"We're Leaving in a Mini Van...."

I took my queue from the song "I'm leaving on a jet plane..." for this post...LOL!

We leave for an entire month today.  A month of hard training.  And when no training is happening we will be plugging along with schoolwork.  It's a busy life with an Elite Athlete and we have to make the most of the time we have getting ready for competitions and making sure we stay on task with school.

In two weeks will be his first competition at the AAU GA Qualifier.  Then two weeks after will be US Open in Florida.

We are hoping and praying that this month with his coach doing private lessons and team training gives T the push he needs to get him over the hump and making forward motion in this new age and weight division that he is in this year.  It's an entirely new ball game for him right now.  He's having to learn a lot and train a lot in order to be competitive in his new division.  We are focusing on gains this year.  Whether his competitions are wins or learns (losses) the focus is the gains he makes in those competitions.  What he learns from them as we go forward and applying them.  We are focusing on gaining knowledge that will help him moving forward in this sport.  The results will come even if they don't come the way we may like them to come at first.  With not knowing what to expect in this new division we will be learning a lot.  We are doing our best to encourage T to keep moving forward no matter whether a competition is a Win or Learn.  Win or Learn there are always gains to be had.

I will be making posts as we go through this month ahead to keep everyone informed on what gains we are taking from competitions and training.  T has an incredible coach and we are so thankful that God brought us to him.  T has already expressed what it is that he wants out of this year.  As he gets more knowledge he makes adjustments to what he wants and we are constantly checking in with him to make sure of what it is that he wants.  So look forward to more posts from us.  They will be coming.