He Kexin = 14

I am very proud to say that...

2009-07-13T19:11:00.000-07:00

HE KEXIN = 14 HAS MOVED OVER TO WORDPRESS!!!!!!!! :D

Check it out!

www.hekexin14.wordpress.com

GOOOODBYE BLOGGER!!!!!!

Hope y'all enjoy the new, sleek pro look of wordpress!!!! It's been fun on blogger. <3

Sooo, my best fran got (another) blog.

2009-07-13T18:44:00.001-07:00

My best friend, Claire Hom, who has ADD and that's why she has ditched her other, what 40? blogs is BACK AND BETTER THAN EVER. Not to mention she gave me a shoutout. <3

Click it or face the wrath of MEATBALL. Believe me. You have NO clue who he is. But you do not wanna be anywhere near his wrath. Uh huh, i said it right.

So go, run! Run like the freaking wind!

Kthxbai

SHOUTOUT TO CLAIRE.

Exclusive interview with Claire Hom!

2009-07-09T12:10:00.001-07:00

hahahaha .:)

Yet another new montage. :O

2009-07-06T15:29:00.001-07:00

Hope youuuu like! To comment/rate (if you want) copy/paste this link : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubnWvgwTbTY

She'll flip into your heart.

2009-07-02T20:15:00.001-07:00

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!! :) Click on the pic to make it bigger. :)

Injuries galore!

2009-07-02T19:29:00.000-07:00

I have my sources. lol.

Apparently the new rules are requiring, well, read this;

The girls were being asked to STICK their tumbling passes. Mattie was looking amazing. Stuck her passes. Her coach said NO more. BARTA and Steve made her do another one (her last tumbling pass) and when she landed she sprained BOTH ANKLES. She has been sent home early. She went to the hospital and they said no broken bones but definitely sprained ligaments. Before the injury Mattie was looking phenomenal and hitting everything.

Lunging after a tumbling pass is now considered a step and the gymnast could be deducted anywhere from .1 to .3.

Wow....That's just retarded. Way to make the sport die out for aspiring girls even more than it already has. *claps*

What do you guys think on this matter?

Newwwwww montage. :)

2009-07-02T13:40:00.001-07:00

She's amazing. and I love her. :) To comment/rate (only if you wanna) click this ---> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPQcWoUqMSw

Shawn Johnson-The Drop Out.

2009-07-01T19:42:00.000-07:00

So there was an article (I can't find it now) saying that Shawn Johnson, 2008 Olympic Champion and 3 time silver medalist, has decided to drop out of high school to take online courses.

What. the. holy. beejezzus.

I know she was quoted saying "I will return to Valley high School for my senior year-no matter what."

Well, apparently, that's down the crapper.

*Claps* Nice, Shawn. Nice.

10 most photgenic-Meredith style.

2009-06-26T17:49:00.000-07:00

I'm bored. So I decided to pull an Inside Gymnastics and make my own most photogenic "issue". Only this isn't a magazine. And it's 10. Not 50. And I'm not going into detailed explanation.

I proudly present...the 10 most photogenic gymnasts of 2008.

No hatin

Ksenia Semenova
Beautiful gymnast, all around. :)

Anna Pavlova.
I just love her style.

Jiang Yuyan.
She has a cute lil personality....and face.

Mattie Larson
Beautiful leaps and jumps, although inconsistent.

Ivana Hong.
Her flexibility sets her apart.

Sandra Izbasa.
I don't know .I just like her. Got a problem with that? Guess what? I DONT CARE!

Shayla Worley.
(Shameless self promotion with the picture)

Christa Tanella.
Can you NOT see that sheep jump? Plus beautiful artistry.

Nastia Liukin.

Self explanatory.

Samantha Shapiro.
She's out there. and she's becoming more and more consistent.
Be afraid.
Be very afraid.

You never know you've hit the big time 'till...

2009-06-25T10:24:00.000-07:00

an ad at the top of your blog comes up! WAHOO. :D

Vote for Nastia. Please? PLEASE? I'm begging you.

At least she doesn't demand votes like Shawn does. She nicely asks "Vote for me please" while Shawn is like,; "VOTE FOR ME! GET EVERYONE TO VOTE FOR ME! NEH NEH NEH!"

In the words of one of my friends; "We can't let Shawn and her dictatorship win!"

pahaa.

Go vote.

www.teenchoiceawards.com

Why are you still reading this?

You should be voting.

Go.

Away.

Please.

Go Vote.

Seriously? You're STILL reading this?

My god.

Now I'm leaving.

Kawwwwwtney Kooopets + Make it Or Break it.

2009-06-22T19:05:00.000-07:00

Courtney Kupets won some kind of other award-big surprise. lol. Congrats to her though for being the naturally butt-kicking gymnast she was born to be. 8-)

Make it or break it (i hate that name-it should be called Train hard or go home) was extremely soap opera ish.

Yeahh, i dont feel like blogging.

later.

Chat Box

2009-06-16T13:11:00.000-07:00

So I added a chat box to He Kexin = 14 just to test it out so gym fans could talk with other gym fans! :)

Please refrain from spamming, profanity or any other material that's inappropriate.

Let me know what y'all think!

The girl I call Mini Nastia.

2009-06-16T11:34:00.000-07:00

Mayelin van der Meer is an amazing lil gymnast! I was bored as death and came across this video and just fell in love with her. (: She's such a cutie!!!!

Amazing little girl! If she cleans up her tumbling a bit and gets better choreography, she could totally pwn the gymnastics world!

Shawn Johnson "Put Down".

2009-06-16T11:27:00.000-07:00

So, the 'Onion News Network' recently parodied our lovely lil SJ.

Gymnast Shawn Johnson Put To Sleep After Breaking Leg

Honestly, what the crap? That was kinda mean. She's not a horse. People need to think of other people's feelings before they make up stuff like that.

Shawn and Nastia-hmmm.

2009-06-09T13:43:00.000-07:00

So. I've recently read this little snidbit of an article where Shawn Johnson claims that she was an "Outcast" on the 08 Olympic Team.

Read below.

There's one offer "Dancing With the Stars" winner Shawn Johnson will not
be entertaining in her post-show career: singing on "American Idol." "I
met Randy Jackson, and he asked me to sing on 'American Idol,'" she told
Us magazine. "I was like, 'Um, I'll stick to dancing.''"

Whether she sticks to gymnastics remains to be seen. Since Johnson took
home the "Dancing" trophy, she's been offered book and movie deals, but
is on the fence about competing in the 2012 London Olympics.

"(On the 2008 Olympic team) I was an outcast," Johnson told the
magazine. "I was the youngest, led a normal life and, I hate to say it,
I was good. It's kind of a jealousy thing. Then when I got ('Dancing
With the Stars'), it was hard because it was (teammate) Alicia
(Sacramone)'s dream to be on it."

Currently, Johnson is currently a high school junior and tells Us she's
"always wanted to go to Stanford or UCLA."

wtf? What happened to being a "Family" and crap?

Then again, Nastia, Sam, Shayla, Jana or Bridget or Alicia aren't following Shawn on Twitter.

Nor is Shawn following any of the listed above.

Hmmmmm. ;) This is such a juicy story! It's like Gossip Girl! Only in gymnastics. So. I guess Gossip Gymnasts? idk.

Innnn other news, Nastia was a chairman or something amazing like that for the Dallas Susan G. Komen Race For The Cure. =D =D =D

I'm very happy about that.

Bridget sloan and Samantha Peszek, both from the 'Nap were some kinda honary guests or something at the Indy 500.

That's pretty cool.

In montageing news.

So sorry about the delay! I had to download a lot of footage for this upcoming montage and I'm about 15 seconds in!!! (:

Dream Team, yo.

2009-06-08T20:05:00.000-07:00

Okie dokie. Im bored and can't sleep.

I've noticed a lot of blogs have been chioosing their "Dream Teams". The following one is for Olympics, 2012 POSSIBLY.

I honestly don't care about technicalities and crap I'm just having fun with it. I know there will be mistakes. So don't tell me. I already know. rawr.

Without further adieu..I give you my...DREAM TEAM. (Be afraid. These girls can kick yo ass.)

Nastia Liukin-
Team Prelims- AA
Team Finals- UB, BB.
Event Finals- UB, BB, FX.
Just a gorgeous gymnast who scores extremely well with international judges, IMO.

Samantha Peszek
Team Prelims- AA
Team finals- VT, BB, FX
Event Finals- FX, BB(?)
Sammy deserves another chance to show the world how amazing she is.

Samantha Shapiro
Team Prelims- AA
Team finals- VT, UB(?), BB, FX
Event finals- Umm. lol idk. (its late, im tired.)

Shayla Worley
Team Prelims- UB, BB, FX
Team Finals- UB, BB, FX
Event finals- UB

Kamerin Moore
Team Prelims- AA
Team finals - AA
Event Finals- idk. (im getting lazy and bored.)

Alternates - Mattie Larson, Ivana Hong.

Wow I suck at making up dream teams. I'm too biased.

EDITTTT (like 5 seconds later)
Kick off Kamerin Moore for Mattie larson.

THANNNNNNNNNNNKS

YAY SHAWN!

2009-05-25T11:27:00.000-07:00

We all know she won DWTS, so I'm not going to linger on that. Woo, yay shawnie!!! :D

'Lil Lizzy Leduc won JO Nationals! YAY, LIZZY!

Two time defending JO Champion (2007 & 2008) Liz Green from Texas Dreams lost her title, though. Sad day.

Incoming Gymdog Freshman Noel Couch won JO Nationals.

Woo.

He Kexin = 14...Now hiring.

2009-05-15T09:28:00.000-07:00

Hiya.

Well, I've decided I abosolutely suck at following international gymnastics. If you're interested in being He Kexin = 14's International Reporter, covering all international competetions outside of the U.S., give me a holla.

E-mail me at merebear514@tds.net stating why you want to help out with He Kexin = 14, a writing sample covering a made up competetion of your choice (lol that one's optional), and also if you have any common knowledge of gymn. If you e-mail me and you're like "Oh, well, I know how to describe that one flippy thingy", consider yourself not hired, haha.

You can also leave a comment. :)

Please keep in mind that I will still be covering US gymnastics, and also Gymdog updates and whatnot. I just need a helper with international gymnastics!

Thanks!

P.S.- You will be given credit for everything you report! I'm not a credit hog! Promise!

Oh, and you won't be getting paid, haha.

New Blog!

2009-05-14T19:06:00.001-07:00

I created a new personal blog, if you actually care, haha.

www.meredithcullen.blogspot.com

:)

Don't worry, I'll still blog on He Kexin = 14!!!

Hayyyyy is for horses.

2009-05-11T09:30:00.000-07:00

Woo, hi!

USA deafeated the Frenchies in a friendly exchange!

Resultsssssssss courtesy of USA Gymnastics.

Teams
1. United States - 229.2502.
France - 219.100
All-Around

1. Bridget Sloan - USA - 58.950 (Pft, once again...we all knew she was going to win.)
2. Mackenzie Caquatto - USA - 56.750 (Who is this person???)
3. Olivia Courtney - USA - 56.250 (Yayyy, I love her.)
4. Marine Petit - FRA - 55.800 (Frenchies)
5. Corrie Lothrop - USA - 54.600 (yayyy corrie.)
6. Bridgette Caquatto - USA - 54.600 (Once again...who is this person??)
7. Rose-Eliandre Bellemare - FRA - 54.550
8. Pauline Morel - FRA - 51.250
9. Léa Kémayou - FRA - 50.050
10. Aurélie Malausséna - FRA - 40.900

Now what is this crap about Bridget being the "New Rock" of the gymnastics team? I mean, really? If anyone's the "New Rock", it's Nastia. She's been around longer....

So, yeah. What do you think?

OH! And one of my personal favorite GymDogs, Lauren Johnson (Rising Senior) is departing on a trip to Spain today (May 11th..also the day I get HIGHSPEED!) and decided to blog about her trip! How cool is that?! She's truly amazing, So I suggest you go follow her. Now. Thanks! :)

www.ljinspain.blogspot.com

Hmm, what else?
Shawny's back on DWTS tonight. Check it outttt. 8 p.m. EST. (I think. Go check your local listenings just to be sure.)

So bye! I'll post more once I find some news, or post a new vid. :) Laytah.

"I was a dreamer before you went and let me down."

2009-05-07T17:12:00.000-07:00

I'm aware it's a depressing title. But it's what I'm feeling and every blog has got to have a 'lil bit of emotional baggage to it, no? I mean, I AM a girl. Boys suck. If you are having boy dramarama, go listen to Taylor Swift. I've lsitened to her before, but at this particular bump in the road-that-is-my-life, I JUST started really having an attachment to these songs. So yeah.

Back to why y'all are here.

GYMNASTICS! Everyone's favorite drug. ;) Haha. More Anti-drug. Cuz you can't really take drugs if you're a gymnast. Unless it's motrin. *Cough*Or-andrea-raducunn*Cough*

Shawny Johnson made the final four for Dancing With The Stars. Which is rigged because Chuck Wicks should still be there. DARN YOU, TY! If she can't win, tho, I want Gilles. That one particular boy does nawt suck. Hahahaha. ;-) I've been trying to vote, but Dial up won't let me.

BUTTTTT

I'm getting HIGHSPEED INTERNET Monday!! for my birthday, which is that Thursday! :) So I'll be posting NBC coverage of event finals and whatnot.

Alright, sorry, this is kinda a personal blog haha, what do you expect, a girl pissed at a boy who has access to 10 + blog readers to rant at.

Chowy Chow's (Say that fast, it's fun) is going to host the '09 US Classic. wth...thought those were done?

THERE YOU ARE ON YOUR KNEES BEGGIN FOR FOGIVENESS BEGGIN FOR MEEEEEEE.

K, sorry.

The USA girlys are competeting in France tomorrow! Woo, go USA, Those frenchies are french toast.

Haha, crack myself up. :)

Hmm, what else.

Boys suck? Oh wait, covered that.

Kay, just go read this Ten Question interview with Shawn Johnson.

I'm outttt.

<3
I love you guys more than I love boys!!! :D

Twittttttttter. Everyone's there. Join the party.

2009-05-05T16:25:00.000-07:00

Peoplessss. :] EVERYONE who's anyone has got a twitter now, such as Ashleyakaflipper, Charloadams, CcCam., Postlemonkey....Nastia, Shayla, Sammy, Sami Shapiro, Cassie Whitcomb...And the list goes on.

And on.

And on.

And on.

Go get Twitter. Now.

Otherwise, you're not a part of our cool group. haha jk. if youre reading this i practically love you. And i do love you if you comment.

oh, and im twitter.com/merebearrr

Laugh your gymnastics off!

2009-05-02T17:08:00.000-07:00

I was bored.

Way to cream 'em, ladies!

2009-05-02T13:32:00.000-07:00

Sounds like the USA Gymnasts beat Germany! Can I get a woo woo?

Results courtesy of the Inside Gymnastics Twitter.

USA women defeat Germany (232.4-219.7).

USA took top 5 AA spots: (They haven't "Tweeted" the other AA finishers.)

Bridget Sloan, 59.55 (Pft, we all knew she would win.)
Corrie Lothrop, 56.5 (I want her to go to Georgia. But whateverrr, Utah is cool, too.)
Mackenzie Caquatto, 56.4 (Hmm. I think Ilike her.)

I'm going to go watch the Hannah Montana (Like the show, I don't like her!!!) marathon as my Ulead free trial downloads. I may get a different video editing program to make montages on for my birthday (which is in 12 days.).

So yeah.

Bye lol

If anyone finds other results freaking post it in the comments section.

Kthx.

Super Six-intro.

2009-04-29T11:18:00.000-07:00

Woo woo!

Here's part of Super Six..It's basically just the intro, I'm planning on covering the rest of prelims, then onto Team Finals, AA finals, FX finals..etc., etc.,..I'd looove some of y'alls feedback!

EXCERPT COPYRIGHT (C) 2009 TO MEREDITH (Last name withheld for saftey).

"Owwww." Samantha Peszek screeched, lying on the floor, gripping her ankle. Shawn Johnson, the reigning all-around world champion jogged over timidly, helping Sam up. Nastia Liukin, current beam world champion took over from there, guiding a limping Sam off the podium. Alicia Sacramone, another fellow world champion looked on at Sam sympathetically, wishing she could give her a huge hug. But, this was the Olympics...Team Preliminaries, to be exact. Alicia couldn't do anything except for warm up the rest of her tumbling. With a sigh, Alicia ran towards the corner, flipping into a two and half twist to front layout. She flew out of bounds. "Ughh." Alicia moaned, throwing her head back. Nastia stood absentmindedly in the corner, trying to focus on what was ahead. Sam was going to be an All-Arounder, and was really focused on proving that she could hit. Nastia knew what it was like having an unexpected injury at the worst possible time. Bridget Sloan, another world championship team member was going to have to step up, due to Chellsie Memmel, a 2003 and 2005 world champion injuring her ankle. Nastia just prayed that her ankle held up. Shawn was doing her best at blocking out all the distractions. hitting powerful tumbling runs, but yet, coming close to the boundaries of the floor. Bridget was having difficulty with her tumbling, considering now Team USA needed to count all 4 scores, after losing two of their best floor workers. Nastia flipped into a front handspring double front, and landed well, just with a slight knee bend. Sam was out of the meet, except for bar. She bit back the tears and stood quietly next to Chellsie, both of them silently agreeing that they were "Injury Buddies". Sam looked up at her mother, Luan, in the stands, who was wiping her eyes, looking so sad. "I'm Sorry." Samantha mouthed to her, eyes pleading for some sort of love, wishing that she could run up into the stands and crawl into her mother's lap. Before long, it was time for the meet to begin. Nastia stood away from the floor, breathing in and out slowly, running through the routine in her head. Alicia gripped Samantha's hand tightly, assuring her it would be okay. Chellsie stood rigidly, glancing at all the other teams. Shawn hopped up and down, attempting to forget everything and just do what she loved most. She was here...the hard part was over. Bridget climbed up onto the podium and shifted her weight from one foot to another. She was proud that she had even made it to the team, after tearing her meniscus in early April. She was going to let it go, and give it her all. The judges saluted and Bridget struck her first pose. As soon as the music started, she flew into her dance gracefully, forgetting it all. She hit her one point five through to triple twist, and smiled happily. The rest of the of the routine went well, until Bridget stepped out of bounds. She scowled fiercely, hitting her final pose. Brdiget quickly walked off the floor, embarrassed for herself and her teammates. Wha happened to "Stepping Up"? Bridget thought to herself. Then again, She continued. You can't always be perfect. Bridget concluded that she would hit the next event, vault, to try to "redeem" herself. Alicia followed Bridget, and went out of bounds, which cost her so much. Not only did she need to help USA qualify for team finals, but she wanted to try to win an individual medal, as well. But after her under par performance, it was not going to happen. Nastia hugged Alicia quickly, ready for her shot. Marta had told her to calm out this team, that she had the power to do it, seeing as she had competed under tons of pressure previously. Nastia saluted and walked onto the floor. Her floor music, "Dark Eyes", began and she turned on her famous look. She danced to the corner, and ran for her first pass. She smiled a tad when she stayed in bounds, and landed solidly on her feet. Nastia threw her head back into a graceful move, and was ready for another tumbling pass. No trouble there. Nastia landed the double front perfectly, just slightly cowboyed. The two major ones were over, but Nastia was still worried. The third pass was the one she had difficulty on before, either going out of bounds, or falling completely. She breathed in after a long dance sequence and ran into the dreaded third pass. She flirted with the white tape on the edges, but managed to keep it in. She grinned, dancing yet again. All that was left was her two and a half twist, the ending pass. As expected, she hit, and fell to the ground for her final pose happily, pleased with her efforts. She clapped hands with Shawn as Nastia made her way off the podium. Marta hugged Nastia, praising her as Nastia smiled up at her Dad in the stands. It was a new environment to her, not having her father, Valeri with her. "Good girl." Marta finished, patting Nastia's back. Marta turned her attention to Shawn who was all ready on the floor, awaiting her music. "come on, Shawn!" Nastia called out lightly, still out of breath. Shawn hit as she always did, and as her music, a song from her favorite movie August Rush (Which the girls had been forced to watch may times at camp by a pleading Shawn) came to an end. Shawn was all smiles, jogging off the podium, not even out of breath. She looked as if she had just taken a brisk walk. Team USA had been centered, and it was time to rotate. "We can do it." Alicia said with a grin, trying to overcome what had happened. "YEAH!" Shawn screamed, still rushing on the adrenaline. Everybody huddled together and started to giggle for no apparent reason. Maybe it was the fact that out of a million aspiring gymnasts (if not more) the were truly the Super Six chosen for the Olympic Team. And who wouldn't smile about that?

Montaging

2009-04-29T10:15:00.000-07:00

So, according to my Friend, Amber, montaging has become too much of a competition.

Really? Why do we do this to ourselves?? It started out as a fun thing to do, and now it's Quote; "Become who can top who." Unquote.

Honestly, I'm disgusted with it. Come on. We're not going to win anything if we're the best montager on Youtube. It's just something to have fun with and express your creativity & show people how the gymnasts really inspire you.

Ugh.

In other news, I'm trying a hand at writing Gymn fan fic by myself. I'm writing a little story called "Super Six", and HOPEFULLY plan to post a little bit today.

Oh, and I'm removing the Twitter feed, because some people have claimed that it asks for an API e-mail and password. I've gotten it, too, I'm so sorry about that! It could have done serious damange to y'all's computers..holy crap. lol.

You can just find me at twitter.com/merebearrr

I'll accept all follow requests, I was just afraid of spammers and other stupid crap.

Thanks!

And it's my mom's birthday..woo woo!

I'm going to go die now!

2009-04-24T11:16:00.000-07:00

I'm stuck. I have like absolutely no montage ideas, haha.

Request? Somebody. lol. Please.

Hit me up on YouTube. ;)

More Sammy Peszekness.

2009-04-21T14:16:00.000-07:00

Read THIS amazing article just posted about Samantha Peszek.

Wow! A double arabian dismount!! ohmygawsh, I love Sam so much. :)
That's a really cute article.

Sammy's heading out west.

2009-04-21T11:13:00.000-07:00

So, after Samantha Peszek tortured us last night, via Twitter she revealed (At 6...AM..yes, IN THE MORNING!) that she has commited to UCLA.

Bruin Sammy. Gymdog Sammy sounds better. Hmph.

best night everrrrrr such a surprise for you all tomorrow morning CANT WAIT TO GIVE YOU THE NEWS =) =) =)about 17 hours ago from web

And the torture began...

@NLiukin omgggg me tooooo =) =) the whole world will know tomorrowabout 15 hours ago from web in reply to NLiukin

More torture. I was about to die.

.......going to be a UCLA BRUIN!!!!!! =) =)about 8 hours ago from web

NUUUUUUUUUUU.

And I was ready to congragulate her on commiting to UGA....

*Sighs*

GO DOGS!

- Mere <3

New montage...holla.

2009-04-18T09:11:00.001-07:00

You know what to do. *points at comment section*

DAWGS WIN!

2009-04-17T18:20:00.000-07:00

After slaving over live scoring for 3 hours, I'm about to pee my pants.

Dawgs in. Bama 2nd. Utes 3rd.

GO DOGS! UGA UGA UGA!

They were truly All In For Ten.

Courtney Kupets achieved a career-high 39.9 AA, with two tens, one on vault, one on bars.

Wow. I'm literally shaking.

Nastia Liukin's Floor Music.

2009-04-14T18:42:00.000-07:00

My friend has cracked the code..possibly.

Her new fave movie- Slumdog millionaire.
Fave Song- Jai Ho (You Are My Destiny)- From Slumdog Millionaire.

Just bought Slumdog Millionaire & Marley and Me!!!11:05 PM Apr 1st from web

- From her Twitter.

Training is going really well, getting back in the swing of things and i THINK I may have found my new music But I’m going to keep it a surprise until its all done.
Thank you ALL soooo much for you support! i love you guys with all my heart and really appreciate you!
Keep dreaming BIG,
XOXO~Nastia

- Posted April 3rd..from her website.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrVlBrooxcM Don't pay attention to the words...listen to the beat of the music.

Consider it 99% cracked. She's trying to give us a hint!!!

Haha!

2009-04-12T18:43:00.001-07:00

Aww, this was dedicated to me! :) All the pics towards the end are me except for the very last one! THANKS, MAGZ! LOVE YA!

FYI, 3:16 isnt me...lol

Easter Bunnay.

2009-04-12T10:32:00.000-07:00

Happy Easter! :) ♥

Get anything Gymnastics Related from the Easter Bunnnnay? (Pronounced BUN-HEY..The H in HEY is silent.) lol.

Are Nationals here yet? + US Classic

2009-04-11T10:39:00.000-07:00

New poll: Do you want to see live blogging for Nationls, like what I did with the American Cup?

I wish 09 Nationals would hurry the poop up already. I'm ready for my Nastia to get back out there..I'm practically dying to see the new floor routine...and she's even taunting us.

From her website:

Training is going really well, getting back in the swing of things and i THINK I may have found my new music But I’m going to keep it a surprise until its all done. :)

See!?! Oh, well. Absensce makes the heart grow fonder..but not in this case. It just makes the Meredith impatient.

And, also, I was browsing USA Gymnastics today, and I came accross this Ad for Nationals:

So, um, why are they advertising 09 Nats with Shawn?She's ahbviously not going to be there.

Also on USA Gymn, I found an article about the US Classic..woop.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., April 5, 2009 – Ashley Stott of Temecula, Calif./Precision Gymnastics, and McKenzie Wofford of Spring, Texas/Stars Gymnastics Training Center-Houston, won the senior and junior all-around titles, respectively, at the 2009 American Classic, held April 4 in San Diego, Calif. The American Classic was a qualifying meet for the 2009 Visa Championships, scheduled for Aug. 12-15 in Dallas, Texas.

*Sigh* I guess I'll just sit here and waste away while waiting for 09 Nationals.

Happy gymnasticsing.

- Mere

Twitter, yo.

2009-04-07T08:27:00.000-07:00

So, I just got a Twitter.

Follow me or whatever, haha.

www.twitter.com/merebearrr

HI AVRILL. :P

New montageeeeeee!

2009-04-04T18:09:00.001-07:00

Ya know the drill. Comment here if you dont have a YT account!

Saint Sacramone & Lizzy Leduc.

2009-03-31T16:23:00.000-07:00

I love Alicia. She seems like a wonderful person to be around.

2008 Olympic silver medalist Alicia Sacramone was in the Dallas area on March 29-30 to promote the upcoming Visa Championships which will take place August 12-15 at the American Airlines Center. While in town, Sacramone visited the Level 9/10 State Gymnastics meet at Texas Dreams Gymnastics where she signed autographs and handed out awards to the up and coming gymnasts.

On Monday, Sacramone stopped by the Children’s Medical Center to say hi to the kids, parents, and staff. The trip continued with visits to two local gymnastics clubs, Empire Gymnastics and Sunbelt Gymnastics where she interacted with young gymnasts, signed autographs, and took pictures with the groups and teams.

She visited a hospital! How sweet!

Source

(AWWWW.)

Speaking of the Level 9/10 Texas State Meet, Lizzy Leduc did awesome (Except for bars..)-': )

Go to Gymnastike.com and find her on there...I love her floor..it's cool..although the music gets a tad stripperish..lol.

When is Lizzy's mom going to update that freaking Youtube?! lol! There hasn't been a new video for, like, ever.

Anywho, I'm working on a Shawn Johnson & Jordyn Wieber montage..song's a secret..hehe. My goal for youtube at the moment is to get 100 subscriber..I'm climbingm y way up..haha!

Laters, yo.

07 Nats..part two.

2009-03-29T10:13:00.000-07:00

Yay. No stealing this or I'm suing. Part three....COMING SOON TO A BLOG NEAR YOU.

Nastia tightened her ponytail making her way to the end of the vault runway. Warmups had concluded disastrously, with Nastia barely making it to her feet every vault she performed. But she was notorious for pulling her skills out when it was time to compete, so Valeri was a mixture of nerves and excitement. Nastia was feeling the same. Nastia blew on her tiger paws as she awaited the judges. She heard the crowd. Saw Valeri pacing. Smelled the scent of lingering chalk. Her eyes trailed back to the center of her focus. In the corner of her eyes, she saw the judge's green flag fly up. Nastia saluted, and brought her arms down. She shifted her weight, and rubbed her hands on her thighs. One quick exhale, and she was off. Her ankle throbbed as she sprinted down the runway, but she tried to ignore it, tried to focus on the vault ahead. She executed a roundoff onto the mat, hit the springboard with force, and arched back onto the table. She blocked off, and twisted in the air, legs slightly crossed. She landed with a thud, and squatted down onto her ankles. "Ugh." She whispered to herself, bouncing up again, feeling a nagging pain in her ankle. Nastia faced the judges, half heartdedly nodded and walked off the podium. Nastia didn't speak to Valeri, nor did she let him comfort her. She was not pleased with her performance, and knew she'd half to pull out spectacular routines to beat Shawn, and come out with a win. Nastia walked towards her gym bag, Valeri following her. Once she stopped walking so she could dig through her bag for her grips, Valeri patted her back. "The worst event is over. It's okay. You've got 3 of your best coming up." Nastia just sighed, and sunk down in her seat, grips in hand. She watched as her teammates, one by one, started their bid at a national championship title. Nastia loved them with all her heart, (Except for one!), but really wanted it for herself. She wanted to prove that she wasn't to old, she wasn't as inconsistent as they thought she was, and that she still had her strength, talent and passion. She wanted them to do their best, though. Nastia didn't want to in knowing that she was only first because somebody else had messed up. The clock ticked slowly while Nastia awaited the second rotation. Finally, after Alicia had competed vault, it was time to move to the next event. Bars. Nastia's best and personal favorite. She had regained some confidence after her vault, seeing as some girls only went for Yurchenko fulls. Nastia had an extra half twist...with an injury, so she was fairly proud of herself. But she still knew that it wasn't her best, and she needed to step up her game. She would shine on bars. Steal the show. Whatever needed to happen for her to get the lead. She was way behind in the standings, but she knew she would regain some spots with her huge start value on bars. The squad reported to the judges, read to begin their touch warmups. Nastia was second in line for warmups and third for competition. After the new senior in front of her dismounted, Nastia kipped up. During the break in between rotations, she had iced her ankle, and them taped it up extremely tight, so she wouldn't have to be in too much pain until that night, so her toeshoot up to the highbar wasn't as painful as the timed warmups. She executed a perfect ono and a half straight to laid out geinger, hit her pak salto dead on, and was ready for her dismount, a double front. She had gone through such a growth spurt that she couldn't do her double layout anymore, or basically any skill that involved a roundoff, backhandspring, as it was so difficult to get herself catapulted into the air. Nastia turned into a blind change, and let go at the height of the bar, flipping in a tucked position. She landed, and fell straight onto her bottom. "Do it again, next turn. And only the dismount." Valeri said, focusing on Christa who was in the middle of a jeager. Nastia nodded silently, adjusting her grips. She chalked up and got back in line, waiting her turn with her hands on her back. She rolled her ankle, nervously glancing around the arena. When she was finally up there was 15 seconds left on the official warmup clock, so she had to hurry. She didn't even do a toeshoot up to the highbar, she simply climbed up and kipped to handstand. She executed another blind change, and hurled herself into the air. The buzzer for the clock went off as soon as she hit the ground. Valeri shook his head at Nastia, who was on her butt, yet again. "Come on. Pull it out when it's your turn." Nastia nodded again, standing up slowly. She was in shock. She didn't get why everything was turning out this way. Training had been going great, there were no major flaws to speak of, but yet when it counted most, Nastia was making mistake after mistake, which frustrated her. She walked around as the other girls competed on bars. Nastia paced, fiddling with her grips, trying to calm her nerves, and her pain. Before she knew it, it was her turn. The judges saluted her quickly, and Nastia wasted no time getting on the bars, except to blow on her hands. Everything went smoothly, and Nastia couldn't help but crack a smile after she kipped up from a perfect pak salto. Then she remembered the dismount, and stopped, focusing on what she needed to do. "Release above the high bar, don't open up too late or too early, make sure to stay tucked." Nastia told herself in her mind, preparing herself for the skill she had so much trouble with. For the third time in a 20 minute period, Nastia flipped into a blind change. She released well above the bar, and opened up at the perfect time. But what sealed her fate was having her chest down. She rolled forward, onto to her back. She sat there for a moment, contemplating what had happened. Valeri was standing there, ready for her to get up. Nastia quickly stood up, turning to the judges. She walked off with Valeri in tow, biting her lip. "I can't believe it." Nastia said to no one in particular. "Me either." Valeri replied, glancing at Nastia, then adverting his stare. Nastia blew out a sigh exasperatedly. This was not going as planned. The rest of the rotation flew by, and Nastia was ready for beam. Her ankle said otherwise. "Shut up." She mumbled to it as she was lined up with the flight for touch warmups. Beam warmups were okay, Nastia only had difficulty making the triple twist dismount all the way around. "Want to throw a two point five?" Valeri asked, looking worried. "No." Nastia snapped. "I want to go all out." "Mmmkay." Valeri agreed, then continued to give Christa a correction on her flight series. Nastia closed her eyes and breathed in and out. Warmups finished, and Nastia had been placed first in the lineup. She walked around the podium, chalking her hands and feet, preparing herself. Nastia turned around from the spot of chalk on the mat, to face the judges. She saluted and turned around once more, to place her hands over the beam. Nastia pressed to handstand. She could feel everyone watching her, expecting her to make a mistake. She continued and danced through her routine. Coming up to her leap series, there had been no major mistakes except for a bobble on her flight series, a front aerial to backhandspring layout stepout to a whip back. Nastia leaned forward going into the dismount, and blocked off of the end off the beam, flying into a triple. She landed and pushed forward, almost hitting her head on the beam. Another mistake. Just when she thought things were turning around. Nastia spun around and saluted to the judges, then made her way off the podium. Valeri and Nastia walked by the NBC commentator's booth, and Nastia couldn't help but overhear. "There she goes." Elfi said in a hushed tone. "Right you are, Elfi." Tim continued. "She's just faltering on every event." "Maybe she should just give this up..she is not in competitive form right now." Al finished, before Nastia hurried away, fighting back tears. "Come on, Nastia." Valeri said softly. "It's okay." Nastia started to breathe hard, trying the control her emotions. "Good girl." Valeri whispered, stroking her back. The warmup timer let all the gymnasts know to take the podium for the final warmup of the evening. Nastia ran into her first pass, and fell onto her back. She waited in the corner, fidgeting with her ponytail, and rubbing her head. Nastia's warmups concluded with a finally hit double front. She made her way off the podium, nervosuly awaiting her turn. She fidgeted in her seat, stood up and paced, trying to loosen up her ankle. Her turn finally came, and she nervously climbed the stairs that lead to the floor. She swiped her hands through the chalk, and glanced over at the judges. Nastia closed her eyes and blew out a long breath, trying to focus. She opened her eyes to a short female judge with her hand raised. Nastia saluted and walked out onto the floor. She struck her starting pose, and waited for the music. Before she knew it, Nastia was in the corner, ready for her first tumbling pass. She ran fast, and flew into the air, but came down, and had to scramble to get back up. She went through the rest of a routine with a scowl on her face. "I should have been able to save it." Nastia thought to herself, obviously not happy. "I guess I'll just have to do better tomorrow." Nastia said to herself after finishing the routine. She limped off the podium, grabbed her backpack and trudged out of the arena with a huff, Valeri following her. "I suck at this. I can't do it." Valeri closed his eyes and sighed. "I..I just can't." Nastia finished. Valeri opened his eyes, and placed a hand on her shoulder, stopping her from walking any further. "I now you can. Come on, babygirl, you can." Nastia shook her head and walked off into the the dark parking lot, in search for the SUV.

Shawn Johnson returns to dancing after stalker scare.

2009-03-27T19:30:00.001-07:00

Hmph. Hate that person. Creeper.

Holy flipping.....

2009-03-26T17:38:00.000-07:00

Our Shawn Johnson was almost kidnapped and/or attacked. (My mom won't let me say the other things.)

Wow.

Excerpt from Fox News/TMZ. All copyright to them.

A man authorities say tried to break onto the set of ABC's "Dancing With the Stars" to meet Shawn Johnson has been charged with one felony count of stalking and two misdemeanor counts of carrying a loaded firearm.

Court records show a restraining order was previously issued against Robert O'Ryan, who was arrested by Los Angeles police on Tuesday. According to documents that accompanied the restraining order application, O'Ryan was stopped by security at CBS Studios, the lot where "Dancing With the Stars" is staged, after he jumped on a fence on Monday afternoon.

Police later searched his car and found a shotgun and handgun — both loaded — as well as duct tape and love letters.

Wow. Poor thing. To read more of the story click HERE. (I like the pic of her next to the story.)

07 Nats Part 1

2009-03-25T16:09:00.000-07:00

This part in Gymnastia is focused on 2007 Nationals.

Comment, fools! haha.

Nastia rolled her ankle around as she flew above Arizona. Her ankle had been cramping and aching all day. "Come on, just go away for two days, please." Nastia muttered, leaning her head back in the seat. Trying to ignore the stabbing pains, Nastia grabbed her Ipod out of the pink backpack on the floor. Valeri came back from the bathroom, and scooted in towards Nastia. She curled up into him and slowly drifted off to sleep. "Come on, get up!" Valeri shook Nastia, who groaned and rolled over. Then she opened her eyes in realization. It was Nationals. But..wait..her ankle...it throbbed with pain. But sheh ad to work through it. She couldn't give up after everything she'd been through. She got up, grabbing her bag and took a few steps before collapsing in the middle of the aisle. Well…this was embarrassing. Her ankle protested with sharp shooting pains all the way up her leg. She groaned. “Come on!” she felt the tears stinging. “I’m not even off the stupid plane!” She slapped the floor of the plane and attempted to push herself up, but failed, falling back down again. She cloShe practically screamed in frustration. She was sick of this. Sick of the pain, the frustration, the waiting on the side lines while everyone passed her by. Valeri looked down at her sympathetically. Nastia breathed in quickly, and grabbed the arm rests of two chairs, using them to hoist herself up. Valeri shook his head thoughtfully. "Are..are you sure you're ready?" He asked hesitantly. Nastia turned around, her eyes practically spitting fire. "Okay." Valeri threw his hands up, assuming that Nastia's look had been a "Yes". Nastia left indentation marks on her bottom lip, due to biting down as she made her way off the plane. After dropping off their things at the hotel, they headed over to the arena for a final practice. Girls and their coaches were already there, testing out the equipment and chatting on the sidelines. That same new girl from last years nationals, who had been a junior then, was there. Nastia bit down on her lip again as she made her way towards the chairs on the side. She glared at the young girl, knowing she could definitely beat her, even with this injury. She was the new kid on the block…this was Nastia’s third year as senior. She’d show her. Nastia chatted with Alicia for a bit and they took silly pictures. Nastia didn't want to look at the camera as Alicia kept coaxing her. "Pleaseeee?" Alicia begged. Nastia laughed then her expression turned serious. "NO." Soon enough, the "mock meet" started, and all the girls lined up. Nastia would be first up on vault. She closed her eyes and blew on her tiger paw protected hands. "Come on." Nastia whispered to herself. As soon as she made her trek down the vault runway, sharp, shooting pains flew up her ankle. But Nastia wasn't going to stop. She ran the remainder and focused intently. As soon as her feet hit the springboard, the ankle protested in pain and Nastia fell heavily onto the table. She had absolutely no power and had to just do a simple tucked Yurchenko. She could see Valeri after she landed, looking angry, but yet sympathetic. She continued her recent habit of biting her lip as she made her way off the podium. "I'm sorry." Nastia said, her voice cracking. "It's okay. You'll do okay on bars." Valeri said weakly, with a pat on the back, and a kiss on the forehead. Nastia sighed as she sat down, watching the rest of the practice commence. She watched as the new senior girl, Shawn, hit a perfect double twisting yurchenko. Nastia sunk lower in her seat with a huff, but sat up straight while Aliciaexecuted a perfect fronthandspring rudi. "Nice, LEEEEESH," Nastia cheered from the sidelines. As Alicia came off the floor, she clapped hands with her and pulled her into a tight hug. Alicia was amazing at vault. Nastia would do anything to be able to perform like she did. “Hey, don’t worry about it, Nas,” she heard Alicia say with a pat on the back, “You’ll nail it tomorrow. How’s the ankle?” Nastia cringed, answering her question. Alicia kissed her forehead. “You’ll pwn bars.” "Phew." Nastia wiped sweat off her forehead in disbelief. "I guess so." Nastia sat alone during most of the bars roation where she had been placed last. She thought about her routine, going over it countless times in her head, all while trying not to believe that there was a pain in her ankle that she'd never felt. It hurt worse than anything. Nastia groaned and lifted up, walking around the arena, trying to calm herself, and stretch out the ankle. Before she knew it. it was time. She blew the chalk off of her hands and kipped up to handstand. Nastia closed her eyes in pain as she executed a toeshoot. Nastia breathed as she felt the skinny bar in her grasp. Kip, cast, blind change, elgrip, inward stalder, COME ON NAST. Nastia screamed at herself, trying to get in gear. Once she felt the hit handstand, she knew. But then she arched a tiny bit. "Crap." Nastia thought. She pulled the handstand back, and twisted into the blind change. Nastia seemed to glide through the air, capturing the attention of every spectator, coach and gymnast. She pulled in on the pak salto a tad, but quickly recovered and turned into the half piroutte. One last blind change and Nastia hurled herself into the air, flipping twice before landing on the ground with a BOOM. At first, Nastia thought she had a stick, but then, her ankle completely gave out and she fell straight onto her back. As she got up to salute to the judges, Nastia bit her lip once again and had a twisted expression on her face. Valeri patted her back, looking dissapointed, but semi-proud. "I'm glad you got up there." "Ha." Nastia laughed in his face. "If I can't do it well, why do it at all." Valeri drew back, surprised at Nastia's outburst. Nastia rubbed her palms on her thighs as she removed her grips. She marched over to beam with her head held high, pleased about the high bar score she sill had received. "Hmph." Nastia thought to herself as she glanced sidewards at her. Nastia climbed up onto the podium, blocking out all noises. She lifted her chin up as she placed her hands on the beam. Nastia pressed onto the beam, clenching her face in pain from jumping off of the ankle. "Breathe" Nastia whispered herself, as she cut through placing her legs on the beam, facing the judges. She mounted up and danced into place for her flight series. It took everything for her not to scream as she landed from the front aerial. But she trucked through it, landing the series with a slight bobble. Nastia somehow heard nervous clapping from below from Valeri who was pacing around nervously, hands on hips leaning with every move his daughter performed. She madei t through all the major tricks, flew through the leap series and then it was time to dismount. Nastia was so high on adrenaline and so proud of herself, she couldn't feel the ankle swelling, throbbing or searing. She catapulted herself up into the air. THUD. Cheering. She had stuck the dismount. Nastia was deaf to it all, despite the major accomplishment. She was overwhelmed with pain, and sat onto the ground, clutching her ankle. Everyone grew silent for a minute, but then she grasped the beam, pulling herself up. Nastia limped off of the podium, and passed by her father without a sound. Valeri looked concerned. "Come on." He patted her lightly on the piece of paper clipped to her back. It was worn, but still held up. Number 2. When Nastia had gotten the number she had stared at it, looking confused. "Well, then." She had stated. "I'll just have to show the person who enters gymnasts in these things that I'm number one." Valeri had snorted and whisked her off to where they were now. "Come on." Valeri repeated. "One more event left." Nastia looked up from removing ankle tape. "No." She said softly. "I can't." Valeri blinked. "I've got to save what strength I have in my ankle for prelims tomorrow." "Okay." Valeri said. Nastia was surprised at how quickly he had agreed. She had been ready to argue. "I'll go tell Marta." Nastia nodded as she watched him circle around the arena searching for the coach. Nastia leaned back in her chair, letting out a deep sigh of relief. She got 20 hours without gymnastics. She usually looked forward to meets, but with her injury, she dreaded them. It wasn't the gymnastics, in fact, it was the pain she felt everytime she executed a skill. Nastia knew she would do well tomorrow though. She just did. Valeri came back, and grabbed Nastia's hand, pulling her up. She slung her backpack over her shoulders and walked away from the gym, waving bye to all the gymnasts except for Shawn, who was up at that very moment on beam. "Ugh." Nastia moaned as Shawn nailed everything in her routine. "Stop it." Valeri ordered quietly with a twinkle in his eye. Nastia giggled. 15 minutes later, when Valeri and Nastia had arrived at their hotel, Nastia hobbled over to Valeri and fell into him. "Thanks for understanding." She whispered, gazing up at Valeri. "That's what I'm here for." Valeri informed Nastia with a kiss on the forehead. Nastia walked away, heading into the nearest elevator in the lobby. The doors closed right as Valeri was about to follow Nastia. "Gah." Valeri said frustrated. When the doors finally opened, Nastia quickly made her way to the hotel room she was sharing with her parents, sliding the key card in and instantly collapsing on the bed. Anna looked up from the book she had been reading by the window. "What are you doing home so early? Don't you have a test event?" Nastia didn't even look up, instead burying her head back in the pillows. Her ankle was already swelling to two times it's regular size. "Ugh." Nastia said into the comforter. "Well, are you going to tell me what's wrong or are you going to sound like a panda having a seizure?" Anna asked, looking at Nastia. Valeri, who had just entered the room and was hanging up his WOGA windbreaker, snorted. "I'm going to take a shower. Let Dad tell you about my horrible meet." Nastia ruffled through her suitcase, pulling out pajamas, and retreated to the large bathroom, slamming the door. "In a bit of a dramatic mood, aren't me?" Valeri asked Anna, raising his eyebrows. Anna picked up her book, and layed back down in one swift motion, looking concerned. She ignored Valeri's inquiry. Valeri plopped onto the bed with a sigh and flipped the TV on. Nastia quickly showered. The warm water felt good to her throbbing ankle, and she weakly applied pressure to it. She tried to take her mind off the meet earlier, but was having trouble, her horrible landing on bars replaying over and over in her mind. "How could she have been so stupid?", she thought to herself, pulling her pjs on. As she entered the room, she directed her attention to the television. "Nastia Liukin, two time national champion, is back to defend her title...but can she beat new kid on the block, Shawn Johnson? She's coming back from an ankle injury and it has people questioning....is she simply too old for this sport?" Nastia grinded her teeth together, trying to hold back the tears that were threatening to spill over, but failed. She knew her father would be angry at her for the display of emotion, and she tried to turn her head away from him. Nastia crawled into her own bed, still fighting the emotions about to overflow from her. She turned onto her side and faced the blank wall. It stared at her, seeming to mock her. Nastia closed her eyes, mentally performing her routines for hours. She sighed as she layed there alone in the dark, her parents already asleep. "I can do it." Nastia said, finally before exaughsted, she fell asleep. The next morning, Nastia awoke groggily, not wanting to get out of her bed and face the competition. Her ankle was already going to protest...she could tell already, and she hadn't even attempted to stand up yet. As she pushed herself out of bed, she winced. Her mother was already at the bar, eating a bowl of oatmeal slowly. She smiled at her daughter, nodding to a bowl next to her. "Care to join me?" Nastia shook her head. "Ice. Now." Anna drew back, startled. "O--Oh. Okay." Anna spit out, clamboring towards the mini fridge to get an ice pack Valeri had brought from home. It had rested on Nastia's ankle most of the car trip to the Airport. Nastia sighed in relief as the cold ice touched her scar. "I hate you." Nastia said to the ankle, still groggy and grumpy. Anna looked up from where she stood, eyes sparkling with tears. She hadn't noticed Nastia directing the statement at her ankle. She'd never heard her daughter say anything like that to her in the seventeen years she had known her. She racked her brain, trying to find a reason for Nastia to possibly hate her, but came up with nothing. "O-oh...okay. Well, I don't have to go to the meet," she responded, picking at her fingernails. Nastia glanced up looking confused and saw the look on her mother's face. "No, Mom." Nastia started. "NOOO. I was talking about my ankle." Anna's shoulders drooped in relief. She walked over to Nastia and hugged her. "Good!" Anna stated, happily. Nastia halfheartedly chatted throughout breakfast, trying to stay optimistic. It had never been this hard for her to think positively. Before Nastia knew it, it was time to head over to the arena. She leaned back in the passenger seat of Valeri's rented SUV, running through routines. But her mind kept wandering off, finding weak spots to criticize. "You can't do this." Her mind and ankle seemed to scream in unison. Nastia somehow managed to keep her emotions inside her as she limbed into the arena. She crinkled her brow in pain and fury as she climbed on top of the podium for open stretch. Christa and Nastia ran in silence, both focused on the meet ahead, both also rattling with nerves.

Let me know if you want part two posted.

HI

2009-03-25T11:51:00.000-07:00

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SECs

2009-03-22T13:36:00.000-07:00

Gymdogs lost. Crap. Bama won. Double crap. I dislike Bama, haha.

So my friend was there, and she gave me the Details!

:)

The Gymdogs weren't on.

2 falls on beam from Hilary Mauro (On BHS Backlayout) & Cassidy McComb (BHS, One Armed BHS, Back layout). 9.3 for Hil, 9.075 for Cass. Grace Taylor almost fell on her mount, but had the strength to push it back up. 9.875. Tiffany got a 9.775, Kupets hit with a 9.9. Courtney McCool anchored, 9.75. Tiffany was nervous and bobbly, and McCool's turn was incomplete.

48.6 after beam.

Gymdogs continued on to hit floor, and recieve a 49.5, a season high, with senior Abby Stack scoring a 9.85 alongside Marcia Newby who scored the same. Hilary Mauro recovered after her fall, contributing a 9.9 for the team. Grace Taylor matched her career-high of 9.925. Kupets hit for a 9.95. They pulled Tiffany Tolany out of the lineup, and put in Marcia Newby.

Vault went okay. Courtney Kupets was the only one to hit a stick, pulling out a 9.95. Lauren Sessler started the rotation, with a 9.85. Kathryn Ding built on that, scoring another 9.85 for the team. Marcia Newby matched the scores of the first two teammates. Cassidy McComb recieved a 9.825 for her efforts. Tiffany Tolnay anchored to score another 9.85, to give the Gymdogs a 49.325.

Going into the final rotation, Marica Newby was the leadoff, starting UGA out with a 9.825. 9.925 from freshman Kathryn Ding, and they continued to build on that with a 9.875 from Gina Nuccio. Grace Taylor recieved a 9.875, and Tiffany Tolnay hit for a 9.9. Courtney Kupets closed the Gymdog's campgain for a SEC title with a 9.975, resulting in a 49.5.

Add it all together and you've got a 196.25, securing the Gymdog's place in second, behind Alabama.

FRESHMAN OF THE YEAR - Whitney Rose

SCHOLAR GYMNAST OF THE YEAR - Grace Taylor

SEC GYMNAST OF THE YEAR - Courtney Kupets

SEC COACH OF THE YEAR - Suzanne Yoculan

SEC ALL-AROUND WINNER - Courtney Kupets

Catch the SEC championships on Tape Delay March 28th, eatern time on SEC TV.

Camp Reports

2009-03-22T13:19:00.000-07:00

Thank you to my informer. :) You know who you are. I will update this post as more news comes in.

Gymnasts At Camp:

Morgan Steigerwalt.
Kaitlyn Clark.
Brooke Parker.
Olivia Courtney.
Nastia Liukin.
Bridget Sloan.
Corrie Lothrop.
Rebecca Bross.
Mackenzie Caquatto.
Ivana Hong.
Mattie Larson.
Randi Lau
Jana Bieger.
Shayla Worley.
Samantha Peszek.
Chelsea Davis.
Ashley Stott.

No Shows: (Listed as on National Team, but not at camp.)
Chellsie Memmel.
Sami Shapiro.
Alicia Sacramone. (Duh.)
Shawn Johnson. (Double Duh.)
Briley Casanova.

VAULT:

Bridget Sloan and Ashley Stott performed Double Twisting Yurchenkos. (aka: DTY.)

Kaitlyn Clark did a DTY, as well.
Randi Lau attempted a DTY.
Injury-returnees Chelsea Davis did a Yurchenko full, and Ivana Hong did a laid-out Yurchenko.

BEAM:
Corrie Lothrop hit with a switch side half.
Bridget hit, Tour jete half.
Kytra Hunter stuck a Patterson (RO BHS Double Arabian) cold.

OTHER:
Claire Boyce scored a 54.05 AA with a fall on floor.

Samantha Shapiro.

2009-03-20T14:07:00.000-07:00

No, NO, NOOOOOOO. Nu.

This is not happening.

Samantha Shapiro broke her foot on a beam dismount in two places.

I can't talk, I'm so sad.

Randy Stageberg!

2009-03-20T12:37:00.001-07:00

Randy Stageberg is a senior international elite gymnast from Virginia, who competed in the 2007 & 2008 National championships, and also in the 2008 US Olympic Trials! She made her Senior Elite debut at the Japan/New Zealand friendship meet in Houston, Texas. Randy recently signed with the University of Florida to host her NCAA Career!

I got the chance to interview this amazing gymnast(Thank youuu, Facebook!), which you can read below! :)

What was it like competeting Elite gymnastics?

Randy:

Elite gymnastics was the most challenging and rewarding experience i have ever had. I learned a lot about myself through it and i feel really honored to of been a part of it.

What is the hardest skill you've had to learn?

Randy:
Probably my double piked arabain. It was not the hardest skill for me, but it was the highest skill i have ever competed.

Any new skills?

Randy:
I am recovering from a shoulder injury. It has been 4 months since the surgery, so I still have a month or two to go.

How did you choose Florida?

Randy:

I lovedddd Rhonda she is amazing, and the girls are so sweet. I only took one visit and it was to Florida after I already committed...it just felt right.

What do you think will be your favorite part of NCAA Gymnastics?

Randy:
NCAA will be a more relaxed and fun than elite was. it will still be challenging but it is all team for the most part.

Find more about Randy HERE.

Thank you so much, Randy! :)

My new montage! :)

2009-03-19T15:00:00.001-07:00

Hope y'all like and if you don't have a Youtube account, just comment here! Thanks!

Gymnastiaaaa.

2009-03-15T17:51:00.000-07:00

Finn is her boyfriend who valeri caught abusing Nast, etc, etc, basically we aren't posting that part. It's so graphic

DEDICATED TO MEGAN. Lub yew.

Graphicness below.

"Ahhh." Nastia said, pulling her foot up immediately after placing weight on it. It had been 6 weeks since surgery, and the wound had healed, and the bone was supposed to be mended. "It's alright, you can do it" Valeri coaxed. "It just feels weird..I'm pretty sure it's healed." Nastia bit her lip, and closed her eyes tightly. She beared weight to the foot and hobbled for a couple of seconds. "It feels alright." Valeri beamed. "Great! Conditioning in a week on it once you get your bearings back. Then in 6 months, training!" He said enthusiastically. Nastia smiled. "Yesss! I've missed WOGA so much!" Then, there was a knock on the door. "Come in." Nastia called. Nastia turned around, mouth open wide. "Fi-..Finn?" Finn walked in and Nastia stood there, gaping. Anna smiled. "Finn called to apologize..apparently Valeri-" She glared at Valeri "Had it all wrong. Nastia had just gotten out of the shower, fell and hit her head on the door. Then Finn tried to dry the blood with a hair dryer, and threw it to her for her to catch." Anna rolled her eyes. "Boys." She muttered. "Finn was in a bad mood because his parents had split up and his little sister had been taken away, which explained the storming around, and also his yelling at Valeri." Valeri smirked. "Yeah...I'm silly for jumping to conclusions..My babygirl wouldn't let herself be pushed around, Eh?" He said with a knock to Nastia's shoulder playfully. "Y-Yeah." Nastia stuttered. "Alright, well you two go on upstairs while I make dinner." Anna stated. Finn scooped up Nastia and carried her up the stairs so she wouldn't have to walk on the newly operated on ankle. "Thanks." she whispered. Once they had arrived, Finn set Nastia on the bed, but she pushed herself up and hobbled towards him. "I still love you." She said softly. "Shh..I know." Finn told Nastia. Nastia walked slowly backwards, keeping her eyes on the man who once had treated her..like..like dirt. Like someone who didn't have feelings. "But I can't trust you. And that overrules everything." Nastia growled. "Do you think I've effing FORGOTTEN what you did to me?" Nastia spat. "And you go and (***BAD WORD ALERT.***)fucking LIE to my parents?!" Finn looked around. "I cannot believe you." She hissed. "I'm SO going down to tell my parents the truth." Finn clenched his fists. "Listen." Nastia turned around. "I already did that once..didn't work out." Finn grabbed her shoulder and turned her around. "OW." she screamed. "Everything alright down there?" Valeri called from his upstairs office, sounding worried. "Yeah...Nastia's ankle is just hurting." Finn called. "Shut up." Nastia whisper-shouted. "No." Finn demanded. "You. You're such a fricking whiner. Blah blah blah you forced me blah blah blah." Nastia's eyes flared with anger. Finn grabbed a pen off of Nastia's desk, where her Algebra and Chemistry textbooks lied. She had been studying. Finn grasped the pen so tightly, his knuckles turned white. Nastia sniffled and gulped. Why had she let him up here? "So. You wanna contradict me, huh?" Finn asked threateningly. Nastia shook her head, pinned up against the doorway. Her ankle had given out and now she was sitting down. Finn crouched down to her level and stroked her hair. "I said, Do ya?" Nastia shook her head again. "No." she whispered. "Good. Because if you do, I think that scar may need to be restitched" he said, gazing at the long scar on Nastia's left ankle, clicking the pen loudly. Nastia inhaled sharply. "No..Finn..you can't...It might hurt my gym-" Nastia tried to say, but Finn cut her off. "What did I just say?" Nastia kept quiet. "Do you think I give a (**BAD WORD ALERT**)damn about gymnastics? It's not even a sport." "You know, that's where I draw the line." Nastia said, struggling to free herself from Finn's grasp. But he didn't let up. He slowly moved the pen towards her ankle. Nastia flailed around, ignoring the pain. "NO. Finn. Please." she whimpered. "You can't, please." Nastia begged. "Hey, didn't I tell you a while back-" he inched the pen closer. "Not." A centimeter closer. "To" Nastia closed her eyes, as Finn moved the pen closer, making contact with her stitched foot. "Tell." He dug the pen into her scar, making one single stitch snap. Nastia winced in pain, a single tear flowing down her cheek. "Me what to do." He finished, taking the pen out of her skin, the head covered in blood. Finn stormed out, throwing the pen down on the ground. "I'm leaving. Goodbye." "Sorry, I can't stay for idnner..important college meeting." Nastia heard Finn tell Anna sweetly. "That (**BAD WORD ALERT**)bastard." Nastia whispered, gently touching the blood pouring out of her ankle. It might as well been her trust for everything..just draining out of her heart. She couldn't believe somebody could hurt her in this way. She slowly got to her feet and tried to walk, but couldn’t. She winced in pain as she attempted to hobble to the stairs, but sat down on the steps. “Daddy?” She called upstairs, sucking in a breath. “Yeah babe?” Nastia let out one sob, knowing now that it would take much longer to heal. “I did something stupid.” Valeri showed up at the top of the stairs and looked down at his daughter, her ankle bleeding all over the white carpeting. “ANASTASIA!” he ran down the stairs, scooping her up in his arms to prevent the blood from going anywhere else, “What did you DO?!” Nastia cried, wincing in pain. “I’m sorry, it …itched. I scratched it.” Valeri’s face turned bright red with anger. “ I hope the anesthetic doesn’t work when they have to stitch this back up for being so stupid.” "I'M SORRY." Nastia screamed, eyes closed. "I'M SORRY I CAN'T DO ANYTHING RIGHT. I'm..I'm just sorry." Nastia forced herself out of her Dad's arms, falling on the ground, on her knees and hands, with a *clunk*. She crawled quickly back to her bathroom, grabbed the whole roll of toilet paper, and held it against her ankle. She gasped and cried, staying like that for five minutes, ignoring Valeri's knocks and pleads of "Open the door." or "Let me come in." Nastia removed the toilet paper. The bleeding had stopped somewhat. She grabbed to the counter, and pulled herself up. Nastia hopped to her medicine cabinet, and pulled out some gauze the doctor had given her a while back. She pressed it her scar, and taped it in place. “Anastasia Valeryevna, open the door now.’ Nastia whimpered and opened it, sitting down against the counter. He picked her up again. “We need to get it restitched. Do I need to have them cast it so you don’t do that again?” Nastia shook her head. “No, I gotta train, daddy. I gotta condition.” Valeri shook his head. Nastia looked confused. “What do you mean No? I HAVE to! I have to come back! It’s like you always say..every second not spent training, is a time when other people are getting better than me! Please, I have to condition…I have to. I don’t want people to get better than me. I’m sorry!” "You can still condition with a cast on. We'll strap an equal amounted ankle weight to the other foot. It'll just add more difficulty to exercises." "Dad. No." Nastia wiled. "I can't do leg exercises with a cast. I. NEED. Leg exercises to get my tumbling and vault up." Valeri shook his head again. "I'm sorry..No..this is what you get...it's your own fault." Nastia groaned. “When can I train again?” she practically begged with her eyes as she wiped a tear away. She couldn’t believe this was happening. Why couldn’t he have just left her alone? She hadn’t done anything…he couldn’t have just stayed away? But yet…she still loved him. He still had her whole heart, no matter how many times he hurt her. She was the best thing to ever happen to her…or so she thought. She’d protect him. She wouldn’t tell anyone the truth. She didn’t want him to get in trouble…sighing, she let her father pick her up and carry her to the car. “Answer me truthfully, Dad.” Valeri sighed. He shook his head. "Could be one month, could be eight. More than likely eight." Nastia bit her lip. Valeri carried her downstairs and plopped her on the couch, explaining to Anna how the sticthes came out. Anna rolled her eyes. "When are you going to learn?!" Nastia ignored her with a huff. Then, Hollie walked through the door. She looked around, and her eyes fell on Nastia, with bloodstained gauze around her ankle. "Ah, god, Nast." Nastia waved sheepishly. "What the hell did you do?" "I--I scratched the the stitches because the were bothering me. They itched." Nastia lied. Hollie shook her head and gave Nastia and eye of "I don't believe you". Nastia just turned away. "Dad?" Nastia asked. "Mm?" Valeri asked in return. "Can..Can you carry me upstairs?" Valeri sighed. "God, fine." After he had dumped Nastia on her bed, Hollie walked over towards her and sat next to Nastia. Hollie massaged Nastia's shoulders, but Nastia pushed away. "What really happened?" Hollie whispered. Nastia shook her head, then gave in. "Okay..." She said softly, wringing her hands together. "Finn..Finn..he did this. I called him out for that one night a year ago, and he just...ripped them out." Hollie's eyes were wide, and she embraced Nastia tightly. "And, Hollie, I don't know if I can do this anymore." Hollie released Nastia. "What do you mean? You have a chance to win. it. all. You can do this, Nastia, I believe in you." Nastia shook her head. "I just don't know Hollie. I thought I always knew my goals, I always wanted to have a simple life. Wake up, Eat, Gymnastics, School, Eat, Gymnastics, Sleep. That's all I ever wanted. Then I cursed my life for being boring. I wanted more. And now..Finn. He changed my life around. I love him, and I want to devote everything to him. He's mine..and I can't let him get away. He's the reason. I'm even HERE." Hollie exhaled sharply. "Nas. Please don't do this. He's using you." "NO. He's not. He loves me, he just has a temper, please..don't tell. Please." Nastia begged. "Okay. But I do think he's brainwashing you." Hollie said, looking uncomfortable. "I...Think I want to stop doing gymnastics. I'll fly out to UCLA and live in L.A. until college." "Nastia, no. I'll let you visit him, but please, you cannot stop doing gym. You have a talent. And deep down, under your scars and injuries, there's a passion. Nastia, you have a chance to make it. To become an Olympian." Nastia looked up at Hollie, tears welling in her eyes. They were remembering that day in July...2004. "My world came crashing down." Hollie whispered. "Nas...Marta loves you." Hollie said her eyes flaring in anger. But then, they watered down again, tears flowing. "Nastia. Just..if anything..Just do it for me." And with that, Hollie walked out of the room in silence, leaving Nastia in tears.

Copyright to Megan and I..blah blah blah..basically don't steal it or I'm suing.

Bye-Bye!

2009-03-15T17:28:00.000-07:00

We'll miss those seniors.

Tiffany Tolnay- Good vault, large step. Nice bars, really deserved a ten. Good beam, wobble on front tuck, step on dismount. Floor was watered down, opened with double pike instead of double arabian. :( She was low on a lot of the passes and missed her 2.5 to front tuck connection, earning her a 9.5 Aw, tiffy. Started crying after floor.

Paige burns- Great yurchenko full, little hoppers. nice beam, wobble on switch leap to straddle jump.

Abby Stack- Exhibition bars, nice jeager! Step on dismount, 9.650. Great floor routine, best triple full I've seen her do!

Courtney Kupets- Good vault, hop. Bars wasn't herb est but really still amazing. Hop on dismount. Beam was great, just a wobble on the front tuck, otherwise PERFECTTTT. Great floor, low double arabian, nice whip half through to rudi, great ending double pike.

Grace Taylor- No bars? What the...? Perfect beam. Literally. 10.0. WAY TO GO, GRACIE. Extrmely awesome floor, phenomenal dancing and tumbling. I love her. Haha.

Marcia Newby- Cool bars. :) I like her shaposh! She didn't do vault. :(

Courtney McCool- Had trouble on bars on that last toeshoot. Stuck full twisting doublel ayout. Woop. Great beam, little wobble on series up untill her front aerial, she struggled with it for a second, then fell. Also performed her floor routine in warmups..beautiful.

Lauren Sessler- Good vault, I like her style. It's different. Idk..lol.

Lauren Johnson- Had great warm-up vaults, then her knee gave out on the exhibiton vault. Pft, still 'mazing.

Hilary Mauro- Side step on yurchenko 1.5 tad bit of bent knees on the last half twist. Good beam, front tuck wobble.

Cassidy McComb- 9.95 career high on vault, stuck that yurchenko full cold. Floor was rough, she was deep in the knees on the double pike, then put herh ands down on the eneding double tuck.

Gina Nuccio- Great bars, she's really a greta bar-worker. Stuck dismounttttt.

Kat Ding- Same as above.

Mariel Box- No competetoooo.

Amber Trani- Ditto for the no competetoooo.

Wah. No more meets.

Well.

2009-03-10T16:06:00.000-07:00

Shawn did better than I thought she would. No epic fails to speak of.

Here are the deets, courtesy of USA Gymnastics. I don't own anything. :)

Olympic gold medalist Shawn Johnson performed with her partner Mark Ballas on the season premiere of "Dancing with the Stars" Monday night, March 9, on ABC. They received 23 points from the judges, tied for second out of the 13 couples. The judges' scores alone do not decide if the couple stays around. Phone lines and text votes are open to fans from the beginning of each show until 30 minutes after. Online voting will remain open until noon ET the next day. Johnson and Ballas, along with the rest of the competitors, will perform again on Monday, March 16. Following another round of voting, the "Dancing with the Stars Results Show" will premiere on Tuesday, March 17. The two couples with the lowest combined scores from judges and viewers votes will compete in a Dance Off. Their original set of judges scores will be tossed out and they will perform the same routine again for a new set of judges scores. The new set of scores will be combined with their viewer votes from Monday night and the couple with the lowest combined total will be eliminated.

Ugly dress lol.

The funniest thing ever.

2009-03-02T16:15:00.000-08:00

I've been watching this on repeat for like, an hour.

198!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2009-03-01T14:06:00.000-08:00

Gymdogs pwn.

Courtney Kupets- Nice vault, had she have stuck it woulda been a Ten. Bars was good, missed a handstand. Beam...had a wobble on the dismount. Floor = Ten! Shouldn't have been a ten. She had an eensy step on the double pike.

Tiffany Tolnay- Good vault, Samantha Peszek step back on Yurchenko full. Bars was great, just a step on the dismount. Hit the overshoot dead on. Beam was great, a bit low on the punch front but overall awesome. Floor was amazing, perfect double arabian. Nice 2.5 to front tuck. Ended with a double tuck instead of double pike.

Paige Burns- GREAT BEAM. She got her career high of 9.825! Wobble on the series, hit the tour de jete or whatever it's called awesomely.

Abby Stack- Woo! floor! Speed racer! Perfect triple full, rotated it right around. Nice double full to front tuck. The greatest ending double pike I've seen her do.

Grace Taylor- Bars would have been a ten had she not had a tiny step on her dismount, a double layout. Every handstand was hit. Beammy Beamers- Good series, little pause before leg up full turn to layout stepout. Wobble on switch leap to straddle jump Wobble on heel-stretch, front aerial, standing back layout stepout. Floor- CAREER HIGH 9.925! Woot! Ten if she hadn't "Pogoed" out of the whip though to double pike.

Marcia Newby- Good vault. Career high 9.925 floor. Great whip to double twist.

Lauren Johnson- Warm-up vaults looked great! I love her form. :)

Lauren Sessler- Amazing vault, almost stuck!

Courtney McCool- She's baaaaaaaaaaaaack. Bars was really good, she had one little slip-up on a toe-shoot, but her geinger was so good and the bail was amazing.

Hilary Mauro- AHHHH. ONE AND A HALF YURCHENKO STUCK! Great beam..9.9!!!!! Good floor, had a little mistake on her second pass.

Cassidy Mccomb- No compete-o. =[ Sparined right knee? I think.

Gina Nuccio- Back in competetition! Great bars..9.9!!!

Amber Trani- No compete-o. :(

Kathryn Ding- I freaking love her thatchev. Great yurchenko full, had her chest up!

Mariel box- Not competeting. Boo.

In other news:

Shayla Worley & Samantha Peszek were there! They're so nice! :) I got to talk with them for a bit. Samantha has a new Olympic rings tattoo on her wrist. It's very pretty.

Sam was on an offical visit. Pretty cool!

Final American Cup.

2009-02-22T08:54:00.000-08:00

Jordyn did well. I'll give her that. But she was overscored.

And what was up with the coaches not moving the springboard during her routine?! You can go to Andrea's channel, and go to the video entitled "Jordyn Wieber" and see. Isn't that a deduction? 3 tenths in collegiate, I know that. A UF girl got docked.

And, zomg, these people get footage up FAST!!! I'm downloading Bridget's vault and floor at the moment. =]

(Jordyn with Fabian Hamburgerchun or w/e his name is.)

And, due to popular demandddd, here is my signed cast. :)

Am cup.

2009-02-21T13:38:00.000-08:00

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Bridget- Haven't shown anything, behind Jordyn 6.000 Gorgeous red leo. Shawn's AA leo.

Jordyn- THREW AN AMANAR. Straight legged it though. Had difficulty on a toe-on on Bars, stuck dismount same as Shawn's double twisting double layout. Nastia's AA leo.

Jordyn- Nothing yet. She looks very mature, and calm & focused.

Bridget- Nice bars, really fixing her flexed feet, 14.8 with a minuscule hop on the dismount. 15.150 on vault, STILL haven't shown her vault.

Romanian girl ate mat. :(

Fluffs- no fluffs yet.

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quick report

Bridget still behind Jor 6 tenths. OH! I forgot, Bridget has a new bar skill, a shaposhnikova!! Jordyn is looking nervous heading into beam. These NBC commentators are pressuring her way too much.

Jessica Lopez, a senior at Denver University fell on beam twice, straddled the beam on a side somi, then fell on a switch side leap.

More later!!!

hope y'all are enjoying He Kexin = 14's first live blogging! :)

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Quick report.

Nastia's there, saying how she wants to be on the floor! She's training full-time and now attending SMU, which of course y'all probably know from her website!

Jordyn's up next on beam. Let's see what she can do.

And where are the fluffs?! I need mah fluffs!

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Jordyn-- They said she was next up??

Bridget-- Now they're saying shes next up.

Brittany Rogers had a rough time up on that four inches. Fell on a double turn, and her flight series. She has a one armed stag omelichank, which is ah-mazing. Great dismount!

Come on Bridget!!!!!

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BRIDGET ROCKED BEAM. Front tuck into backhandspring layout stepout rock solid!!! Little wobble on front aerial to aerial cartwheel. sheep jump. STUCK. DISMOUNT.

I'm just going to keep editing this post. =]

4:50
Waiting on Jordyn!

4:54

Jordyn. Is. Amazing. omg. Front aerial to one armed backhandspring, layout stepout...PERFECT. Standing back pike. Wobble on side somi, her right leg was tight and bounced off. Standing freaking full to back tuck. Almost stuck dismount.

Nastia looked very impressed.

15.00!

Alright, we've just got floor left, come on Bridgey, pick it up!
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5:03

Bridget's behind Jordyn by 7 tenths

5:09

Germany floor epic fail.

5:19

Great floor routine from Russia. Beautiful eyes lol.

5:27

Stupid scam cup.

5:35

Bridget did awesome!!!! Great 1.5 through to triple, but almost out of bounds. STUCK that piked full in COLD. Fronthandspring TWO AND A HALF, yes I said TWO AND A HALF front twist. Ending double pike was perfect.

She NEEDS to take the lead after that.

5:38

What. The. Crapperschnick. A 14.75!? Now I KNOW this is a Scam Cup.

5:41

Scammy scammy scammer cup. Prestigious my foot.

5:44

It's Jordyn's. She had a perfect routine. *Sigh* Stupid scam cup.

Congratz to Jordyn.
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Thanks for tuning into He Kexin = 14's first ever live blogging event.
:) Happy Gymnasticsing.

Today is the day.

2009-02-21T07:38:00.000-08:00

The day for Bridget to stand out. The day for Jordyn to seal her name in gymnastics history. But only one can win.

Okay, enough with the blabbity blah drama crap.

I'll be running in here on commercials writing down notes, then publishing them, so basically...LIVE BLOGGING!!!

This is a historical day. The first ever live blogging from He Kexin = 14!

They'll be grouped into one post following the conclusion of the Cup.

Thanks for reading!

*Cough*GO BRIDGET*Cough*

The American Cup!

2009-02-19T15:31:00.000-08:00

Catch the American Cup broadcasted LIVE on NBC This Saturday (Feb. 21st) from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.

The 2 confirmed American gymnasts on the women's side are Bridget Sloan & Jordyn Weiber.

Any thoughts? Predictions? Hopes? Who do yo uwant to win? Do you think it's acceptable for Jordyn to be competeting? Think any new skills from anybody will be unraveled?

Tell me in the comments section. :)

woot.

2009-02-16T11:32:00.000-08:00

Hey, check this out.

It's a custom pink Youtube player I made!

so cool. :)

=]

LJ!

2009-02-11T19:03:00.001-08:00

Lauren Johnson or "LJ" is a Junior and a member of the highly-talented Georgia Gymdogs, one of the University Of Georgia's sell-out sports. Lauren was nice enough to let me interview her for He Kexin = 14.

How did you choose to attend UGA?

LJ: I have always wanted to be a Georgia Bulldog. I looked at several other schools, but when the coaches asked me to come here, I couldn't turn it down!

What is your typical schedule like?

LJ: On Monday, Wednsday, and Friday I do some exercise at the gym before class. I have class at 10. On Monday and Friday, we have workouts at 1. On Wednesday we have an off day to rest and get in extra homework. I have a 3-hour Wednesday class.
On Tuesday and Thursday, I'm in class a little longer in the mornings. Gym is at 1 with team conditioning afterward.
After gym, I usually go home and shower, eat dinner, and do several hours of reading and homework. Then I find something fun to watch on TV as I fall asleep and get ready to do it again the next day!

Are you training any new vaults?

LJ:
I'm not training any new vaults right now, but I'm trying to perfect the one I'm competing. I still have some work to do!

What is your favorite gymnastics moment?

LJ: My favorite gymnastics moment is when our team won NCAA's at home last April. We got to have a little dance party on the floor to "We are the Champions" and really had a good time. My second favorte moment was vaulting at the UGA vs. Alabama meet. It was my first time in Stegeman Coliseum after my injury, and I have never felt so much support from my teammates!

How do you balance training and schoolwork?

LJ: It's hard to balance school and gymnastics. I make sure that I get enough sleep every night so that I can take good notes in class and have quick, efficient workouts. Then I have more time at home to work on any classwork. I make sure I have the class syllabi with me at all times so I can make sure I keep up. I study every night, even when there's not a test. That way when we're traveling or have a big meet, I don't stress about school because I've already studied.

How does God influence your gymnastics?

LJ: God is the biggest influencing factor in my gymnastics. I try to glorify Him in everything I do. When I'm having a hard day, I think about how I should handle it in a way that will show God's love. Being a Gym Dog is something God blessed me with, so I want to praise Him in every routine and opportunity I have to compete. I chose a Christian song for vault music too, because I not only want my friends to know that I love Jesus, but I want all 10,000 people in the Coliseum to know that He's the reason why I'm here at Georgia!

And finally, what is your favorite part about being a Gymdog?

LJ:The best part of being a Gym Dog would be that I've made so many close friends! It's the most amazing experience to have 15 other girls who share the same kind of gymnastics background as I do and share the same passion to do great gymnastics. I've never felt so much support from my teammates as I do from these girls. We genuinely care about each other and want success for one another. I think we'll be friends for the rest of our lives.

Thank you so so much, Lauren!! I appreciate your time. :)

Shawn?!/Gymnastia.

2009-02-10T08:50:00.000-08:00

Shawn's on Dancing With The Stars. I found out from my friend, Meggers, who's also my writing partner.

We all know what this means. She's more than likely done with gymnastics. She's always changing her mind, keeping us on the edge of our seats. But, oh well. I have feeling she'll go back. She's said she just has the passion or something cute like that.

Anyways, speaking of my writing partner, due to popular demand, here's more Gymnastia.
We're doing these little "Flashbacks" of Nastia as a child, so here you go.

WARNING: Don't read if you don't have a buttload of time.

Nastia awoke with a start, practically hoping out of bed. "It's my birthday!" she squealed, hoping around her room. Anna laughed outside the door. "Well then, good morning..." she chuckled, opening her arms for a hug. Nastia leaped into her arms. "I'm five now!" Anna nodded. "You certainly are. Go get ready, Daddy's ready to head over to the gym." Nastia nodded eagerly. She pulled on her leo and leg warmers and hopped down the stairs. "DADDYYYYY! I'm ready!" He laughed and picked her up, swinging her around. "Happy Birthday, my big girl." Nastia grinned. "Ready to go?" he asked, carrying her out to the car. Nastia nodded. He loaded her into the car and made it over to the gym, where Nastia hopped onto the bars immediately. Valeri rolled his eyes. "Steven will be out soon, don't hurt yourself." He went off to his elites and started their conditioning. He watched as Steven came over to the bars and lifted Nastia off of them, causing a loud giggle from the young girl, and smiled. He was glad she was having a good day. Conditioning ended and he began training his group on beam, glancing over at Nastia every once in awhile. Meanwhile, Nastia was twirling on bars, enjoying herself. When she attempted a bit of a bunny hop release skill, something the younger girls would do for fun, she lost her gripping and slipped off the bar. Steven ran to catch her, but elbowed her eye....hard. It took a minute for Nastia to register the pain, but when it did, she screamed, getting up and running to her father immediately. "Daddy." She wailed, trying to hug her father and point to her swollen eye at the same time. "Steven hurt me!" She continued, crying. Valeri told the elites to carry on. He picked up his little girl, and carried her into the WOGA office. Once seated, he pushed back her hair that was covering her face. "I don't want him to be my teachwer no more." She stated. Valeri bit his lip. "Alright." He said. "Why don't we give the rest of the class just one more try, then see what you think?" Valeir negogiated. Nastia shook herh ead wildly. "No. No Steven!" Valeri inhaled sharply. He was about to do something he never thought he would do. "Do you want to play with Elites?" He finally managed to choke out, automatically knowing her answer. "DUH, Daddy." She replied, hopping off his lap, running into the gym. As she passed Steven, she stuck out her tounge. Once she reached the Elites, Roberta reached down to pat her on the head. "You an Elite, squirt?" Nastia nodded enthusiastically. “My daddy said I can play with you guys! Isn’t that coooooooool?” She had forgotten all about her eye. Roberta smiled and nodded. “What happened to your eye, kiddo?” Nastia looked slightly confused, but then remembered. “Big Ol’ Meanie Steven hurt it.” Roberta tried to hide her smile and patted Nastia’s head again, then picked her up and put her on her back. “Well that’s too bad. How about a piggy back ride, birthday girl?” Nastia squealed, “yes please!” Roberta trotted around the gym, Nastia giggling all the while. Valeri soon entered the room and glared at the two of them, who instantly stopped in their tracks. “What are you two doing? Goofing off? You know better than to….” He glanced at his daughter, tears beginning to well up in her swollen eye. He sighed, “goof off without inviting me to join you,” he smiled. Nastia clapped her hands and jumped onto her fathers back. He bucked her off and sent her flying into the pit. She laughed hysterically, landing in the pit head first, long legs flailing, trying to free herself. Valeri heard muffled screams, and bit back a smile. He jumped into the pit, digging through the foam blocks, finally freeing his daughter. "I almost died in there, Papa!" Nastia said, seriously eyes wide open with fear, clinging to her father's neck. Valeri nodded. "There, there." He mumbled with a heavy russian accent. "'Tis alright, babygirl." Nastia looked up at him. "I've almost died TWICE on my birfday, Papa!" Valeri modded once more. "You have, haven't you?" She glanced over at Steven. "Make my eyes, better, Papa." She said. "Peas?" Valeri sighed. “I wish I could, precious,” he said, pulling his daughter out of the pit, “but we’ll just have to wait for them to heal. Do you want to go see mama and see if that helps them get better?” Nastia nodded. “Mama makes eberything betta.” Valeri smirked. He loved how much Nastia adored Anna. They were like clones of each other. It was adorable. “Alright then, lets go,” he said, carrying her over to the office her mother worked in and knocking. “Come on in,” Anna replied from the other side. As they entered, Nastia reached her arms out towards her mother. “Mamaaaaaaa,” she half whined, rubbing her eyes. Anna took her daughter from Valeri and held her close. “What’s wrong, angel?” Nastia cried into her mother’s shoulder. “My eyes hurtttttttt and daddy almost killed meeeeee!” Anna held her close. "Shhhh it's alright." Then there was another knock on the door. "Come on in!" A young girl, around 7 years old, poked her head in. She had blonde hair and freckles speckled across her cheeks. Her green blue eyes sparkled. "Mrs. Anna?" she asked tentatively, "Do you have any extra tuff skin?" Anna nodded and shifted Nastia to he other side of her body. "Yes, I do Hollie, come over here and I'll give it to you." Hollie walked over to Anna, who was rummaging through a drawer. Nastia meanwhile, had found the Tuff Skin, and had it hidden behind her back, giggling softly. Hollie noticed and smiled at Nastia. Anna turned away from the drawer while Nastia was still concealing the Tuff Skin. "I'm sorry Hollie, I can't seem to find it!" Anna stated, looking at Hollie. "Maybe you could check with Coach Yevgeny?" Hollie nodded, turning away, going along with Nastia's game. "I founded it, Mama!" Nastia said, revealing the Tuff Skin from behind her back, shaking it in front of her mother's face. Anna laughed. "And where was that?" She asked. "I have magical powas and made it 'pear!" Nastia said! Anna chuckled. “I’m sure you do!” Nastia grinned wide, holding the Tuff Skin high above her head. “You can’t reach it, Mama!” she laughed, waving it around. Hollie grabbed it from her and twirled around the room, sticking her tongue out at Nastia. “Now I’veeeee got it!” Nastia glared and pushed off her mother’s lap, chasing after Hollie. “Be careful girls!” Anna warned, not wanting them to injure themselves. “Give it baaaaack Hollieeeeee” Nastia whined, pouncing on Hollie’s back. Hollie, not expecting the force, fell forward into the trophy case that held Valeri, Anna, and Yevgeny’s medals, breaking the glass completely. Nastia’s mouth fell open, Hollie let out a gasp as she stepped backwards. They both stared at the case. Once it registered what had happened, the two girls turned towards each other. “Your fault!” they exclaimed, almost at the same time. “Nuh uh! Yes huh! Nuh uh!” “Girls, what’s going on out there?” Anna called from inside her office. Nastia looked like a deer caught in the headlights as she dove into the pit. Hollie followed. “We’re gonna be in hugeeeee trouble!” Hollie whispered to Nastia, tears forming in her eyes. Nastia nodded in agreement. Hollie rambled on. “We’re gonna have to do soooo much conditioning and press handstands and giants and I don’t wannaaaaa be in trouble, Nastie!” she shouted, revealing their hiding spot. Somebody tapped Hollie on the back. "WHA-". She demanded, turning around. "Oh." Her tone changed. It was Valeri, holding Nastia, seeing what all the choas was for. "So. What happened?" He inquired, clamly. Hollie started openly crying. Nastia patted her on the back. "It's 'kay, Howwie." She said, trying to comfort the older girl. "My papa told me that they have-what was it called' gain papa?" She turned to her father. He whispered into her ear. "Insurwance!" Nastia finished proudly. Hollie sighed loudly, obviously relieved. "But it doesn't mean you aren't off the hook." Valeri nodded, with a smirk. Hollie tensed up again. "Uh-oh." She glanced at Nastia. Nastia shrugged. Valeri continued. "I think that you should have to go clean the glass." Nastia smiled. "Together." Valeri added. Hollie nodded. “Yes sir,” she said, looking down at her feet. Valeri patted her on the back and put Nastia down. “Off you go then.” The two girls trotted over to the broken glass and looked down. “I’ll go get a broom,” Hollie said. Nastia nodded, stepping around the glass. She picked up a few pieces carefully with her hands, not wanting to cut herself. Hollie returned with the broom and began sweeping, accidentally hitting Nastia with the end of it. “OWWW!” Nastia yelled dramatically, though it hadn’t really hurt her. “Sorry!” Hollie shouted, going over to see if her friend was okay. Nastia scrunched up her face and threw the handful of glass she had in her hand at Hollie’s face. “MEANIE!” she screamed, kicking Hollie’s shin. Hollie yelped and instantly began crying, then bent down and picked up a handful of glass and threw it back at Nastia. “NO! YOU’RE MEAN!” she retorted, running over to the benches. Nastia screamed bloody murder, running towards Hollie and tackled her to the ground. “GIRLS!” Anna shouted, coming out of her office to see what the commotion was. Anna's mouth fell open, creating a lopsided "O". "What the.." She mumbled. "VALERIIIIIIIII." Her husband ran in, gasping. "What's wrong now?". Anna gestured to the two girls standing together, looking guilty. Nastia had a cut above her right eyebrow, while Hollie's hands were scraped and she had a gash over her left kneecap. Valeri shook his head. "And we were going to train bars for TOPs today, Hollie." Anna glared. "So. You want Hollie to train for TOPs, huh?" Valeri nodded enthusiastically. Anna sighed. "So. They are bleeding all over, and all you care about is freaking TOPS?!" Valeri looked down at floor shamefully. "Umm.." He started, but just then Yevgeny jogged in. "Heyas, what's all the commotion-" He stopped when he saw Anna's expression. She. Was. LIVID. "Oh, shoulda known it was you, AnnaBear." He said, lifting her chin up, teasing her like a big brother. Meanwhile, Nastia had left the office during all the yelling, and was now hiding, once again, in the pit, crying. "I dunn want mommy and daddy to fight." She sniffled, talking to herself. “Nastia?! Nastia, where are you?” Anna called, looking around the gym for her daughter. Nastia poked her head out of the pit. Anna glared. “Over here. Now.” She commanded, pointing to the floor next to her. Nastia nodded and hopped out of the pit, going over to her mother. Valeri glared at both of the girls, while Yevgeny finished cleaning up the glass and headed back over to the group. Yevgeny tried to make the girls smile as best he could, making goofy faces at them. Hollie almost smiled, but then she saw the looks on Anna and Valeri’s faces, and stopped immediately. “I’m sorryyyyyyyy!” Hollie cried, looking down at her feet again, “Don’t tell my mommyyyyy!” she wailed, crying into her leo. Anna shook her head. “You’re staying the night with us tonight anyways. I was going to wait until after gym to tell you.” Hollie hinted at a smile when she heard that, but Anna quickly cut her off. “Don’t assume it will be an enjoyable experience just yet.” Her frown reappeared. “And you,” Anna pointed at Nastia, “What were you thinking?” Nastia sniffled. “She hit me with a broom,” she said quietly. Hollie blushed in the background, silently pleading with Nastia not to say anything more. Her parents would ground her and possibly take gymnastics away if they knew that their money was going toawrds their child being hurt. Nastia shook her head. "She didn't actuwawwy." Hollie looked semi-relieved. "I was just wyin' that way I wouldn't get in trouble." Nastia started crying alligator tears. "And now I know that I'm gunna be in more twouble 'cuz I wied to you and papa." Nastia buried her head in her hands, smiling to herself, letting herself know that she had done a good job in protecting her friend. She'd rather get in trouble than have Hollie leave..forever! Anna nodded, falling for the girl's shenanigans. "Okay. Thank you for 'fessing up, Nast." Nastia looked up. "And because you told me the truth, and also because it is your birthday, after all, then you are out of trouble." Hollie hugged Nastia. "You too, Hollie." Anna nodded at the 7 year old. "Consider it your early birthday present." Hollie blushed again, and mumbled a quick thanks, hurrying out of the room. Nastia sighed. Anna patted her daughter on the back, then tilted her chin up. “Let’s take care of that cut, hmm?” she said, picking Nastia up and carrying her into the office. “Hollie, come back in here,” she shouted out the door, motioning for Hollie to join them. Valeri grabbed the first aid kit and handed it to his wife before heading back out to the floor to help some of the level 6s with floor routines. Anna sat Nastia on her desk and allowed Hollie to climb up next to her. She rummaged through the first aid kit, looking for wipes and peroxide. Nastia cringed. She knew what was coming next, and she didn’t like it. Wiggling, she tried to get off the desk, but to no avail. “Sit still,” Anna soothed, holding onto her daughter’s legs as she poured peroxide onto a cotton ball, “It will only sting for a second.” She placed the peroxide on the cut above Nastia’s eyebrow, much to her daughter’s protests. Nastia squealed and kicked and bucked, trying to get the dreaded liquid away from her. “Owieeeeeeee!” she cried, rocking back and forth. Hollie put a comforting hand around the younger girl’s shoulders. “It’s okay, Nastia. I know it hurts, but only for a lil bit. Then it feels alllllllll better.” Nastia sniffled, trying to stop the tears, as Anna pulled the cotton ball off. “There. All better,” her mother said, lifting Nastia off the desk and cradling her in her arms for a moment. Once she seated Nastia in the chair behind the desk, she reached for another cotton swab. “Alright Hollie, your turn.” Hollie tried to put on her brave face for the younger girl. She knew Nastia looked up to her, and she didn’t want to seem afraid, no matter how much she was. She bit her lower lip as Anna applied the liquid and shut her eyes tight, managing not to let any tears slip out. “Good girl, Hollie,” Anna smiled as she took the cotton ball off and kissed her forehead, “now that you’re both done, you can go back out and play in the gym if you want. I think Coach Valeri wants to work with you on bars for TOPs, Hollie. I think Coach Valeri wants to work with you on bars for TOPs, Hollie." Why don’t you watch, Nast?” They both nodded and darted out the door. Valeri smiled when he saw them coming. “Feeling better? Hop on bars, Hol,” he started, kissing them both on the top of the head. Hollie did as instructed, executing a perfect routine with a stuck landing. “Woohoo! You go girl!” Yevgeny and Valeri applauded from the sidelines, while Nastia hopped up and down. “Genyyyyy!” Nastia squealed, hoping onto another set of bars, “Train me for TOPs, Tooooooo!" She whined, bothering her Uncle 'Geny as much as possible. Yevgeny glanced at Valeri skeptically, not wanting to tell the young girl she was too young. Valeri shook his head. "She'll find out the truth one day, and resent all of us for it." Nastia pulled on Yevgeny's pant's leg. "Genyyyyyy. What am I gunna find out!? TELL ME!" Nastia whined, aching to go out into the gym to practice with Hollie. Valeri shared a look with Yevgeny, while Nastia dmenaded attention. She finally gave up and wandered away. "Hollie, since you've done well on bars, would you like to go entertain Nastia for a bit?" Valeri asked kindly. Hollie nodded and quickly scurried off to go dance with Nastia. "Are you gunna come to my birfday pawty, Howwie?" The little girl asked, siddenly stopping everything. Hollie beamed. "Of course, Nast!" Nastia smiled. "Yays! It's at Chuck E Cheese! We's is gunna have pizza and play games!." Then, Nastia's eyes exploded with excitement. "HOWWIE! You could spend da night afterwards!" Hollie laughed and hugged Nastia tight. “I already ammmmm, silly!” she said, ruffling Nastia’s hair. The little girl’s eyes widened. “REALLY!? YAYYYY!” She bounced around the gym and pounced onto her father’s back. “ HOWWIE’S SPENDING THE NIGHT?!?!?!!??!!” she screamed directly into his ear, still bouncing will on his back and kicking her legs. “DIS IS DA BEST BIRFDAY!!! WE IS GONNA STAY UP REALLLLLY LATE AND NOT GO TO SWEEP AND EAT LOS OF CANDY AND PIZZA AND PWAY WIF TOYS AND HAVE WOTS AND WOTS OF FUNNNNN!” She let out one long squeal, and Valeri cringed. Yevgeny tried his hardest not to laugh at his friend’s pain, and Hollie giggled from the sidelines. Valeri glared. "Nastia. Calm down, Babygirl." Nastia shook her head, causing her hair to wildly fly around her face. "NO!" She continued to yell. "I'm still 'sited for tonightt. Is it time to leave yet?" Valeri shook his head like Nastia had moments before. "How bout nowww?" Nastia whined. Valeri lossened his grasp on his aughter. "Nastia." He stated, sternly. "Big girl's don't act overly excited." Nastia stopped fidegting immedieately. "I'mma big girl. I's stops now." She said softly. Valeri nodded as he placed her back on the floor. “How about you and Hollie work off some of that energy and give me five laps around the gym. Then we’ll see if it’s time to go.” Nastia scrunched up her face. “You’s not my coach, Papa! I dun have one no more.” Valeri shook his head. “I’m your coach starting right now. Get moving!” “But Papaaaaaaa…” she whined, but was cut off by Hollie grabbing her hand. “C’mon lets go! The sooner we get this done, the sooner we can leaveee!” Nastia squealed and ran after her friend, completing the five laps quickly. “Done Papa! Can we go now?!” Valeri laughed and picked up both of the girls, one in each arm. “Yes…we can go now.” They both squealed with excitement as he carried them out to the car and buckled them in. Anna joined them soon enough , and they were on their way to Chuck E Cheese. Nastia chanted the name over and over all the way there, much to Anna’s amusement. "Chuck. E. Cheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeese." Nastia finished her chant, breathing hard. Valeri sighed, dreading going inside the children's place. He always emerged 2 and a half hours later with an intense headache. He sighed once more, then picked up Nastia. "Let's go in." Anna said, feeling sorry for her husband. He nodded and headed towards the door, Nastia bouncing up and down in his arms. Anna grabbed Hollie's hand and led her across the street as well. Once they made it inside, Nastia squirmed, trying to get down. "PAPA! DOWNNNNN! I WANNA PLAYYYY!" Valeri groaned and set her down on her feet. "Stay where we can see you, and when we call you for dinner, come. I don't want to have to look around for you forever, got it?" Nastia nodded, completely blowing him off, and grabbed Hollie's hand. They ran towards the play area together. Anna patted her husband on the back. "You'll survive, I promise you. She loves this." Valeri rolled his eyes. "I hate it." They chose a table right outside the playground to sit, where they watched Nastia and Hollie play on the equipment for about an hour. By then, the rest of Nastia's friends had shown up and had joined the girls in playing. Valeri tried to capture Nastia's attention by waving his hands toward her. "Dinner! Come eat!" Hollie had seen him, though Nastia hadn't, and grabbed her hand, pulling her towards the table. "Dig in!" Anna said with a smile, as soon as the children had arrived. Everyone grabbed at the cheese first, totally disregarding the pepperoni pizza that layed on the table, sticky hands belonging to fellow 4 and 5 year old girls not going anywhere near it. Nastia somehow got shoved to the end of the line. Once she had made it towards the table, her eyes began to swell with tears. "Momma." She gasped through all the crying. "There's no more cheeeeese." Anna exhaled, closing her eyes. Hollie noticed the signs of an annoyed parent. "It's okay, Nast." Hollie said. "You can have my slice of cheese!" Nastia wiped her eyes. "Weally?" she sniffled through her question, looking up at the oldest girl at the party with hopeful eyes. Hollie nodded, and handed the paper plate to Nastia. "'Hank you so much Howwie! I wub you!" Nastia ran off to sit by the lone boy at the party, who all the girls seemed to like. He was a recreational gymnast at WOGA. Nastia pushed her way to the chair beside him. "Hiya." She said, picking up the pizza and muching on it. He turned towards Nastia and blushed. "Hi." Nastia smiled. "So, is you haffin a good time so faw?" The boy nodded shyly, pushing his plate away from him. “Are you done alweady?!” Nastia asked with a shocked tone, looking at his only slightly eaten pizza. The boy shrugged, and Nastia frowned, afraid he was upset about something. “What’s your name?” she asked, pushing his plate back in front of him. The boy seemed to sink lower in his seat, pushing his pizza away again. “Finn” he managed to stammer out. “Finn?!” Nastia exclaimed, jumping out of her seat, “ I LUB dat name!” Finn actually smiled at this. “You doooooooo?” Nastia nodded enthusiastically. “It’s da best name in da worlddddddd!” Finn giggled and stood up next to Nastia. “You’re pwitty, Nastyuh,” he blushed. Nastia blushed as well. “Do you wanna kiss me?” Finn nodded. “Well go ahead! Don’t keep me waitinnnnnn!” Not wanting Nastia to leave, Finn leaned in, trying to position his lips over her, and kissed her rather passionately for a five year old boy. He didn’t know how to do this, only from what he had seen mommy and daddy do. Just then, Valeri looked over. He practically dived towards the two of them, snatching Nastia quickly and smacking her once. “What do you think you’re doing, young lady?!” Nastia started to cry and rubbed her smacked bottom. "We were juss being like our mommys and daddys, papa!" She cried harder. Valeri sighed. He figured he might as well let it go. They were only five. He was just so protective of his baby, and had a hard time facing that Nastia was growing up. "I'm sorry, babygirl. JUst don't do that ever again in public." "'Kay." Nastia replied, forgiving her father. She wormed her way out of his arms and waddled off rubbing her bottom again, and hurried off to play with Hollie and Finn. Another two hours past, and after Anna had taken the girls to claim their prizes at the prize stand, and Nastia had opened her presents, Valeri loaded up the car and they headed back to the Liukin house. “Alright girls, when we get back to the house, I want you both ready for baths. That means no playing around, got it? You’re all sweaty from such a long day,” Anna commented, turning around to face the girls in the back seat. Hollie cringed. “But I’m a BIG girl! I take baths by myself!” Anna smirked. “Of course. You can use the upstairs bathroom, and I’ll give Nastia her bath downstairs, alright?” Hollie nodded and Nastia kicked the back of her mother’s seat. “I’m a big girl TOO! I don’t neeeeed you to give me a bath!” Anna rolled her eyes and Valeri chuckled in the seat next to her, muttering “good going” under his breath. She gently slapped her husband’s arm. “Alright, you can try.” Nastia squealed with happiness as they pulled up the driveway and hopped out of the car. “You can still use the one upstairs, Howwie. I’ll use this one,” Nastia pointed to the bathroom just inside the door. Hollie nodded and headed to the one Nastia had directed her to. Nastia grabbed a towel and her favorite shampoo, and climbed into the shower. She looked around the room, not really sure where to start. She’d never taken a bath on her own. She figured she’d start by washing her body and grabbed the wash cloth from the counter, lathering it with soap and scrubbing all over her body. Next, she put some shampoo in her hands and rubbed it throughout her hair. “There,” she said to herself, stepping out onto the floor, “all done.” She left the towel hanging on the door and went out into the main house, soap still on her body and suds in her hair. “I’m donnnnnne!” she announced, smiling from ear to ear. Hollie dropped the grape she was about to put in her mouth and stared. Nastia waved at her friend. “Nastie, I think you’re supposed to wash the soap off first,” Hollie commented, shutting her eyes tight. Nastia rolled her eyes. “I KNOW how to do it, Hollie. I’m not stuuuuuuupid.” The other girl shrugged. “I’ll just go find your mommy then to tell her you’re done,” she said, exiting the room. Nastia sat down at the table and started nibbling on a grape when Anna entered the room, pulled along by Hollie who pointed at her younger friend, eyes still closed. “ I toldddd you!” she whined at Anna. Anna patted Hollie on the back, signaling for her to go elsewhere. Hollie got the hint and grabbed her things, heading back upstairs to Nastia’s room. Anna looked back at her daughter, still dripping with suds all over the wooden floors, and groaned. “Anastasia, you’re getting everything wet!” Nastia looked at the huge puddle forming underneath her, shrugged, and continued eating her grapes. Just then, Hollie trotted back down the stairs. “Oh oh and Mrs. Annaaaaa,” she whined again, peeking around the corner. Anna sighed. “Yes Hollie?” “Nastia said…” she paused for a moment, wondering if she’d get in trouble for saying the word, “um, this isn’t me saying it, ‘kay? I’m just repeating Nastia. She saidddd stuuuuupid, and that’s a mean and bad word!” Anna nodded. “It certainly is. I’ll take care of it. Thank you for telling me Hollie.” Smiling sweetly, Hollie headed back up the stairs as Anna turned to her daughter again. Anna shook her head, much to Nastia's entertainment. "Whatcha doooooin'?" Nastia asked curiously, her voice muffled due to a mouth stuffed with 4 grapes. Anna exhaled, so irritated she belived that she could breathe smoke. But it was her little Nastie's birthday. So she could manage. "Girly, you have to actually wash out all of the shampoo, and rinse out the soap." anna stated. Nastia's mouth formed an "O", causing several grapes to fall out. Hollie, who had been waiting for Nastia on the stairs crinkled her nose in disgust. "Eeeeoooo!" She whispered to herself. Nastia meanwhile, was still shocked. "Oooh. Nastie didn't know that." She said, reffering to herself in third person. Anna nodded again. Nastia hopped off the chair and went to go try bathing a second time. "I pwomise I does better!" She screamed accross the hallway. Anna chuckled and waited outside the bathroom door. A few minutes later, Nastia came out, dry and clean. “that’s much better, sweetie,” she said, kissing her daughter’s forehead. Nastia grinned. “ Can I go play with Howwie now?” Anna nodded and the little girl ran upstairs. “Howwie! Wanna color?!” Hollie smiled as her friend entered the room. “Sure, if you want to. Glad to see you’re clean.” Nastia ran over to her closet and grabbed a stack of coloring books and crayons, tossing them at Hollie’s face. “There. You get those four coloring books, and I get these six,” she said, hugging the books to her body. Hollie didn’t even bother arguing. “Okay. Can we share sometimes? “ Nastia sighed. “ I guess so.” She reluctantly pushed a coloring book closer to Hollie. The girls enjoyed three hours of coloring, crazy by any kind of standards, when Nastia’s eyes started to droop. Anna walked in. “ I think it’s bedtime for 2 little girls.” Nastia lifted her head groggily and tried to register what Anna said. Then her eyes sprung to life. "Nooo, Mama!" Anna nodded. "Nooo! Howwie's awake!" Nastia pointed. Meanwhile, Hollie had fallen asleep on the Barbie coloring book, a crayon oddly sticking into her nostril. Anna sighed. "No, Nastia. Hollie has to train tomorrow. Go to bed." Nastia sighed. "Buh buh buh butttt it's only 12:00!!" Nastia wailed. "NO!" Nastia finally gave in and started grouping all the coloring books into a pile. When she had reached the last one, Hollie's, she tugged and pulled to no avail. "C' on!" She yelled at the coloring book, which awakened Hollie who had rolled over into a split in her sleep. Hollie sat up, while Nastia was still pulling the coloring book. Nastia went flying accross the room, and landed on her bottom. Hollie giggled and helped Nastia up. Soon, they were both in hysterics, mostly from being so exaughsted but also from Nastia's ride through the air. Anna walked in. "Bed. Now." She demanded. "Okay." They both grumbled, heading off to Nastia's bedroom to get a good night's rest. It didn’t take the girls long to fall asleep, curled up as close as they could to one another. Nastia had curled up into her normal sleeping position, as had Hollie, bringing her leg over her head to form a split in her sleep. It was too much of a close call though, being that Nastia’s head was right where her knee came up. It came up and smacked her right in her injured eye, waking her abruptly with a sharp cry of pain. Hollie didn’t hear a thing and just kept her knee there, resting peacefully. Nastia was pinned beneath the older girl’s leg, in pain and extremely tired. “Daddyyyyyyy,” she called into the intercom system by her bed, hoping her father would wake up. Valeri stirred in his sleep, but didn’t wake as his daughter continued to wail for him. After the fourth “daddyyyy” and third “papaaaa”, Anna reached over and lightly slapped her husband. “mmmmm,” he groaned, rolling
“Your daughter beckons,” Anna said sleepily. Valeri groaned again, not wanting to get up at two in the morning. He had to be at work in three hours. Anna nudged him again. “Go on, Papa,” she smirked, cuddling under the covers deeper. Valeri rolled his eyes and playfully pushed his wife, getting out of bed and heading down the hall.“Papaaaa,” Nastia whined again, this time in full out sobs. “I’m coming, Nastia,” he stated sleepily, pushing the door to her bedroom open. “What’s wrong?” Nastia tried to push Hollie off again. “She’s on top of me and my eye hurtssss,” she whined again, reaching out towards her father. Valeri tried to hide his laugh and pulled his daughter out from under the other tiny girl. “There, all better,” he said, kissing both of Nastia’s eyes and placing her on the guest bed they had set up for Hollie originally. “Now get some sleep, my big five year old girl,” he smiled, kissing her on the lips lightly and pulling the blankets over her. She nestled under and lifted her head up a bit . “What are you doing?” Valeri asked, laughing. “You look like a turtle poking his head out of his shell.” Nastia pouted. “Kissyyyyyyy” she whined. “I just did!” he laughed. Nastia practically growled at him. “Okay okay, kisses,” he said, kissing her three times and pulling the blankets on her again. “Good night, my angel.” She was asleep before he turned out the light. He crawled back into bed with his wife and draped his arm around her, kissing her softly on the back of her head. “She alright?” she asked quietly, turning around in his arms to stroke her husband’s hair. He nodded. “Hollie was on top of her, poor thing,” he chuckled, kissing her tenderly on the lips. Anna hinted at a smile, but slowly drifted back into sleep as rain started to softly fall. Not an hour later, thunder rolled, causing the windows throughout the house to rattle and shake. A clash of lightning lit up Nastia’s room and she leaped up, crawling back into Hollie’s bed. “Howwieeeee,” she whined, trying to shake her friend awake. Hollie stirred and looked at the younger girl. “I’m scaredddddd.” Hollie smiled and put an arm around her. “There isn’t anything to be afraid of. It’s just thunder,” she said, putting on her best brave face. Just then, a huge grumble of thunder erupted and both girls pounced out of bed and ran down the hallway to Valeri and Anna’s room. Nastia leaped onto her father, screaming, as Hollie did the same to Anna. Hollie looked at Anna, her eyes wide with fear. Nastia curled up by her dad, trembling in fear. "Daddy. The Monsters Making noise..." She choked out. "Tey're coming to get meeee." She finished with a wail. Valeri stroked her hair. He was annoyed with being awakened so late when he had work so soon, but he forgave his Daughter, because after all, he had been afraid of the "Monsters making noises", too at 5 years old. "alright." He stated, lying back onto his pillow. "You can stay the night in our bed." Anna nodded at Hollie. Hollie was like one of their children and acted like a big sister and role model to Nastia. After about 5 minutes, everyone was comfortobly suited underneath the covers. Valeri snored, arm around Nastia. Nastia's eyes were wide open. "Ohhh." She said to herself. She sat up, causing Valeri's arm to fall, resulting in his hand smacking Hollie's leg, which, surprise, had fallen into a split position. Nastia poked her father on the cheek. "Dad." Daddddy." "Papa." "Dadddddy." She called repeatdly, trying to get her father to awaken. Once he didn't her eyes started to fill up with tears. Sniffling, she tried a couple more times, her breath wasted. She began to sob loudly, and breathed in. Then a blood-crudling scream came out of her mouth. Valeri awoke to a start and sat up fast. "Whassa pommel horse!" He cried, disorientated. "DADDY." Nastia demanded. "Nastia." He said, back to normal. "What?!" Nastia blinked. "I fogwot my teddy bwear." She said in a innocent and soft voice. Valeri shook his head. "fine." Nastia lit up. "Yay!" she clapped her hands together and shifted her weight. "But after I get it you HAVE to go to sleep." Valeri said, staring at his daughter. Valeri walked out of the the room and into the dark hallway, scratching his head. "DADDDDDDDDY." Nastia called. Valeri wandered back into the room. "Yes?" He asked, impatiently. "Don't let the monsters eat you." Nastia said with a serious nod. Valeri smiled and quickly ventured out of the room for a second time. 5 minutes later, he came back to a scared Nastia sitting up on the bed, eyes darting around the room, as if inspecting for monsters. Valeri handed her the teddy bear, and Nastia held it close. "Fank you ,Daddy. I missed you." Valeri smiled and kissed her. "Now go to sleep!" He said strictly, but with a hint of sweetness in his tone. Nastia nodded. She layed down. After 3m inutes or so, she changed positions and rolled over, knocking into Hollie. Hollie stirred and sat up. "What's going on?" She asked, wiping her eyes. She looked around. "Where am I?" Nastia perked up. "Sowwie, Howwie. I knocked into you. We're at my house, 'member?" hollie nodded. "Okay. I 'member now." They two children looked at each other. Nastia opened her mouth and grinned. Then choas ensued. The two girls snuck out of the room, grabbing all the coloring books and crayons the could find, and decided to play a game on the Liukin's bed. "'Kay so the game is this." Nastia said, becoming bossy. "We jump on the bed and try to cowor at the same time!" hollie smiled. "Yay! Sounds fun!" They bounded over to the bed and began their game. 3 minutes into it, Anna rolled over, causing Nastia to freak out and drop a crayon on her head. Anna awakened with a fierce glare in her eyes. Nastia quickly picked up the crayon and continued her bouncing, hopping on top of Valeri’s legs, who soon awakened with same fierceness of his wife. This didn’t phase the two girls, who just kept on bouncing around. “ Both of you. STOP.” Valeri shouted, glaring at them both. Hollie immediately quit, but Nastia was having too much fun. Papa would live. But would Nastia? Anna, having remained calm through everything all day, finally snapped. She grabbed Nastia’s ankle and pulled her down, snatching her up into her arms and carrying her to the hallway. She shut the door tight behind her. “Where are we goin’ Mama?” Nastia asked sweetly, “Do you wanna play a game too?!” Anna just glared, all of her frustration finally coming out in one hard slap across Nastia’s cheek. At first Nastia didn’t cry, too shocked to move. Her mother had never hit her before, especially not on the face.
She just stared up at her with watering eyes and began to tremble. “Mama….owie,” she said softly, still too afraid to cry. Anna didn’t have any remorse in her expression, and instead swung her arm back again to slap the other side of Nastia’s face. This time Nastia broke down, letting out a scream as if someone was killing her. “OWIEEEE MAMAAAAA” she protested, trying to get away from her mother’s grasp. Valeri, alarmed, made his way over to the doorway and peaked out, amazed at what he saw. "OH. MY. GOD." Without saying another word, Valeri picked up the hurt Nastia, and carried her to her bedroom. He placed her down on her bed. "Stay." Nastia nodded, wiping her eyes. She sure had cried a lot in her birthday. She crawled under the covers. Meanwhile, Valeri was making his way back down the hall, to see what had gone wrong with Anna. Her found her sitting with her back up against the wall, face red and eyes burning. He bent down to sit next to her. "I didn't mean to." She whispered, banging her head on the wall. Valeri nodded. "I know." Anna got up and walked towards Nastia's room. "Woah, Babe, hold up." Valeri called, hoisting himself upright. "You sure yo uwant to do this?" He inquired. Anna nodded. "Yeah. I know what I need to do." She said, continuing her walk to Nastia's room. She found Nastia curled up under her comforter. She pulled back the sheets. "Go away." Nastia huffed, pulling the sheets right back over again. Anna sighed. "Nastie, I'm sorry. Mommy's had a rough day and needed her sleep and didn't like that you were waking her up." Nastia hissed from under the sheets. Anna exhaled, closingh er eyes for a second. "You're still my little girl." Nastia hissed again, this time adding in a "But I'm a big girl. Hmph." Anna cracked her knuckles. "Alright. Then you're my big girl." Nastia poked her head out. "Weally?" Anna nodded. "Yay!" Nastia tackled her mother into a bear hug. Anna hugged back tightly, glad she was forgiven. Valeri apporached the room with caution. Once he saw his two girls in the embrace he left, a smile on his face. Once Anna let go of Nastia, a strange thought popped into her mind. "Oh Gosh..If she's like this at 5 years old..I wonder what's to come for her teenage years..?"

Excerpt Copyright (C) 2008 Megan (Name withheld for safety) and Meredith (Name withheld for safety), All plot lines, story titles and characters portrayed are property of Megan and Meredith.

Once we're done, we're hoping to get a whole copy published on Amazon or something.

Alright. Laytah.

Gymdawwwwwwwwgs.

2009-02-08T14:30:00.000-08:00

'Kay. I'm going freshmen to seniors for this time.

Gina Nuccio- Hurt her knee in warm-ups. I was over in the reporting section for warm-ups, which is like RIGHT there on vault, and saw her do it. Georgia Gymnastics quotes; "Freshman Gina Nuccio hyperextended her right knee in pre-meet warm-ups and did not compete. She was replaced on the uneven bars by Sessler and on the balance beam by Ding." Unquote. I'm glad that she didn't do anything serious..She had to be carried off the floor.

Kathryn Ding: Good vault, took off the table pretty low on the yurchenko full and her chest was low, as well. Bars was good, I really like her full-thatchev. and a Did an amazing job stepping up as the anchor on beam. Woot.

Mariel Box- El No compete-eo.

Amber Trani- No compete-eo. But I'm friends with her on FB, so I might be able to get an interview.

Hilary Mauro- Missed some geingers in bars warm-ups. GREAT beam set, that punch front is ah-mazing.

Cassidy McComb- Didn't go for the Yurchenko 1.5 on vault, good beam set, solid landings. Floor...didn't go for the full-in, almost fell on her butt on the 1.5 to front tuck.

Grace Taylor- Nice bars, struggled on the inside stalder, kind of arched a bit on the overshoot. Nice beam, added a layout step-out after the heel-stretch, front aerial. Beam would have been a ten had she not had a weeny wobble on the leg-up full turn. Floor was amazing, one of her bests. Kind of "Pogoed" out of the whip-through to double-pike. Nice ending 2.5.

Marcia Newby- Great vault, almost stuck. 9.9, I believe. Good bars, high thatchev.

Courtney McCool- Throwing full-thatchevs in warm-ups, and caught a couple of geingers and overshoots.

Lauren Sessler- Great bars set, to stand in for G.

Lauren Johnson- Great vault warm-ups was sticking the half ons to double pikes left and right. Ditto with the interview thing.

Tiffany Tolnay- No 1.5 yurchenko. Fell on overshoot on bars. Nice, hit, beam set, her front tucks are looking better and better, good floor, deep in the double arabian. nice ending double pike.

Courtney Kupets- Gave me her AA rose. :) It was sweet. Nice vault, not stuck. Bars was good, didn't hit the overshoot handstand, step on double layout. Great beam, little wobble before the gainer full dismount. Nice floor, just a step back on double arabian.

Paige burns- No compete-eo.

Abby Stack- Good floor! Overrotated the triple a bit. Nice double full to front tuck.

So. Good meet overall.

2009-02-06T18:03:00.000-08:00

Thanks to Savannah for making He Kexin = 14's new profile picture.

I know it's wrong..BUUUUUUT.

2009-02-06T16:17:00.000-08:00

I feel like comparing collegiate gymnast to elite gymnasts. :p

Hilary Mauro & Shawn Johnson.

Their styles are practically the same. Great at Vault, Balance Beam & Floor, but struggle a bit on bars. Short, sweet, cute and nice. Also lack a bit in flexibility.

Hollie Vise & Shayla Worley.
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Self explanatory. Both are flexible, have back problems, did the needle scale on beam.

If you think of any others, give me a holler. I'll do a special Reader Edition..Collegiate/Elite Comparaison if I get 5 or more suggestions!

XOXO

- Mere ♥

Look at the pwnyness.

2009-02-06T07:25:00.000-08:00

My BFF made this for me:

Now is that not the coolest thing EVER?!
I lub it.
And I know this post isn't gymnastics-related, but deal with it. I lub my friends, so they deserve some He Kexin = 14 lub, too.

Carly Patterson to be inducted into USA Gymnastics HOF.

2009-02-05T08:53:00.000-08:00

— 2004 Olympic all-around champion Carly Patterson of Allen, Texas (women) is among the 2009 class of inductees for the USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame that USA Gymnastics announced today.The 2009 USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame luncheon and induction ceremony is scheduled for Friday, Aug. 14, as part of the USA Gymnastics National Congress and Trade Show in Dallas, which is held in conjunction with the 2009 Visa Championships. Ticket and other information on the luncheon and induction ceremony will be available at www.usa-gymnastics.org.

Here is a bit of bio on Carly. Again, I do not claim to own the following, all copyright (C) 2009 to USA Gymnastics.

Carly Patterson, women’s gymnastics. In 2004, Patterson became the first U.S. woman to win the Olympic all-around gold medal since Mary Lou Retton in 1984. She also claimed team and balance beam silver medals at the 2004 Olympic Games. At the 2003 World Championships, Patterson earned gold and silver medals, respectively, in the team and all-around events. She won U.S. titles in the all-around (tie) and floor exercise in 2004, and she was the 2002 U.S. junior all-around champion. Among the awards Patterson received in 2004 are: USA Gymnastics Co-Athlete of the Year, U.S. Olympic Committee SportsWoman of the Year and U.S. Sports Academy Female Athlete of the Year. In 2003, Patterson and her World Championships teammates were named the USOC’s Team of the Year. Patterson trained at WOGA in Plano, Texas, and was a member of the junior national team from 2000-03 and the senior national team from 2004-05. Patterson currently lives in Allen, Texas, and is pursuing a singing career. In 2006, she appeared on FOX’s television show Celebrity Duets. Her second single will be released in February 2009 and her CD will debut in April 2009.

Woot for Carly. :)

New Montage.

2009-02-03T14:09:00.000-08:00

Woot.

Watchy. :D

To Comment & Rate click HERE.

To Aspiring Gymnasts:

2009-02-02T13:36:00.000-08:00

Don't. Ever. Break. Your Foot.

Mine wasn't healing properly so my orthopedic surgeon got me in a cast. (It's red.) And if it doesn't heal I'll have to have surgery. To put a pin in the fracture.

So no breaking your feet. Please. I'd hate to see someone else go through what I am.

Kthnx.

(Red Cast. You can see my reindeer PJ's. lol.)

FB!

2009-01-31T14:49:00.000-08:00

Should I create a Facebook page for He Kexin = 14?

Take a vote:

No.
Make a page so we can become fans.
Make an account so we can become friends.
Make a group so we can join.

Vote vote vote it up.

Background Galore!

2009-01-31T11:12:00.001-08:00

Need a new Youtube background, or Myspace background?

Check out my new Gymn-Themed album. Thanks to Picnik, I've learned to edit backgrounds. Woot!

Here it is.

Just remember to give credit. ;)

Oh, and I'm not copying CCCam.

EDIT: Apparently the Photobucket account was private, but I changed it. :)

New link: Nightflare514 Backgrounds!

I hate him.

2009-01-29T16:44:00.000-08:00

So, anybody else getting tired of this Johnyawuncar1 dude who comments on Alicia videos making statements like the one below?

Sacramones performance was terrible during the olympics and was the reason why Team USA lost. With that kind of performance and still made it to the national team, I wonder how many coaches did she have to sleep with in order to get the spot. Her ass is so fat, I think her ass is at least 20 pounds extra compared to her teammates. That was why she brought down Team USA. Stupid bitch should go to Jenny Craig. Alicia will go down as the worst, and most disgraceful gymnast in Olympic history.

We need to do something about this. Alicia Sacramone does NOT deserve the load of bull crap he's giving her, and if she ever reads these comments, then she's going to have her feelings seriously hurt. We need to let Alicia know that she's still our idols, and an ah-mazing gymnast!

Go, Leesh! :)

Gah.

2009-01-28T20:09:00.000-08:00

Please please please PLEASE x 10000000000000 do not go see Marley & Me.

It is torture.

I cried so hard. I've had to put down a dog, and they end is just....omg. Don't go see it. It's horrible.

And the people in front of me turned around and laughed at me for crying.

I know it's not gymnastics related, but I wanted to vent.

Thanks.

P.S.- I'm still crying. And it's been 2 hours since the movie got out.

Tens Galore!

2009-01-24T12:54:00.000-08:00

Two fo you, Courtney Kupets! You go, Courtney Kupets! (If you've never seen Mean Girls, you would have no idea what I'm talking about. Go on Youtube and look up Glen Cocoa.)

The Rundown. Comin' At cha commercial free on He Kexin.14 FM, Your top station for the best Gymnastics News! (Please forgive me. I've been in an SUV for five hours driving home from Athens.)

Courtney Kupets- TWO. TENS. I personally thought that after she didn't stick her vault it would all go downhill from there, but she pulled out two perfect routines that were deffo awarded. 'Nuff said. Oh, floor should have been a Ten, as well.

Paige Burns- STAYED ON BEAM! YAY, PAIGEY!

Tiffany Tolnay- Pulled a Shawn Johnson american cup vault only without falling. (And it being a 1.5, not a 2.5) Bars was good, step on double front dismount. Almost straddled beam on front tuck. Wobbled going into dismount. Good floor, cross-step on 2.5 to front tuck.

Abby Stack- Floor was good. Not much else to say for her. Didn't compete bars.

Grace Taylor- Step on bars dismount. Beam- 9.975, should have been a Ten. I swear to gosh, that was a perf routine.

Marcia Newby- Good vault, large step. Okay bars, step on dismount, really needs to point her toes on her Stalder immedieate Thatchev.

Courtney McCool- Was warming up bars, throwing giant-full thatchevs!!!! :O

Lauren Johnson- Exhibitoned on Vault, didn't get her score. But it looked nice!!!

Lauren Sessler- Competed vault, okay, large step.

Hilary Mauro- Everything looked good except for her Double Arabian on Floor. She landed it, and flew out of bounds.

Cassidy McComb- Side stepped the 1.5 Yurchenko. Exhibtioned on bars. Beam was nice. DID THE FULL-IN ON FLOOR!!! Chest down. Put hands down on last pass, double back-tuck, but we're proud because of the effort of going for the full-in and making it. :D

Amber Trani- Exhibtioned on Beam, falling twice. Poor Amby. :(

Gina Nuccio- Competed on Bars, hit her Giant Full Geinger Bail combo. Way to go, G!

Kathryn Ding- Competed bars, Hit her pak!!!! Wahoo, Kat!

Mariel Box- El O No Compete-eo. (That's my lovely el espeanol.)

EDIT:

Picturesss.

All copyright (C) 2009 to GeorgiaDogs.com-Offical Athletic Site For The University Of Georgia.

Courtney Mid-Thatchev.

Courtney Kupets-Perfecto Ten-o on Barsy Bars.

She fought to stick that landing, I'm telling ya.

More Tenness. It. Was. Deafening in there.

Lol, Grace. She makes me smile.

So. Bye for now.

No. 4 Gymdogs Defeat No. 3 Utah Utes.

2009-01-20T13:40:00.000-08:00

Utah made a road-trip to Athens to visit the feared UGA Gymdogs.

Here is the run down, again going from Seniors to Freshmen.

Paige Burns- Fell on beam, on the same leap connection as the last home meet. I personally think that she is really just subsituting for McCool while she's out.

Abby Stack- Had a rough warmup on bars, she missed her blind change in her first warm-up routine, slipping and was grabbing the bar with only one hand, and flew off the bar and landed in a left split. Looked like she was about to cry. Hit her Blind Change to Jeager connection in competetion, though, great comeback from the warmups. Floor was great, a little bit under-rotated on the Triple, but otherwise an ah-mazing routine.

Courtney Kupets- 9.975 Vault. No explanation needed there. Bars should have been a 10, like I said before at WV. I love her Shaposh so much. Beam was nice and solid intill the dosmount, where she missed her connection, and almost fell on her gainer layout, step out. Floor was great, I almost thought she was about to fall on her butt after the Double arabian. Pulled in on the shushanova(sp?) great ending double pike.

Tiffany Tolnay- Hit her 1.5 yurchenko..YAYYYY GO TIFFY! Scored a 9.9! Bars was good, pulled in on the Jeager, and that was really the only deduction except for a step on the dismount. 9.9. Beam was alright, hit her straddle jump back tuck connection, but almost fell on front tuck. Stuck dismounters. Not sure the score. Great floor, double arabian was ah-mazing.

Grace Taylor- Bars scored a 9.925, would have been a ten had she not struggled on one of her stalders. Beam was good, had a tiny wobble on the gainer layout following her leg-up full turn. Stuck dismount. 9.9. Good floor, saved the whip through to double pike from going out of bounds. Same goes for the double tuck. Made the 2.5!! Yeah, Gracie!

Courtney McCool- Still out. Boo. We talked about how much we hate our crutches. *NodNod* It was funny.

Marcia Newby- She really needs to pint her toes. I know she is pointing them, but it doesn't really look like it. :/ And get her leaps up. She was great, almost stuck vault, nice Thatchev and good opening double pike on floor.

Lauren Sessler- Had good vault. Same as usual.

Hilary Mauro- Stepped on the vault, yurchenko full. Great beam set, I really am falling in love with her front areial straddle jump connection. Hit her double arabian on floor!!! Go Hilly!

Caissidy McComb- Nice 1.5 Yurchenko, teeny hop. Missed a twisting jump connection. Floor was cool, she upgraded her last 1.5 to front tuck to a front pike.

Kat Ding- Exhibtioned on bars. Hit the pak. Woo, Kitty Kat! Way to go!

Mariel Box- Out.

Amber Trani- Did not compete. Back must still be irritating her.

Gina Nuccio- Competed bars and hit the gienger/overshoot connection. Woot!

So, that's all.
I got a picture with the big stuffed animal bulldog thingy! That was cool.

Bleh.

2009-01-18T06:08:00.001-08:00

So, depending on whether my grand-parent's computer is fixed or not (It was busted the last time I went to a Gymdog meet.) I might not be on 'till Saturday. We're staying throughout the whole week so we don't have to all the way back on Tuesday, then turn right back around again on Thursday. It'd be a waste of gas/time/money.

Buuuuuuut, I'm taking my trusty notebook (Haha, Blue's Clues!) with me to the meet, and getting everybody's scores and taking notes on their routines in said "Trusty Notebook."

So that way y'all get an in-depth report. :o

Okay, well, I'm going to goooo.

Please enjoy the picture below. I find it scary/hilarious.

Am I A Genuis or Extremely Delusional?

2009-01-17T14:02:00.001-08:00

You tell me. Be brutal.

So, I'm going through my "Aww, I remember The Lion King" phase, and I'm reliving all of the songs.

I was thinking that "Love Will Find A Way" from Lion King 2 would be a PERFECT song for a Nastia/Valeri montage. I know it's about Kiara/Kovu's relationship or whatever, but they lyrics are perfect.

Watch the video embedded below and gime some feedback, if ya don't mind. :)

Makes me tear up, lol.
:'(

Nastia Liukin Wheaties Box CONFIRMED.

2009-01-17T11:45:00.001-08:00

Go! Go now! Well, actually wait 'till AFTER you read this awesome blog. :P

So, The Nastia Liukin Wheaties Box IS out in stores right now..I bought mine today.

So, Go Get 'Em!

Samantha Peszek has the coolest hair ever.

2009-01-14T16:25:00.001-08:00

Seriously. Her hair is always badass.

Check out these examples.

(Example 01. I wanna be in Snoop Dogg's posse cornrows.)

(Example 2. I love this!!)

(Example 3. Maze o' Hair.)

(Example 4. Braidssss. [=)

(Example 6, which I refer to as the "Liukin Lump".)

(Example 7. Let Go of my Ego Waffles-I mean, Hair! Those brads are so cool, they look like waffles.)

(Example 8. More waffleness.)

That's all I can find, but if you find for badass hair pictures, give me a holla.
You know my Youtube URL.

Oh, Alicia.

2009-01-13T10:57:00.001-08:00

Anyone else seen what she's been up to?

She was on Costas Now on HBO, to support Nastia, who was being interviewed and looked FABOOLOOSE. The program had 45 seconds left, so Bob Costas (I dislike him a LOT.) said "Hey, let's show her throwing a punch!" so they showed the video embedded below.

LOL. Makes me crack up every time. "ALEEEESHA!"

She was on E!'s Golden Globe pre-show, and once again brought out her 'Fierceness'. (Thanks Tyra, for that word!) There was a tad bit of information about it on USA Gymnastics which I will post here for all you lazy people (Like me.) who don't want to have to go to a whole other website.

Alicia Sacramone of Winchester, Mass., was on E! for the Golden Globes Sunday, Jan. 11. Sacramone appeared on "Countdown to the Red Carpet" airing from 4-6 p.m. ET.

Sacramone's duties included helping a fan get a fantasy makeover.

The Golden Globes, the first big Hollywood awards show of the season, aired on Sunday night at 8:00 p.m. ET on NBC.

Picture attached to article:

(Photo Copyright John Cheng)

She's out there really doing what she loves (Not that she didn't love gymn.)

P.S.- Have you heard That Leesh and Nastia joke about opening a clothing boutique together, because Alicia wants to major in fashion, and Nastia wants to major in bussiness? Haha, that is so cute! I'd shop there everyday! :)

Laytah.

I hate my computer.

2009-01-11T12:15:00.000-08:00

So. I can't upload videos because I still have sucky dialup and the videos of the Gymdogs are each about 89.0 mb, which is like uploading a nine minute montage.

Boo.

Dawgs Win...

2009-01-10T17:23:00.002-08:00

...Barely. Seriously. A 145 against West Virginia? I love every collegiate team, and I think they're amazing, but WV just isn't..well. Later. Anyways, I'll give y'all run-throughs of the meet, starting with the Seniors, going to the Freshies. Tomorrow is Sunday, so I'll post to buttload of videos I got from the meet onto Youtube. I'm actually uploading Courtney K's bars right now.

So, here we go:

Seniors

(Abby. Paige. Courtney. Tiffany.)

Paige Burns- In her only event, Beam, she fell on a cat leap connected to a switch leap thingy that I'm not sure the name is. I got the video, but my stupid camera cut off after her fall, so I will not be uploading it.

Abby Stack- Fell on her straddle Jeager, right onto her stomach. Got a video of that, but once again, stupid camera cut off after the fall. (What the...?!) Floor = Awesome. Captured that on video, def will be posting that!!

Tiffany Tolnay- Vault had a large step, but she overcame her fear, so GO TITO!! Videotaped it, planning on uploading. Bars was ah-mazing, scored a 9.90, totally posting that. Beam, she missed a back tuck following a jump series, Suzanne did not look pleased. Of course, my camera wouldn't work, but Oh, well. Didn't compete floor, probably to protect the shoulder.

Courtney Kupets- Two Words; She's. Back. Vault was freaking scary, she landed with her left (Or right?) leg straight, looked like she popped a kneecap or something. Bars was phenomenal, should have gotten a Ten. One judge actually did give her a 10.0, but she got a 9.975. Beam was good, almost fell on a full turn, I got video, but *Shocker* my camera didn't work 'till her flight series. Floor was nerve racking to wait for, her being the anchor and all, but she nailed every tumbling pass for a 9.950. (Woot.) Got it ALL on tape, def uploading every single bit. :D

Juniors

(Grace. Courtney. Lauren. Lauren. Marcia.)

Grace Taylor- Amazing beam, almost stuck the dismount, scored herself a 9.825. Had a great floor routine, except for stumbling and putting her hands down on her final tumbling pass, a RO BHS 2.5 twist. Got it all on tape....stupid camera didn't get her floor 'till right before her first tumbling pass! Rawr. >:o

Courtney McCool- Out with a stress fracture...boo! We're crutch buddies, lol.

Lauren Sessler- Good vault, large step backwards. Exhibitioned on bars, something was off on her mount, and she over arched causing her to kill he momentum, and then she had to jump down. Double layout dismount was very nice.

Lauren Johnson- Did not compete vault at this meet, but will hopefully step up for the GymDogs next weekend at LSU.

Marcia Newby- What is with her step on vault?! She's basically like Samantha Peszek, lol! She is sooo powerful on it, though. It's 'mazin'. Bars looked nice, double layout was fantabulous. Floor was phenomenal, 9.6, she had a cool floor routine. My personal fave being her whip, double full. :) My camera was acting up during all her routines, which really annoyed me.

Sophmores

(Cassidy. Hilary.)

Cassidy McComb- Vault was good!!! :D Did not compete bars. Beam was great, I realllly wanted to get it on my camera, but, wow, what a surprise, it wouldn't work. She did the moonwalk. Nikki Childs *THE* moonwalker was there, and her face was priceless. She was like, "Psh. Yeah. I invented that." Floor was so cool! I thought she was upgrading to a full-in for her first pass, but I guess it's not meet ready yet, so she opened with a double pike. Got vault and floor, will upload. :)

Hilary Mauro- Leadoff on vault, stuck a Yurchenko full. First routine of the whole season..must be a good sign! Bars was great, she landed on the edge of the mat on her dismount (Double Layout) and was kind of forced to take a step otherwise some ankle problems could have come from that. Beam was nice front tuck, extremely high & solid. Floor: plopped on her butt on her RO double arabian a la Sammy Peszek. Recovered nicely and finished up strong. Videotaped floor. You can guess why I didn't get any other routines.

Freshies
(Amber. Gina. Kathryn. Mariel.)

Amber Trani- Did not compete..back injury?

Gina Nuccio- Performed bars, did not do anything else, due to a rolled ankle, according to Doug Mcavvin(sp?). (Talked to him after the meet.) She connects a full piroutte to a Geinger straight into a bail. Full in dismount- Stuck. Videotaped it, TBA when uploaded.

Kathryn (Kat) Ding- Competed bars. Had a nice full pirouette to Thatchev. Pulled in on her Pak Salto, a la Nastia Liukin, and almost landed in a front support, and had to do a couple extra lowbar swings and whatnot to get herself back into the groove. Pulled in on her Double Layout dismount. Got that on my camera, dunno I I'll upload.

Mariel Box - Out with a *Something* crucial ligament tear. Somewhere in the knee..no not an ACL.

Well. We've discovered that Georgia doesn't look as good as expected, but is still ah-mazing..and that I need a new camera.

More Gymnastia.

2009-01-08T11:02:00.000-08:00

Don't get offended by the Shawn Johnson part. We thought it'd be funny. We both actually don't care much for her, but we do think she's amazinggggg, and that she deserved every bit of her gold, and she deserved everything she's won in her career, and we do hope she goes on to 2012, because she's awesome to watch. :D

This is actually about Nationals, lol, obviously it's fictional. I skipped a couple of parts from the opening chapter.

"Do the dismount again," Valeri stated flatly, keeping his focus on the beam. "That was weak..." Nastia pushed herself back up onto the beam, throwing her arms and head back as she repeated the same dismount for the eleventh time in a row. She was halfway through her rotation when she landed...on her butt. Valeri groaned. "Come on already! That was high, it was real high, but what good does it do you if you land on your butt? Again." It was Nastia's turn to groan as she pushed herself back up onto the beam again. "The first day of Nationals is tomorrow, Nastia. If you don't concentrate, you won't medal. Do you want to medal?" Valeri asked his daughter, placing his hands on his hips. "Of course I do," Nastia retorted, midair, before landing her dismount and only taking a slight step. "Again." Nastia suddenly realised what was at stake. There were new seniors coming into the playing field, and she didn't want them to take it all away from her. She climbed up onto the beam, ready for another go at the dismount, a new energy filling inside her. She hurdled into a roundoff, set high into the twist, and felt herself...stick. "Amazing!" Valeri rejoiced so loudly, that the whole gym could hear. "That was just perfect, babygirl!" Nastia couldn't hide her smile as she walked away from beam, to grab some water and grip up. She felt ready for Nationals. She was prepared, focused, and determinated. Taking a deep breath going into her first bar routine, after warming up and getting conditioning out of way, she executed the first kip, cast handstand beautifully. Making her way to the highbar, she heard her father talking to her. "Are you excited?" he asked, to which Nastia replied with a very exasperated "Yes". Spotting his daughter on the Pak Salto, a transition from the high bar to the low bar, he had a smile on his face, noticing the attitude change in Nastia.
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The alarm sounded at six thirty in the morning and Nastia woke up with a start. It was all she could do no to leap out of bed. It was finally the day of nationals…the day Nastia would show the new seniors who was in charge. She quickly changed into her leo and slipped a pair of shorts and a loose fitting t-shirt over it. “Are you ready?” Valeri asked, placing an arm around her neck and kissing her temple. “More than ready…I’m pumped!” Nastia replied, jumping up and down like Rocky before entering the ring. Valeri laughed at his daughter’s eagerness. “Alright then…grab your bag and lets head out.” As they entered the arena, Nastia felt the butterflies start to flitter in her stomach. She always got nervous before a major meet, but she loved it all the same. As she looked around for Alicia, one of the best vaulters on the US team and Nastia’s best friend, she spotted a small, midget-like girl standing off to the side with a Chinese man. “Who’s that?” She turned to ask her father.
“Newcomer…Shawn Johnson. She’ll be challenging your record.” Nastia laughed. “Pfft…crazy daddy say what?” Valeri shrugged and laced his arm around his daughter’s neck, steering her over to Marta and the rest of the girls. Nastia turned around and looked at Shawn Johnson one last time before proceeding to the floor for warmups. She'd crush her, big time, no doubt. She stuck every landing during warm-ups, and, feeling rather confident, proceeded to the first rotation…vault. “Concentrate, Nast. Go for the goal and stick the landing,” Valeri whispered encouragingly in his daughter’s ear. Nastia nodded once, lining up at the start line. She waited for the light to turn green before taking off down the runway. In her side vision, she saw Shawn sitting on the bench, next to Alicia, HER best friend. What was she thinking trying to take her friends? She pushed the thought aside as she pressed her hands into the ground and sprung up onto the vault, doing a one and a half twisting yurchenko, before digging her heels into the ground to stick the landing. She had done it…she had nailed her most difficult apparatus. Smiling, she made her way back towards Valeri and jumped into his arms. He wrapped her in a warm embrace. “Great job, baby, very well done. Get your grips on.” Nastia nodded and grabbed her grip bag, putting them on and chalking up. She sat down on the bench, waiting for the gymnasts to move to the next rotation, bars. Finally, it was her turn again.
She smiled towards her father before making her way back onto the podium and swinging onto the low bar. She repeated her skills to herself in her head. Stalder shoot to high bar, cast to handstand, inbar stalder ½ to L, Ono, Healy, Gienger, piked stalder, Tkatchev, Pak salto, toe shoot to the high bar. When she reached for the bar, it wasn’t there…she grasped nothing but air and felt herself falling…and then she felt the mat beneath her. She curled her legs up, pulling them to her. Had this seriously happen? Did she really fall on her best routine? She had, indeed. Frustrated and upset, she hopped back up to finish her routine, taking a step on the dismount. She was not pleased. She stalked off the podium, pushing her father away when he went to embrace her. “Shoot!” she exclaimed, throwing her grip back on the bench. “It’s alright, you’ll come back,” Valeri offered, but to no avail. “Leave. Me. Alone.” Nastia screeched out through gritted teeth, pushing past him once again. Focusing and mentally performing her routines in her head, Nastia didn't notice the up-and-coming Shawn Johnson on beam, executing all the big tricks, but with splits lacking. Nastia felt her father's hand gently tap her back, urging her to get a move on up to the podum, her turn to shine and dance on the four inches that beckoned her. When she stood up, Nastia felt a little bit dizzy, but she didn't think anything of it. Taking deep breaths, she walked up the stairs leading to the podium, her father encouragin her in silence, his looks were enough to push her the extra mile. The judge seemed to take forever to salute, signaling Nastia to begin her routine. The championship was still in her grasp, thanks to a immensly high start value (A-score) on bars, even though she had missed. Nastia nodded to the judges, the people she hated most, and mounted the beam with a press handstand. Once fully upright on the beam, she took a step into a front aerial, a blind landing, and went straight into her flight series, a back hanspring step out, layout step out, landing it with no wobbles. She continued on, in the routine, thinking positive thoughts. She had two major skills left, an Onodi, wolf full series, and her signature move, a front aerial to land in a scale. And, of course, her famous Liukin Quad as a dismount. Nastia danced to her position, ready for the Onodi. She reached back and hit the beam..hard. Falling to the ground, she heard collective gasps, an "Oh, Crap." from Alicia, and a laugh. She had a hunch who the laugh came from. She wanted to show the girl just how she could finish up strong. Climbing back onto the beam, Nastia had a terrible headache, and was ready to just sleep. Although, She executed the Liukin perfectly, and stuck the dismount. Walking back to her father, he had a proud smile on his face. "I'm proud you got back up and did it, babygirl." He told her, kissing her cheek. Nastia shook her head and leaned into her father, laying her head on his shoulder and taking deep breaths. She was even dizzier than before, and she felt like the walls were closing in on her. She gasped harder for breath, clinging onto her father's shirt. "Daddy...I can't breathe!" She exclaimed, panicking. "I can't breathe, I can't breathe!" Nastia paused, letting out a moan into her father's shoulder. "I'm fine, Daddy. I'm good." Nastia turned and walked away, muttering to herself. "I can do this. I'm going to show them I'm here, and I'm going to fight." Valeri looked at his daughter, very concerned. "Maybe you should sit down for a bit...drink some water," he added, handing her her water bottle. "Try and relax, sweetheart." He patted her shoulder and sat down next to her. Nastia sipped slowly at the water before putting it down beside her. Nastia sighed, starting to run through her floor routine in her mind, hitting every skill, and hitting all the dance elements. Pausing in the middle to watch Shawn Johnson, she thought if it was possible to beat her. Being a math whiz, she added up A-scores, and Average B-scores, and came to the conclusion that it was possible, if she hit, to snatch the lead away from Shawn. Just then, Shawn finished her routine, stood up, and waved to the crowd. As she walked off the floor, she didn't notice she was walking off of the podium, not using the stairs. She toppled off, but popped right back up again, looking humiliated. Nastia bit her lip to keep from laughing, but failed miserably. She let out a laugh so loud, it echoed throughout the entire arena. She covered her mouth quickly and sat down, trying to play like nothing had happened. She closed her eyes and invisioned her preformance, perfect, flawless, and getting the highest score possible. "Nastia, you're up," Valeri stated, tapping her lightly. She stood up and made her way up the stairs, posistioning herself on the floor, she waited for the buzzer to sound, signaling the beginning of her routine. She put on her best glare, for effect, and preformed to the best of her ability, landing her first pass flawlessly. Entering the corner for her second tumbling past, the first of 4, Nastia realized that she didn't have a high enough A Score. She thought to herself, "What the heck? Might as well try!" and ran powerfully into a attempted quadruple twist...she placed her hand behind her as she fell to the ground, and heard a sickening *CRACK*. Regaining her composure quickly, Nastia continued with the routine, wincing in pain whever she applied weight to the wrist. She decided she couldn't even go for the third tumbling pass, and just did a switch ring leap and straddle full down the corner. She realised if she could still make her last pass, she'd have silver. Nastia was ready. Dancing to the corner, the room started to close in on her again. She ignored that and the shooting pains in her wrist. She ran and did a roundoff and didn't even try to twist, she was too exaughsted. She came down on her neck, and lost consiousness. Valeri stood on the sidelines, waiting for her to get up. “Come on, Nast, shake it off!” He shouted onto the podium. She didn’t move. “Nastia!” he shouted, but still no response. As it occurred to him what had happened, he leaped onto the podium and kneeled beside his only daughter, stroking her hair lightly. “Paramedic!” he shouted over his shoulder, as two men were making their way up the stairs. “Squeeze my hand if you can hear me,” he instructed, stroking Nastia’s cheek. There was still no response. 8 hours later, in the hospital, Nastia awakened to flowers, and a wheel of cheese. Blinking more than she needed to, she glanced at her family, and mumbled something under her breath. "Dad." She said, looking at her father. "Yes?" Valeri asked, tears in his eyes. "Did I get Gold?". Valeri started to cry openly, looking at Anna for help. She obviously didn't know where she was, and only thought that getting gold mattered. "Sweetheart, no." Valeri said. "You have a serious concussion, and we thought you were in a coma, and sweetie.." He started, but his words were lost, as Nastia fell back asleep. Nastia woke up the next morning slowly, blinking a few times before actually opening her eyes. Gazing around the room, she saw her mother asleep in the chair next to her bed. Her father wasn't in the room. She was confused. Where was she? She tried to remember what had happened the previous day...Nationals...that..new girl... her fall on bars...but what else? "Mama?" she asked in her mom's direction. Anna awoke from a horrible dream, looking at her daughter, "Yes?" Anna inquired, wiping the sleep out of her eyes. "Wha-" Nastia paused, closing her eyes and praying that the dizziness she was feeling would go away. "What..what happened, Mom?" Anna let out a small sob but quickly covered it up, trying to smile. "You fell on floor...on your neck. It wasn't pretty from what I hear. You lost consciousness, we couldn't get you to wake up. You've been sleeping for awhile." Anna placed her hand against Nastia's forehead and then stroked her hair. "How are you feeling?" Nastia squinted, the lights in the room suddenly too bright. "Um.." she stuttered, " my head hurts really bad..." She coughed and then reached up to rub her eyes. "And my neck and back are really sore." Anna breathed a sigh of relief. "You gave us quite a scare, Nastie." The concered mother told her only child. Anna thought that she was glad that she hadn't been there to see the accident, she was shopping outside the arena, but after the night of restlessness, she wanted to have been there, thinking the worst, that it could have been the last time she saw Nastia. Nastia bit her lip, "I'm really sorry, mama. I didn't mean to scare you." She winced as she tried to move. "Owww." She looked over to see a bunch of tubes coming out of her wrist and arm. "What are all these for? I don't like them." She tugged on the IV connected to her hand. Anna shot a look at the various tubes and fluids being transferred into Nastia's bloodstream. "You were severely dehydrated after vault, which probably caused you to fall on beam, which led you to the concussion, that made you think you were invincible during your floor routine. And now..this." Anna finished the explanation with a shaky voice. Nastia tried to lift her arm to point. "Ow" she muttered. "What's that?" She asked her mom, gesturing with her eyes towards the cheese. "I'm not hungry.." Anna chuckled as she followed her daughter's gaze. "That's from your friend Shawn. She thought you might get hungry." Nastia rolled her eyes. "She's not my friend...and why in the world would I want cheese?" Her mother rolled her eyes right back at her. "Well, it was a nice gesture of her to think about you. Doesn't that count for something?" Nastia chose to ignore the last part. "Can I go home now?" "You will not go home." Valeri said, in a stern voice as he entered the hospital room. "But you certantly can give me a hug." He continued with a smile. Nastia grimaced in pain as he gently embraced her, but enjoyed having him there, none the less. She looked up at him, laying back down on the pillows. "Why not?" she asked, looking with pleading eyes. "Everything hurts and I just want to lay in my own bed and watch Gossip Girl. Besides, I want these stupid needles out of me," she said, scrunching up her face and trying to take the IV out again. "Anastasia!" Anna emxclaimed, strenly. "You will not go home yet!" Valeri nodded a thanks to his wife and turned to face Nastia. "She's right. We need to make sure you're fully recovered before returning home." He sighed. "And, look." He pointed, "There's a TV here. You can watch Gossip Girl right in your bed. And stop fiddling with the IV's!" "But dadddy, it's not the same!" Nastia cried, "I'm in pain, and I want at least something to go my way today!" Valeri looked sternly at her. "They are taking care of you here. We will go home when they say you can go home. Now, enough." He took the remote from her and flipped it on, turning it to the WB. Nastia pouted. "Gossip Girl doesn't come on for another 2 hours and I'm bored /now/," she whined, still nonchalantly trying to pull the tubes out. "I hate it here, it smells like a bathroom." Anna concealed a snort of laughter, and Valeri glanced at her, and gave her the signal. "Nastie, baby, we brought your two favorite things here, besides us, of course!" Nastia looked at her. "What is it?" she demanded, grumpily. "It's Rex and Lexi!" Her father exclaimed, not being able to hold in his excitement. "VALERI." Anna called as she flashed him the famous 'Liukin Look'. "You weren't supposed to tell!" Anna growled. "Sorry, bae." He shrugged, walking towards the door. "The hospital made an exception, since you're such a good athlete and whatnot." Valeri opened the door, and all of the sudden. "What the...?" He said. IT'SSSS SHAWNY CHEEESE! It was the same newcomer that had defeated Nastia at the meet just 24 hours ago. "I'm here to help you get better, did you like my cheese, didja, huh huh huh?!" The little muchkin bounded around the room, hyper as could be. Nastia held her head in her hands. "I already have a headache...I'm not really up for visitors. I'll see you later... okay?" She tried to sound as polite as possible. "Where are Rex and Lexi?" she asked, looking at her father. "And the cheese was uh...great, Shawn...thanks... a lot." Shawn hopped out of the room, screaming goodbye to everyone she could find, then Nastia threw her extra pillow at her, causing Shawn to topple over. "Hehehe, you funnaaay, my sista!" Shawn said, going all ghetto. Nastia rolled her eyes, and asked again, "Where are Rex and Lexi?" Valeri's walked out into the hall and searched up and down. "Well, I'll be..." He giggled. "Anna come see this.." Anna got up and began walking towards the door. "I want to see!" Nastia echoed, trying to push herself out of bed. She heard her back crack and collapsed back down onto the pillows, groaning. Anna laughed from the doorway. "Wow," she chuckled. Nastia started to whine. "I wannna see!" She was going to get her way somehow..she HATED secrets. And nobody around her was smart enough to keep secrets from her. Her dad, Valeri, pulled out his digital camera and started taking pictures. "Come show me!" Nastia urged her parents. Valeri made his way back into the room as slowly as possible, just to annoy Nastia. Nastia glared, using the look her mother had first perfected and she had inherited. "Hurry. Up." she demanded, tapping her fingers on the side of the bed. Valeri chuckled and sped up slightly. He placed the camera in front of Nastia, still laughing. "Oh. Wow." Nastia murmured with a laugh. "I guess Rex was a girl all along." Anna exclaimed, with a wide smile. Valeri laughed, and went out into the hallway to retrieve on of the puppies. He brought in a ting black female and said, "Babygirl, name her whatever you want. She's yours." Nastia looked up at him, taking the puppy in her arms. "Really?! Aww." She held the puppy close to her, stroking it's tiny head. " I'll name her... hmm." She stopped to think. "Lola," she smiled. "she looks like a Lola too!" Valeri grinned. "Now, if you keep her, you do realize..." Nastia waited for him with baited breath. "...I get to hold her, too." He finished with a grin.

Excerpt Copyright (C) 2008 Megan (Name withheld for safety) and Meredith (Name withheld for safety), All plot lines, story titles and characters portrayed are property of Megan and Meredith.

New Montage! (:

2009-01-05T07:56:00.000-08:00

My first montage of the New Year! Observe below.

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Mere ♥

Gymnastia

2009-01-03T12:43:00.000-08:00

So, my friend Megan and I were extremely bored, so we decided to write a book/story about Nastia and her life. Here's the first part. We have almost 9 pages so far..woot. I'll post the whole thing here when we're done with it.

Gymnastia
Written By:
Megan
and
Meredith

“But Daddyyyy…” she whined, pouting as best she could while holding her handstand, “I’ve been up here for ten minutes!” Valeri shook his head, turning away from his daughter. “Fine then, give up. Go ahead, quit. Right now, other gymnasts are getting better…better than you. But if you have your heart set on it, quit right now.” Groaning, she released her grip on the high bar, plopping down and landing perfectly on two feet. "I could barely feel anything anymore…the blood was rushing to my head…I couldn’t breathe!” Valeri rolled his eyes, disregarding his daughter’s comment almost entirely. “You breathe through your nose, not your mouth. Enough with the excuses! I know you can do this, you’re just being lazy.” Doing her best to maintain her composure, Nastia simply stared at her father before stomping off towards the office, slamming the door at Valeri as she did so. Valeri softened his expression to look his daughter straight in the eye. "Please... don't make all this work for nothing. I can't go through that again...especially not with you." " I love your confidence in me..." Nastia retorted. "Vanessa was afraid of you, if that's who you're referring to." "A great coach has to be feared, not loved." Valeri came back with a slight smirk in his eyes. Nastia turned to face him, glaring. "A great father has to be behind his daughter, no matter what." Nastia shot back at him, crossing her arms."In the gym, I am your coach. At home with Anna, I am your father and everything else is left behind." Valeri stated. "But, don't you get it yet?!" Nastia exclaimed, dropping her grips onto the blue padded floor. "You're not there for me at home! If I make one mistake here", she gestured at the gym, waving her arms, "Then you DON'T leave it behind. You just want to loom on mistakes. Dad, I miss when gymnastics was fun." Nastia finished, walking out of the gym, tears welling in her eyes, replaying what she had just said in her mind. Valeri sighed, following her out the door. "Nastia, get back in here. We need to talk about this, you can't just run away from me like that." Nastia laughed sarcastically and kept walking, kicking the tire on her father's SUV as she passed it. "You're full of crap, Dad. I'm not perfect, I'm horrible, I get it. I'm the biggest disappointment in your life, you've made that clear." she said through silent tears. "And you can have your damn convertable back, too." Nastia turned around and told her father. "I don't want to be associated with you." Nastia walked down the sidewalk, ignoring her father's calls telling her to come back. "They didn't even want me in gymnastics in the first place." Nastia thought to herself, wondering why she ever pursued the sport. When she arrived home, she saw that the mail had arrived. She saw a note for her as she rifled through all the bills. After running up the stairs to her room and cuddling her cat, Goldy, she opened the letter. Dear Nastia, it read. I think you're an amazing gymnast and that you really are an inspiration to every young gymnast. You always have beautiful artistry in everything you do, which really helps improve the sport of gymnastics while it's focused on difficulty. I wanted to tell you that I'm one of your biggest fans. Bye! Love, Haley. Nastia read the letter 2 more times, and then finally folded it, up tears welling in her eyes. "I can't give this up." She remembered the love of the sport from when she wanted to sleep in her leotard, thinking it would give her great gymnastics dream. She remembered the fear, the frustration, and everything else in between that pushed her farther and farther to become who she was today. Nastia Liukin. Elite Gymnast, Olympic Hopeful. She was going to do this. Nastia placed the letter on her desk and gathered her gym bag again. She tried to enter the gym as quietly as possible, hoping her father wouldn't hear her enter. She placed her bag against the wall and walked out onto the floor, playing her floor music in her head, she began to dance. She didn't bother to open her eyes and just let her body move her to where she belonged... on the floor, on the mat, doing what she loved most. she felt the stress of 14 years of hard work and dedication peel off as she continued the routine, unaware of her father watching from the office window. She finished with a quad twist and went to sit against the far wall, by the pit, pulling her knees up and resting her head against them. She felt her eyes begin to water again as she thought about all of the work and effort she put into the sport she loved so much. This was her life. Valeri approached his daughter slowly. Once he had reached her, he placed a hand on her back and began to rub. "You see it now, don't you babygirl. I do everything to motivate you. I love you more than anything in the world. I want you to achieve your goals, not mine." Valeri told his only daughter, with tears making their way towards the front of his eyes. "You can do whatever you want to do in the sport, babygirl." He told her, calling her her favroite pet name again. "Dream as far and wide as you want. Everything is within your reach. I'm just here to help you grasp it. This is all you." Nastia lifted up her head, and looked at her father. Words were not needed as the held each other in a tight embrace. "I'm sorry, Daddy." Nastia whispered, tears once again flowing steadily down her cheeks. "I didn't want to hurt you." Returning back to normal after they had talked for about 10 minutes, Nastia was ready to go. Calling to her father, she exclaimed, "Oh, Daddy, and by the way..." Valeri turned around to face his daughter. "I'm not doing conditioning." Nastia finished with a giggle, and ran off to do a front tuck into WOGA's pit.

Excerpt Copyright (C) 2008 Megan (Name withheld for safety) and Meredith (Name withheld for safety), All plot lines, story titles and characters portrayed are property of Megan and Meredith.

YAY! Somebody extremely awesomely awesome on Youtube likes me. :D

2008-12-28T13:31:00.000-08:00

Yayyy. Cccam likes me and calls me Dithy. :D

Butttt, Athlete065 even requested a montage from me! *Gasp* Which i just finished and I'm uploading while we speak..yay. I love her so much, I was afraid to talk to her, lol, she's amazing at montages, haha.

So. Just wanted to state that.

Let the subtitles begin.

2008-12-27T09:15:00.000-08:00

Aaaaannnd MileyCyrus990 (AKA Agatha, courtesy of Why I Don't Like Elfi Schlegel) has now moved on to me and my montages.

She threatened to steal mine, so now I'm putting the tacky "Watermark" subtitle thingy with my user name, Nightflare514, at the bottom of my montages. I was hoping I didn't have to do that. *Sigh*

So that's my explanation for all that hoopla.

The Greatest USA Gymnastics Moments of 2008.

2008-12-26T14:02:00.000-08:00

Since 2008 is coming to an end, and y'all are all throwing out your nasty-ass fruitcake (I tried one-They're soooo gross. No offense to anyone who likes them. but yeah. they're abnormal tasting.), and eating all your crimbo cookies (Word copyrighted to Tessaarooni and Cheese), read this...It's The Best USA Gymnastics Moments of 2008.

Nastia Liukin Wins The 2008 Tyson American Cup.

Nastia came back with a vengeance, after a dissapointing 2007 season, except for clinching the world title on beam, to triumph Shawn Johnson and Samantha Peszek, who rounded out the Top Three. Nastia had a step on her Vault, a one and a half twisting Yurchenko, A large, majorly deductible step on her high-difficulty bars dismount, A Blind change to Double Front with a half twist. Beam had very few errors, with only a hop on the dismount, Roundoff, 2.5 twist. Moving on to floor, Nastia stepped out of bounds on her first pass, but recovered quickly, to secure her spot as 2008 Tyson American Cup champion.

Shawn Johnson Defends Her National Title.

Shawn Johnson, the heavily favored sweetheart from West Dies Monies, IA., won the title of 2008 USA Champion for the second year in a row. In a leotard that looked like somebody had puked all over, she began on vault, looking nervous to perform her Amanar, the hardest vault in the world, which is a 2.5 twisting Yurchenko. Shawn landed the difficult vault, with a large step on the landing. Rotating to bars, with a solid performance, Johnson was ready to go to beam. With an almost no error on her beam performance, Shawn was in the position to win..all she needed to do was to stay on her feet on floor. There was a mishap with her music, which was the *BEEP* that usually comes on before a gymnast's floor music did not play for Shawn, leading her to walk off the floor. Starting the floor routine again, Everybody thought after the mishap, Shawn would not perform well. But, Johnson showed the world the true champion she is, and gave an all-out routine, with only a medium-sized error on her whip, Triple Twist. The deal was sealed. Shawn Johnson won her second consecutive National Championship and was ready to bring it on at Trials.

Chellsie Memmel Places Second All-Around at the 2008 US Olympic Trials.

Chellsie may have gotten silver, but to her, it felt like Gold. Coming back from a shoulder injury which required surgery, Chellsie gave her all at the Trials, with a rewarding second. A stuck vault, stuck bars dismount, and a stuck beam dismount, combined with a hit floor routine basically gave Chellsie a right to call herself a "Lock" for the 2008 US Olympic Team.

The USA Women's Gymnastics Team Obtains Silver.

It wasn't what the reigning team world champions were hoping for, but after injuries and mishaps, they came back to earn their right on the podium. Everyone basically knows that everyone did what they could do, but just lost focus at times. But a silver medal is something to be proud of.

Shawn Johnson Smiles Her Golden Grin, At Last.

After making a habit of winning silvers, and swallowing her disappointment, Shawn Johnson only had one more chance for a Olympic Gold medal until The Gymnastics Olympic Flame cartwheeled away. Johnson was under the weather, with stomach craps and a headache, but persevered anyways, forgetting about her ailments. Her prize: Her dream wrapped in a tiny gold circle. Extra special because it was this one shot, hit or miss. With a barely visible error on her flight series, and standing tuck full, and a small step on her dismount, Shawn Johnson gave the performance of a lifetime. Maybe she needs to get headaches more often?

And the Number One moment issssss.....

Nastia Liukin Is Crowned Queen Of Gymnastics.

To come back from multiple injuries, and win the Olympic All-Around gold exactly 20 years after her Father, Valeri Liukin had received two golds in his Olympic moments, made the Medal more oh-so-sweet than it already was. A disastrous 2007 national championship made people start to count her out, but she fought, and came back to become the Belle of the Beijing ball. The win overcame her so much, that she started to cry out of happiness, and created a tear-jerker for all Nastia fans who had been with her the whole time.

Congratz, Nast!

Look forward to another trimuphant year for USA Gymnastics in 2009 with new seniors, Rebecca Bross and Samantha Shapiro, not to mention nearly all of the Olympians back in action!

-Mere ♥

Merrrrrrry Crimbo

2008-12-25T11:11:00.000-08:00

Yolah, peoples.

Anyone get anything even in the slighest bit gymnastics related? THEN TELL ME IN THE COMMENTS SECTIONS!

I got that gymnastics game for the Nintendo DS. Gym rockets? Or something equally as cringe-worthy. And I got Gymdog season tickets. Whoop, Whoop. And a necklace with a "M" charm on it..for "Meredith", duh, and it can also stand for..um...yeah..uhh...Mastia Miukin. She's Nastia Liukin's doppleganger. ;-)

Well, from my crazy, nutty, gymn cyber family, (This is for you, Tessa, girly! And Tori.), MERRY GYMNASTICSMAS! (Or Christmas. Whatever.)

The greatest floor music of all time. IMO.

2008-12-20T13:34:00.000-08:00

I'm going through a 'I Want to download and listen to floor music on repeat' phaze, so this explains my randomness.

This is a list of my personal favorite floor music.
Feel free to agree/disagree and/or comment in the comment sections with your favorites.

(All from 2008)

Ksenia Semenova- It's just so cutesy..and cute. Fits her perfectly! She Puts on The Ritz, fo sho.
Jiang Yuyan- It's Chinese Hip-Hop..Sort of. It's just likeable.
Shawn Johnson- I love the classical feel to it, and the sirens in the middle.
Alicia Sacramone- It's plain awesome. I'm drawn to it.
Shayla Worley-It oozes personality, and has a great beat.
Lizzy Leduc- Cute. Adorable. 'Nuff Said.

And my top three aaaareee:

Sandra Izbasa
Nastia Liukin
Anna Pavlova.

They all are just so beautiful to hear.

Pictures From The Sneak Peek.

2008-12-14T09:44:00.000-08:00

[Grace's Flexibility move on beam.]

[Gina Nuccio, a freshmen on Beam.]

[Paige Burns on beam.]

[Amber Trani, a freshmen on Beam.]

[Paige Burns, one of the 4 seniors on bars.]

[Grace Taylor warms-up beam while Courtney Kupets executes a perfect handstand on bars in the background.]

[Tiffany Tolnay on Beam.]

[Abby as 'The Creature'.]

[Courtney "MC" McCool supports the Red Team.]

[Lauren Sessler helps Freshman Kathryn Ding perfect her hair.]

Nastia Liukin looks forward to training again, the international cup is underway, and a new website from me.

2008-12-14T09:26:00.000-08:00

An article about Nastia Liukin surfaced on International Gymnast read below:

"Winding up a year that included an all-around victory at the Olympic Games, several television appearances and a cross-country tour, American Nastia Liukin told IG this week that she is looking forward to training for 2009 competitions as she reflects on 2008.

"I'm not even sure where to start!" the 19-year-old Liukin said of her most memorable moments of 2008. "I have had the most amazing experience of my life these past few months, but that can't even compare to the actual Olympic Games!"

Following her all-around victory at the Olympics in August in Beijing, Liukin appeared on talk shows "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," "Late Night with Conan O'Brien," "The View," and "The Oprah Winfrey Show" and most recently acted on the hit drama "Gossip Girl." She traveled across the U.S. as a performer in the 37-city Tour of Gymnastics Superstars, after which she visited France and Russia.

"I went to Marseille, France, to do a gymnastics exhibition and then straight to Moscow for (2000 Olympic all-around champion) Alexei Nemov's annual Gala," said Liukin, a Moscow native who resides in Parker, Texas. "I got to stay in Moscow for a few days and visit friends and family as well. After Moscow, we decided to stop in Paris for a few days. I loved it! I have always wanted to go there, so I am so happy I finally got the opportunity."

This month, Liukin launched Nastia Gold, her own line of clothing with Vanilla Star Jeans. The five-time Olympic medalist is now traveling around the U.S. to promote her line. Earlier this week she was honored at a Dallas Mavericks basketball game, "which was a blast, as my dad and I are huge fans of the Mavs," she said.

Liukin's coach and father, Valeri Liukin, won the all-around silver medal, plus team and high bar gold medals, at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul. Her mother, Anna Kochneva Liukin, tied for the gold medal with clubs at the 1987 World Championships of rhythmic gymnastics.

This weekend, Liukin will attend the 13th annual Valeri Liukin Invitational that her club (WOGA in Plano) is hosting, followed by the Dallas Cowboys-New York Giants football game. "So, life has definitely been crazy, but so much fun," Liukin said.

Liukin will perform in the fourth annual Skating and Gymnastics Spectacular, Dec. 23 in South Dakota before heading home to Parker. "I will be home for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day," Liukin said. "Then for New Year's (Eve), it is a family tradition to spend it with our closest family and friends. I haven't missed a single New Year's with my family."

Although Liukin has not competed since Beijing, she plans to resume regular training in January and attend a U.S. team training camp at the end of January.

"As far as my competition plans go, I'm not quite sure," she said. "We are taking it one step at a time. I haven't been home too much, which is the one thing that I wish I could change. I never thought I would say it before, but I miss being in the gym seven hours a day. I am so ready to be back training and getting ready for next year. The Visa (U.S.) Championships are going to be in Dallas in 2009, so I am looking forward to competing in front of a home crowd!"

Liukin said her successes in 2008 will motivate her for the challenges she will face in 2009.

"2008 was an incredible year for me," she told IG. "I couldn't have done it without so many people, especially my parents. My dad was more than half of the reason I achieved my ultimate goal. My mom wasn't my coach, but she was my other side. She was the support side of 'Team Liukin.' Also, (U.S. team coordinator) Marta Karolyi — I have so much respect for her and what she does. Without her, I wouldn't have had a chance to try to accomplish my dreams. She always made me believe in myself, especially when times were tough. As 2009 is coming close, I am creating new goals and dreams, and getting really excited about it. Gymnastics is what a have big passion for, and I know I always will!"

Yay, her. Can't wait to see her at '09 worlds.

The 2008 Challenge International, held in Belguim, is hosting girls vaulting, swinging, beaming and tumbling as we speak, while the Americans, dare I say it, are kicking some bootay. A random person posted Youtube videos, which of course I can only watch about 30 seconds of because of my freakin' dial-up, but it looks like Corrie Lothrop almost crashed on her first pass. The USA-ers swept the competetition the first day, with Corrie Lothrop placing first, Olivia Courtney coming in second, and Amanda Jetter with a third place finish. Wohoo!

For all you people who can't make avatars to save your life, there is a new website out there, from your very own Meredith! Just visit olympicavatars.webs.com and you'll enter a world of gymn themed artsy-fartsy stuff! Yay! What more could you ask for?

Gymdog's Sneak Peek.

2008-12-07T17:49:00.000-08:00

PICTURES TO BE POSTED.

Overview with my opinions:

Abby- When Suzanne introduced the Gymdogs, she came out in a little green suit thing and Suzanne called her the "Gymdog Creature". Bars looked good, although I thought she did a Thatchev, not a Jaeger? Floor = Awesome. She closed the night with a FULL floor routine. Triple Twist, Double Full, front tuck, to her knee, end with a double pike. Audrey Bowers, a former Gymdog, was handing out checkered flags to wave. She looks great. They(The Gymdogs) asked each other questions, and her most embarassing gymn moment was when she was 6, at her first meet, and had to reallllly pee, and didn't know you could take a potty break, and she peed while running down the vault runway.

Courtney K- Vault looked good, stuck landing. Bars was good, I looove her shaposhnikovas. Beam was okay, she fell on her front tuck, landing her a 9.4. Floor, I didn't care for much, choreography wise.

Paige Burns- Vault was good. Bars was very good, she has a piked Jaeger. Beam was great. Saved herself fro ma fall on her flight series. (BHS, Layout step-out.) She threw a 2.5 twisting dismount, and had only a slight step.

Tiffany Tolnay- Vault was okay. She only did timers. Bars was very good, solid, but the only things were she pulled in on her straddle Jaeger, and missed a handstand towards the dismount.

Grace Taylor- PHENOMENAL BEAM. 9.950!!!!!!!! 'Nuff Said. I videotaped bars, I'll have that up on Youtube later. Floor was pretty, she didn't do her first pass, but did her second (Double Back.) and third(2.5 twist.) Also, after the bar rotatio nwas over, she attempted to do 5 comaneci releases in a row, and caught all of them.

Lauren Johnson- Vault was okay, I talked to her and she said her knee was acting up, so she couldn't really get a good pop.

Marcia Newby- Great vaults, she really propels herself off of the table. Bars looked good, her double layout was solid, for the first time showing it in front of a crowd. Floor was good, she did a double pike. I didn't care much for the choreo.

Lauren Sessler- Vault was good, timers, also, like the other Lauren. Bars was nice, Suzanne said she was getting back into the swing of things with bars..literally.

Courtney McCool- Out with a stress fracture in her foot..boo.

Cassidy McComb- Threw a Yurchenko full. Almost stuck it. Casted over a handstand on bars, and had to bend her knees and do a couple extra swings to glide kip up, so she didn't have enough power to get into her full-twisting double back dismount. She did her moonwalk on beam, almost falling on it, but saving it. Floor was cool, was spotted on a double-pike opening pass, but hopes to upgrade to a full in for the first meet.

Hilary Mauro- Yurchenko full. Stuck. Niiiiice. Geinger looks good on bars. She looks ready to dominate on bars. Beam was good, stuck her dismount (I think.) Floor is extremely cute. You scream "UGA DAWGS" towards the end.

Amber Trani- Vault was nice, only timers, to protect her back, I assume. Didn't see her on bars..hmm. Beam, fell on her flight series. No floor.

Gina Nuccio- Vault timers. Bars was good. Beam was good. She seems very consistent. Floor was great, dance wise. You play the drums for her routine. hahaha.

Kathryn Ding- Good vaults, can't recall if she did timers or comp. vaults or not. Good bars, pulled in slightly on her double layout dismount. Fell twice on beam, stuck her double twisting dismount. Floor was entertaining.

Mariel Box- Out with a knee injury. Booo.

Alright, that's all for tonight..I'm at my grandparent's house, so I can't write much/post pics/video.

Thanks!

omg, what a freak.

2008-12-06T17:58:00.001-08:00

Somebody totally hacked into He Kexin = 14 an wrote that post about Shawn Johnson. I'm sooo sorry, and I changed my password, immedieately. Again, I apologize, majorly.

Oh, and EDIT: someone hacked into my youtube account an uploaded a video of how nastia liukin is a russian b***h. I deleted that, too.

Find the person and please, knock the crap out of them.

The Gymdog Sneak-Peek is upon us.

2008-12-06T17:19:00.001-08:00

I'm in Athens, happily awaiting the Sneak Peek tomorrow at Stegman Coulisuem(sp?), and loving my G-parent's highspeed.

Bleh.

2008-11-28T18:44:00.000-08:00

Sorry for the delays in posting, no news really.

Is December 7th here yet?

(That's the date of the Gymdog's sneak peek.)

Old news alert.

2008-11-23T15:37:00.000-08:00

Sam Peszek and Bridget Sloan are now teammates. Woot. I'm off to make a montage about it.

New montage and "Workout Wedensdays" with The Gymdogs.

2008-11-19T12:00:00.001-08:00

Gymnastike has posted a wonderful new video of the Gymdog's workout, training tumbling and beam.

Visit Gymnastike For More Videos

I made a new montage, and it took forever to upload!!

To comment/rate click HERE.

(:
Laytah.

More 'I Just wanted a brownie!' Stories.

2008-11-19T05:20:00.000-08:00

As LBL Gymnastics has reported, lots of people affiliated with the Karoyli's have started talking about the abuse the gymnasts had to endure, and if they were gymnasts themselves, what they had to go through. Coaxed out of the darkness by Dominique "I just wanted a Brownie!" Moceanu, lots of new abuse stories have been coming out. Emelia Eberle said quote ""Nobody's perfect, so obviously we did mistakes. And we, you know, just got smacked everywhere from Bela -- on all our body parts. You know, he has huge hands and it hurts," Kollar said. "I had blood coming out of my body. I had my ears -- my skin ripped behind my ears. I had pus behind my ears, but, you know, nobody seemed to care." Rodica Duncam, a romanian gymnast has also come out of the Training Center, to tell her side of the abuse story. In an article in ProSport magazine, she said: "On certain days, we were hit until blood was pouring out of our nose. You can say it was a concentration camp. Or even a prison."

Let me interrupt there. **I have removed the statement written here, sorry.**

Geza Pozar, the choreographer for the Karoyli's gymnasts, also has claimed he's seen abuse in the gym from the Karoylis. (Maybe he baked delicious brownies and had no gymnasts to give them to?) "I saw all the activities that went on. Of course I saw the beating and the abuse, you know, as Trudi told you," Pozar said. (Hmm. He sounds like a smarty. Maybe he ate those brownies, and they "Accidentally" fell in to the green grass?)

I can see Marta Karoyli abusing, but not Bela. He seems too encouraging and whatnot to do that.
But defintely Marta. That lady scares the crap out of me.

Thanks for reading!!

Gymdog's Floor Intrasquad.

2008-11-18T05:50:00.000-08:00

GymnastIke has posted the Gymdog's new floor routines! Ha! I told you Abby had a racer-themed floor! :p

Visit Gymnastike For More Videos

Hahaha!!

2008-11-17T06:06:00.000-08:00

Is this not the cutest thing EVER?! (See below.)

She has a big head..and little arms.

International Assignments Announced.

2008-11-17T05:59:00.000-08:00

USA Gymnastics names international assignments

Corrie Lothrop and Glen Ishino

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Nov. 15, 2008 – USA Gymnastics announced athlete assignments for three international events in November and December. The assignments are listed below.

Top Gym, Charleroi, Belgium, Nov. 28-30
Kamerin Moore, Bloomfield, Mich./Gedderts’ Twistars USA
Jordyn Wieber, Dewitt, Mich./Gedderts’ Twistars USA

Pan American Gymnastics Union Individual Event Championships, Rosario, Argentina, Nov. 19-23
Women
Corrie Lothrop, Danvers, Mass./Hill’s Gymnastics
Rebecca Bross of Plano, Texas/WOGA
Olivia Courtney, Orlando, Fla./Orlando Metro
Samantha Shapiro, Los Angeles/ All Olympian Gymnastics Center
Men
Glen Ishino, Santa Ana, Calif./SCATS-HB
Danell Leyva, Miami, Fla./Universal Gymnastics

International Artistic Gymnastics Challenge, Woluwe Saint-Lambert, Belgium, Dec. 13
Amanda Jetter, Milford, Ohio/Cincinnati Gymnastics Academy
Corrie Lothrop, Danvers, Mass./Hill’s Gymnastics
Olivia Courtney, Orlando, Fla./Orlando Metro