Yurchenko Madness

Amazing progress this summer! Jillian is taking it all very calmly as a matter of course. I am thinking my child is super human. She has a vault! A real, big time, serious vault. It's been a long time coming and there have been many stages and drills.

But this week Jilli started flipping yurchenkos off the real vault into the pit! To add to the amazement, her coach, who is never generous with praise, said that she has the best form in the state on this skill.

In a note of interest, vault has never been easy for Jillian. She has, in the past couple years, managed to place first or second All Around, but place next to last on vault. Do you know how difficult that is to do? Do the math. It takes alot to overcome a low score on one event.

And now she has a real vault that should carry her through this year very well. A great accomplishment for the summer before Level 8! A video will be posted soon. Meanwhile, I'm putting up a video of tumbling and beam. It's early but coming along.