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msl529
Hi all,
My dd has been doing Artistic USAG for 4 years now, just finished L6 season. We just moved from FL to TX, where, after one month at her new gym, she decided to take a break from competitive gymnastics (I have posted about this a bunch in the parent forum, sorry if it's repetitive to you all!). She did not feel comfortable w/ one of the coaches at her new gym here, so we left there, and put her in a tumbling class at a brand-new gym in our town. It's a 'teen tumbling' class, mostly teenage girls trying to get their BHS for cheer try-outs. But the coach has individualized really nicely for my dd, and she is working on tumbling skills more like USAG artistic L7/8, and some tramp stuff too.
This gym is starting up an Artisitc USAG Girls' team next week(new girls' coach coming then-have not met her yet). The deal is, that dd will try the team out for a couple of months, before she decides if she's truly ready to quit competitive artistic gymnastics.
Lately, she's been saying that if she decides to quit artistic, then she'll just take the tumbling class a couple of days a week, as she likes the lower time committment and loves to tumble. My thing for her has always been that she needs to keep active, as she is a wiggly kid (13 years, 7th grade, btw) and a competitive situation would also be good for her, as she LOVES to compete (always has, since day one, way back in L4). So a little ol' rec tumbling class is not going to cut it, IMO. She'll get bored and needs some more challenge.
To make a long story longer, lol(sorry!), yesterday dd told me that one of the tumbling coaches has been trying to recruit her for the power tumbling (and maybe tramp too, I'm not sure) team that he is trying to get the owners to start up at this gym. I will have to inquire as to wether they truly are going to start up a t/t/power tumble team or not. But we DO have a few other gyms here in the Dallas/Ft worth area that do this, so she could go elswhere if she chose to do it.
So our next question is: What is all this? I did the research I could on USAG's website about it, but I still don't know what it looks like in 'real life'. i.e.: how often do they practice, when is competition season, how many meets are generally done, do they do all events or just one, do they separate-out by level and age group like artistic, or just age....etc., etc.,???? I want to get an idea of what our daily life would be like doing this and what competing is like.
Sorry for the long post, but I wanted to give you some background. Thanks for any input you could give!
My dd has been doing Artistic USAG for 4 years now, just finished L6 season. We just moved from FL to TX, where, after one month at her new gym, she decided to take a break from competitive gymnastics (I have posted about this a bunch in the parent forum, sorry if it's repetitive to you all!). She did not feel comfortable w/ one of the coaches at her new gym here, so we left there, and put her in a tumbling class at a brand-new gym in our town. It's a 'teen tumbling' class, mostly teenage girls trying to get their BHS for cheer try-outs. But the coach has individualized really nicely for my dd, and she is working on tumbling skills more like USAG artistic L7/8, and some tramp stuff too.
This gym is starting up an Artisitc USAG Girls' team next week(new girls' coach coming then-have not met her yet). The deal is, that dd will try the team out for a couple of months, before she decides if she's truly ready to quit competitive artistic gymnastics.
Lately, she's been saying that if she decides to quit artistic, then she'll just take the tumbling class a couple of days a week, as she likes the lower time committment and loves to tumble. My thing for her has always been that she needs to keep active, as she is a wiggly kid (13 years, 7th grade, btw) and a competitive situation would also be good for her, as she LOVES to compete (always has, since day one, way back in L4). So a little ol' rec tumbling class is not going to cut it, IMO. She'll get bored and needs some more challenge.
To make a long story longer, lol(sorry!), yesterday dd told me that one of the tumbling coaches has been trying to recruit her for the power tumbling (and maybe tramp too, I'm not sure) team that he is trying to get the owners to start up at this gym. I will have to inquire as to wether they truly are going to start up a t/t/power tumble team or not. But we DO have a few other gyms here in the Dallas/Ft worth area that do this, so she could go elswhere if she chose to do it.
So our next question is: What is all this? I did the research I could on USAG's website about it, but I still don't know what it looks like in 'real life'. i.e.: how often do they practice, when is competition season, how many meets are generally done, do they do all events or just one, do they separate-out by level and age group like artistic, or just age....etc., etc.,???? I want to get an idea of what our daily life would be like doing this and what competing is like.
Sorry for the long post, but I wanted to give you some background. Thanks for any input you could give!