So you know when someone posts here about a fear, and the next day their kid gets the skill? I guess it also works for issues. :-) Just when her coach was about to pull her hair out and say I've tried everything....she put the T-Trainer on some blocks and had her vault onto a mat in the pit. It...
Nope. She just reaches for the ground. Her coach thinks part of it is shes not sure where she is. Generally her air awareness is great. She does a 1.5 to a punch front, great trampoline skills, but I think she was closing her eyes at one point which probably didn't help.
I'm posting this for my DD's coach. I'll show her the replies, She's 11 yrs old, competing her 2nd year of Level 8. She competed a yurchenko timer last year, and her first meet this year did another timer. Her problem, she cannot stop reaching for the ground in her landings when she flips, and...
We have a couple options. My DD bought another gymnasts routine when she got a new one, I think it was around $75. That was for L7. For L8, she had a choreographer touch up her L7 routine, and add another tumbling pass. That was around $150. A brand new routine from start to finish is around...
Every meet my DD has done has had rotation sheets with the order assigned. (Level 8 in Fl). And since I do a lot of the meet entries, I know the coach doesn't get to decide the line up.
Now they have been known to switch the lineup on certain events, depending on settings I guess. You have to...
Last year I put my DDs Leo and WU inside out, in a garment bag, and washed alone on delicate in the washing machine. It was absolutely fine, but I don't "think" you're supposed to do that. This year she has mesh sleeves so I wasn't feeling brave, instead I used a small amount of my regular...
A lot of girls in our gym do tsuks, definitely not the ugly step sister! The group my DD trains in is mostly younger TOPs kids. All they do is Y drills. She aged out of TOPs this year, but is still training with them. The optional group has a mix of Yurchenkos and tsuks.
My DD went through it last year too. She's 10 now, and it did pass. Hers was a BHS on beam, then it traveled to anything backwards. It was brutal. It probably took a year of ups and downs, getting her tumbling back, losing it, BHS back, losing that, etc. She just competed her first meet of Level...
I get these calls every year from parents. (I'm the office manager). I've had parents call and ask how many kids we have entered in their child's Level, if we have the session times yet, how is the parking....
Well she got an 8.1 with her timer, and placed on vault with it ( not top 3 obviously but got called up) Such a big difference from Level 7 to Level 8 score and placement wise. There was a lot of terrifying vaults in L8, but the Level 10 vaults from LaFleurs were so fun to watch.
We had to reschedule our home meet last fall. We had a potential Cat 5 hurricane coming right at us. We reached out to our meet director and state chairman for help with the rules. We ended up moving it to a different weekend. In the process we lost a few teams that had other meets, but also...