I also watched this video - I was wondering at the amount of beating her head and body was taking. But I suppose it's all good.
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Robin Carlsen <[email protected]>wrote: > ** > > > > > --- 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 > > >
