Recent content by tennismom4

Hello again everyone! DD is 7 and made the "new" level 3 team. She is a powerful little kid, freakishly strong and has picked up things quickly (she just started gymnastics this time last year) so far so good.....and she has zero confidence in herself and it's beginning to wear on me. I know...

...and Geoffrey - my goal is for her to confidently go into her floor routine - not get blown into the parking lot outside by the mega bass! :) Do you use a hand truck for that?

Thank you everyone for responding and for some of you for trying to track down someone to offer insight. This is new for us, new for her coaches/gym and well, I guess we'll just figure it out as we go along. I did talk to someone from the USAgymnastics for our state and they told me alert the...

sounds like she's just being 6 1/2 ?? :) My kid is, I guess a new level 3 & she's 7. When I go watch her, by the time hour 2 passes, you can see all the little girls (under 8-9yrs) start to really get wiggly. If your daughter is doing 9 hrs a week, that's alot of time for an little one...

I can't handle the cracking of her back when she goes into a bridge @ home.

Grips are the things they wear while on the uneven bars - yes? Are they optional or a standard thing to have? My new gymnast is sportin' some manly looking calluses and one tore off tonight so her hand was taped.

Happychaos thank you for your post. It's *very* helpful - especially arriving a bit earlier and her realizing that not all eyes will be on her. That is a big issue at the moment - she is fearful for everyone staring at her & laughing (especially for floor) since she is deaf she is convinced...

wow ladies - so much information! Ohhh boy what did I just get myself into? :p I'm going to make an assumption that I should probably leave the 4yr old brother home? It sounds like a meet day is alot of hunkering down and passing time....

thanks for the replies everyone! your answers have put me (and my daughter) at ease knowing that she won't be blown out of the water the first day she competes. My goal for her is kinda like you Muchkin3 - she is such a "get lost in the crowd" type that success for me is her just going out...

I apologize for being 100% clueless with reguards to gymnastics. This is all new to me - every aspect! My kid was placed on a level 3 team a few weeks ago. This is her first time being on a team...when I watch the few minutes I'm there - the 3 team is huge (to me) 15-20 girls and they range...

thank you everyone! This is new ground for all of us, I don't expect special rules for her - I just don't know what say to the coach who is looking for my lead on how to handle this. I think the hand signals are a great idea Coach Goofy! Txgymfan thank you for the offer of connecting one of...

This is my daughter's first year of doing gymnastics and she made a level 3 team for the fall. Does she have to use the music that is with the floor routine? She's deaf so she can't hear it. Is scoring partially based on keeping time with the music? Her coach has never coached a deaf/HOH kid...