My daughter is 6 years old, only been doing gymnastics for 2 years and currently training for Level 2 comp season in the JO program. She learns very fast, and was very successful competing the new Level 1 for 2013-2014 season, with first All-around at every comp including the State Championship. She was also first on Beam and Floor, at every comp. She finished with an AA score in the top 3% for all athletes, all levels (1-10) out of 698 competitors at State. She learns very visually, and for that reason thrives when working with older girls that she can watch and emulate. Our reason for considering the switch to Xcel, despite her success, is due to her getting very bored in class, greatly wanting to do more difficult skills; not enjoying having the same routine as everyone; and what she says, to her, is slow progress, to the point of possibly wanting to quit. She is greatly advanced on beam and floor (compared to level 2 skills). However, although she has done very well, her weaker event is bars, because she needs more upper body strength, according to her coaches, in order for her to advance in that event, at the same rate as the rest of her skills. Despite everyone' s attempts to explain that strength comes with time and repetitive strenght training and to just be patient, she is so used to skills coming so easy, that she has been broken, mentally and emotionally by having strength training holding her progress up. Her coaches suggested Xcel as a means of allowing her the ability to compete higher level (higher than level 2) skills on floor, beam, and vault, while working on her upper body strength and competing bars to the level she is currently at. It all sounds great and like a perfect solution, I just worry because I know she hopes to do gymnastics very long term, with Olympic dreams. Will she have trouble transitioning back to JO program, to do so, and will the swap, now to Xcel, inhibit her training for upper level optionals, in any way?