PR Wraps

I have something wrong with my left wrist which makes it hurt really bad doing mostly anything.  My coach is stumped because she has no idea what is causing my pain because it isn't hurting in a wrists usual spot. It hurts on my bone on the outside of my wrist, instead of the inner side of my wrist.  I never did anything to it for it to start hurting.  So I ordered a pair of PR Wraps and they are amazing! They are even better than Tiger Paws. For those who don't know what I am talking about, a Tiger Paw is something you put on your wrist for support if you have pains in your wrists.  And a PR Wrap is just a better version of a Tiger Paw.  Gymnasts use them for vault, beam, and floor.   I didn't think that a PR Wrap would even work because it is literally a piece of cloth that is about 2 feet long and you just wrap it around your wrist.  I can't explain how it works, but it does. A lot! PR Wraps are actually meant for athletes that do cross fit.  But gymnasts are starting to use them.  They aren't bulky like Tiger Paws and you still have full range of your wrist.  Sadly I used them on vault on Friday and they don't work as good as Tiger Paws.  But they do help me on beam and floor.

My Favorite and Least Favorite Events

I have this one teammate who just LOVES beam and if she could she would just do beam and not work on any other events.  I always respond to her by saying, "You are crazy.  I hate beam.  I have never liked beam and I never will."  My favorite event always switches between vault, bars, and floor.  It just depends on what I am doing better on.  Right now my favorite event is floor.  I like floor right now because I am doing great on all my new tumbling passes.  My first pass is a double back.  My second pass is a 11/2 layout punch layout, and my third pass is a front rudi.

                                                            Double back on floor

                                             1 1/2 layout punch layout on floor

                                                    Front hanspring rudi on floor


Vault is probably my second favorite event because I can do it, I just don't really like doing it.  Vault scares me.  Especially now that I have to do a urchenko layout full.

                                                     
                                                           video of urchenko layout full on vault

Bars is my third favorite event because I still have to put my routine together.  I need to catch my jaegar and start putting it in my routine.

                                                                 
                                                                       Jaeger on bars

 

Las Vegas

Last weekend I went to Las Vegas for a gymnastics showcase.  I went with three others from my gym.  For those who do not know what a gymnastics showcase is, it's sort of like a meet.  But not exactly.  You get a leo thats a color that represents the year you will graduate so that the scouts from colleges know what year you graduate.  All four of us that went had different leos because Hannabeth's a freshman, Natalie's a sophmore, I'm a junior, and the Hannah's is a senior.  HB had a pink leo, Nat had a lime green, I had blue, and Hannah had purple.  We all had to wear numbers on the back of ouor leos so that the colleges knew who they were watching.

Instead of competing and saluting judges, we just show off all the skills that we can do.  The college scouts are not allowed to talk to us yet because then it would be breaking NCAA rules, so they just were walking around watching who they wanted to watch.  But sunday was a little different. Instead of it being a showcase it was a clinic.  That is when the scouts are allowed to teach us and help us learn new skills. But they still are not allowed to talk to us about coming to their college because that would be breaking NCAA rules.

The showcase was really fun.  I saw a lot a good gymnasts that have been levels 10's for a couple of years now.  So I'm kind of nervous about competing because I have to compete against girls that have been level 10's for like 3 years and I'm a first year level 10.  It was a good experience seeing them though because I got to see girls that I will be competing against soon.