Halloween

Happy Halloween everyone! No gym today! Isn't that exciting! Well I'm off to a dreadful day of school.


My back hurts. Really bad in the lower part, anyone have stretches or anything for that??

Thanks

ASU

Rocked. Sorry for not posting about this yesterday but I have a book log due tomorrow, yuckers.

News from asu.
1. Nicole Harris is back and as good as ever, trust me.
2.Well anyway for the early practice[12-3] we started on bars and did our sucky first halves. [which is kip cast hand, kip cast hand, clearhip handstand, stalder, toe circle] I really hate those...
3. The channel bar was amazing, I did yeagers there[sorta scary] but john spotted so all is well.
4. the video system is extremely amazingggggg and helped so much
5. Floor was extra bouncy.
6. Vault was suckish, had no tape measure so i didnt know where to start.[ahhh]
7. Beam was good, they are really nice and look newly padded.
8. Strength equipment is great. Had lots on balls, ab rollers, and things like that.
9. Trampoline was really nice, very bouncy.
10. Pit was perfect. I felt bad for getting chalk in it.


Peace.

Just

so you know that I give up a lot of sleep for gymnastics and homework and stuff. It's 11:35 right now and i am still not done with my math homework. Isn't that just great. and then Language arts!
grrrrrr

John Spini Gymnastics Center

Why I love it...

1. Channel Bar!!! This one of my favorites! its like you feel safe like your on a low bar but you can swing through like a highbar, and also it makes spotting easier!

2. Video System! This is probably the most helpful piece of technology. It is on delay so you can watch every turn after your done. It is so helpful.

3. Pit bar and pit vault. So the pit bar is a single high bar over the pit. It helps with the fear aspect and also is needed for new dismounts. The pit vault is just so helpful when you need to work upgraded vaults. For both of these you can put in mats but still have a safe situation!

4. Locker room! This is amazing!! Each gymnast has a locker with a nice big mirror in it that also has cubby holes in it and hooks and shelves and everything! I love it.



I cannot wait to workout here!!!!!!!

ASU to come...

Before I ramble on about today... I'm going to the ASU gymnastics center for gym tomorrow! I am so excited. Mainly because they have amazing equipment.

Okay today was an overall good day I guess. We started on bars, and since it's a tuesday we d[like our usual 4!] but yeah I worked double layouts and stalder shoots. Then on floor I had to rearrange my passes[which was really hard] so instead of going, double pike, triple full, front full, 2.5 I go triple full, double pike, front layout front pike, 2.5. It was really different but i got through it and my coach Lisa was happy. On beam I had a troubled day.. grr. I'm not too happy about it because i didn't get much accomplished. I really don't feel like talking about it but series was NOT good and dismounts were horrible! I am really upset.

Vault was the usual, pikes and layouts. BTW i am a horrible vaulter.. hah! maybe i could become a bars, beam and floor specialist. Yeah that sounds good right now...

oh yeahh

If you need to ask any questions just email me [: claire.hom@gmail.com

sound good??
and oh yeah

Im really nice [:

Obama Slogan Magical?

Okay, well right now I am super excited because Andrea who blogs on LBL Gymnastics,
actually looked at this blog! I was super excited. And she told me it would be a good idea to blog about my struggles and high points of being a level 10 gymnast. So this will be the first post around that topic.


. Well i have recently been struggling with some hip flexer issues and my elbow. I've been doing some physical therapy and stuff like that. And I haven't exactly been telling my head coach about this...[shh don't tell] Just mainly because right now she is making a film of my skills and stuff to send to Karoylis Camp[like junior team] in November. So I just didn't want to stop everything because of my injuries and stuff. Don't worry after camp ill tone it down a bit before competition season.

Well to explain the title today on beam we had 6 MADE full sets. Yeah I wasn't looking forward to that but my friend alegra[she was on the beam beside me] and before all of our routines we did a high five and said YES WE CAN! well yes i could and i made every single routine, which made me really happy because my monday beam coach neela nelson[national judge!!! she is such a good coach and is the reason why i love beam] is going to choose one of the kids from our group to give an olympic pin!!!! i am so excited! i really want it, but i have to work for it.

And just to clear this up, I'm not one of those people who are like oh i absolutely love beam, just to make them look "fearless" I admit to being scared a lot but i get over it because i know my coach wouldn't make me do it if i wasn't ready.

[:

Claire

Assingments

old news.

Pan Ams. [this is the training squad and the final 4 will be announced nov. 16ish]Jana Bieger[wow], Rebecca Bross[duh], Mackenzie Caquatto[yay, Olivia Courtney[not so sure, Corrie Lothrop[yay!]Bridget Sloan[extremely happy]Cassie Whitcomb[i dont know her too well]

Top Gym. Kamerin Moore and Jordyn Wieber, that would be so cute if they went together.

IAGC. Cassie Whitcomb[i want her to go to this one not pan ams], and Amanda Jetter[heck yes]

GossipGirl

Is one of my favorite shows!

Now NASTIA is making an apperance!

Im so excited for this episode!!



fo sho

Umm

I didn't even tell you guys what gymnasts are my favorite!!

in order.

1. Samantha Peszek, I'm not sure why I like her so much she just seems very real and hard-working. as you can see in her fluff piece No Glam Just Sam she is just like a normal teenager. I also love her mom, she is just so supportive.

2. Shayla Worley. I have always been a sucker for originality. Especially on beam. Even tho she fell a lot on her arabian she was amazing. I was so sad when i read her interview[which i cannot locate at the moment] when she was in tears after her broken leg. How the interviewer asked what are you going to do now, she said "I dont know". Poor girl, i still love her though.

3. Shawn. Shawn Johnson is just amazing! I love everything but her full-in dismount, which i dont know why but i never seemed to like. But she took on all the media and training and went to school as well. Go shawn.

4. Nastia. Liukin. I love her lines. And she is a fighter! I really felt for her in 2007 but she fought her way back to the top. I love you nastia! and anyway she totally deserved to win.

5. Mattie Larson. Her gymnastics is just beautiful! Her triple is amazing and she always had her bright smile! I really hope she goes into the next quad, she could do amazing things.

Oh Briley!

This girl is just amazing. Briley Casanova



she has really good form.

i wish i could do a full... those would be the days.

anyway be sure to check her out because she is quite amazing

Gymdogs

What does everyone think about their slogan All in for 10??

I personally would have preferred Defend for Ten as He Kexin=14 wrote.

Also it looks like A Train is having fun, journal

ps. A Train is Amber Trani.

Mattie!

Larson!!!
I love this girl, she is so cute [that weird to say because shes older than me but whatever]





I love how she said she had fun in the selection process![im not denying she had fun but its nice to know it was a good experience for her]

My friends

are awesome to say the least

Well this is a montage I made that stars: Kayla! Stefani! Arianna! and Me!

Stefani is the best of course.





sorry about sucky sound


check out the awesome blog Why I don't like Elfi Schlegel

she wrote about me

thats pretty cool.

anyone know when the world cup is?

First Post

This is the first post. Yay!

Just so you know: im a gymnast

so enjoy the blog and visit the youtube channel: www.youtube.com/clairebear70859

also, gym-style.com/clairehom