We headed out bright and early Saturday morning for Kyle's diving meet.
He has added a back 1&1/2 to both his 1 meter and 3 meter list (he did it for the first time on 3 meter last week) so we were excited to see how that would go.
He did a great job on the 3 meter and he finished 2nd in the 13 and under division (as an 11 year old).
He was trucking along nicely in the 1 meter, and after his 3rd dive I was feeling great since all he had left was his double front, and his back 1& 1/2 (2 of his strongest dives).
So you can imagine my reaction when I saw him do a single front flip instead of a double for his 4th dive. And to make it worse, in diving, if you don't do the right dive you get 0 points. So they aren't judging you on a double that you singled, you just get a 0.
Getting 0 points obviously dropped him to last place (11th).
But, to Kyle's credit, he came back strong and on his last dive he did a good enough back 1 & 1/2 that he finished in 8th place. He got 0 points for an entire round and still beat 3 kids. Hopefully he also learned that if he has a bad approach to stop and start over because it's better to lose 2 points, than to get 0 points.
And on the most positive note of all, the meet was put on by Kyle's coach, so I got to announce the winners on the microphone at the natatorium!
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