A week ago we headed up to Logan for the Cold Turkey meet. Cold Turkey is a practice meet...or a dress rehearsal in my music/drama vocabulary. Boys come from all over the state. They dress up in their uniforms, they perform their routines for judges. But it's not an actual competition and the judges give them feedback on what they can work on and tell them what their score would be if this were a real competition. And what we found out later is that if this were an actual real competition....Brandon would've taken first overall. Which was exciting for us. Last year Brandon kicked some serious gymnastics trash, if you remember. But it kind of made sense...it was his second year competing level 5. There is a big shift going from level 5 to level 6....some serious changes in skills and ability. This meet was the first time I'd seen Brandon's new routines. And he fell a few times. But according to Coach Adam who saw all the scores afterwards, Brandon still had the top all around score of the entire meet! Interesting and exciting!
This year, besides the various local meets Brandon will compete in, we also have meets in San Francisco (Palo Alto, really), Las Vegas, Phoenix and Albuquerque. Because there aren't anywhere near as many gyms with men's programs as their are women's here in Utah, after a couple of meets we get to know the boys we compete against locally pretty well. So going out of state ends up being more of a real competitive experience with boys from all over the country. Plus, it's just fun to travel....
1 comment:
He is amazing! I can't wait until he gets into the Olympics and I can say "I know that guy" :)
P.S. We rented Deidra's dress from the Dress Garden, so glad you told us about it.
Funny about the flower, I didn't realize you could just go in and pick one out the day before, shows you how much I remember about dances :)
Post a Comment