Recent content by ponisto

My daughter if feeling really desperate and I don't know how to help her. DD (12 years) has been doing gymnastics for five years, currently 15-18 hours a week and she STILL has major problems with her middle body/upper body strenght. She is not able to do rope (without legs), press handstand or...

You could ask, if the club has also a semicompetitive (ns. harrastekilparyhmä) team. These semicompetitive teams practice usually 3 times a week and it not so serious if you sometimes miss a practice. At least the the club where my kids practice in Finland (one of the biggest in Southern...

The Finnish scoring system with categories is really hard and it can be demotivating some times. If I were you, I would look at your girls performance from a judge's point of view. If your girls would in your opinion score below 6 only in one (or max two) event but they would perform a lot...

From coaching point of view I would hold them in level B. However, I understand that the girls may be eager to move up to level C. As a judge you know that they scores will most probably be level I in the Finnish system (if the girls are still having troubles in beam, vault and also bars, the...