So...

Well...I'm horrible at updating. As if we didn't know that :) Anyway, I'm going to MARS with 2 of my bffl's on Sunday, access I wont have internet while I'm there :( I'll be gone for 2 weeks, but after that I'll really try to update a little more often. So I can't think of anything interesting to post right now that won't take a really long time to write, so I'll end this post now :) 

Sarah Palin Resigns

Was anyone expecting this?

Here's the announcement. If you can make sense of what she's saying, well, that's a LOT more than I could do.

Here's a condensed version...

All I can say is WOW.

Michael Jackson (plus some gym and skating)

Interesting idea for a montage... but it turned out amazing. But are they saying that it's the coaches or the public that doesn't care if they don't do well? Whatever it is, amazing montage, plus it's Michael Jackson.

And check out this hilarious floor routine to thriller.

Love this one.

The cover-up at the end of this one is cool.

Thriller music vid!

Watch HERE.

Cha-cha-cha to PYT

Michael Jackson's best dance moves.

Happy 4th!

Most blogs have 1 vid or 1 pic for the 4th... This one has 5 of each, so take your pick! Normal stuff at the top, funny at the bottom.

The sing-a-long:

The monument:

Jordin Sparks:

Crazy fireworks:

Amazing anthem:

More crazy fireworks:

Muppets:

Crocs:

Floor routine: (she's from Romania...weird music choice!)

lol:

Diversity wins!

Apparently I chose well for the first talent video, because they won BGT! I already linked to their audition, but I'll link to it again HERE. I don't like their semi-final as much, but you can watch it HERE.

And here is their final! Absolutely amazing...

Gym meet!

It was great! I was competing advanced, which is the highest level, and is also the only level where we get to choreograph our own routines. Cat (yes, that is how you spell it!), who is in both of my classes, was also competing advanced. Catherine and Rebecca (not my sister, and different Rebecca) were also advanced. Catherine comes on Thursday as well, but we're in different groups. I've never been in the same class with Rebecca, but I've known her for about a year. The only girl I didn't know was Jessica, who is with Catherine and Rebecca on Saturdays. Most of the girls are trying out for team this Saturday. I know Jessica and Catherine are, and I think Rebecca is. Cat, are you? (leave a comment, Cat!) Ms. Heidi was our coach. First we went to tramp. I don't remember how everyone did on tramp, but I messed up and still got a 6.00! (the highest score you can get is a 6!) My routine was definitely not perfect, but I got bonus because I had 2 "upside down" skills. Jessica fell on her dismount, but still got 5.95! And then they changed her score to a 6 after everyone had gone! Our scores were proof that the judging is horrible, but who cares...

Cat volunteered to go first on beam (you're crazy!), and she did the routine I choreographed for her! *does happy dance* She scared me on her candlestick, because she was so close to the end of the beam I thought she was going to fall! Then I went. It was good(ish) but it could definitely have been better. I was the only person to get a spot on my cartwheel, but I was also the only person who never fell. I made my forward roll! You'd think that if you can do one on the ground it can't be that much harder on the beam, but not the case! It is so easy to fall on those! btw, we all used the beam with the squishy mat under it :)

Our next rotation was vault and bars. We had some epic fails...

Cat went first on vault, and, um, it was, um, interesting? um. Her first vault (handspring) she didn't really get enough power, and she couldn't get over. Ms. Hiedi was just trying to keep her from falling while Cat was trying to get over... I don't remember how this vault ended, but it was funny! (sorry, Cat) For her second vault she did a handspring instead of the half-on, and this time it worked. Then Rebecca went. I think what happened was she tripped right before she reached the springboard, and then she did a bellyflop over the vault. Luckily, they didn't count it. At least Ms. Hiedi didn't, I don't know about the judges! Then she did her handspring and half-on, and this time it worked! I don't remember who went next, but we'll pretend Catherine did. She did 2 good handsprings. Then Jessica did a handspring and a half-on. They were great! I was last, and I did 2 handsprings. On the first one I took a huge step, then almost sat it down, and then took another step. The second was a bit better. I watched the video, and omg I need to work on form! Then bars. I think Cat went first again? It was pretty good. I was second, and it was fine until my back hip-circle! I went around with a bit to much power, and end hanging from the bar is some sort of weird position. Time for pullover #2! Then I went to the high bar, and did some stuff up there. And I stuck the landing! Lets just say Jessica went next. She was great, but did the exact same thing in her back hip! Except that her arms were straight when she "fell" and mine weren't, so she had a harder time getting back up! Catherine did great! She did a kip (!) with a spot of course. If it was without, that would be amazing! Rebecca accidently went around twice in her stride circle.

I told you we had some epic fails!

Then floor! Cat was good! I did pretty well! I got a spot on my kickover (urgh!). I did it the week before at open gym, but then I couldn't do it on Tuesday. :( then I went to close to the edge of the floor near the end. But it turned out ok. Rebecca was good. The number of walkovers in that routine was scary! Catherine was impressive! She had forgot her routine paper at home, and she didn't know her routines. She got through the other events, but she was totally improvising on floor! It was actually pretty good! She forgot some of the requirements, but it was still impressive! Jessica's floor was amazing!!! Ms. Nikki choreographed it, and it was the only routine with real dance choreography! (that would be the one thing in choreography that I have a hard time with) Not only was it the best choreographed routine, but she also had the hardest skills! Her back tumbling pass was a roundoff back-handspring! The only other person to do a back-handspring was Catherine, and she got a spot. The routine got a 6, which definitely did not surprise me!

So then awards. We were last. Of course. :) Tramp, me and Jessica tied for 1st with our "perfect" scores. Rebecca won beam. She was really surprised! I was 2nd. Vault I also got 2nd on. Jessica won. (unsurprisingly, since she was the only one who didn't mess up and did the half-on)

I don't remember who won bars (either Cat or Catherine, I think) but I got 4th, which surprised me because I thought I would be last! Floor Jessica won (obviously), and me and Cat tied for last. :) Good job Catherine!

I didn't actually see any of Rebecca's (now we're talking about my sister) routines at the meet, but I watched the video, and here's how she did. btw, she was competing novice. Vault: Pretty good! She messed up a bit on her second vault, but it was ok. Bars: A few mess-ups, but good! Floor: I don't know why, but she had to start the routine 3 times! Wrong music? Once she started, it was great. Tramp: Some mess-ups, but as always, an amazing straddle jump! Beam: Was great! Sorry, I don't know any scores or placements. (Rebecca, leave a comment!)

So for me, this is how it turned out.

Tramp: "perfect" 6! 1st place

Beam: I think a 5.75. I had this written down somewhere, if I ever find it I'll update. 2nd place.

Vault: Either 5.1 or 5.2. 2nd place.

Bars: 4.75 (I think. It was in the higher part of the 4's) 4th place.

Floor: Somewhere between 5.1 and 5.75. Yes, I know that that's a huge range! 4th place.

I can't wait for the next one!

UPDATE: Bars might have been a 4.8 not 4.75. And beam was 5.75.

UPDATE 2: I watched the awards, and Catherine got 2nd on floor! For an improvised routine thats really good! If anyone actually wants me to post the full results (no scores, just placements) just comment on this and I will.

Sorry!

My goal is to post every day... that obviously didn't happen this weekend. It's not that I don't have ideas - I have plenty - I just never got around to it.

The spring gym meet was on Saturday. I will be posting that soon, probably tomorrow. No vids, sorry. If anyone wants to watch it, either come over to my house, or I can email it to you. (it's an imovie)

After the meet we went to the youth dreamers open house. I will be posting about the youth dreamers sometime in the next week.

Sunday was the last day of hebrew school. Yey! Oh, and we had graduation on Thursday, which was actually kind of fun. Maybe I'll post about that to!

Then we had our last D&D session until August. It was a wrap-up from our first adventure, but we're already heading into our 2nd!

In the next week or 2, I'll be having a few polls (or I might do it in the comments section, I'm not sure yet) about what you like on this blog, what you don't like, what you want, etc. I'm also going to write a post about why I love comments, which will hopefully be up by Friday. It should be amusing, and please read it because I'm actually going to be saying something. (instead of just laughing)

So, until then, I'll leave you with this awesome video! I absolutely LOVE riverdance!

Week 7

Don't forget the men! Seriously...there's some cool stuff in this vid! Click mute if you can't stand the music (mom).

The music that starts at about 1:45 is pirates of the caribbean, which is my floor music for the meet on saturday!

See-ya-hum-bug...

See-ya-hum-bug-koo-koo-ninny-queen-kos-see-ya-hum-bug-koo-koo-ninny-queen-kos

That's not how you do it, Rebecca!

Try this.

Awesome!

Permission to fly

"Permission to fly
Nothing it can measure
Inspiration is forever
I dont need no ones permission to fly"

I LOVE THIS SONG!

Freeze in Grand Central - AWESOME!

I wish I was there!

There's a thing called TALENT... (1)

This is awesome! BGT (Britian's got talent) is awesome! Diversity rock on!

Embedding disabled, so click HERE.

gym week 6 - china

Well. I'm a bit late this week. To bad...

This week is a montage of Chinese gymnastics by Nade00. I chose it because I think it really shows how beautiful gymnastics can be. Plus I love the song :) Ok, don't ask me why, but I just tried pasting into this post, and it worked, so I guess I'll embed it. Enjoy!

And the winer of dwts is...

Shawn Johnson!

Yea!

I'm on my dads computer so that i can paste. So, here is her perfect 30 freestyle!



You can see the paso doble HERE. Watch the judges advising the stars HERE.

And here are the results!




happy happy happy! happy spaz happy happy!

oh and i'm annoyed that gilles was ahead of mellissa. cuz mellissa rocked!

Let the countdown begin...

The school year is almost over, and summer is coming up fast...

2 weeks until end of hebrew school + gymnastics

3 weeks until the end of school (yes, I know I'm homeschooled, and yes, I know I'm probably going to do stuff over the summer, but WHATEVER! 3 weeks left of school)

4 weeks until we leave for Maine.

5 weeks until MICA starts

8 weeks until GS camp with Rachel and Selena!

10 weeks until MARS... with Rachel (and her friend Rachel) and Selena and loads of other awesome friends!

CAN'T WAIT TO SEE EVERYONE!!!!!!!

Last concert...

The last concert of the season was yesterday. It was actually really good. And fun :) There's still the cabaret left, but I'm not performing because it's the same night as the gym meet. It's been a long season, with 4 concerts. We've been working since January. And now it's over. And I'm sad. :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( in the very unlikely chance that anyone from choir ever sees this, I MISS YOU GUYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lizzy Leduc!

You might remember that the week 4 gymnastics vid was a floor routine by Lizzy Leduc. Well, that was from about 2 years ago when she was level 8, and just last weekend she won level 10 nationals for her age group! Congrats, Lizzy! (lol, even though she'll never see this) Oh, and this means that she made the JO national team!

Skating news

Most of this is old news, but I'm guessing most of you don't know yet (probably meaning you don't care, but I need to dump my useless knowledge somewhere). So here goes.

SASHA COHEN IS ATTEMPTING A COMEBACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Good new for US figure skating... bad news for all the skaters trying to make the team. But who knows, maybe she won't make it very far. Her ankle is currently injured, and she's starting training in June. Because she was a silver medalist in the Torino 2006 Olympics, she is automatically qualified to nationals. (She also competed in 2002, and placed 4th) She has said that she would except an invitation to compete a skate america. Skate America is part of the Grand Prix, which is a series of 6(?) competitions from which the top 6 skaters are invited to the final. Skaters hoping to take part in the final compete in 2 events each. Since Sasha did not compete last year, she will have to be invited by the organizers. Skate America seems likely, if only for the TV ratings. A 2nd event is less likely, but not out of the question. Assignments will be given at the end of this month.

Kimmie Meissner is keeping her short program from last year. Her new long program music will be Romeo and Juliet. (love you, twitter)

Emily Hughes is taking the year off of school to concentrate on skating.

Ok, now I've said something about each of the skaters on the 2006 Olympics team (the ladies, that is) and I can't think of anything else, so we'll leave it at that. FYI, for ladies and pairs the US has 2 spots at the Olympics next year, and for men's and ice dance we have 3. (3 is the max)

UPDATE: Michelle Kwan sounds like a maybe for a comeback? Those tweets sound a bit like hints... Click HERE.

dwts

Well, for those of you who don't know, Shawn Johnson is on dancing with the stars. And... she made it to finals! Her partner is Mark Ballas, who won with figure skater Kristi Yamaguci in season 6. So, while we (or maybe you guys don't care, and i'm the only one waiting. lol) are waiting for Monday and Tuesday (when the final is), here are all the dances she's done so far!

Week 1

Waltz

Week 2

Salsa

Week 3

Foxtrot

Week 4

Lindy Hop

Week 5

Viennese Waltz

Week 6

Rumba

Week 7

Cha-Cha-Cha

Week 7 Group Dance

Week 8

Samba

Team Dance - Mambo

Week 9

Quick Step

Paso Doble

Week 10

Tango

Jive

Ivana Hong! (week 5)

Click HERE. Ivana Hong has the best form in the country for an elite gymnast, as far as I'm concerned. With a possible exception for Samantha Shapiro. I think that most of the clips in this video are from when she was 12 and younger. Watch an around 0:25 to see a really, really cool transition to the low bar.