--- In [email protected], "raunchydog" <raunchydog@...> wrote: > > Juliette got her membership card for USA Gymnastics in the mail yesterday. > Membership allows her to compete in USGA meets anywhere in the country. USAG > keeps track of scores for meets and ranks skill levels. Her first official > USAG competition will be in Coralville Nov 16 & 17. I took this video on my > IPad...no zoom and I couldn't do any editing. The image is tall an narrow, > there's a full view of how high she flies. She's working out for an informal > intra-team competition next Saturday. The kids are wearing Halloween costumes > for competition...should be fun. > http://youtu.be/ruWo52D0xoA
Dear raunchydog, I must be careful here not to be influenced by anything other than my own perception--I say this because every once in a while posters post in order to buck up the morale of other posters, and you have said some nice things about me--There might be a temptation therefore to try to curry favour with you by saying something positive about Juliette on the trampoline which is not merited by a strictly objective observation of her performance. However as someone once fanatically devoted to athletics--and still a sports fan--I must say that Juliette does seem to have a real confidence, happiness, and self-sufficiency in her trampoline action. She has a sense (or so it seems to me) of a self-determination that for me has everything to do with achievement--and real fulfillment--in this context of physical coordination and skill. I watched Juliette twice and I liked her own self-context, even as she was being coached on the sidelines. Robin
