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I'm pretty sure I'm overthinking this but opinion are welcomed.
My daughter is 4, 5 in a couple of weeks. Like any 4 year old, she wants to be the best. Not college level best but Olympic lol. She's definitely not a gymnastics prodigy but i think she pretty good. For the sake of this post I'll mention some of her skills and what she is like as a person.
She has been on preteam since she was about 3.5 and has her glide swing, pullover, cast, backhip circle. Beam, she can do a lot but it needs work. Definitely need fine tuning. She is super inconsistent with her handstand flatback vault. On floor she has cartwheel, round off, handstand (can hold it a few seconds), backwards roll to push up on wedge, bridge kickover on wedge (super close on floor), close to her middle and reg spilts, decent spilt jump.
She's pretty strong as well. Super close to a straddle press to handstand, can climb the rope in pike a few feet, can do multiple leg raises on the ladders , unassisted pullup, can hold all of the bar holds.
She sets goals for herself, remembers them, and achieves them. She works on flexibility at home, without me asking. Everyday she doesn't have class, she's working on her kickover. Thats the next thing shes determined to learn. After that she plans to work on her straddle press.
Ok, background is taken care of lol. That was long. Here's the issue. The current preteam she is on that uptrained (worked on bhs, cast handstands, ect) is ending and shes moving to the normal preteam. Due to her age, they aren't moving her to level 2. they are allowing anyone her age on level 2. Dad and I are ok with that due to the length of level 2 class but we aren't so happy with the advanced preteam ending. She on the other hand, really wants to go to level 2 and decided she going to talk to her coaches about it.
I'm not sure what i should do in this situation. Should i let her talk to her coaches? Should i bring it up to them? Should i be there with her? Should i let them know she really wants to continue the TOPS style training and possibly test when she's older? I feel like since its her pushing it, she should be the one asking about it, but again, she's 4.
I'm pretty sure I'm overthinking this but opinion are welcomed.
My daughter is 4, 5 in a couple of weeks. Like any 4 year old, she wants to be the best. Not college level best but Olympic lol. She's definitely not a gymnastics prodigy but i think she pretty good. For the sake of this post I'll mention some of her skills and what she is like as a person.
She has been on preteam since she was about 3.5 and has her glide swing, pullover, cast, backhip circle. Beam, she can do a lot but it needs work. Definitely need fine tuning. She is super inconsistent with her handstand flatback vault. On floor she has cartwheel, round off, handstand (can hold it a few seconds), backwards roll to push up on wedge, bridge kickover on wedge (super close on floor), close to her middle and reg spilts, decent spilt jump.
She's pretty strong as well. Super close to a straddle press to handstand, can climb the rope in pike a few feet, can do multiple leg raises on the ladders , unassisted pullup, can hold all of the bar holds.
She sets goals for herself, remembers them, and achieves them. She works on flexibility at home, without me asking. Everyday she doesn't have class, she's working on her kickover. Thats the next thing shes determined to learn. After that she plans to work on her straddle press.
Ok, background is taken care of lol. That was long. Here's the issue. The current preteam she is on that uptrained (worked on bhs, cast handstands, ect) is ending and shes moving to the normal preteam. Due to her age, they aren't moving her to level 2. they are allowing anyone her age on level 2. Dad and I are ok with that due to the length of level 2 class but we aren't so happy with the advanced preteam ending. She on the other hand, really wants to go to level 2 and decided she going to talk to her coaches about it.
I'm not sure what i should do in this situation. Should i let her talk to her coaches? Should i bring it up to them? Should i be there with her? Should i let them know she really wants to continue the TOPS style training and possibly test when she's older? I feel like since its her pushing it, she should be the one asking about it, but again, she's 4.
