aspiringymnastmom
Proud Parent
It seems like a lot of the gyms in our area skip L6? And go straight from 5 to 7.. Why would they do that? Wouldn't it be better to advance kids a level a year and get super high scores?
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Dd's gym does L5 and L7, but no L6. I think it varies how gyms handle this, but I think either path can be fine. In some areas, having available competition can drive the decisions. I have seen on other posts here that there has been a huge decline in the number of gyms competing L5 in certain areas, so that can be challenging in finding meets with good competition.
Makes me wonder why they aren't doing 7 then.......In our state there is very few gyms competing level five any more. Almost all have switched to level six and score out of five. Like others have said there is just very little competition so not really worth it. Level six on the other hand is robust and competitive with very little bare bones routines and many kids competing backhandsprings and connected dismounts on beam, connected front tumbling and layouts on floor and Giants and full height cast handstands on bars.
Level 6 tends to be full of upgraded routines nationwide. We traveled a lot for my dds level 6, and very rarely did we not see the majority of the girls doing harder skills. Almost every girl out there had connected beam dismounts. If a girl was very advanced in many areas, it probably meant they were missing Giants.