Recent content by WorkerbeeMom

Thank you. That's good to know. :)

I don't see all of my replies to you, but I so appreciate everyone's feedback. Based on your experiences, I will keep searching. I wondered if maybe there was some documented or even anecdotal success out there of how bars can be taught with no shaping or spotting.

Yes. I have exactly your concerns. The other options are few and far between, but I think I need to investigate further. Might just have to drive more. Thank you :)

This is very interesting, since you've experienced both types. The lack of progress and poor technique learned on bars is what worries me. Thank you for your insight.

Really? You don't have to have a bar release at level 9 or 10? I thought a bail half or pak was pretty standard, or Tkachev.

She is quite good at listening to corrections, but for some things she is learning, like a blind full, she says it is helpful to have the shapes and positions guided along. Having that be completely absent, I think, would be a challenge. I appreciate your thoughts :)

It's already a ways to travel, but I will keep looking. Our current gym keeps looking better and better.

Good questions. The scores of this team are not impressive. Only one 36 last season out of the entire optional (30+ member) team, nothing higher. That girl went to Westerns, but she's the only one who did. There were 7 or 8 level 9 gymnasts on the team? Most were 6, 7, and 8s. There were...

Thank you for your input. This is my sense as well, but I worried that I'm being too protective.

Hi there. Thank you so much for your honest feedback. I will PM you the area. The concerns you mention are exactly my concerns. It was so odd to be in a gym where the girls are doing uneven bars with no one around. ?? No one working with them except to give corrections from the sideline.

Hello everyone. I'm enjoying the forum here, and the information you're able share as parents who've traveled this gym journey with your kids. We have a dilemma. We are scheduled to move at the end of the competition season, due to my husband's work, and while I'm in the area looking for...