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Picture Captured by Daniel Palhegyi |
Here is my post after a long time. I thought of
sharing some of the competitions that I attended after my National Games 2015
at Kerala. After participating the National games, it was turn to participate
in some international tournaments in 2015. We had planned for few games and
today in this Blog Post I am sharing my experiences at FIG III MTK Cup
Budapest, Hungary 7-9th August 2015.
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| With Team from Canada, Estonia & Azarbaijan |
Preparation:
This was my first ever FIG competition. We started
preparing one month before the competition. I got my new routines by Ms.Nami
Soeda a coach, from japan who was in india for a training camp in delhi. We
invited her to help me in setting these new routines. While we have her here
the Gachibowli Stadium got closed, so we started going to the saroonagar
stadium. Since the stadium was almost 54 Kms from my place, we planned only one
visit in the morning and did routines there. During the evenings I
planned for strength exercises back home. I had one control training
(with the costume) one week before leaving for the competition. This way it
helps us to feel the competition and make our adjustments if any.
We travelled to Budapest via Dubai with a long
stop-over.
Day 1 - Just in Budapest, Hungary
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| After Day1 Competition with Catherine & Nicole from Canada |
As we landed we were received at the budapest
airport by the organizers along with the mexican team. We were taken to
the competition arena where we registered ourselves. After that we went to the
hotel and checked-in to fresh-up. I went to see they competition arena in the
evening. At that time the Ukrainian team were having their podium training. We
spent some time at the stadium and returned back to hotel.
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| With Head Coach of Ukrain |
Day 2: Acclimatization & Podium Training
I had my podium training in the afternoon. We had
breakfast in the morning came back to the room and set everything for the podium
training. We went early to do warm-up and routine preparation.
I did the podium training with the hungarian team.
After lunch we came back and saw the russian world cup team(yana and mamun) and
the MTK cup team(arina and dina averina and maria titova)do their podium
training.
Today I met the team from the Jasco RG club from
Canada (where nami used to train before she came to india). In the evening did
practice with the katherin and nicole (from the jasco club -Canada)in the
training hall B(extra hall with four more mats for training). It was good
experience to practice and see best of the gymnasts.
Day 3 - The Day of Competition
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| Coach from Ukraine |
My Competition was in the evening. We had our lunch
and got ready for the competition. I did my warm up and ballet along with
katherin and nicole. After the group one started saw the first few performances
and then started warming up with the apparatus. I got dressed in to my leotard
when the first player of my group started. There were a total of 42 player in
the FIGIII MTK Cup and there were two groups of 21 each and I was in the second
group. My turn was 6th in the order of 21 people.
When there two more people left to go I stopped
practising and closed my eyes and concentrated on how i will be doing my
routine. This will help me to rehearse in my mind before the actual
performance.
On the Podium : When I went on the carpet I forgot
about everything else and only concentrated on how I will be doing my every
move and element. And before I knew 1 minute 30 seconds performance
finished with a perfect ball routine. There was no loss of apparatus but there
were a few mistakes with the execution and the difficulty. After my routine was
over i went over to the side and sat on the couch waiting eagerly for my
results. While I was waiting for the results I saw the live performance of
Maria Titova (also known as the swan) for the first time ever. It was 11.450
the score that was given to me. I could not believe it. After all the hard work
and dedication I had finally reached the first double digit for a the first
time by any indian rhythmic gymnast.
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| Selfie with Canada Team Coaches |
I had to work on the next routine that was hoop. I
did the same thing that I did with ball worked on the routines and when there
were only two people left I started concentrating on how i should perform the
routine.The over all routine was good with one or two small slips of the hoop.
The score was 11.300 for Hoop. Mom was so over joyed that she started crying(in
joy). The Canada coach who was there thought that mom was upset with my results
(since she was crying ) and came over to her to tell that its ok to get a score
like that in the first competitions. But it was a great day to remember.
Day 4 - Two More to Go
Today was the same as well except I was in the
group 1 instead of group 2. I did not know that, but luckily we went to the
arena early since i wanted to see the finals of the world cup happening at the
same time in Budapest, Hungary. Thats when we saw the new time table given and
I did not have as much time for the body preparation. I did get ready on time
and also practiced the routine. The first apparatus was ribbon. After the
performance the score that I got was 10.750. The second apparatus was clubs and
the final event for this competition. I did better preparation than ribbon.
This time I got a score of 11.500.
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| With Azerbaijan & Canada Gymnasts |
Once my competition was over went back to the hotel
and got ready for the banquet dinner. The banquet dinner is held by the
host country for all the delegations after the entire competition is over. All
the participating countries and gymnasts were present there. I met with the
entire Canada team as well as a player from Azerbaijan and Estonia.
Day 5 :
Budapest Visit & Transit to Oslo
That day our flight was in the evening to Oslo, for
the next competition at Asker, Norway. So we went to see the city of Budapest
in the morning. Its a beautiful city and we enjoyed the breath of fresh air
with my result been good.
Learning:
We never know what kind of experiences that we
have, but if we are prepared well and put your 100% of effort, we would
definitely win over every situation. After all Sports are not for winning, but
to enjoy the spirit of Game. I truly feel and enjoy the game that I love.
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I would be writing about my experience at Asker,
Norway in my next blog post.
