Saturday, February 23, 2008

The new Freestyle Pre-Pre Test Program

For about six months now I've waited for the Pre-Pre Test Freestyle event to arrive. I had a lot of high hopes for this event and the announcements for the first two competitions of the season came out with the event not being offered.. Finally, the first big competition of the season's announcement came out. There was a sentence left out in the Pre-Pre Test event which changed what could be allowed for her to do. Basically rendering this event an even lower level than the one that she competed in last season. So it didn't look like her competing in this event was going to happen. My daughter's coach - who I absolutely adore by the way - took me around to talk to several different judges about the wording and what it would mean for my daughter (if she decided to compete in this event). All these judges told me that I wrong. That the wording clearly said that only moves that are on the test are allowed in the event in competition. Which is contradictory to other parts of the description seeing as how it also says at least 2 solo spins of a different nature are needed and there is only one spin on the Pre-Pre Test. So again if she couldn't do the singles (loop, flip and a lutz) and the spins (broken leg sitspin and camel) then I didn't want her doing the event. So after being told that I was wrong by SO MANY people and I just didn't want to argue with anybody anymore or be labeled a trouble-maker. And just when I had completely given up hope of her even being able to compete in a freestyle event this year - an amendment came out to the announcement. And guess who was right all along. I won an argument I had stopped arguing. I have to say that kind of caught me off guard. I had given up. I'm really excited about this event. And this program. For the first time in a really long time I feel like its a program that she can do well with. I also want on my wish list for this program a catch-foot or victory spiral. I know parents and spectators like these - judges do not. But shouldn't some of this damn sport be about pleasing parents??? And some twizzles would be nice. I may not get twizzles. I'm holding out for the broken leg sitspin (that's still not consistently good). The deadline for the competition has arrived (today) and she's all signed up for her events. So we're really going to do this thing. My biggest fear at this point is that my daughter's coach is going to give birth before we get this program pieced together and we switch coaches mid-choreography. I got high hopes for this program - ya know? I've been waiting almost six months for this event to arrive.

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