It seems I'm not very good with keeping up with this blogging business! Things that I'd like to write about come to me often but then the time to sit and do it is not at hand and then I forget. But this is something I'd like to remember for my eldest son (Jack was 8 in July).
Last night Jack's soccer club held a juggling competition. Jack has been practising a little and if he's been bored we've been reminding him he could get out and practise his juggling (occasionally he would, more often not!). Anyway each child had three turns each to do as many juggles as they could.
They had a practise area and I counted Jack do about 14 off to the side which I thought was impressive (his best is 17 he tells me).
The last touch of the ball as it gets away from him!
For the 'real deal' his best score was 9 :). He had a few mates from his team that had come along but they didn't want to go in the competition so I think there were only four or five Under 8s who participated.
At the end of the night they had prizes for the winner of each age group. Jack was so excited to win his for his age group! I realised after watching his group that he had probably won it. But previous to that I had assumed that there would be a lot of kids out there who could juggle more than Jack... but not on this night!
Jack received a little trophy, a $20 voucher to Amart All-sports and a small club bag... I think its purpose is to hold soccer shoes, socks, shin pads etc. He was thrilled. An under 11 boy kept the ball up for 260 juggles! An under 14 boy stopped voluntarily at 300 but can apparently do over 3000 - wow.
A team mate of Jack's won the 'Hit the crossbar' competition and it was lovely to see how proud his Mum and Dad were and how excited he was too. I wish I was going to be there to see them play their soccer match this morning but today it clashes with Henry's acrobatics.
I should do a post about Henry's acro next, though we're not usually allowed to take photos.
Ayla
xxx
