My Weekend
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Alright, so here's the short and sweet. I got first one both 1 & 3 meter at MIAA's. It's still bitter sweet just because Tony did quit, and I know that if he had dove he would've beat me. But I'm happy that I won in any case. I qualified for nationals, again, on both boards. Brandon qualified for nationals also, as did Lyndsay. 3 meter was pretty interesting to say the least. I couldn't do my back 2 1/2, again, and thus had to do something else. For prelims I did a back somersault straight, and let me tell you, that was embarrassing. Not only is that not a dive to be done in the first place, but especially not one off three meter. And then to top things off I went in with one arm up in the air just for S's & G's. So yea... That was prelims. Went into finals and still couldn't get my back 2 1/2 (I'm having some serious mental problems with that dive). I was determined not to do back somersault again, though, because I didn't want to be embarrassed again. So, in the hour before finals I learned a new dive. Back 1 1/2 straight. Which is more respectible. However, while learning it I only did it three times. I smacked once and went really short the other times. So, those are the three times I've done the dive before finals....great!!!....And to top things off I didn't get to warm anything else up. So I'm going into finals with a brand new dive and four others that I haven't warmed up. That's not that big of a deal for some of them. For a dive like reverse 2 1/2, however, that is a big deal. So finals start and I start diving. I'm doing alright and then the dive comes, the brand new one that I've only done three times in my life and I smacked on. So I get up to do it and just throw it and, boom, I did it. I got six's and six and a half's on it. I laughed. Then my reverse 2 1/2 came and I did that, and I got six and a half's. I laughed again. All in all I did very well and I'm happy with my performance overall. Now onto nationals.
Other stuff in my life is kind of on pause as of right now. So there's not much to comment on there.
Alright, so here's the short and sweet. I got first one both 1 & 3 meter at MIAA's. It's still bitter sweet just because Tony did quit, and I know that if he had dove he would've beat me. But I'm happy that I won in any case. I qualified for nationals, again, on both boards. Brandon qualified for nationals also, as did Lyndsay. 3 meter was pretty interesting to say the least. I couldn't do my back 2 1/2, again, and thus had to do something else. For prelims I did a back somersault straight, and let me tell you, that was embarrassing. Not only is that not a dive to be done in the first place, but especially not one off three meter. And then to top things off I went in with one arm up in the air just for S's & G's. So yea... That was prelims. Went into finals and still couldn't get my back 2 1/2 (I'm having some serious mental problems with that dive). I was determined not to do back somersault again, though, because I didn't want to be embarrassed again. So, in the hour before finals I learned a new dive. Back 1 1/2 straight. Which is more respectible. However, while learning it I only did it three times. I smacked once and went really short the other times. So, those are the three times I've done the dive before finals....great!!!....And to top things off I didn't get to warm anything else up. So I'm going into finals with a brand new dive and four others that I haven't warmed up. That's not that big of a deal for some of them. For a dive like reverse 2 1/2, however, that is a big deal. So finals start and I start diving. I'm doing alright and then the dive comes, the brand new one that I've only done three times in my life and I smacked on. So I get up to do it and just throw it and, boom, I did it. I got six's and six and a half's on it. I laughed. Then my reverse 2 1/2 came and I did that, and I got six and a half's. I laughed again. All in all I did very well and I'm happy with my performance overall. Now onto nationals.
Other stuff in my life is kind of on pause as of right now. So there's not much to comment on there.