Chalky Dreams

Bye.

2009-05-28T15:10:00.000-07:00

Ya, sorry. Short attention span, not enjoying this so much.

if i get any awesome ideas(which im doubting) ill come back.

soooo, this is the enddddd..

<3always,

Claire Out

Promises, Promises.

2009-05-17T14:45:00.000-07:00

Yeah about the whole "Vlog" thing. welll, i broke my camera. FAIL.

Sorry.

Blah, i need blog ideassss..

that would be great. thxxxxx

<3Always

Sorry, Blame my ADD....

2009-05-10T18:27:00.000-07:00

So i really dont have ADD(in case you were wondering)

on to the bloggynesssss

REGIONALSSS!

I bet you all were wondering how my regional went(not really), and it went really well. Not exactly all I hoped for but I am definitely proud of what I have accomplished in my first year of level 10. Just to give you the infooooo, here it is;

Vault- 9.0
Bars-8.55(fell on jeager)
Beam-9.25
Floor-9.525.....REGIONAL FLOOR CHAMPION!

Thats not too shabby eh?

On to some more exciting news. Well I ended up first alternate to Nationals, so i will be going.(I leave on Thursday) and i decided that to make up for always forgettting to update, i will vlog. I am going with Mykayla(7th place) and Jamie(5th place). So it will be great fun....

And lastly, my elite qualifier is on June 10th. Thats so i can go to the US Challenge in of all places.... Iowa..

Thats all for now,,
<3Always,
CBearrr

DLG Youtube

2009-04-26T12:35:00.000-07:00

Soooo, some of us at DLG(my gym) created an official account for our gym....

http://www.youtube.com/user/DLGofficial

Subscribe! I demand you!

Also my aim account is... ccrlaaziyre so hit me up any time.

SORRY, SORRY SORRY!

2009-04-26T12:17:00.000-07:00

First I'd like to apologize for taking sooo long to post, Im easily sidetracked and the result is unhappy blog readers....

And Second is that i will not be posting the rest of my camp trip because most of it does not make sense because i was soooo tired. Sorry

On to more important things......

Like, TWITTER!

My account is.... http://twitter.com/clairehom1

and you should join and follow me, because i have intersting things to say....

The other reason you should join twitter?
NASTIA- http://twitter.com/NLiukin
SAMMMMM!- http://twitter.com/samanthapeszek
Bridget!- http://twitter.com/bridgetsloan
Shayllaaaaa- http://twitter.com/shaylaworley
Shawn- http://twitter.com/ShawneyJ

Reason 3 you should join is because you get the news first and personally!
Like Samantha told us she is going to be a Bruin!!!!!1

HECK YESS!!!!

I'll start updating a lot more okayyy

<3Always-

CBear

Camp- Day 2

2009-04-07T21:49:00.000-07:00

Sorry, i got sidetracked.....
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6:30am- GOD! Mykayla's alarm went off early!!! and now i cant go back to sleep.
7:00am- So after hopelessly laying in bed for half an hour tryingt o get rest, i realized... 3 days of hard hard hard practice. Im kinda scared. Anyways im gonna get up and do my hair so i can go to breakfast before the rush.
7:30am- Breakfast was good, eggs, toast. I just got dressed and I'm gonna leave for gym now.

12:30pm- SOMEONE KILL ME! not really, but how am i going to survive, 5 more practices like these?! Heres the run-down

Vault-Vault wasn't bad at all, we did lots of round-off drills and didn't even go over the vault..?
Bars- Valeri is gone, we have Tom Foster, i really like this guy! We worked on casting with straight arms and tight bodies(mornings are basics...)
Beam- And the trouble begins.... sooo beam basics, not my thing!! I was shaky and wobbly and all over the place, and you wanna know the worst part? MARTA WAS RIGHT THERE! Gosh it was so scary having her yell at me over and over. I just wanted to cry(but of course i didn't because that would lead to more yelling and that would make matters worse.
Floor- Not bad, we went across the floor doing tons or roundoffs, front-handsprings, etc. It was really tiring though because it was back and forth with no rest for 35 mins.
Dance- i Thought i would get a little rest at dance, but boy was i wrong. So much releve, and lifts, and ballet words that i dont exactly know... not fun. But i got through it!

Lineup- Scary stuff man. I mean she yells line up and you better be in line before she takes another step.She basically said good job, see you tonight. And we are dismissed.

1:30- Okay i ate lunch and I am watching stick it right now. I'm really tired, I don't know how I am going to get through evening practice...

3:30- Practice is at 4:30, so I fixed my hair and i am putting on my leo now. Gary told us to be at least 30 minutes early so I'll be taking off in half an hour. BOY IS IT COLD RIGHT NOW!!!!

3:55- Off to gym, check in tonight!

8:00pm- Well I'm alive, and theres something to be said for that am I right?

Bars- We did strap bar work, Tom loves my stalders and even showed me a new trick which is basically a stalder with crossed hand? Very confusing, but could be cool.
Beam- Went a little better, we had to do everything in our routines, just over and over so Tammy could pull us over and give us drills to make the skills better. She likes my flic lay.
Floor- We just tumbled, I did lots of triples and double backs and front twisting, it went by way fast.
Dance- We did leap work across the floor. It is really hot back there!
Vault- Just vaulted, I did a bunch of layouts. I got a lot better at them today, hopefully i can twist tomorrow.

Sorry if it got short, I am just soooo tired......

9:00pm- Showered, and ready to go to bed, it looks soft! Night everyone!

2 more days 2 more days!

<3Always(even if i die here!)

Claire

Camp: Day 1

2009-03-20T20:00:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone, great news... I SURVIVED! lol, haha anyways, i would have posted but i couldn't find internet, sorry. But i wrote these throughout my days so here they are!....

Day One:

5:30 AM- Ughh, I'm up. Gotta go to Lisa's house. Can someone please get me a starbucks?
6:00AM- John is driving us to the airport....
7:35AM- Getting on the plane...
2:00PM- Got off plane, barely got any sleep, yuck! I have strength testing later today!!!
5:00PM- Made it to the camp, me and Mykayla are in room 27, which sucks because its the furthest away and its super freezing outside! Gym starts in 30 minutes so I have to hurry getting ready, I'll check in after gym.
8:15PM- WOAH! I did pretty well on my strength testing, I maxed everything out but piked leg lifts, those are killers! But after that we had 15 minutes on each event, started on vault and we worked the whole time on perfecting our arm swing for our run!
After we went to bars where... VALERI LIUKIN, was coaching us!!!! It was so cool, we worked on casting, he is really picky about straight arms.
Beam, beam, beam.... Tammy wasnt there today]: hopefully she will be tomorrow, but we had some coach I've never heard of before and we did beam complex, which is super hard. You can't come down from releve! My calves are sore!
Floor. Was super weird! we did back extenstion rolls and roundoffs the whole time. But it made me tired!
Dance. I can't understand what the dance teacher is saying... Such a thick accent, but we did work on pointing our feet and going up in releve.
That was my day at gym...
9:00PM-I just finished my shower, which wasn't bad, just cold at the end! Dinner was lasaunga, yumyumm!!! But I'm super tired and am going to bed.

<3Always-

Claire

Leavin.

2009-03-14T06:05:00.000-07:00

This will be a really short post because I have to leave really soon.

Everyone wish me luck, I feel really prepared I just have to do what i know how to do.
*deep breaths*

I'll be back in 5 days.

<3Always,

Claire

Some Stuff

2009-03-12T10:19:00.000-07:00

I couldn't figure out a good title sorry.

SO i found its easier to get my point across using the numbers, what do you guys think?

well here we go....

1. Again, camp is on Saturday, and stefs not going, which is very disappointing. But the show must go on. Hopefully, I will do well enough to get invited back.
2. Yesterday was pretty exciting because I landed a triple full dismount off beam and an arabian double off the rod floor. I hope those skills will catch the national team staffs attention.

So yeah, sorry about all the short posts I'm just busy lately, but no fear, right after camo I'll give you guys a full look at camp, so look out for that!

<3Always

Claire

Shawny

2009-03-10T10:33:00.000-07:00

oh shawn!

thats was pretty good.

I think you will place top 3 fosho!!

we'll have to wait and see....

Yeah just a quick blurb.

Claire

Saddness

2009-03-09T21:37:00.000-07:00

so im really upset right now.

Stef tore her minuscus. Needs surgery, no camp, no state, no regionals, no nationals.

Really really sad.

and i fell today,

sheep jump and it hurts...

anyways, today is a sad day...
check out her website please!
Clickyy

Love you all,

Claire

Sacramento

2009-03-05T20:25:00.000-08:00

I'm leaving for my next meet, the Byers Invitational, tomorrow. Not to worry i will keep you posted with scores.

So a few things.
1. The meet on the 11th is canceled, due to a problem with a gym attending. SO that means no American Challenge(please note this is different than the US Challenge which is in July). Sorta upsetting but its ok.
2. WOGA is going to be at this meet! And i'm in the Level 10 open session, which means elites can be in it. So, scary because i will be going up against WOGA elites!!!! so nervous.
3. I might be doing a pre-meet performance at an ASU meet on the 13th. And if so i will do a floor routine(with watered down passes)

Yeah so just a quick update...

<3Always,
Claire

IM BAAACK!

2009-03-03T21:34:00.000-08:00

Okay, I totally missed you guys. I'll be posting about once or twice a week as of now!
So heres what has been going on.....

1. The wrist issue is going a lot better. I'm using a wrist guard on floor and vault now.
2. Competition season has been going very very very well. Best meet so far, Hard Rock, 36.8.
3. Lay full on vault! extremely new!
4. And I'm, drum roll please..... GOING TO NATIONAL TRAINING CAMP ON THE 16TH. SO excited, im going with my teammates, Stefani, and Mykayla.

So that's basically all the really new stuff.

I have a complusary elite qualifier on the 11th, US Challenge is in July.

I'll post more later..

Have a nice day

(:laire

Hitaus

2009-01-21T21:36:00.000-08:00

Im going on break till, ummm.... Well I'm not sure. But I will return, most likely after comp. season. Mostly because I have no time and im really stressed. When i return i hope my blog readers will too. so yeahhh[:

have a nice day.

I might post on some occasions

Claire [:

2008, a year in review

2009-01-02T17:54:00.000-08:00

2008 is by far the best year of my life. Also being an Olympic year just made it even better. I'll reflect on my year in 2008...

My level 9 competition season. It felt amazing to finally enter the world of "real" gymnastics as some might say. Although I wasn't the best level 9 it really raised my confidence and made me believe I could actually do something in the sport.
HOPES- A really up and down thing. Or as me and my friends call, hell on planet earth sometimes. Even though it adds an extra 7 hours and a pound of pressure to our week it really pays off. The really sucky part about this was routine training after the end of our competition season, which would usually be more laid back workouts. But, when all 4 of us qualified to the Challenge, it all paid off.
The US Challenge- My highlight of 2008. I was definitely at my peak and I was feeling great about everything. Traveling with the coaches was especially fun because we HOPES girls got a lot of time to bond in our own hotel room. The competition was great, compulsories were solid fro all of us and going into optionals we didn't know what to expect. Well everything turned out pretty good. I even placed on beam, which btw was a great moment. SO to wrap it all it, I love the thrill of elite competition.
Summer- Always a great time of year, we get to work new skills and lay off the routines. Some things I learned but never continued, like my khorkina realese on bars, due to lack of amazingness. And somethings I learned and continued, like my triple full on floor, was awesome because now I have an E.
Fall- It's always hard to get into competition mode, putting those routines together was not the easiest thing in the world but I worked through it and got everything down.
Injury- Everythingwas going well until a bad punch on a rudi and landing with my head on my wrist and basically breaking it. I went to the doctor and I had a cracked growth plate and some torn ligiments. And believe me, the day I walked in with a brace Lisa flipped! I was like "I'm sorry, i need to be in it for a few weeks" well not really but I wanted to say that. However, with competiton season nearing I had to shrug it off and was out of the brace after one day. Probably a bad decision because my wrist pain drove me to tears on every event. And with no coach except Bruce[bar coach] seeming to care, I just threw a wristguard on and worked thorough it. When I went home every night I iced and put my brace back on. Everything was getting more bearable when yet again [stupid rudi] landed on it wrong, about a week ago. and ever since have not had a pain free moment. I can't even sleep at night now ughh. So my dad got me Litocane, a pain reliever, so I could at least sleep. And now I'm working on avoiding the doctor so they don't put me in a cast.

So thats basically my 2008 gymnastics year. Very up and down and if anyone knows where I could get a wrist healing potion, leave a comment [:

Elite CoP Changes

2008-12-22T22:34:00.000-08:00

1. Double tuck is now a D instead of a C. This is good news for me because my double tucks are better than my pikes.
2. The composition requirement for a turn on beam (worth .5) no longer has to be on one foot, according to The C Score it can even be in handstand. HECK YES! this is probably the most exciting change to me personally because i hate full turns.
3.The requirement that dance passages on floor consist of three elements has been removed. We’re back down to two.
4. Varga dismount removed from CoP

From C Score:

Difficulty-value changes:

* 4/1 turn on floor: D to E
* 2/1 turn with leg in scale (Memmel) on floor: C to D
* 2/1 turn with leg at horizontal on floor: C to D
* 2/1 Wolf jump on floor: C to D

I'm liking this!

what are your thoughts?

JO Code Changes for 2010

2008-12-18T21:01:00.000-08:00

If you didn't know my beam coach, Neela Nelson, is part of the Women's Technical Committee. And I was trying to get some info out of her today so this is what I have.

Level 7's are restricted to A's and B's only
Level 8's are restricted to A's and B's as well? I just know that they cannot compete[on floor] 1.5 twists, double fulls, {on beam] switch leaps, straddle jumps, no back handspring layouts.
Level 9's vault start values increase, I know that a layout yurchenko is a 10.0 and a pike is around a 9.7-9.8. They are also restircted to A's B's C's and ONE D[neela fought for a long time to let them allow a D so everyone thank her]
SO my thoughts...

Level 7 stuff is fine its basically the same[i think]
Level 8- really disappointed. seriously no switch leaps? no double fulls? come on people
Level 9 the vault value thing seems like a good idea. but only ONE D????? that is so stupid, no room for originality, and it makes it harder to move up to level 10 where you are expected to have 2-4 D's.

So thats all i could get out of her.

She doesnt like this but she says its because they thought that the reason people were quitting is because gymnastics is too hard. PSHHHH!!!! what do they expect?

Thats all for now.

-Claire-

Wrist

2008-12-12T19:02:00.000-08:00

Sorry for not telling you but I ruptured my growth plate in my wrist.

And let me tell you how hard it is to type with a brace on, like seriously.

OKay so the whole story is that on Tuesday Lisa put a new pass in my floor routine. Its a front handsping 1.5 twist[rudi] to a flic lay. I did a bad rudi and landed with my wrist under my head really hard and so yeah, the result is some time out of gym.

Sorry for the briefness, if you have any specific questions just message me on youtube.

comment

peace

some deep thinking?

2008-12-11T15:19:00.000-08:00

Im really bored.
I missed gym today because of my wrist[ill explain laterrr]

Okay so today i came across this thing in my silly little head...

It seems as everything is chalky, but her heart.

Lets explore what this could mean.

1. So she puts all the hard work in, hence shes chalky, but her heart isn't into gymnastics.

2. SHes all beat up, like chaly and stuff, but her heart will never forget its love for gymnastics.'

what do you think it means?

have any other meanings??
then comment fool!

peace

Sorry

2008-12-04T16:35:00.000-08:00

for not posting.

so some news...

1. I hurt my foot, stress fracture. Sucky i know. I still have to tell Lisa. Not looking forward to that.

2. Sam and Bridget are teammates! This could be great, two friends who went to the olympics together training at the same gym! eep! soo exciting.

3. Anyone else see gossipgirl on monday, NASTIA. haha in my opinion her like 5 second appearance was pretty cool, chuck is a playa!!

Didn't see that coming.

Ill post again later, Im home sickkkersss.

peace

Poem

2008-11-14T22:19:00.000-08:00

I had to write a poem about something that is a goal you may never achieve. I titled it Chalky Dream. I'm not a good poet and this is the first try at it. So don't be too harsh, if you have any nice suggestions just comment.

Chalky Dream

Cloudy and white

Yet still in sight,

Five colored rings,

Shine a light.

“Hard work will get you there”

They all say

But how can they be sure?

Because this goal is not obscure.

It’s a chalky dream,

Cloudy and white

That may hold a future so bright.

But when timing seems right

And you feel at a prime

You just may find

Hard work

will not be enough this time.

Written by Claire Hom

11/14/08

Strength Day

2008-11-14T18:58:00.001-08:00

I guess I have forgotten to mention that every Friday is strength day at our gym. Isn't that just wonderful.

I hope you got the sarcasm there.

Well usually on friday we run for 30 minutes, then stretch, then do a whole butt load of abs[which kills!] then we break into 2 different groups based on dance ability. the 2 rotations are upper body and dance, and sometimes we do pliometrics. It makes ya reallllllyyy super duper sore and then you go home and come back the next day and can barely walk, hah.

Anyone [other that He Kexin=14] read this blog? I'm not sure if I should continue?

Bye

He Kexin=14, Sloan Update, Twilight

2008-11-13T21:40:00.000-08:00

Woah [cookie dough hah]

I would personally like to thank Meredith from He Kexin=14 for making that post on me [: [Hey your extremely nice!]

And to get away from my usual journal style entries I'm just going to say that Bridget Sloan's coach has said that she wont be competing in any more competitions this year. I think this a good[yet very disappointing] choice because she really needs some downtime to left her body heal and get back into a mental state that will make her succeed.

And finally Twilight. I love love love the series [twilight, new moon, eclipse, and breaking dawn] and i cant wait for the movie.

I leave you today with a nice video of Stefani Catour, who recently came back from elite camp [and has been invited back in January][my coach wants me to go too eep.]

i would also like to add that this is very old! she is [yes even more] better now! She rocks and is such a great friend. [in case you didnt know, we go to the same gym [:]

peace out girl scouts.

Hey

2008-11-11T14:41:00.001-08:00

Sorry for not updating for awhile. I got sidetracked.

Anyways...

I am so excited because Meredith from He Kexin=14

reads this blog.

That is most defiantly awesome.

Ok, so i caught a yeager out of a blind change on sunday.

I have to run off to gym now so watch my yeager below.

Today

2008-11-04T06:27:00.000-08:00

Is my birthday *applause*

Well happy birthday self.

I didn't do my math homework last night. oops.

Well have a sunshiny day