Jump Rope Competition

2/18/10

Zachary has been practicing and practicing and practicing waiting for this day to finally get here. He made the Parkridge Jump Rope Team and was excited to do the speed forward bounce. There were five elementary schools all together Parkridge, Endeavor, Greenhurst, Ronald Reagan, and Snake River, 4th and 5th grade students.

Zachary was 1st up with the forward bounce. You had to jump as fast as you can for 1 minute, and you got to go twice. There was one judge watching the time and three judges counting your jumps. If you messed up, you had to quickly start jumping again. I could tell Zachary was taking this pretty seriously.

After speed rope was done, he kept practicing to do the criss cross jump. In this one you were not timed, you just kept jumping the criss cross until you messed up. You had two chances, the judges used your highest number. He was clear on the other side of the gym (thank goodness for a good zoom lens) but we were able to count how many he did, 40!!!! WOW!! His highest at home was mid 20's! We were very happy for him.

After that we just had to sit and watch and wait for the results, we had to wait for the 5th graders to go. So we watched Zayne Sedrick, and Morgan Dribnak, and a few others we recognized. Apparently during this time Zachary's P.E. teacher Mr. Johnson was persuading him to enter the cup stacking competition. So he did a couple of practice rounds, and then entered. He got two tries and they take your best time, which was 7 something seconds! We had no idea he was doing this or we would have had pictures.

Award time.......Here he is anxiously awaiting the results....

He placed 3rd in the speed forward bounce, I'd say he's a bit happy?!

Uhhh a little to happy. He tried to slide across the floor but his shoe stuck and he almost ate the floor *wink*

Group of them...

He placed 3rd in the 3-6-3 cup stacking....

He was awarded King of the Criss Cross for the 4th Grade Boys....

I think he had some awesome support!!! *smile*

When we all got home, we commented how our ears were still ringing from all the screaming, and cheering those Parkridge girls were making. *smile* It was a lot of fun to see their enthusiasm.

Congratulations Zachary!! You worked hard and it paid off, we're very proud of you!