Practice with Indy in sight

That is sooooo cute...... :) He was cute wasn't he? HA! HA!

Ok let's chat about practice... I am so glad you guys are really working hard at practice. The new libs are going to be awesome! They really add some difficulty and spice to your routine. I love the press heal stretches. Fliers concentrate on that leg locking out through the entire skill set. If the leg is bent you are going to come down. I saw a lot of fighting for skills the last two days. Excellent! Fliers start working those bow-n-arrows. It is suppose to be drop stretch up to bow-n-arrow. Did we tell you that? That is the goal!

I know we have been talking about level 4.2. If we want to go there we need fliers really concentrating on their locked leg. This will be important for inversion stunts and moving on to the next level. We also need bases to be ready for catching and working hard. Between fliers and bases there cannot be this constant blame game. We are a team/ We rise and fall as a team. The coaches will do a good job of letting folks know what is going on with group. Keep the finger pointing to a minimum and concentrate on the end goal. You have 5 coaches and 17 teammates (includes Annie... Hooray!). That is 5 chiefs and 17 Indians. :)

More of what we need to be working on to get ready for INDY!
- Baskets: Fliers, any chance you get to work on the tramp or the tumble track cheese pit work on your basket skills. Grab a coach or a teammate and have them tell you what you look like. We need to work ball stars, kicks and pretty girls. For a level 4.2 routine we need to work kick fulls or pretty girl kicks.

- Mount: I think your mount is looking pretty good. I would like to work on the transition between baskets and mount. We may be flip flopping those two. If there is ideas you want to try we can but the mount is pretty much maxed out for level 3. I would like you to compete that mount in Indy and show everyone how great you can do it! For a level 4.2 we would need to adjust it.

-Tumbling: For Indy we need to work on this area! Standing tumbling is one of the areas we are hurting the most. We need everyone on the team competing a double toe BHS and standing double BHS. I know there are several of you that are new to tumbling and you are doing a great job. Keep working those skills. We need as many of you at xmile working those tumbling skills! For those of you that are comfy tumblers we need to start working some fun combinations that are flashy and more folks doing punch fronts.

-Dance: There are couple of motions I want to change up but most of all we need you to sell that dance more and more. You did a great job on Sunday selling that dance. More winks! More smiles! More energy!

-Cheer: enough said... those motions are going to be changed! Many of you said that you did not like the motions or you feel awkward doing them. That is fine we will work it!

-Jumps: Are you working these at home? If not then why not? Every time you are watching tv you should be sitting in a straddle with your legs turned back with POINTED TOES! Do leg raises and do calf raises. You will be amazed at how much better you can work those jumps if you do a little on your own.