Emily connected her kip/front hip tonight 4 times:) brag alert:)

[Blackie6]

Congrats to Emily! I think L5 will be a piece of cake for her! I love mommy brags, especially from everyone still doing meets. The only thing we are doing now is conditioning, not too much to brag about there.

[melmonette]

Lol... on the hijack... I brought it up being that I started talking about meets and 1st years and 2nd years competing together in them.
In Kansas, they don't break the girls up by 1st years or 2nd years even though parents think they should for fairness. They do it by age group. Emily's age group is 8 this year in which 95% of the girls she is up against are all second year level 4s because it seems that most teams didn't move up any of the 7 year olds from the previous year. It is pretty unfair for the 1st year level 4s who are 8 this year too and our team has 5 of them and they are not placing as well in big meets do to this fact. So to answer the question... it is only broken up by age groups and not how many years a girl has been at that level. We have two girls on our team that are on their 3rd year level 4. One is running the 10 year old group in the meets. She should have been a 5 but wasn't catching the high bar so had to compete level 4 again. Hopefully this next year she will finally grab that high bar. She is so ready for level 5

[gymmomntc2e6]

I think my dd might have a rough L4 as she will be an 8 yr old first year L4 and it seems like there are a lot of those.

Oh, well.

[Megley]

Congratulations to Emily! That is fantastic! She will be having a great Level 5 year. I have mixed feelings about my dd moving to Level 5 as she is very young and is still working on getting her kip. She does have a straight arm front hip, but I know that connecting it to the kip is difficult.

Our State works the same way vis a vis second year Level 4s. Everything is broken down by age so a lot of first year Level 4s have to compete against girls who are repeating. This is very tough in the 8 yo division in particular.

Anyway, congrats to Emily!

Meg

[mariposamama]

how did i miss this?? wow, great job emily. look out level 5, here comes emily!

[melmonette]

Thank you all again