In G1, her final skills were cartwheel, running cartwheel and Handstand-forward-roll. She passed her running cartwheel in May and was allowed to move up to G2 with a friend to work on her handstand. By the end of the first summer session G2 she passed her handstand-forward-roll.
G1 Bar work - she was the only kid in her class that could back-flip up onto the bars with no help.
She is also working on a handstand on the high beam. In G1 they work on a lowered beam with a wide, soft pad to help learn the positioning. Morgan can do a somersault on the lower beam with the pad. The handstand will be long time coming....
In G2 she is starting to learn how to rotate on the bar. The skill in broken down into two parts - work on the high bar (independently) and on the low bar with the instructor. On the high bar she needs to practice her kick-outs and release with straight arms and falling straight on her back into the pit 12 feet below. On the low bar she is learning about her own centrifugal force and she spins around.
G2 beam work has increased in difficulty hugely! She is taught the skill on a low beam, but then practices independently on a competition height beam. In the video clip she is starting to learn how to do 'pike-jumps'.
She will continue to work on cartwheels and handstands - the difficulty level has increased in that she now needs to do a running cartwheel, sache (sah-shay), cartwheel across the floor, all in a straight line; she needs to perform a one-handed cartwheel and a handstand to bridge then back-walk-over and stand again. In the video clip she does her first back-walkover!
