I would love for the Level 5's to finish their season just as gloriously.
They don't.
Kips still missed. Falls off beam. Errant vaults. Floor routines off the music. Coach P. claps supportively after their routines. I know he's not impressed.
Our last gymnast, Amy, salutes for beam. During the warm-up for bars, she lost a tooth. In the beam touch warm-up, she crashed on a jump and had a subsequent teary meltdown. She's fallen off beam every meet, always more than once. Lots of 6.0's.
But Amy's improved this season. She points her toes, flicks her wrists on floor, almost has her left leg split down. Her leaps hit a full split. She wants to be a real gymnast.
Today she wobbles wildly, but saves herself. She lands her cartwheel and I clap in delight. Just the dismount left -- and she makes it!
8.15. I high-five her. She grins with one tooth missing.
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