level 4

Just a little background of our journey back to competition. At the end of last season our old gym wanted to move dd from level 3 to level 5 ( scoring out of 4 and the going 5) so she could eventually score out of 5 and go optional, but she fell doing a jump to high bar and broke her elbow...

States are coming up soon, and her highest score all season has been 8.3. She watched the video, and she doesn't see anything wrong. I don't see any obvious mistakes either. She says the coach doesn't give her many corrections at practices, or she just doesn't remember them, I don't know. If...

My daughter is currently Level 4/Xcel Silver. She has floor music. Trying to be proactive. Next year she will be Level 5 and Xcel. At what USAG Level do they get custom floor. I am trying to budget and decide, do we keep current floor music for another year or 2 or start thinking about...

If you watch this video of a lvl 4 floor routine, at 0:25, the girl runs forward a few steps with her arms extended in front, opening them as she moves forward before dropping to her side (there may be more technical terms for this that I am clueless about). Does anyone know if there is a...

Well DD had a successful State meet and in 3 weeks time since then has learned all of her level 4 routines... Or let's hope! I have not watched a single practice since states and have never seen her do a front handspring vault even... But her first level 4 meet is Saturday! Coach told me that...

At DD's meet this past weekend I saw the coach telling DD something after she finished her bars routine. I asked her later what the coach said. She said he told her she was "overhollow". She thinks he was talking about her tap swings. But I remember reading here that being hollow on tap swings...

Does anyone know the penalty/deduction for double blocking (hands touching vault table twice) on the level 4 front handspring vault? And also, thoughts on why this happens?

Can I be added to that social group? Please and thank you!

I know this is silly. I dont even have a video but here goes. DD has struggled with vault as so many other small athletes. She has improved a TON in the last 6 months. Her vault now has a good run, not the fastest but definitely fast. She has the arm circle. When she hits the table, she is...

This past weekend was my 8 yr old's first level 4 meet. I'm attaching her floor routine. Before I tell u her score, can you please critique it - don't feel the need to hold back. I know her straddle jump could've been higher and her back extension roll less archy. What else? Also, what would u...

Hello! My daughter is a new Level 4 this season. She is having a mental block after falling at practice and has "lost" her round off back handspring. So in competition this week she did a round off , stopped and then did 2 separate standing back handsprings with no connection. (For what it's...

I'm a geek. Which means that I like to know where deductions are being seen by the judges. Sometimes I can figure them out. Sometimes I can't. So I'd love for any judges or experiences coaches to give me their thoughts on the deductions and how they would score this routine. (Don't worry -...

This is a question for all those experienced gym parents. I've read many posts about the agony of the kip and the kip as a kind of threshhold skill. But I haven't seen the same kind of posts about the level 5 skills (clear hip, long hang pullover, esp.) Have I just been missing those? I'm...

I just watched a video of a girl at level 4 states. She did 3 backhandsprings, not 2. I rewound a few times to double check that I was seeing it right. I have no idea if she did it on purpose or what. Is this acceptable or not? A deduction?

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...

My son is asking for a list of the L4 compulsory elements/skills. I have looked around the USAG site and couldn't find anything, but I am really new at this stuff. Is there a list of these skills some place?

Is there a different skill that can be opted in instead of the BWO during L4 floor routine. I know I read on here that they can do a BHS on the beam instead of the BWO at L5. Just wondering if there was a different skill that could be done here as well. My DD back is hurting her during this...

Our 4s and 5s train together. Can the 4s chose their last pose in the floor routine as well? I see some of the girls ending with something like the beginning of a Valdez, with 2 feet and one arm on the floor . Can a level 4 use that end pose?

My DD is having a hard time getting her kip on the high bar. She swears it is different then the kip on the low bar. I have watched and watched all the other girls and I see no difference. My thoughts are that from her squat on, she isn't jumping to the high bar, but leaning into it...

I am sure that this might be on here, but can not find anything recent. My now 12 yr old dd competed the old L4 and highest score was a 34.75, she left the gym for about 15 months and decided to get back into it. So when she returned she had a chance to compete after only being in the gym for...