Mad About the Madison

Madison is a five year old who had been attending summer camp, but with whom I was largely unfamiliar with, since I work mostly with 6 and up. But on this particular day in late July, she hung around me and 2 older gymnasts I was working with.

At the expense of Zoe and Jennifer, I allowed Madison to hang out with us. She was soooo funny, I couldn't help it. She became an instantaneous favorite, and I wondered why I hadn't discovered her before. For whatever reason, she just latched onto me that day, and followed me everywhere. She was so cute and funny, it was hard to send her away. Zoe probably wanted to kill me.

Jennifer is extremely funny in her own right (don't be fooled by her height- she's only 12!). She's kind of dorky in a good way, always smiling and occasionally getting her words wrong (e.g., one time she asked if she could go get water, adding that she needed to "rehibernate"). Hope some of her humor, intentional and otherwise, comes through.



(For the record: Jennifer has been able to land aerials before- just not in this video; and despite my discreet absence in the video, I did do my share of coaching- it wasn't just all Madison-induced abuse of Zoe and Jennifer...just clever editing).

Be sure to watch the video all the way through- I know the closing credits is long...it's just so hard to edit down so much good stuff.

Enter the Gymnast: Bad Acting, Worse Kung Fu

This is an edit of some clips taken from the May 18, 2007 Family & Friends Night.




Blogger apparently has a new video upload feature, so I'm going to test it out and see how well this works. I wish to keep a low profile and not attract unwanted viewers; for those who care, I don't tag my YouTube uploads or title them with anything recognizable in search engines.


Ok....it doesn't seem to be working. Looks like YouTube, it is:



I think they could have taken some lessons from this one:

Thea in Transition

This is a quick video, where the closing credits are probably longer than the footage, itself (I just like listening to the music).

A big problem for Thea continues to be body-shaping and posture.

She and her teammate Oona have been attempting to acquire all their skills for the level 6 season. They are close...but it's coming down to well past crunch time.

Summer Magic

Hard to include footage of everyone...especially when trying to choose and pick what best fits with lyrics of a song that...well, probably didn't have SMGC summer camp in mind when it was written.

So just enjoy it for what it is:



I think I'll put together some raw footage, without the "interference" of adding in music, in some of the next few videos.