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Ok, it was intersquad and there was only one judge, but it was still fun and I am still proud. Our season doesn't officially start until late January so this was an assessment and divisional placement meet. DD scored highest in beam and tied for highest on vault. It was the best vault I had...

When we switched gyms we tried out a USAG gym. It was too far to realistically drive so we went with a closer gym that has a TAAF team and a USAG team. At the time we joined the gym wasn't accepting younger gymnasts onto USAG so we continued with TAAF. We let the coach know up front that USAG...

My daughter basically was allowed at our previous gym to teach herself her BHS. When I finally learned enough about gymnastics to know this was not a good thing and for various other reasons we changed gyms. This gym is working on fixing her BHS. It could be the most painfully slow thing I have...

I have asked about leaps before but last night I was talking to DD's coach and she said she believed the issue was just that DD had not connected how to make her legs do what they need to do. She believes she CAN do it, she just hasn't figured out how to do it. It is frustrating DD to no end...

We had a sudden gym change mid-season last year. We found 2 gyms, one we loved and one we liked. We chose the 2nd because of the drive. Even that one is a 45 minute drive (I live in the middle of nowhere). Anyways, rules are, if you move mid-season you don't get to finish competing the season. I...

DD is being moved up to level 4 training group. While I am sure that competing at level 4 is contingent on having all of the skills, she seems to be well on her way :)

Oh my word, I know that she needs the extra calories and I know that because of what we eat (we eat a lot of local) that I am asking for a bigger bill, but the kid will not stop eating LOL! I have also noticed that she grazes more than she used to, but wants to eat fairly often, every 2 hours or...

I am just curious to see if this is something that your gymnast has problems with? DD can do an ok standing split jump, she has her splits on 1 leg and nearly on the other, but when she does a split leap her back leg barely comes off the floor. My thought is maybe it is a strength thing? Maybe...

I posted a few weeks back about my DD having trouble undercutting her back handspring. We chose to go to private lessons with a personal friend who happened to work at our gym previously. In 3 lessons he corrected the problem that the gym hasn't been able to correct in 6 months. It isn't perfect...

My poor girl is seriously undercutting her back handspring and as a result almost always collapses her arms. Especially when she starts from standing. She is getting very discouraged and frankly, I am not sure I can keep watching it. We have her going through some private tumbling classes but if...

This is my DD's 2nd year of competition team but first year competing for placement. In her first meet she was placed into division 7 with an AA of 31.5. My understanding was that if she scored a 32 or higher two different meets she would be moved into the division that matched her scores...

This was our second meet but our first placement meet. My DD did not do well at her achievement meet and ended up in division 7 and was the only girl on her team not to medal. She was sad but decided she needed to work hard and improve. I am proud of her for all the hard work and it paid off...

I hate posting this since I only just recently posted a vent, but we got a new team girl about 2 weeks ago. Sweet little girl. She came from a gym that has seen several of the girls quit and move over to our current gym, including us. She was so traumatized from her team experience there that...

Well, it can definitely be prettied up, but she consistently completes the skill now! #proudgymmom

I am new to the gym mom thing only being in my second year, but I am curious to know if our gym is typical. I was given the level 3 team mom title, my role being to help orientate parents who are new to the gym as well as help the other team moms arrange team events. When I came in as a pre-team...

and is it called open gym? DD asked if she could maybe make it to one since she will miss several practices, but I looked on the website of a gym local to where we would be and couldn't figure out if I was just looking at the wrong thing or if they didn't have it.

DD got to ring the bell for her FHC today. It isn't terribly consistent yet, but she really wanted this skill so has spent extra time on the bars. We are headed out of town and will miss a few practices so I let her go in today for an extra class and she did it! I'm almost sure she will need...

I am getting mixed reviews from other team parents about whether power tumbling is worth it. My daughter is an 8 year old new level 3. She is doing fantastic considering that she has been in gymnastics less than a year. However, she is noticing, especially now that she has moved from pre-team to...

We got involved in team sort of suddenly last year. I was in a complete ignorant dream world and now that I know a bit more and know where my daughter hopes to be (for the time being) in terms of goals, we are considering if we should change gyms. I just want some advice, affirmation, whatever...

We had our last level 2 meet today for my 8 year old gymnast. She has been doing gymnastics for a total of about 6 months. She has been having trouble with her back hip circle and decided a few weeks ago that she was going to have it by the last meet. She worked hard during class and even stayed...