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Short Stack had a meet on Saturday. She tied for first on beam with a 9.075. Due to her all-around score (she placed 12th or 13th on all other events. Beam is consistently her strongest event) she placed second. She came to me and said, "OH! if I got my handstand on the end of the beam all the...

What is a kip handstand? Not a kip cast I heard of that one, but a kip handstand? Is there a difference? On beam, is a tick tock more difficult than a BWO? Or less? Thanks

Hi, my daughter completely had a brain freeze and after she did her low bar kip, she then did her mini giant (which is supposed to be on the high bar) but she did it on the low bar then she realized her goof and just got off the bars confused what to do next. The coaches brought the spring...

on the L3 bar routine, does anyone know what the "requirement" is for the "tap" they do with their feet on the mat before they do the pullover? DD is very short and after she does the initial swing thing (not sure what it's called) she very quickly swings back then swings forward to do her...

Does anyone have one for home use? Is it worth having one? DD wants one for Christmas.

DD is competing l 7 for the second time. Hopefully moves up during meet season. She was asking if this routine has a 10 SV now that she finally has a giant. Kip. Pike on jump to HB. Kip cast HS or at least to above 45. Clear Hip to 45 Giant Giant Flyaway. I think this is missing an A. Is that...

So three of my kids tied for first place on bars at state with each other, That's a first! :)

Quick question: Can you perform the toe on hecht from low bar to high bar in a straddled position in JO (feet straddled on the bar)? It specifies only piked sole circle to toe hecht to high bar in the COP. If you can not be straddled, would the skill lose VP or incur some sort of 0.3 deduction?

Just curious.... Is there a list that shows "easiest to most difficult" (if that's a real thing)? And when did your DD's start training them? And when can they compete said release moves? And any other "need to know" info... Thanks!

I've recently joined the Chalk Bucket community and see lots of parents posting videos and asking for critiques. We would love if someone would help us out by judging my DDs lvl 5 bars routine. The score she received was not what we were expecting so we're interested in obtaining some advice...

Now that I'm no longer doing competitive gymnastics do I dare ask this question. Is having gymnasts hang from the high bar as a punishment something that your gym does? This was common practice in the competitive team groups at my gym. Girls would have to hang for things such as falling and...

just curious of the reasons coaches will choose to do one dismount as appears to the other...originally, the girls were working on the feet on the bar/shoot off (excuse my lack of knowledge of terms! Lol) they have changed the dismount they are doing to a cast->hips on the bar->shoot off. Is...

That was some intense competition! Especially between Mustafina and Kocian. What did everyone think?

While healing a sprained ankle, DD is getting extra time on the strap bar working her giants. Unfortunately the straps are starting to dig in. She wears wristbands, but she's still getting cuts along the side of the palm Would tape help this? She says no, but she's known to not want to do...

I do a lot of strap bar training with my girls, especially now that we're training new skills more often, and I know the importance of removing all the chalk from the bar before using it for strap work. Unfortunately, this same bar is used frequently with chalk during boys classes. This means I...

On Men's high bar, every so often someone's grip locks up, and often they break their wrist or worse. It seems to happen on eagle giants most. Why does this happen? What can be done to avoid it?

DD came home the other day and told me that she "graduated" to the bigger setting on bars. Her gym seems to mostly keep their bars on two different settings (2 sets of bars, although they sometimes change them around). I am curious about her use of the word graduated. The bars she has...

My daughter is pinging off the bars right before she goes into her piked jeager. This started happening recently. During the summer and beginning of the season, she was catching her jeager quite regularly and did not ping off the bars at all. She was injured right around her first meet of the...

My daughter completes xcel gold...the last 2 meets she has received a 9.5 start value. Her cast seems above horizontal (slightly pikey- but still above horizontal) . Her tap swings could be a little higher. She does a tap swing half turn (L4) dismount. Is there any way that they are not...

So proud of my girl today.... she competed today - bars only. I'm like a broken record - she can't compete anything else due to her tear in her knee. I thought she was amazing despite the little fall (ok big fall) on her gienger. Had she been a little closer to the bar...LOL she might have...