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LaLadyinTx
| Favorite team: | LA-Monroe  |
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| Registered on: | 11/7/2018 |
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re: Boring Afternoon in Fredericksburg Texas
Posted by LaLadyinTx on 4/17/26 at 2:13 pm to blueridgeTiger
You were going to Fredericksburg. What the heck did you think you were going to do if not go on a wine tasting tour. Did you do no research and just go along for the ride?
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re: Gymnastics National Semifinal: LSU survives and advances to finals saturday
Posted by LaLadyinTx on 4/17/26 at 2:05 pm to iwyLSUiwy
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I have a sliver of hope. We have to be perfect. I think if we're perfect we can beat them and also just pray that the judges even across the board.
And I hate it but I really wish Jay would start teaching wider landings to get more sticks. The judges clearly don't punish OU for them one bit. The benefit of a stuck landing with your feet together on the mat has virtually disappeared so why even try for that. It's like the 3 pass routine on floor almost being extinct. Why do three passes when you are just opening yourself up for more deductions when you can hit all your marks in two passes?
I have a pretty big sliver of hope. We have lots of places that we can improve, lots of places where we are normally better.
Wider landings will get you .1 off at the most if stuck. Deep squats get more off because there's usually a reason they ended it that way.
We should not do 3 floor passes unless that's the only way we get a 10 sv. Every coach my daughter ever had said you should always do the minimum required to get a perfect routine and therefore your highest score. It's not like the Olympics where your sv can go over 10.
re: Stuff to do on and around campus
Posted by LaLadyinTx on 4/17/26 at 2:18 am to TheRiver
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Take them boys to eat BEIGNETS at Coffee Call Sat morning near College & Perkins. You won’t regret it
Finally. This is what I was going to say. I was wondering doesn't anyone else's family always go to Coffee Call. When we go to see my dad and step mom for Thanksgiving, before we even get to their house, we meet at Coffee Call at like 10 at night on Wednesday when we get in from Houston. We usually hit it again on Friday night as well. It's one of my adult children's favorite Baton Rouge memories.
re: Gymnastics National Semifinal: LSU survives and advances to finals saturday
Posted by LaLadyinTx on 4/17/26 at 1:04 am to LauraGB
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With OU, I feel like they land more with their feet far apart which is easier to stick but should be deducted for it, but they aren’t. They do this every year and I’m surprised the other teams don’t try it. Guess they would get deducted for it though cause not OU.
I think part of it is the girls are a different style of gymnast. Although they are all good at most everything, OU has bars/beam queens and LSU has powerhouses, except for Konnor and Kailin. Powerhouses are great vaulters and tumblers. But control is always a problem for them. Beam requires complete control. Bars is all about swing. You need strength, but not the same power. I wonder if you measured the height of the 2 schools tumbling/vaults if LSU flies higher? I bet they do. Power girls always struggle a bit with beam and bars. Look at Chiles...look at Biles. They are both power.
re: Gymnastics National Semifinal: LSU survives and advances to finals saturday
Posted by LaLadyinTx on 4/17/26 at 12:59 am to LauraGB
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This is so not fair. There needs to be a change. Meanwhile, Faith Torrez looks like she will win the all around and she has never competed it the whole entire year. In my opinion, you should be required to compete in it during the regular season a few times to be eligible to compete it at nationals.
Yes, there should be a requirement of having competed AA a minimum number of times. But that's not what really unfair. What's unfair is having separate sessions scored against each other for the AA. They really need a separate AA session with the top maybe 8-12 girls. Then they'd actually be scored against each other. Some of the bias is that the judge is thinking, x routine that I just saw was better than anything else I've seen today. But they really don't remember the previous session that well.
re: Gymnastics National Semifinal: LSU survives and advances to finals saturday
Posted by LaLadyinTx on 4/16/26 at 8:42 pm to Bel Air Tiger
Lily's vault was insanely good!
re: Gymnastics National Semifinal: LSU survives and advances to finals saturday
Posted by LaLadyinTx on 4/16/26 at 8:35 pm to khill715
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Riley’s easy double tuck dismount
Yes, that's a L8/9 dismount. But if she has enough start value for a 10 without it, more power to her. Get on the apparatus, do as little as you need and get off. I am a little surprised they don't ding her for not up to the level of competition.
re: Gymnastics National Semifinal: LSU survives and advances to finals saturday
Posted by LaLadyinTx on 4/16/26 at 7:51 pm to khill715
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At least most of them have actual dismounts and not that double dismount bs
What are you talking about? Bars? Beam? Double dismount bs?
re: Gymnastics National Semifinal: LSU survives and advances to finals saturday
Posted by LaLadyinTx on 4/16/26 at 6:32 pm to BrianKellysbuyout
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I looked at the scores on bars for evey team and Florida was the only team to score decent and they got a 49.6+ and everybody else was 49.2 or below, so it wasn't just LSU.
I didn't get to see bars. I'll try to go back and watch. Just a tiny flexed foot can take off. Sometimes it's really hard to see deductions because we usually aren't at the right angle.
re: Gymnastics National Semifinal: LSU survives and advances to finals saturday
Posted by LaLadyinTx on 4/16/26 at 6:30 pm to BrianKellysbuyout
First off, her routine started from 9.8, not 10 because she didn't have an acro series. I don't remember the rest as I had it on my phone at work. She probably didn't stick and lost .1 for that. She possibly had her chest down when she finished something and any tiny bobble can be .05.
Every meet I've every watched (my daughter was a gymnast for 5 years and then a diver thru NCAA) is judged much more harshly the higher level and more important the meet. Something that gets by at a regular season home SEC meet won't always cut it at regionals or nationals. That's just how it is.
Also, often if something doesn't stick, it's because something else wasn't perfect that prevented them from sticking. Like over/under rotation, off to a side, etc. People always concentrate on the stick, but it's usually that they don't stick because of a different mistake that often is more of a deduction that the step. A tiny step is only .05 and a bigger one .1.
Every meet I've every watched (my daughter was a gymnast for 5 years and then a diver thru NCAA) is judged much more harshly the higher level and more important the meet. Something that gets by at a regular season home SEC meet won't always cut it at regionals or nationals. That's just how it is.
Also, often if something doesn't stick, it's because something else wasn't perfect that prevented them from sticking. Like over/under rotation, off to a side, etc. People always concentrate on the stick, but it's usually that they don't stick because of a different mistake that often is more of a deduction that the step. A tiny step is only .05 and a bigger one .1.
re: Gymnastics National Semifinal: LSU survives and advances to finals saturday
Posted by LaLadyinTx on 4/16/26 at 6:19 pm to LSUAAT79
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Can they practice bars between then and now? We know the can stick beam, but haven’t seen a solid bar outing across the board all season.
They will have podium training tomorrow. Nothing is exactly practice at this point. They will go through routines, some probably visualize stuff. You really don't want to practice a lot or really focus on trying to do too much. Nobody can get in their heads like gymnasts and divers. They want to keep it light, not tight.
re: Gymnastics National Semifinal: LSU survives and advances to finals saturday
Posted by LaLadyinTx on 4/16/26 at 6:17 pm to Jugular Joe
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Chio is gonna have to be special on Saturday. At least one 10 and maybe two.
That special
Disagree. Chio does pretty much what she did today and hit bars. It wasn't Chio that got us into trouble. It was the whole bar and beam rotation. Bars wasn't great and they just weren't as on. It carried over to beam. They needed this to be great on Saturday.
They'll have podium training tomorrow and they'll probably have a fun/relaxing team event...watch a movie, something like that. No going out or partying in the gymnastics world. That's after. Gymnasts are wound up tight perfectionists as I've known them.
re: Gymnastics National Semifinal: LSU survives and advances to finals saturday
Posted by LaLadyinTx on 4/16/26 at 5:46 pm to SLIPSHITE
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Did what they had to do. About all you can say right now.
Thing is, that's all they needed. This wasn't the meet to kill on. Might be good that Florida seems to have left it all out there today.
Sort of the similar to something my daughter's coach you to say...you don't want to win warm up. Winning the semis gets you to the final. That is all.
re: Gymnastics National Semifinal: LSU survives and advances to finals saturday
Posted by LaLadyinTx on 4/16/26 at 5:41 pm to lsursb
Finally!!!! Hopefully this was a wake up call. Usually a bad meet is followed by a killer one!!!
Chio ate on beam and floor!!!
Whoops...that was Konnor on the beam.
We had some uncharacteristic mistakes today. They need to get that cleaned up!
Chio ate on beam and floor!!!
Whoops...that was Konnor on the beam.
We had some uncharacteristic mistakes today. They need to get that cleaned up!
re: DAT 4/15: Rockies (Quesadilla) @ Astros (Spaghetti) 7:10
Posted by LaLadyinTx on 4/15/26 at 2:17 pm to Lsuhoohoo
Kinda low key happy to see Spaghetti. Didn't hate him before and he certainly can't do worse than most of the clowns Espada and Brown have been sending to the mound.
re: Cities outside Louisiana that remind you of New Orleans
Posted by LaLadyinTx on 4/15/26 at 1:24 pm to Everyday Is Saturday
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Galveston - don’t see it
Galveston is very much like New Orleans. The Strand looks so similar. It's had a Mardi Gras celebration for over 150 years. Before Texas and it's politicians took over, Galveston was a smaller version of the Port of New Orleans before the Great Storm. It was full of bars, brothels, and questionable behavior and was a pretty lawless place.
Galveston is a shell of it's pre 1900 self.
re: Cities outside Louisiana that remind you of New Orleans
Posted by LaLadyinTx on 4/15/26 at 1:18 pm to Galloglaich
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3). Houston, Texas- If Louisiana had a secret kid with California, and Louisiana lost custody after the age of 5
I'd really like you to explain what part of Houston you are talking about. Cuz I've lived here35 years and have never seen any part of Houston that's like New Orleans.
re: High school kid joking on X about not receiving an offer - bad look or innocent fun?
Posted by LaLadyinTx on 4/15/26 at 10:36 am to slinger1317
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Seems like no one is humble anymore.
Doesn't get likes on social media.
re: DAT 4/14: Rockies (idk) @ Astros (idc) 7:10
Posted by LaLadyinTx on 4/14/26 at 10:07 pm to Domeskeller
We could still lose. This guy can walk in a run. I have that much confidence in our pitching!
30 seconds too late.
30 seconds too late.
Tampa/St Pete recommendations
Posted by LaLadyinTx on 4/14/26 at 3:28 pm
I'm heading down this weekend for a few days prior to a business trip. I mainly want to relax by the beach and pool, maybe go to the Sat morning market and visit the Salvador Dali museum.
What are some good casual restaurants and bars along the beach? I love seafood and don't want a fancy restaurant.
Are there some cute, historic areas for shopping?
What are some good casual restaurants and bars along the beach? I love seafood and don't want a fancy restaurant.
Are there some cute, historic areas for shopping?
re: Need recommendations for new luggage
Posted by LaLadyinTx on 4/14/26 at 3:21 pm to LemmyLives
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eBags. I’ve had suitcases from them I’ve sent on 700 flights and I still have them. I had to replace a wheel assembly on one of my 27” bags, which they shipped me, and I replaced in four minutes. And they don’t cost $400.
I also have eBags and have traveled a ton with them for the last 12 years. I have the soft sided ones and have never had a single problem.
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