Finally Bangkok Day 4: Freestyle 2

I think I was just as nervous as Lil Shauna or more anxious than she is bcos I didn't sleep well.  I think this should be what it feels like when she finally takes her PSLE. I woke up many times, in between, I vaguely remembered that I was dreaming about reminding her what to do and not to do for the competition, urging her and encouraging her. Seriously? Even in the dream??!!!

We decided that we would leave the Bangna area bcos the journey going to town is way too painful. We had bfast and met the other group of skaters with the Coach CY. The parents were very knitted. I saw them having bfast together 2 days in a roll. Or maybe we are the hermit parents. Lol.

We finally had chance to swim in the pool. I was worried that Lil Shauna would swim so much and overtired herself. There was no need to worry bcos the water was icy cold. No joke! After dipping in the water, baking in the sun was actually more comfortable. We barely lasted 30 mins. The kids were happier soaking in the room's bathtub.

We headed to the mall for lunch and burnt 3 hours. It was quite easy. Meanwhile, I spent almost the entire day reminding her this and that for the competition.

An hour before her event, she got changed and had her makeup touched up. The old school hair spray was working very well and holding her hair up. She spent the rest of the time warming up.

Lil Shauna said that she was more confident bcos it was the 2nd time competing and she got a medal even when she didn't try very hard the 1st time. Zzzz.. I had to remind her that there were 6 competitors this time and only 5 medals. I was hopeful that she would do better.

Soon, it was her turn to compete. She was the 2nd out of the 6. The 1st was impressive and did stretch spin nicely. Wasn't the item only requiring 1-foot spin?

The moment Lil Shauna hit the ice, she was on her own and nobody could help her. I thought she was rushing through her program. All that I reminded her was not done. Arrgghhhh. In fact, she rushed through so much that she forgot her steps and did a jump with a wrong foot. Dead. Ended up, she was faster than her song; she forgot everything about telling her to stretch her program, along with asking her to go further to the other side of the rink and not so near the wall. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.. I was very upset.

Teacher Raymond was much nicer, telling us that she was nervous as it was her 1st competition. We saw some of the other competitions and saw how confident and good they were. I already know the results.

Lil Shauna actually didn't think that she did so badly. This time, I was unkind and told her off, pointing out all her mistakes and showing her the video. I also made her read her own results. I didn't want to hide the truth anymore. She got 6th of course but still took pic with Teacher Raymond nonetheless.

She was upset bcos I was so upset with her. I made her cry. I think she should be upset bcos she didn't do her best. Things did cool down after the competition, after bowling and dinner.

We even went to the arcade again and the kids took an interesting 4D ride.

Back at the hotel and now that Lil Shauna and I had cooled down, we discussed about the competition again. I told her that I was upset bcos she worked so hard over these 2 months and so had I. However, all those hard work had gone to waste when she didn't perform in that 1.5 min on ice. I think there were times that she did her item much better during practice. I reminded her the importance of doing the right thing and the ability to overcome that anxiousness and masked it with confidence.  It is really about whoever appear stronger will win.

Remember the skater who went before her and I said was impressive? I checked the result when we were leaving and saw that she was 5th! In other words, the other skaters were really much stronger than her. With that, my anger with her not winning also disolved and remains in her not performing her best with all the hard work.

I don't know if this competiton encouraged her or did the opposite. I hope she finds more passion to train after we go back to Singapore. Meanwhile, she is still happy with her medal. Oh, they also gave a medal for the 6th place. Lil Shauna said that they were very nice to do so.

Mummy Lim