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Look into the Cho-Pat knee straps. A couple of my daughter's teammates have used them. Might be easier than taping every practice! https://cho-pat.com/products/knee/original-knee-strap/

Always love this blog, but being in the midst of my daughter retiring right now brought some happy/sad tears as I read this tonight: https://annejosephson.wordpress.com/2015/07/02/my-10-hopes-for-gymnasts-retiring/

Sorry raenndrops but you are definitely wrong about not being identifiable. I do not know you personally nor have I ever conversed with you by PM, but you have revealed enough info previously that I know who you are and what gym you are associated with. Not to be stalker-ish, but it is...

The meet you are looking at did live scoring through MeetScoresOnline (which is where MyMeetScores pulls a lot of their info). There was definitely an issue with MeetScoresOnline where some of the session results are from this year and some are from last year - thus the crazy number of girls...

My nieces are not on team but have taken classes and done camps at Loudoun Gymnastics for several years and they love it there!

My two kids and I all got the mist earlier this week and have had no negative effects whatsoever. This is the first year I have gotten the vaccine in probably 10 years. Lesson learned - last year I got the flu and it was the most sick I have ever been in my life. I'm an otherwise healthy...

Dang! Sorry Bog - I have a wide shot of warmups. Nothing too exciting or close up yet.

usagym.org has a live feed embedded on their site http://usagym.org/pages/events/nlc/live.html

Simone's double double beam dismount: <iframe title="Simone Biles throws a DOUBLE DOUBLE OFF BEAM!!" width="420" height="240" src="http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/ODI2NzI0NjU3?related=1&autoplay=false" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen scrolling="no"></iframe><p><a...

She has some 7 skills (bhs on low beam - they haven't tried moving to high beam yet, floor is fine, vault is vault) but our gym's philosophy seems to be to perfect the level you compete and work on drills to lead up to the next level skills. Then at the end of the season and over the summer...

MaryA - I think the uptraining thing is my biggest problem. Right now her team is learning new, higher level skills, but when the new training groups start in a few weeks, her new group will mostly be girls moving from old L5 that have not yet learned the skills she has already competed. So, I...

Ok, having a crazy gym mom moment and I need to vent! My DD competed L6 this past season and did fairly well. We get official placements for next year in a few weeks, however I found out from her coaches already that she is being placed in the 5/6 group for next year. This means she will...

Two suggestions - Joshua Tree Gymnasts Salve - www.jtreelife.com Good for prevention and treatment of rips. The other suggestion and it sounds weird but works - Preparation H ointment

http://usagym.org/pages/women/events/jocompulsories/pdfs/feature_preparepoc.pdf Page 3 of this powerpoint doc from USAG has the proposed list of value part requirements. As others have said, the special requirements for each level will not be released until May, but this is the latest I have...

http://usagym.org/PDFs/Women/Junior%20Olympics/JOCompUpdateNovDec2012.pdf The link above shows how the current level names correspond to the new level names and shows allowable value parts for optionals. Looks like the value parts and allowable skills stay pretty much the same (with the...

I second dunno's suggestion!

We have schedules so far for our first 3 meets this year.......... first meet is next weekend 2 states and 5 1/2 hours away on Friday afternoon, second meet is 5:00 Sunday evening 6 hours away, 3rd meet is 11:00 am Friday. Luckily my dd is a great student and all around good kid. She leaves...

Melody leos are great and Mel's customer service is wonderful! She even has a repair policy for popped seams and missing jewels within a certain time after your purchase. You will not be disappointed!

Here is a link to the compulsory penalties from USAG that is helpful: http://usagym.org/PDFs/Women/Junior%20Olympics/penalties_sectionrev.pdf As others have said, height of casts and swings is a biggie in level 6. Not only does it have to be above horizontal, it has to be at least 30 degrees...

I'm a preschool/rec coach. Just found out last week that one of our 3 year olds (who just turned 3 less than 2 months ago) is doing classes at 4 different area gyms on 4 different days of the week including once a week privates at our gym plus a 3 hour cheer class on Saturday........... To...