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First Day of Team

1/15/2016

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It's Friday morning, 1/15/2016.  Today I start dive team!  I'm so excited!  I got a text from the coach last night with the schedule for the weekend (the HOLIDAY weekend).  We're doing 2 hours of dryland today and 2 hours of diving!  That's four hours of working out!!  And then there's practice on Saturday morning at 6:30 am and another four hours on Monday!  I think they're trying to kill me right out of the gate!

I've managed to work out every day since the beginning of the year, minus Sundays, so I feel like I'm in better shape than I was two weeks ago.  However, I packed on A LOT of weight over the past three months, so that's still an issue and I still look ridiculous in a Speedo.  (But that may always be the case regardless of weight.)

Anyway, I was so excited this morning, I just had to do a quick entry in my blog!  I'll update tonight with how the day went.

Part II

There are a limited number of spots on the El Camino Dive Team and I got one!!!  Actually, I don't know if it's limited or not.  But I'm the ONLY person on the dive team right now.  It's good and it's bad... good because I get all the attention.  I get to do what I love for two hours straight without having to share the coach, time or boards with anyone else.  That part is AWESOME!  But bad in the sense that I don't have anyone else there to push or motivate me.  No one to watch dive and try to one up them.

But that's okay.  I have the two best people around me...Greg Louganis has been there 100% to support and encourage and coach me.  And Jose Bahena has returned this year to be the El Camino Dive Coach just so he can help me get to state.  I know it's a huge sacrifice of time for both of them and I'm very grateful for them both.

Okay, funny story...today towards the end of practice I was working on a flip with a full twist.  When I jump on the end of the board, I'm supposed to breath out.  So I made my first jump and blew out, and a huge loogie went flying out of my mouth into the pool.  I was so caught off guard, that I just started laughing while still trying to throw the dive.  The dive ended up being a bit of a mess, but it was the weirdest thing.

The other crazy thing, I was working on riding the board, which sent me higher and higher into the air with each jump.  As I came down, I caught the corner of the board and was off balance.  This launched me to the side A LOT.  So much that I flew into the lap lines which hadn't been moved over quite far enough for horrible mishaps like that.  It hurt a little, but didn't do any long term damage.  I think if I put together a compilation of bad dives, it would look like I had a horrible day.  But if I cut together just the good ones, I think the day would've looked pretty solid.

It was a fun day and I am SO glad to be back on the boards and finishing this part of the journey.  I just hope that when the regionals get here, I will be ready and can make it to state!
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