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My daughter is level 4 and really wants to improve her jumps. She is super flexible. Has oversplits on both legs and center split full down. She has been working on jumps and leg conditioning at home for quite a bit now with only minor improvements. There are 2 girls on her team with amazing...

My daughter competed copper USAIGC this season. It's the only program offered in our gym. Lately I've been having some issues with coaching and safety at her gym. She has been struggling with learning the handspring vault and needs that for the next level. On all other equipment she is at bronze...

My daughter's gym seems to be plagued with ankle injuries lately. In her group of about 14 girls we have had 5 or more ankle injuries. We have a 7 yo who fractured hers doing backhandsprings on a tumble track (this girl could do them on floor) and has reinjured hers 3 more times since. The...

My daughter has been progressing in every area except vault. The coach wants to move her to the next level but can't seem to get her to handspring vault over the table. She has a good run but it doesn't seem to translate to the board. Unfortunately she has never had the opportunity to work with...

for salt for her hands. At first he was confused but then realized she wanted chalk. We all got a good laugh out of it, I love little kids. I'm still not sure if she thinks you salt your hands or if she was just having trouble pronouncing chalk.

My 7yo came to me yesterday asking me to crack her back. I told her no because I figured there was no way that that could be healthy or good for her in any way. Then she tells me that it's ok, that her coach does it for her when she needs it. I'm still not doing it for her, it's just gross and...

More recently I've gotten to know our gym owner. During our conversation he brought up the fact that he did not like his gymnasts to go to summer camps. His reasoning is that he works all year to reinforce form and technique and then girls go to camp and come back with all that work destroyed...

Does anyone have a preference? I'm worried about them feeling too bulky on her. I can get golden hands for a lot less because they offer seconds but I don't want to do that if I'm just going to have to go back and buy tiger paws anyway. She won't be wearing these all the time just when they are...

Do the kids of your coaches train like everyone else in set groups or whenever they want? I ask because at our gym our coaches kids are allowed to join any class they want to practice whenever they want and I was wondering if that is the norm. It just makes it hard for other kids to compete...

I posted a week or two ago about my daughters struggle with vault. This has been ongoing for quite a long time (6 months or more). They only practice vault every other week and she was only averaging 15 or so vaults on the weeks they did do vault. Well it finally clicked at Saturday's practice...

My daughter has been doing great in every other area except vault. I would love to know of some home exercises she could work on to help. The coach says her run and jump are fine. She also has a great handstand flat back. She seems to have a problem getting her butt up over her head sometimes...

I've been watching my dd's gymnastics class and it seems they are all over the place in skills. I'll give an example for floor but it happens on bars and floor not so much on beam and vault. They are working on front walkovers, back walkovers, front handsprings, back handsprings, front tucks...

My dd is 5yo and new to gymnastics and I know almost nothing about gymnastics. I've had lots of parents comment on her skills and ask how long she's been doing gymnastics and then they always say " she's got the perfect body for gymnastics". What exactly does that mean? She is short and stocky...

I'm clueless when it comes to gymnastics so I was wondering if it matters what leg a child uses to lead in gymnastics. More specifically my 5yo learned her roundoff, cartwheel, and backwalkover a year ago from watching her older sister who is an all star cheerleader. She leads in her cartwheel...

I just signed my 3yo and 5yo dds up for gymnastics. They have only had 1 class but they are loving it. They both seem to like the bars the best so far. I know absolutely nothing about gymnastics so I'm hoping to learn here. I also have a 17yo dancer who has just went off to college and a 8yo all...