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I'm a long time lurker who needs some words of encouragement. DD is 10, just started training level 5. She's now setting the gymnastics world on fire, but she loves it, loves the gym, looks forward to every practice and if she's happy, then I'm happy. : ) But this week she's not happy...

I am a frequent lurker, but had to, just had to post this! DD hasn't managed a clean bar routine all year. She's level 4 and hasn't had an easy go of bars this year. Even though she's gotten all the elements at one point or another she hasn't pulled them all together into one routine. It's...

We just got DDs meet schedule. Our gym is relatively relaxed and I know from last year's experience that they don't expect the girls to compete at every meet. There are 9 meets on the schedule - which DD got to before I did! She thinks 9 meets sounds great! I think it is a bit much. She...

DD went to her first state meet tonight. We weed prepared by the coaches not to expect much, they said the judges tend to be harder and we knew the competition would be stiff. I think DD did a great job! She was at vault first and scored an 8.55. Reasonable start. Next was bars, which...

Hi there! I'm a mom to an 8 year old level 4 gymnast. Well, she's technically not going to level 4 until after her states in level 3 this weekend! :) After that the summer team schedule starts and she'll be a 4 officially. I've been lurking here for months, time to come out of the...