With Genius Hour coming to an end, we decided that we were going to be something huge for our last sport. We were going to do something along the lines of martial arts. The plan was to go to a free Krav Maga class. However, of course, our biggest enemy decides to come in and burst our bubbles: our busy schedules. Since volleyball has become more and more intense over the weeks, as well as school work, we mapped out our weeks and saw that not a single day could line up perfect for each of us. We both have different volleyball schedules, so if one has practice, the other does not. We sadly decided to come to an agreement that we would not do any sort of martial arts without one or the other. If we were to do that, we would want to do it together and it would be a memory that would last forever.
On the other hand, for our NEW sport, we will be doing basketball! Out of all the sports, we chose basketball because we thought it would be easy to go to a court, or even go outside and play and overall, it would be a very funny and interesting competition between us. Again, our busy schedules come into play. We decided that on 12/04/21 we ACTUALLY get together no matter what. We set aside this day to get our LAST sport documented, no matter what happens... we are DETERMINED that absolutely nothing will get in our way. Again, we are very disappointed to make the decision to not do any martial arts because we left the last sport to be the best sport, and of course, time ruined it once again. However, we feel that basketball is going to be very high energy and there will be no dull moments. So... STAY TUNED! Edited on 12/05/21: Looking back, correcting grammatical errors.
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This week, we were able to chill and focus on school work and deal with our new volleyball schedules. A lot of this week was figuring out how we would edit our videos and decide when to post them. Due to being busy and our schedules not lining up the way we would like them to, we have decided that we would not post our videos until Week 12. Although, we do have one of our golf videos out, (YOU SHOULD GO CHECK IT OUT, IT IS AWESOME) we have felt that it is best if we wait so that we know we have all the right material out for everybody to see. (Again, you should check under our sports tab to see the magic happen!) This is not what we had originally planned to do, and it is certainly not something that we want to do, but to keep everything organized and neat, we feel that it is best that we wait.
Lots of this week showed us that due to being busy 24/7, it is going to be difficult to make sure that things run as smoothly as possible. We are highly disappointed that we made the decision to not post until the last week, but again, it is for the good of our project. However, on the bright side, we have made lots of progress editing our videos the best way that we could. We shoot our videos on our iPhones, and then we use an editing app called "InShot." Very easy and smooth to use, highly recommend. Again, our videos are slowly coming along and they are looking pretty solid. We cannot wait to show you guys our final project! Overall Feelings: Hailey: "I can definitely say that I am very disappointed to announce that we will not be uploading videos until the last week. Our original plan was to document our progress with the sport that we had to do on that certain week, edit and post the videos. However, we both got caught up in our school work and volleyball and time caught up to us. Saying that, I have learned this week that you should NOT wait until last minute to do stuff.. do it as soon as you can so you do not have to worry about it (like we do, lol)." Melia: “I was very upset when I realized the videos were taking longer to edit than we expected. With our busy schedules, it was hard to incorporate editing our videos into our day. We will definitely get them edited and finished before Genius Hour is over, but we just cannot edit them in time like we originally planned to do. The videos are super entertaining and took a long time to edit, so everyone should definitely check them out!” Edited on 12/05/21: Looking back, correcting grammatical errors. On Saturday, 11/13/21, we went weight-lifting at Gym 365 in Advance. We had a very productive and fun time while at the gym. We competed in 3 different categories - Leg press, bench press, and back squats. Hailey won the leg press and bench press, and Melia won the back squats. While we were competing, we realized that we should do reps of three in order for us to complete that weight. While at the gym, we received some very important information from people and we met a world champion power-lifter. The guy that we met at the gym is a professional trainer and gave us some tips on our form as well as what shoes we should be wearing. He said that when lifting, you should be wearing shoes with a flat sole, such as vans or converse, or you could lift barefoot. We were wearing running shoes with a sole and when we took our shoes off, we could tell a significant difference in how we performed. While lifting, he showed us how our form should be and how to correct it. On benching, your arms should be close to your body, your feet should be on the floor, and you should lower the bar at your sternum. While squatting, you need to sit on your heels, go into a deep squat, and do not let your knees go inward. This was really helpful information for us as we have never been pros in the gym and needed some guidance. Overall Feelings: Hailey: "I would definitely say that weight-lifting has been my favorite sport so far. It was a great experience to meet a world champion power-lifter. I also got to learn a little bit about actual weight-lifting and the techniques behind it. I would rate this a 11/10 experience." Melia: "I really enjoyed weight-lifting. It is definitely something I would like to start getting into more even though I am going to start doing it often with volleyball. I maybe could have kept going and challenging Hailey, but I was pretty sore from volleyball practice the previous night. This experience was really fun as we met some friends who were super helpful and gave us tons of needed guidance." Edited on 12/05/21: Looking back, correcting grammatical errors. This weekend, 11/6-11/7, we did a bunch of work on editing our videos. We have been super behind in publishing our sport videos, so instead of recording another sport, we decided to take this week off and catch up. We finally posted our first golf video so if you have not seen it yet, please go check out our golfing skills. We have the 2nd part of our golf video still being edited, and we are still very unsure as of when we will have that video published. We are still trying super hard to edit these videos as fast as we can, but they have a ton of content in them so it takes a little longer than we expected. We also have to edit our tennis and fishing videos. We will post an update as to when those will posted. To see our sports videos, hover over the "Sports" tab at the top of our website and click on whichever sport you would like. We also have worked on our website as well. We edited grammatical and spelling errors on our blog posts, added pictures on our website, and added more content to the pages under the tabs at the top.
Melia: "I'm glad that this week was a chill week. I have been super stressed with school and it was nice to not have one more thing to do. But I am ready to get back at it and start our next sport." Hailey: "School has been stressful for me as well. Work has been piling up which is never a sign. Club volleyball has started and it will take some time getting into that new practice schedule, so having a chill week really helped calm my nerves. Our next sport will be weight-lifting which I am very excited about because it has been months since I have lifted!" Edited on 12/05/21: Looking back, correcting grammatical errors. |
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