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    WAG Summer accomplishments

    My older daughter (level 9) is recovering from shoulder surgery, gets sling off in a week. She misses gymnastics so much and can't wait to get back. Doctor said 6 months recovery, so we still have a long time :(. My younger daughter training level 7 and trying to get giants. Sometimes she gets...
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    WAG Ugh.. Torn labrum - shoulder

    My level 9 daughter, age 15, had several instances of shoulder "moving" when she did vault and bars, and some pain associated with it. It only started happening in the last two weeks, no previous shoulder problems. Club coach thought it was just "tendon moving", HS coach sent her to the trainer...
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    WAG Tell me about the underdogs

    No college, or elite here, but here is a story of my younger daughter. She struggled with bars for many years, took 2-3 years for a consistent straight arm kip, repeated level 4, only handful of times scoring above 8.0 in compulsories on bars. Was level 6 and progressing when Covid hit... After...
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    WAG Tell me about the underdogs

    Thanks for sharing! My daughter is sophomore level 9, and starting talking about college recently. We both understand that it's a high goal (long shot), but you just never know!
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    Parents Problems with tumbling

    I am very late to reply, and I loved to see good update, but wanted to say that my daughter had the same issue in level 8. All of a sudden one meet she couldn't land any tumbling. She had a very emotional practice before that meet saying "nothing works", and I thought she was being too dramatic...
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    Parents Mental recovery from bad meets

    Absolutely send her to practice, it will help her move on. I had been where you are many times, one time my daughter scored 4 on bars. We now laugh about it, and she wishes that I video taped that whole disaster of a routine (it was so long that my battery dies). We usually don't really talk...
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    WAG Huge life changes... again!

    We are in region 5! You seem like such a great coach.
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    Large gym-crazy family

    Hello, I had been following chalkbucket for a very-very long time, I remember when dunno was an expert here. We are very large family, have 6 kids (adopting 7th), and we love gymnastics. I grew up in Eastern Europe during communist times and moved to US in my early 20s, and met my husband here...
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    Return to gym stories

    Well, I hate to type this, but practice #2 was a disaster for my older daughter. Right at the beginning of practice they were doing "lines" and she twisted BOTH of her ankles on bad landing doing C jump. She sat there, cried and iced her feet for the remainder of the practice, and then wobbled...
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    Return to gym stories

    My kids went back last week, 3 hour practice. We are in region 5. Older daughter is level 8, younger daughter is level 6, and son who is level 4. They were all so super excited, it was very cute to see. Gym is following a lot of safety measures, I was impressed. All three had good practice. They...
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    Anyone else think that COVID brought the end of gym for your gymnast?

    I can so much relate and agree with original post. We had about five level 7s quit gyms during quarantine, sometimes kids just need a break to reassess things and see how life would be without gymnastics and this forced break gave this perfect opportunity. I have four competitive gymnasts, two...
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    Parents My daughter is scoring low for the second year in level 4

    We had a girl in our gym that was not a high scorer in compulsories (level 4 and 5) because of her form. However, she had no fear. Mom wanted to pull her out from gymnastics because of poor meet performance, coaches suggested otherwise. Fast forward few years, she was gaining skills steadily and...
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    WAG Vagus Nerve

    My daughter had something similar with intense activity (ex. running, hard conditioning) and it was Exercise-induced laryngeal obstruction (EILO). We saw pulmonologist and they did few different tests, and recommended therapy that helps relearn breathing mechanics. However before we did any...

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