at gymnastics was really fun. I did the normal things bars tumble track, and tumbling on the floor! all of the fun stuff. Then i looked over and saw some of the girls that were going over the "real" valut and i asked if i could try and Lesely said "yes!" it was really fun. at first she told me to do a flip over which i didn't because i thought that would be really scary, so i just did what everyone else was doing, like a handstand on it then flipping down. it was really fun i did it three times but then i had to go my mom was waiting.

This hits 1 because, when i learned how to do the new vault i became aware of new streghths of mine, and Lesely said that i was good at it also

2 because i tried a new vault

8, i devloped new skills becaue i have never done that vault before!