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Long hang pullover from swing can count as circling SR at silver and gold. Must be out of a cast for platinum+.

Also my snarky side just can’t take …”like, is it really that hard to do one more pass!?”….from a 27 year old women. I’ll just ok boomer myself out of here…

I don’t understand a gymnast criticizing other gymnasts for playing to their strengths, doing what scores well and helps them stay healthy… I loved Natalie Wojcik’s response

Yes the second coach is correct. Level 6 requirements don’t specifying direction of tumbling, just need one pass with three elements then second pass with salto. But, yes, level 7 does require both forward and backward, so would not be unusual for a gym to expect their level 6‘s to also have...

If she can do level 3 and 4 skills I would assume they are training them? In the next year your daughter will spend about 15-20 hours competing and likely 300-400 hours training. Being challenged in training is much more important when it comes to keeping kids engaged and not bored.

Add level 9 can only receive D +0.10 difficulty bonus for acro on beam and floor. No D/E bonus for dance elements.

The start value is 10. She gets +0.1 bonus for the B+C acro series and +0.2 for the C+C dance series. The missing additional C acro is an acro not up to level compositional deduction of 0.1 (routine has no dance or dismount composition deductions). It is of course up to each gym/coach, but It is...

No, to receive B(or C or D for higher level skills) credit for leaps/jumps that require 180 split, just must be at least 135. It is the same for USAG levels 6-10.

The split jump can be the B in your beam as long as hits 135 degrees.

As others said, the circle in the Platinum bar special requirements doesn’t have to be a B(an A circle like a back or front hip fulfills the circle requirement) just need one B in the routine. An uprise or a flyaway with twist are the most common B’s I see in Platinum routines that don’t have a...

Emily Lee competed her entire gymnastics career at West Valley until she left for UCLA. Cieno Alipio the same until she left for Midwest during Covid. They were both elites, and members of the National Team, while training at West Valley.

Judges like routines that gymnasts enjoy performing. Whatever style best suits you is what you should do!

USAG has recently released the follow policy: https://static.usagym.org/PDFs/About%20USA%20Gymnastics/transgender_policy.pdf

Yes, a skill can be used twice as long as in a different connection.

Like everyone said, the special requirement is a 1/2 turn, any technique is fine for getting credit. I think what you all are describing is called a Higgins roll in the code? It’s in same box as the classic pirouette. The execution deduction of up to 0.3 for angle of completion is determined...

Code says “if a dance or acro is performed that cannot be specifically found in the xcel code of points, the judge may award comparable value part credit if they can recognize the “root” element.” If I saw a one armed round-off dismount judging a meet I would apply this and give it same value...

You can find quite a bit of deduction info on the sheets posted on the USAG website here: https://usagym.org/pages/women/pages/jooptionals.html Though this is developmental program info, execution deductions are fairly universal across xcel/compulsory(and even other competitive programs) too...

Yes, it is my understanding will be national.

Yes, so judges and timers know when routine ends.

It’s 0.05 if don’t hold 1 second. But some coaches may tell their kids longer to make sure they hold it.