This tutorial was a little wierd with the funcitons and the formulas. I knew that the formulas were supposed to create dots but in my case, my die came out as little characters, I do not know where I messed up but that is what I got.
Monday, April 20, 2009
Tutorial 5
This tutorial was a little wierd with the funcitons and the formulas. I knew that the formulas were supposed to create dots but in my case, my die came out as little characters, I do not know where I messed up but that is what I got.
Reflecton #9
Reflection #9
So I broke down in class the other day about gymnastics, I felt so damn stupid, but it wasn’t even what everyone thought it was about. I was doing my presentation and I got picked on a little but they didn’t even mean it. Nolan has to take everything to the heart but I cannot help it. Anyway, I almost cried and what not because the other day before this at internship I fell at internship and I hurt my ankle bad because people want to decide to rush me and what not. Anyway I did not mind the whole falling thing, it was the long term outcome because of all of that, I was afraid that I would not be able to apply for the cheerleading team for Hawai’i and I knew that with the hut ankle I would not be able to make the audition tape to their standards. That is over with and I’m all past that, I can make I know I can.
I walked in to internship today ready to bust my butt trying a new trick but most of all to prove to myself that I can do it. So after watching the video’s for Hawai’i I knew that I would have to do this trick where I do a tuck and at the very end of the tuck, twist like you are doing a half-twist and connect another trick. I didn’t start working on this trick until the end of the internship day. When I started to do it, it seemed really hard but then after doing the twist at the end, it came so easy to me. I loved it. I did it over and over and over until I actually could connect a kart-wheel at the end. The first time that I did it, I busted my butt so good, I laughed so much because it was so awkward but like Mrs. Burke said, gymnasts do not care what we have to do, we just do it. She was right; I had no right to be all scared about the other day. What ever now, I’m just doing what I got to do and that is going to be that.
Well, exhibition is going to be in about four weeks so that meant that I had to start making my routine and helping that girl so that way she can demonstrate my teaching skills. This lady is slacking; I guess she really does not understand that I really have to start making my routine. So she told me instead of creating some crazy routine, I’m going to do my level four routine and it will merge into a creative routine so I really thought that it was awesome. I said okay to her, let’s make the routine and she told me to make, she’s the coach and she’s telling me to make it. I suck at making routines. I’m going to make the dance to every time we touch. It’s cool because; it’s techno so it’s going to be so much fun. I stood in front of the mat and I started to listen to he song for the beats so I can make the routine, but I could not think of anything but like stupid stuff and I really want it to look good because everyone is going to see this routine, well some of the juniors but they look up to me so I have to do super good. After trying to make this damn routine, I went to bars. Maybe I’ll have good luck today on the bars.
Oh my god, I almost go my kip today. It was so hard but she spotted me for the first kip and then after that, it tried it by myself and I did it. I found out that my problem is that I pull away from the bar asking it hard for me to pull in. Next week, I’m really going to have to work next week on keeping close to the bar. I really want to get my kip for exhibition that would be the biggest improvement for me for real. Next week will be an awesome week. Hopefully!
So I broke down in class the other day about gymnastics, I felt so damn stupid, but it wasn’t even what everyone thought it was about. I was doing my presentation and I got picked on a little but they didn’t even mean it. Nolan has to take everything to the heart but I cannot help it. Anyway, I almost cried and what not because the other day before this at internship I fell at internship and I hurt my ankle bad because people want to decide to rush me and what not. Anyway I did not mind the whole falling thing, it was the long term outcome because of all of that, I was afraid that I would not be able to apply for the cheerleading team for Hawai’i and I knew that with the hut ankle I would not be able to make the audition tape to their standards. That is over with and I’m all past that, I can make I know I can.
I walked in to internship today ready to bust my butt trying a new trick but most of all to prove to myself that I can do it. So after watching the video’s for Hawai’i I knew that I would have to do this trick where I do a tuck and at the very end of the tuck, twist like you are doing a half-twist and connect another trick. I didn’t start working on this trick until the end of the internship day. When I started to do it, it seemed really hard but then after doing the twist at the end, it came so easy to me. I loved it. I did it over and over and over until I actually could connect a kart-wheel at the end. The first time that I did it, I busted my butt so good, I laughed so much because it was so awkward but like Mrs. Burke said, gymnasts do not care what we have to do, we just do it. She was right; I had no right to be all scared about the other day. What ever now, I’m just doing what I got to do and that is going to be that.
Well, exhibition is going to be in about four weeks so that meant that I had to start making my routine and helping that girl so that way she can demonstrate my teaching skills. This lady is slacking; I guess she really does not understand that I really have to start making my routine. So she told me instead of creating some crazy routine, I’m going to do my level four routine and it will merge into a creative routine so I really thought that it was awesome. I said okay to her, let’s make the routine and she told me to make, she’s the coach and she’s telling me to make it. I suck at making routines. I’m going to make the dance to every time we touch. It’s cool because; it’s techno so it’s going to be so much fun. I stood in front of the mat and I started to listen to he song for the beats so I can make the routine, but I could not think of anything but like stupid stuff and I really want it to look good because everyone is going to see this routine, well some of the juniors but they look up to me so I have to do super good. After trying to make this damn routine, I went to bars. Maybe I’ll have good luck today on the bars.
Oh my god, I almost go my kip today. It was so hard but she spotted me for the first kip and then after that, it tried it by myself and I did it. I found out that my problem is that I pull away from the bar asking it hard for me to pull in. Next week, I’m really going to have to work next week on keeping close to the bar. I really want to get my kip for exhibition that would be the biggest improvement for me for real. Next week will be an awesome week. Hopefully!
Reflection #8
Reflection #8
Today is very important I have to get my full-twist again, because I’ve been lacking so much with doing my full. If I do not do it today well then I’m screwed because I know that I won’t do it anymore.
Already I walked into internship with a horrible mood, what in the god’s name for real because I know that for a fact with a bad I cannot do anything. So what am I supposed to do? I wish that I could be like Amarfy who wants to just be able to wake up and do an aerial without ever having to learn how to do it. WE all know that that is not possible. That is why we have dreams right?
Like every single day of internship, we started off with conditioning and then we moved on to the bars. Seriously they need to think of a whole different method because I am so sick of losing all of my energy for the rest of the day after the bars. It’s like you should just shoot me in the arms and just forget about doing anything. Hahaha… So I found out that the whole time I was holding the bars wrong. When I fixed my hands I was like damn man, this means more rips. I mean I like rips and everything because it proves that you are really dedicated and do not stop at what ever I am trying but they burn seriously. I do not want a rip right now. Screw it, I did it and I felt my skin pulling. I knew a rip was coming but all I got was a rip in my old areas that I rip in. What ever; it’s all good.
Today was an off day for the P-Bars. I was doing my swings and it seems like my body is too heavy to swing. I was laughing at myself so bad because it felt like I was falling forward. I was going to bang my head and I fell and I was laughing. I think I’m just done with getting mad at myself when I mess up. I tried to do a level five routine. I worked on the beginning and I got it. I was so happy for real maybe I can actually move up a different level that would make me feel like I accomplished life. Level five is awkward because you actually have to run at the bars and then jump in between the bars. It feels weird because you feel like you are going to it your arms on the bars. But if you keep your arms inward, really close to your body, you will be fine. I did it and that’s that. Go me, oh yeah, Go me….wooowooo
Time for the floor. We started to go across the floor with simple things for now like always. Hand stands. Forward roles. Kart-wheels and things like that. Now we are at the harder stuff. I started to do my layout to get ready for my full. I was not comfortable so I did my layout again and again and again. Now I was ready to try it. So I am standing front of the mat like I always do to get ready for my full and I was hesitating because it had been a while sense I did it. Lucia is on the side waiting for me to do it. She was like rushing me to do it. Hurry up, we are waiting and I’m telling her that if I’m not comfortable I know I will not land it. Damn, I’m still not feeling it. I finally go after her rushing me and I do not land it. I was like two feet from the floor. I could have probably kissed the floor if I wanted to while I was doing the full. I could of landed it if I went up a but because I was being rushed it was horrible. I fell and hurt my ankle man, I was so damn angry at her. I didn’t do anything the rest of the night.
Today is very important I have to get my full-twist again, because I’ve been lacking so much with doing my full. If I do not do it today well then I’m screwed because I know that I won’t do it anymore.
Already I walked into internship with a horrible mood, what in the god’s name for real because I know that for a fact with a bad I cannot do anything. So what am I supposed to do? I wish that I could be like Amarfy who wants to just be able to wake up and do an aerial without ever having to learn how to do it. WE all know that that is not possible. That is why we have dreams right?
Like every single day of internship, we started off with conditioning and then we moved on to the bars. Seriously they need to think of a whole different method because I am so sick of losing all of my energy for the rest of the day after the bars. It’s like you should just shoot me in the arms and just forget about doing anything. Hahaha… So I found out that the whole time I was holding the bars wrong. When I fixed my hands I was like damn man, this means more rips. I mean I like rips and everything because it proves that you are really dedicated and do not stop at what ever I am trying but they burn seriously. I do not want a rip right now. Screw it, I did it and I felt my skin pulling. I knew a rip was coming but all I got was a rip in my old areas that I rip in. What ever; it’s all good.
Today was an off day for the P-Bars. I was doing my swings and it seems like my body is too heavy to swing. I was laughing at myself so bad because it felt like I was falling forward. I was going to bang my head and I fell and I was laughing. I think I’m just done with getting mad at myself when I mess up. I tried to do a level five routine. I worked on the beginning and I got it. I was so happy for real maybe I can actually move up a different level that would make me feel like I accomplished life. Level five is awkward because you actually have to run at the bars and then jump in between the bars. It feels weird because you feel like you are going to it your arms on the bars. But if you keep your arms inward, really close to your body, you will be fine. I did it and that’s that. Go me, oh yeah, Go me….wooowooo
Time for the floor. We started to go across the floor with simple things for now like always. Hand stands. Forward roles. Kart-wheels and things like that. Now we are at the harder stuff. I started to do my layout to get ready for my full. I was not comfortable so I did my layout again and again and again. Now I was ready to try it. So I am standing front of the mat like I always do to get ready for my full and I was hesitating because it had been a while sense I did it. Lucia is on the side waiting for me to do it. She was like rushing me to do it. Hurry up, we are waiting and I’m telling her that if I’m not comfortable I know I will not land it. Damn, I’m still not feeling it. I finally go after her rushing me and I do not land it. I was like two feet from the floor. I could have probably kissed the floor if I wanted to while I was doing the full. I could of landed it if I went up a but because I was being rushed it was horrible. I fell and hurt my ankle man, I was so damn angry at her. I didn’t do anything the rest of the night.
Reflection #4
Reflection #4
After last week, I was looking forward tonight. It was such a disaster; I have no idea where the hell my head was. This week is most definetely going to be better, it has to be.
I walked right into the gym and went right to Lucia, and I said to her, “I’m getting my full tonight if it’s the last thing that I do.” She said okay like it was nothing to her. Told me you better with all that talk. At that same time keeping in mind what Mrs. Burke said to me earlier today about yeah you have been telling me for weeks that you was going to get your full. Stop talking about it and do it. I had to.
We started today off with some conditioning, the basic jumping jacks and regular tuck jumps and splits. I assumed that because we have no competition coming up today that we would just work on getting new tricks on the floor. Because I really hate when we start on the bars. I loose all my strength right away.
Tell me why as soon as we got on the bars, I complained to myself because last week I could not get a pull over to save my life. I chalked up my hands, went right to the bar and just stared at it. Lucia kept telling me to hurry up but I was so hesitant. I jumped up to the bar and went right over like a solid board. I was so happy at the same time as angry at myself because it was easier than I thought it was it was just last week I had so many things going on in my head. It was almost virtually impossible for me to get it. So I did it over and over again till I got too tired. Then we moved right to the floor.
I started on the floor with my back-hand-springs and some front flips. It was all good but I wanted to save a lot of my energy for the highlight of the night. My full-twist. She said get ready because you are going to do your full-twist next and I said yeah right, I’ll do my layout first. She laughed at me. So I did my layout and she asked me if I was ready and I thought I was but no I wasn’t. I couldn’t even do the half from two weeks ago. I decided to do the exercise that she gave me two weeks ago, about when you come down from the layout; twist at the end, so I did it once and then I said that I am ready. I ended up doing one more layout. It was time. I stood in front of the mat after everyone else went and waited. I waited and waited and waited, to confuse my mind, Lucia told me that it was just a layout, it worked. So I ran and I hurtled and I went and twisted. I FELL!!! Right on my side. Turns out that I worried too much about the twist and not the height, I said alright, I got this. I was not scared at all any more. I stood again with hesitation in front of the mat. I went and I twisted again I landed and fell. But oh my god, I did it. Woo!!! Now I was ready to get it good. I said ready Lucia; this one is going to be for you. Remember; third times the charm. I stood again and went for it. I did it. I landed practically straight up and sharp with the arms. I could not believe that I just did it. I have only been doing acrobatics for a year and a half and I did it. Nolan Burke got his full-twist. First student ever in Providence Turners to get their full-twist. It was definitely a night to remember.
After last week, I was looking forward tonight. It was such a disaster; I have no idea where the hell my head was. This week is most definetely going to be better, it has to be.
I walked right into the gym and went right to Lucia, and I said to her, “I’m getting my full tonight if it’s the last thing that I do.” She said okay like it was nothing to her. Told me you better with all that talk. At that same time keeping in mind what Mrs. Burke said to me earlier today about yeah you have been telling me for weeks that you was going to get your full. Stop talking about it and do it. I had to.
We started today off with some conditioning, the basic jumping jacks and regular tuck jumps and splits. I assumed that because we have no competition coming up today that we would just work on getting new tricks on the floor. Because I really hate when we start on the bars. I loose all my strength right away.
Tell me why as soon as we got on the bars, I complained to myself because last week I could not get a pull over to save my life. I chalked up my hands, went right to the bar and just stared at it. Lucia kept telling me to hurry up but I was so hesitant. I jumped up to the bar and went right over like a solid board. I was so happy at the same time as angry at myself because it was easier than I thought it was it was just last week I had so many things going on in my head. It was almost virtually impossible for me to get it. So I did it over and over again till I got too tired. Then we moved right to the floor.
I started on the floor with my back-hand-springs and some front flips. It was all good but I wanted to save a lot of my energy for the highlight of the night. My full-twist. She said get ready because you are going to do your full-twist next and I said yeah right, I’ll do my layout first. She laughed at me. So I did my layout and she asked me if I was ready and I thought I was but no I wasn’t. I couldn’t even do the half from two weeks ago. I decided to do the exercise that she gave me two weeks ago, about when you come down from the layout; twist at the end, so I did it once and then I said that I am ready. I ended up doing one more layout. It was time. I stood in front of the mat after everyone else went and waited. I waited and waited and waited, to confuse my mind, Lucia told me that it was just a layout, it worked. So I ran and I hurtled and I went and twisted. I FELL!!! Right on my side. Turns out that I worried too much about the twist and not the height, I said alright, I got this. I was not scared at all any more. I stood again with hesitation in front of the mat. I went and I twisted again I landed and fell. But oh my god, I did it. Woo!!! Now I was ready to get it good. I said ready Lucia; this one is going to be for you. Remember; third times the charm. I stood again and went for it. I did it. I landed practically straight up and sharp with the arms. I could not believe that I just did it. I have only been doing acrobatics for a year and a half and I did it. Nolan Burke got his full-twist. First student ever in Providence Turners to get their full-twist. It was definitely a night to remember.
Reflection #3
Reflection #3
Last week was a successful week and I had expected this week to be the same, but I was wrong. Maybe it was because I was having a bad day, but I don’t know.
I had told Mrs. Burke that I got my half-twist last week and that today I would be going for my full-twist. I was ready and everything. I had my mind set. Nolan, you’re getting your full-twist tonight and that’s all you’re working on.
I get to practice, and for some odd reason, which I do not know why; I was so angry or just maybe I was having one of those bi-polar moments. I could have sworn someone turned off a switch in my head. It was the nice and confident switch; but no instead of being confident and boastful like usual. No I was angry and putting myself down left to right.
So we start practicing and keep in mind that I was not in a really good mood, like I usually am. We weren’t doing freelance tonight, we were only working on our routines. That got me even angrier. Everything was just getting me so angry. On top of that I am just learning my routines today and yeah they are extremely easy because they are only level four but it’s not that. It’s my pride. Because I am so old and I am only doing level four to get me qualified. I just could not see myself competing against six year olds. It just didn’t seem fair. How could I even loose. I have more balance because of my age and experience. Oh, that was not even the cake topper. When they told me what I had to do fore my vault level four routine. I wanted to laugh and walk out of there. All I had to do was just run to the spring board and jump on the spring board with out the damn vault and just land on the floor, not even jump on the damn vault itself. Really though, how does that look with an eighteen year old running to a spring board and not even doing at least a front hand-spring off the vault. I seriously felt like such a loser, I wanted to cry for myself. No, why stop there? I got on the bars and I wanted to die. I could not do the freaking pull-over on the high bar and that’s like all they do in the level four high bar routine. What was I going to do? Do the pull-up and the swing and that’s it? How retarded. I kept telling Lucia that I was going to just scratch it and be done with the whole bar thing. I did not see it going anywhere. I huffed and I puffed the whole time on the bar. Do not get me wrong. I tried and tried but for some reason it just would not happen. So we start to do the level four routines on the floor and doing it makes me feel like a loser, because I can do all these tricks that level six’s can do and I can’t even do a simple back-hand-spring because I am level four. That is such crap man. I’ve been working so hard on all my tricks and I can not even show them off. That made me feel even more of a loser. They thought that the bonus point for the routine was a back-hand-spring, but turns out it was not. Shoot me was all I thought for the longest time. I sucked it up though and I did the routine around ten times full out; just like I would do it at the meet. I had one good part of the night and that was on the pamal horse. I started the pamal horse tonight, it is not as easy as it looks, so I got the simple routine and I kept practicing that over and over. I basically said screw all the other routines right now, I’m good, and I’ll just stick to this. I guess I was angry from earlier and I noticed that anything effects me and I really have to learn how to control that, because I cannot let that effect my progression anymore. It is a sad excuse to not be able to get a new trick. I went home a little depressed, but the meet on Saturday will get me back on my feet. I do not care anymore about the big kid little kid thing anymore. I’ll just suck up my pride, as much as I got and do the routines and go up there with a smile
Last week was a successful week and I had expected this week to be the same, but I was wrong. Maybe it was because I was having a bad day, but I don’t know.
I had told Mrs. Burke that I got my half-twist last week and that today I would be going for my full-twist. I was ready and everything. I had my mind set. Nolan, you’re getting your full-twist tonight and that’s all you’re working on.
I get to practice, and for some odd reason, which I do not know why; I was so angry or just maybe I was having one of those bi-polar moments. I could have sworn someone turned off a switch in my head. It was the nice and confident switch; but no instead of being confident and boastful like usual. No I was angry and putting myself down left to right.
So we start practicing and keep in mind that I was not in a really good mood, like I usually am. We weren’t doing freelance tonight, we were only working on our routines. That got me even angrier. Everything was just getting me so angry. On top of that I am just learning my routines today and yeah they are extremely easy because they are only level four but it’s not that. It’s my pride. Because I am so old and I am only doing level four to get me qualified. I just could not see myself competing against six year olds. It just didn’t seem fair. How could I even loose. I have more balance because of my age and experience. Oh, that was not even the cake topper. When they told me what I had to do fore my vault level four routine. I wanted to laugh and walk out of there. All I had to do was just run to the spring board and jump on the spring board with out the damn vault and just land on the floor, not even jump on the damn vault itself. Really though, how does that look with an eighteen year old running to a spring board and not even doing at least a front hand-spring off the vault. I seriously felt like such a loser, I wanted to cry for myself. No, why stop there? I got on the bars and I wanted to die. I could not do the freaking pull-over on the high bar and that’s like all they do in the level four high bar routine. What was I going to do? Do the pull-up and the swing and that’s it? How retarded. I kept telling Lucia that I was going to just scratch it and be done with the whole bar thing. I did not see it going anywhere. I huffed and I puffed the whole time on the bar. Do not get me wrong. I tried and tried but for some reason it just would not happen. So we start to do the level four routines on the floor and doing it makes me feel like a loser, because I can do all these tricks that level six’s can do and I can’t even do a simple back-hand-spring because I am level four. That is such crap man. I’ve been working so hard on all my tricks and I can not even show them off. That made me feel even more of a loser. They thought that the bonus point for the routine was a back-hand-spring, but turns out it was not. Shoot me was all I thought for the longest time. I sucked it up though and I did the routine around ten times full out; just like I would do it at the meet. I had one good part of the night and that was on the pamal horse. I started the pamal horse tonight, it is not as easy as it looks, so I got the simple routine and I kept practicing that over and over. I basically said screw all the other routines right now, I’m good, and I’ll just stick to this. I guess I was angry from earlier and I noticed that anything effects me and I really have to learn how to control that, because I cannot let that effect my progression anymore. It is a sad excuse to not be able to get a new trick. I went home a little depressed, but the meet on Saturday will get me back on my feet. I do not care anymore about the big kid little kid thing anymore. I’ll just suck up my pride, as much as I got and do the routines and go up there with a smile
Reflection #2
Reflection #2
I was so pumped to go to class today. Internship is so much; well I mean when we do workouts it’s not as fun but still it’s better than having to be in some kind of office or something. I went in internship today with a goal. That goal was to get my full-twist. I kept bragging to Mrs. Burke about how I was going to get it like nothing. To be honest, I was so scared. I have a full-twist on the trampoline but doing it on the floor is something that is completely different. You have to use so much more strength than you would be using on the trampoline. So if you do not set right, well then you will not be able to do a full-twist. I was shaking even before I got there.
So I’m there at Providence Turners and we started off just like any other day. We started to stretch, do our splits, jumping jacks, tuck jumps; everything to get your blood pumping. I hate how we start after the work-outs we start right on the bar. It kills me because it takes all of my strength and aaaahhhhhh. You know what kills me? The pull-ups man! The pull-ups; I do two of them and I’m dead. She was giving me a routine. I guess it’s a level four because she is trying to get me ready for competition in two weeks. Oh yeah, and on top of that they want me to start competing. That makes excited at the same time, worried like there’s no tomorrow. I can’t even get a pull-over and they want me to start competition, yeah right. I kind of cheat sometimes. I climb on the low bar and stand on it and then jump to the high bar so I can do my kip swing and my regular swing and turn while swinging. It feels so much easier. But I really have to stop slacking because competition is coming and I know that they are all counting on me. Really, I really do think they are counting on me. They keep telling how far I have come in just three weeks. I’m amazed at myself.
So the real highlight of my evening. THE FLOOR!!!!! I was so ready to go on the floor. So we started just like we always do. We started to go across the floor. I skipped doing those little jumps and the little cartwheels across the floor because it was just a waste of time, I already have all those tricks so I’d rather just work on my back-hand-springs and am on my way. I started off with the tucks and then I started doing my back-hand-spring back-tucks. Which I really have to work on because I’m setting anymore and it’s really starting to disappoint me. Then again it could be because of the floor. Well any way, I start doing my layout and Lucia mentions to me, why not do your full now. I was like, what? Come again…hahaha. I told her that I would do my layout until I felt comfortable and then I would try and do it. She told me when you do your layout don’t try the full just yet. On your way coming down from the layout, turn your body at the last minute to a half; just so that way I would at least get the feel. After I did that my body just naturally turned like I had already knew how to do it. I was so excited. I go my half-twist. I never thought in a millions years I would actually get it on the floor, but I did. Go me! I kept doing it over and over and I fell a few times, but I did. I would have had my full, but I was leading with my hips and not with my shoulders and head so I wasn’t rotating at the proper speed to get me around. As soon as I got my half-twist, I rushed over to my cell-phone and called my dance teacher to tell her, because I knew she would be excited for me and I was right. As soon as I told her, she was like you better get your full now. I laughed in accomplishment. I don’t think I had ever been so excited before. Watch, next week I’m getting my full. There’s nobody stopping me now. Nothing can stand in my way. That’s how confident I am…let me stop before I get too confident and break a leg.
I was so pumped to go to class today. Internship is so much; well I mean when we do workouts it’s not as fun but still it’s better than having to be in some kind of office or something. I went in internship today with a goal. That goal was to get my full-twist. I kept bragging to Mrs. Burke about how I was going to get it like nothing. To be honest, I was so scared. I have a full-twist on the trampoline but doing it on the floor is something that is completely different. You have to use so much more strength than you would be using on the trampoline. So if you do not set right, well then you will not be able to do a full-twist. I was shaking even before I got there.
So I’m there at Providence Turners and we started off just like any other day. We started to stretch, do our splits, jumping jacks, tuck jumps; everything to get your blood pumping. I hate how we start after the work-outs we start right on the bar. It kills me because it takes all of my strength and aaaahhhhhh. You know what kills me? The pull-ups man! The pull-ups; I do two of them and I’m dead. She was giving me a routine. I guess it’s a level four because she is trying to get me ready for competition in two weeks. Oh yeah, and on top of that they want me to start competing. That makes excited at the same time, worried like there’s no tomorrow. I can’t even get a pull-over and they want me to start competition, yeah right. I kind of cheat sometimes. I climb on the low bar and stand on it and then jump to the high bar so I can do my kip swing and my regular swing and turn while swinging. It feels so much easier. But I really have to stop slacking because competition is coming and I know that they are all counting on me. Really, I really do think they are counting on me. They keep telling how far I have come in just three weeks. I’m amazed at myself.
So the real highlight of my evening. THE FLOOR!!!!! I was so ready to go on the floor. So we started just like we always do. We started to go across the floor. I skipped doing those little jumps and the little cartwheels across the floor because it was just a waste of time, I already have all those tricks so I’d rather just work on my back-hand-springs and am on my way. I started off with the tucks and then I started doing my back-hand-spring back-tucks. Which I really have to work on because I’m setting anymore and it’s really starting to disappoint me. Then again it could be because of the floor. Well any way, I start doing my layout and Lucia mentions to me, why not do your full now. I was like, what? Come again…hahaha. I told her that I would do my layout until I felt comfortable and then I would try and do it. She told me when you do your layout don’t try the full just yet. On your way coming down from the layout, turn your body at the last minute to a half; just so that way I would at least get the feel. After I did that my body just naturally turned like I had already knew how to do it. I was so excited. I go my half-twist. I never thought in a millions years I would actually get it on the floor, but I did. Go me! I kept doing it over and over and I fell a few times, but I did. I would have had my full, but I was leading with my hips and not with my shoulders and head so I wasn’t rotating at the proper speed to get me around. As soon as I got my half-twist, I rushed over to my cell-phone and called my dance teacher to tell her, because I knew she would be excited for me and I was right. As soon as I told her, she was like you better get your full now. I laughed in accomplishment. I don’t think I had ever been so excited before. Watch, next week I’m getting my full. There’s nobody stopping me now. Nothing can stand in my way. That’s how confident I am…let me stop before I get too confident and break a leg.
Friday, April 10, 2009
Reflection #7
Before I get into detail about tonight, I just want to say that tonight was an awesome night.
We started off on the bars which killed me like always but tonight I tried a lot. I was really going for the pull-up followed by the pull-over. I didn’t get it, but you know. You can’t always get a trick right away; sometimes it takes a lot of times to get it. That is a lesson that I learned. Patience is a virtue. Oh, so turns out that I was always holding the bar wrong, but with the way that they want me to hold it, it feels really awkward and I think I felt a future rip on my hands. For some reason, I love to get rips because I feel like if you have rips on your hand, you can actually say that you put some serious effort into whatever you were working on. Rip, here I come. The boys bar was up today. Thank god, I hate having to worry about piking your legs because we are going to hit the low bar. It gets so aggravating.
I hate it when people do not listen to their freaking coach. It gets me so angry. We boys had the same coach from last week. He is one of the boy’s brothers and because of that that kid will not listen to him like he would to the main coach. It gets me so perturbed. Just listen, it’s as easy as that. On top of that, the coach’s son will not even sit down. I understand that he is little and will avoid paying attention the whole time but still if this was some suburban studio with rich people and stuff, he would not act like that. He would respect it more. I know that when I was in karate when I was really young, I was obedient. I payed attention in class and constantly listened. I wanted to learn. I felt like punching him.
I got to do the vault today. It got me really happy because I haven’t done the vault in some time. I get really into it. I salute and everything. I fun at full speed and hollow out and go for it. You look at some of the girls that practically walk and when they wonder why they don’t make it over you want to punch them because they are idiots. It makes me laugh.
Okay, so the way that I look at things is that I think that a boy should be able to do all the things that the girls can do and the girls should be able to the same thing that the boys do, so what I started today was the balance beam. It was a little rocky at first to get to be honest; it is coming easy to me. I got right on there and asked for help. I asked them to tell me what I was doing wrong and to just keep critiquing. So far I have a split leap, a tuck jump, a cart wheel, and a round off off the beam.
Right before I was going to leave, I saw one of the girls on the beam and I noticed that she is good but she doesn’t know how to connect her tricks together. She can do a tuck of the beam and she can do two back-walk-overs on the beam, so I thought why not help her connect them. I went over and over with it. I helped her get her tuck better and showed her where she should start so she would end in the right spot for her tuck. I had to help her get comfortable with the feet placement for her tuck because she was doing the tuck with her feet together and not one in front of the other. But I fixed that, right before I was leaving, I told her to do it and she did. The coach’s didn’t think I could teach her, but I did. I was so happy for her and she told me that now she feels really confident in doing it and I told her do not work on it with anyone else; only me. She laughed and said don’t worry I won’t.
We started off on the bars which killed me like always but tonight I tried a lot. I was really going for the pull-up followed by the pull-over. I didn’t get it, but you know. You can’t always get a trick right away; sometimes it takes a lot of times to get it. That is a lesson that I learned. Patience is a virtue. Oh, so turns out that I was always holding the bar wrong, but with the way that they want me to hold it, it feels really awkward and I think I felt a future rip on my hands. For some reason, I love to get rips because I feel like if you have rips on your hand, you can actually say that you put some serious effort into whatever you were working on. Rip, here I come. The boys bar was up today. Thank god, I hate having to worry about piking your legs because we are going to hit the low bar. It gets so aggravating.
I hate it when people do not listen to their freaking coach. It gets me so angry. We boys had the same coach from last week. He is one of the boy’s brothers and because of that that kid will not listen to him like he would to the main coach. It gets me so perturbed. Just listen, it’s as easy as that. On top of that, the coach’s son will not even sit down. I understand that he is little and will avoid paying attention the whole time but still if this was some suburban studio with rich people and stuff, he would not act like that. He would respect it more. I know that when I was in karate when I was really young, I was obedient. I payed attention in class and constantly listened. I wanted to learn. I felt like punching him.
I got to do the vault today. It got me really happy because I haven’t done the vault in some time. I get really into it. I salute and everything. I fun at full speed and hollow out and go for it. You look at some of the girls that practically walk and when they wonder why they don’t make it over you want to punch them because they are idiots. It makes me laugh.
Okay, so the way that I look at things is that I think that a boy should be able to do all the things that the girls can do and the girls should be able to the same thing that the boys do, so what I started today was the balance beam. It was a little rocky at first to get to be honest; it is coming easy to me. I got right on there and asked for help. I asked them to tell me what I was doing wrong and to just keep critiquing. So far I have a split leap, a tuck jump, a cart wheel, and a round off off the beam.
Right before I was going to leave, I saw one of the girls on the beam and I noticed that she is good but she doesn’t know how to connect her tricks together. She can do a tuck of the beam and she can do two back-walk-overs on the beam, so I thought why not help her connect them. I went over and over with it. I helped her get her tuck better and showed her where she should start so she would end in the right spot for her tuck. I had to help her get comfortable with the feet placement for her tuck because she was doing the tuck with her feet together and not one in front of the other. But I fixed that, right before I was leaving, I told her to do it and she did. The coach’s didn’t think I could teach her, but I did. I was so happy for her and she told me that now she feels really confident in doing it and I told her do not work on it with anyone else; only me. She laughed and said don’t worry I won’t.
Reflection #6
Reflection #6
When I go to internship, I look forward to seeing Jennifer. She is a level nine student, the only level nine student at Providence Turners. The weeks that followed up to me getting my full, we would work together on getting tricks. It was like oh, you try this and then I’ll do it and we would do well. We made each other confident and we push each other. She was late today, made me sad. Hahaha. I got her to start doing her layout again because she is scared to do it but I told her that with the way that she flips to not worry at all. Guess what? She did it, it might not have been the highest but we will work on that next week. I feel bad because she hyper extended it backwards last week at competition, so you know she cannot do anything for a while. That makes me even sadder. Who is going to flip with me, aaaahhhh?
So I walk into class today and there is this guy standing with the other boys. I thought okay, I have a boy coach now, pretty cool. My thought on the positive note turned out to be negative. I’ll get into it in a little but to start off how I started our first conversation. I’m such a dork, I asked him how old he was and turns out that I am about three months older than him and I felt all big, It was a little awkward. He said that he took gymnastics which I believed because the coach said he did, but for real you can tell that he wasn’t a serious gymnast because if he was a serious gymnast he wouldn’t have the beer belly looking kind of thing going on.
So he is getting into his little coaching mode; but you know when you know how to do something but there is that one person that feels like they really have to tell you what to do? He is that person. I know what to do when it comes to my routines, but he keeps adding is insight every two seconds, but for the sake of him being a good coach, I let him talk. I do not know if I should be honest and tell him to shut-up because I know what to do or what? It makes me giggle inside.
.I am getting so lazy when it comes to doing my full-twist because I haven’t done it in about two weeks, if I don’t do it tonight I’m crazy. I think it is because I do it every week but every week I still get scared to do it. I don’t know why. I just don’t want to do something wrong and break my neck. I really would love to graduate but then again I know that I will not hurt myself. I really need to learn to suck things up.
I decided today that because I full-twist I am eligible to try out for a statewide cheerleading team, I have the dancing experience and now I have the hard tricks that everyone needs to get into these sports. When I go to Hawaii next year for college, I’m going to try out for the all star team because I don’t think that Hawaii Pacific University has a cheerleading team. I know that they have a spirit team and such, but maybe those are the cheerleading teams. There is one more thing that I need to get and I think that that is alternates. If I don’t have those then I don’t think that I could get in. I will get those soon.
When I go to internship, I look forward to seeing Jennifer. She is a level nine student, the only level nine student at Providence Turners. The weeks that followed up to me getting my full, we would work together on getting tricks. It was like oh, you try this and then I’ll do it and we would do well. We made each other confident and we push each other. She was late today, made me sad. Hahaha. I got her to start doing her layout again because she is scared to do it but I told her that with the way that she flips to not worry at all. Guess what? She did it, it might not have been the highest but we will work on that next week. I feel bad because she hyper extended it backwards last week at competition, so you know she cannot do anything for a while. That makes me even sadder. Who is going to flip with me, aaaahhhh?
So I walk into class today and there is this guy standing with the other boys. I thought okay, I have a boy coach now, pretty cool. My thought on the positive note turned out to be negative. I’ll get into it in a little but to start off how I started our first conversation. I’m such a dork, I asked him how old he was and turns out that I am about three months older than him and I felt all big, It was a little awkward. He said that he took gymnastics which I believed because the coach said he did, but for real you can tell that he wasn’t a serious gymnast because if he was a serious gymnast he wouldn’t have the beer belly looking kind of thing going on.
So he is getting into his little coaching mode; but you know when you know how to do something but there is that one person that feels like they really have to tell you what to do? He is that person. I know what to do when it comes to my routines, but he keeps adding is insight every two seconds, but for the sake of him being a good coach, I let him talk. I do not know if I should be honest and tell him to shut-up because I know what to do or what? It makes me giggle inside.
.I am getting so lazy when it comes to doing my full-twist because I haven’t done it in about two weeks, if I don’t do it tonight I’m crazy. I think it is because I do it every week but every week I still get scared to do it. I don’t know why. I just don’t want to do something wrong and break my neck. I really would love to graduate but then again I know that I will not hurt myself. I really need to learn to suck things up.
I decided today that because I full-twist I am eligible to try out for a statewide cheerleading team, I have the dancing experience and now I have the hard tricks that everyone needs to get into these sports. When I go to Hawaii next year for college, I’m going to try out for the all star team because I don’t think that Hawaii Pacific University has a cheerleading team. I know that they have a spirit team and such, but maybe those are the cheerleading teams. There is one more thing that I need to get and I think that that is alternates. If I don’t have those then I don’t think that I could get in. I will get those soon.
Reflection #5
Reflection #5
What can I really say about today? I think I would really have to say that I really didn’t get anywhere today, which angers me to no end.
I had my mind set all day on the high bar. I need to tackle that one event down because I have all the others like they are nothing, but this. This one event is going kill me. I do not get it! What is really so hard about a damn pull-over? I’ll tell you...it is because I am so freaking weak. I suck when it comes to muscle. No joke, which is what, is holding me back. If I had Vin Diesel like muscles, I’d have no problem. At first I thought maybe it is because I am being so negative, but no. I KNOW that is not the problem. It’s me! Now that I think about it, I really should have started working out a long time ago. It’s healthy, good for the body, why not? No, Nolan Burke is too damn lazy to go to the gym every single day of his life and become a body builder. When I think about the bars, I get so aggravated.
So competition is two weeks away. I missed the first one because I lost the coaches number. Boy; were they mad at me. I didn’t know what to say but it was my fault and I’m sorry so I know I had to promise that I would be at the next meet. That is another thing that keeps me a little aggravated. That meet; level four, I feel like a dumb retard that just started. I mean yeah; I just started but still I could do a higher level. Even level five would have been better than level four. I’m a senior competing at level four. That is rare. I tell myself all day that it is only for the first competition. I think that I just worry too much about what other people think about me. It’s funny, but really all I think about is those little seven year olds who are doing fulls and stuff just looking at me and saying wow I haven’t done those tricks since I was two. That will make headliners. There I go again though, being all dramatic and what not.
Next event; the p-bars; I’m all good on them except when it comes to the lifting up my legs in back of me without touching the bar. I’ve been trying to do it with the extra credit point because I figured that it might be easier which it feels like it is, but still I can’t get it without touching the bar a little. That is going to be a deduction. I don’t know what to do. Because since I am going in as a level four, I want to be able to have all perfect scores so that way, I can switch to level five or even six for the next competition. It doesn’t anger me too much but I will get it, I am very confident in this event.
Yay!!! The floor, every time we go to the floor, I want to kiss it because this is my best event. I’m like a level eight on the four but god forbid I am able to show it at competition. I will be able to at the next one, Lucia just needs me to qualify first and then I can do an upper level when it comes to the floor. That makes me happy because I can’t wait to do better than all those other guys on the floor. Thinking of that makes me all pumped.
What can I really say about today? I think I would really have to say that I really didn’t get anywhere today, which angers me to no end.
I had my mind set all day on the high bar. I need to tackle that one event down because I have all the others like they are nothing, but this. This one event is going kill me. I do not get it! What is really so hard about a damn pull-over? I’ll tell you...it is because I am so freaking weak. I suck when it comes to muscle. No joke, which is what, is holding me back. If I had Vin Diesel like muscles, I’d have no problem. At first I thought maybe it is because I am being so negative, but no. I KNOW that is not the problem. It’s me! Now that I think about it, I really should have started working out a long time ago. It’s healthy, good for the body, why not? No, Nolan Burke is too damn lazy to go to the gym every single day of his life and become a body builder. When I think about the bars, I get so aggravated.
So competition is two weeks away. I missed the first one because I lost the coaches number. Boy; were they mad at me. I didn’t know what to say but it was my fault and I’m sorry so I know I had to promise that I would be at the next meet. That is another thing that keeps me a little aggravated. That meet; level four, I feel like a dumb retard that just started. I mean yeah; I just started but still I could do a higher level. Even level five would have been better than level four. I’m a senior competing at level four. That is rare. I tell myself all day that it is only for the first competition. I think that I just worry too much about what other people think about me. It’s funny, but really all I think about is those little seven year olds who are doing fulls and stuff just looking at me and saying wow I haven’t done those tricks since I was two. That will make headliners. There I go again though, being all dramatic and what not.
Next event; the p-bars; I’m all good on them except when it comes to the lifting up my legs in back of me without touching the bar. I’ve been trying to do it with the extra credit point because I figured that it might be easier which it feels like it is, but still I can’t get it without touching the bar a little. That is going to be a deduction. I don’t know what to do. Because since I am going in as a level four, I want to be able to have all perfect scores so that way, I can switch to level five or even six for the next competition. It doesn’t anger me too much but I will get it, I am very confident in this event.
Yay!!! The floor, every time we go to the floor, I want to kiss it because this is my best event. I’m like a level eight on the four but god forbid I am able to show it at competition. I will be able to at the next one, Lucia just needs me to qualify first and then I can do an upper level when it comes to the floor. That makes me happy because I can’t wait to do better than all those other guys on the floor. Thinking of that makes me all pumped.
reflection #1
Reflection #1
Finally, the writing portion of this class is over! Next is internship, I hope I can do this. Today I had my first day of internship. I am taking gymnastics at Providence Turners. It is an urban gymnastics studio. I had started two weeks before we had to but tonight was the first night that I got really into it and started to do the workouts and all of that stuff that goes along with it. What did I do? Well, I started on the floor to warm up. So I decided to tumble a little as my work out. The spring floor is so much different, it kills me. A back hand spring on the spring floor in comparison with the hard wood floor is tremendous. I barely have to push, when I went to do my tuck I was afraid I was going to over rotate and land on my head so I didn’t go to high just so that I would get used to the bounce first. So LaChia, who is my coach tells us to flip fast so when it was my turn I said okay I’ll flip fast I have no problem with that. I did five back hand springs and I rebounded out of that and landed on a group of little girls. It was so funny, the little girls were all shocked and what not. When we went for the second round going the opposite way, I put down a mat so I wouldn’t land on the wood again, the girls all sat on that mat, I said to them, didn’t you learn your lesson? They looked at me and said oh! I just laughed. Equipment, oh my god it is so much fun but so hard. We got on the bars. I got a pull-over in one week so I was really happy about that. That is when you do a 360 around the bar. Not as easy as it may seem. Takes a lot of arm strength, I most definitely have to start doing more pull ups and pushups. I started working on a bigger cast because I want to get a giant. That is when you swing around the whole bar. It is very difficult but I know that I can do it. Next the vault, boy was that fun. I ran so fast towards it and sprang off and I over rated and kind of landed on my face, I laughed at myself, but then after that I started to do it right. I was really focusing on how to hollow my body out. Keeping your body straight while performing those tricks is hard to do. I am so close though, I know I will become great in no time. My goal on the vault is to get a front tuck and maybe even a full off of it, heck even a layout would be awesome. For real though, I do not think I could see myself doing a round-off on that spring to the vault. That is crazy, knowing me though, I’ll do it. Last, but certainly not least, I tried out the parallel bars. I was able to do a handstand on them, well on the lower ones, next week I’m going to try and get a hand stand on the high parallel bars, but I learned how to swing and to get off of it while swinging. All in all, I did exceptionally well for my first day and I cannot wait until next week. Woooooo!!!
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Fibonacci
This feature was pretty cool as well. The excell new the fibonacci numbers by simply adding two of the cells together and then just dragging. It figured out that all you do is add.
Tutorial 4
This lesson was pretty cool, I got to learn how to apply today's exact date to the slide or sheet.
Also, It was cool because I was able to apply pictures to the bar graphs rather than regular plain lines. So I added bunnies and a picture of me doing a headstand.
Internship
Internship was horrible this week, I went to go to my full and I was rushed and the end result was me falling horrible on my ankle. I was so angry I did not know what to do. All I thought about was the tryouts and how there is no way I can do them now.
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