I cannot express my frustration

Today during history we were fortunate to not have to sit through some lecture on how some person did something to help someone and so on, we got to have a game of trivia. With Tess on our team we were sure to do well (i swear that girl is a walking, talking trivia book). We took off coming second only one point behind. Unfortunately we fell behind quickly. But! just our luck the question came up "What is the highest score a single judge can give you in gymnastics?" and me being a religious gymnastics follower of course knew there is effectively no limit, my history teacher, who i am sure does not follow gymnastics more than i do and if she does i will be absolutely gobsmacked that she didn't know the answer. I put the answer down that it is infinite depending on your difficulty score as it is a combination of your difficulty value and execution (out of 10). Before i was allowed to explain Mrs History Teacher was quick to shut me up leaving me fuming inside.

If 10 is the limit how did i score 13.25 on vault on saturday, How did Nastia Liukin and He Kexin score 16.725 on bars at the 2008 Olympics.

Mrs History Teacher, if you ever read this, i am right. Trust me. Who else but a religious follower of the sport would know that Nadia Comaneci was discovered in her school playground by the famous Bela Karolyi whilst pretending to be a gymnast. She defected to America in 1989. She got a perfect 10 seven times in the 1976 Olympics games. The score board did not allow a 10.00 to be shown so the score showed up as 1.00, audience was shocked. Her acro series on beam was backwalkover, back handspring step out, back handspring step out. Need i say more. Shawn johnson was walking at 9 months, started gymnastics at age 2 and moved to her current training facility at age 6 (99% sure about age of moving gym)

Nadia Comaneci

If you are reading this and you know me, chances are you know that i am slightly obsessed with the sport of gymnastics. So you probably wouldn't be surprised if i told you that i spent my afternoon watching Movies on gymnastics on youtube such as "Little Girls in Pretty Boxes" and "Nadia" a movie based on her life. It also wouldn't surprise you that after watching "Nadia" i looked up more about Nadia and i know you must be thinking that after doing two assignments on her there mustn't be much more to know but i was wrong, I have learnt a lot about Nadia in the past few hours it has been très exciting.

Nadia Comaneci walked into the gym at age six after Bela Karolyi spotted her and a friend in the school playground pretending to be gymnasts. Bela would not stop until he found his girls and in the third classroom he went to he asked "who likes gymnastics?" and the two girls he had seen outside at recess put up there hands and eagerly said yes. Bela took them back to the gym for an assessment and Nadia was fearless she passed the test with flying colours and since then Bela worked her six days a week, four hours a day.

Ok well this is probably boring you but Nadia Comaneci was the gymnast that changed this sport into a little girls sport. Nadia Comaneci went to the Montreal Olympics in 1976 at age 14 (the hell, i'm already over the hill well that mucks up my plan) and scored a perfect 10.00, funny thing is the score board didn't allow for a 10.00 to be shown (a 9.99 was the limit) the score came up as 1.00 causing the crowd to be outraged!, well wouldn't you be if you just saw a perfect routine get 1.00. Nadia followed this "1.00" with six more, no one could believe it! seven perfect 10.00.

Nadia however did not have things come easy for her, she was deprived of food - if you wanted to be a gymnast you had to be small, thin and light. There are accusations of Bela being abusive and much more but she managed to get past that and score a perfect 10.00. After watching her routines, well they are quite small in difficulty compared to today but the execution is bloody amazing!

Nadia is and will be a role model for me and many future young gymnasts!

All about me

just a few brief words....

gymnastics, flute, Regina Spektor, Florence + the machine, flute,
liquid eyeliner, sparkly leotards, lady gaga, Harry Potter,
Taylor Lautner, Wicked, Sport, Netball, rips on my hands, glitter,
sequins, Taylor Swift, Make it or Break it, Stick it, The Proposal,
Billy Elliot, The Sound of Music, Heels,
Little Girls in Pretty Boxes,
Lauren Mitchell, Pink (the singer), Purple, skiing,
France, Hogwarts, Swings, Monkey bars, Green eggs and Ham,
Shirley Barber, The Lovely Bones, Shawn Johnson,The cat in the hat,
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang, Nastia Liukin, Its complicated,

laughing, her best friends, music