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I'm writing an essay about gymnastics for one of my college applications and want to include when the Xcel program was started. My best guess from google searches is 2013 but I can't find the exact information. Does anyone know?

Talia is a 13 year old girl who runs a makeup channel on Youtube. She's been fighting cancer for 6 years and has gone through so much more than someone her age should have to deal with, but she's remained so positive through all of it. Every time I watched one of her videos, she always managed...

My coach wants me to get grips, so she had me try on another girl's to see if they fit. Apparently this girl quit and forgot to pick up her grips, so now they belong to the gym. According to my coach, they fit fine, and she wants me to try doing bars with them at the next practice. I know they...

As some of you may have read, my coach is leaving soon. I have been working on a bunch of skills with her, and it makes me sad to think that she won't be here to see me get them. I've decided I want to get one more skill with her before she leaves, and I think the one I am closest too is getting...

Today was one of the worst practices I've ever had. To start off, my coach told us she had some bad news for us. We have 2 more weeks with her, and then she's being switched to another location. She is the best coach I've ever had, and I'm so upset that she's leaving so soon (I've only had her...

Lately, I have been stretching a lot at home, which is really helping my flexibility. One of the things I do is oversplits, and I just use a stack of my school textbooks with a pillow on top to put my foot on. It works great because they are a perfect size and heavy enough that they don't slide...

This is a montage I made a while ago that was inspired by the P&G commercial Thank You, Mom. I loved that one, so I decided to make a gymnastics version of it. This is dedicated to my amazing coach, who has honestly changed my life. My previous coach could be very degrading and insulting, and I...

Now that we've gone back an hour, the time on here is an hour ahead (for example, when it says the time that something was posted). Is there a way to change that?

Okay, so a while back I heard about a girl who had the Bare Necessites as her floor music. I've been wanting to watch it but I completely forgot who it was. I am pretty sure she was a junior elite, that's about all I remember. If anyone knows who it is, that would be great!

I've noticed that my wrists hurt when doing back handsprings, or skills like press handstands where you have to lean over your wrists. They also sometimes hurt when doing a bunch of front hip circles. Do you know any ways to strengthen my wrists so that they won't hurt as much?

I'm not sure which one I'm switching to yet, but I can't stand the class I'm in much longer. My mom has signed me up for a trial class at another gym this week that I've been looking into. I have a friend who went there and said it is a good gym, so hopefully it goes well. My one thing is that...

First of all, I don't even know if I'm allowed to post this on here, so if not, feel free to delete it. But: Gym denies Gabrielle Douglas's racism claims - Yahoo! TV I personally find this sickening. I watched the interview with Oprah, and she was in no way blaming the gym, or the coaches. She...

Well, I just subscribed to it about a month ago, and just received the July/August issue a couple days ago. I must say, I was a bit underwhelmed. Half of it (at least!) was just ads for mats and grips and leotards and other things. And I thought it was a bit funny that they had things in it like...

Here is the link: US.WAG.Letterman.120814.HDTV.720p30.NastiaFan101.mp4 - YouTube I would embed it but I can't figure out how to save it to my computer. Anyways, I thought this was pretty funny. McKayla is hilarious! Aly seems really... serious, and reasonable. Jordyn and Gabby didn't talk a...

No Xcel team for me this year. Or possibly ever. Which leads to my confusion: So now I really am stuck. One of the reasons that I wanted to do the team so bad was that I don't really like the class I am in anymore. I'm not really being challenged anymore. A lot of the girls in our class are...

Okay, this is a question that randomly popped into my head today and has been bugging me ever since. So I know that for a skill to be named after you, you have to perform it successfully at worlds or Olympics (do you have to do it in event finals or not? I'm not sure. That's not my main question...

So, I know there was a thread about this a while ago, but it's a really old thread, and most of the people who posted on it aren't even here anymore, so I thought I'd start up a new one. I find it completely hilarious when people think they know what they're talking about but are horribly wrong...

So, while watching the Olympics last night, this really funny commercial for some TV show with Shawn on it came on. Sorry, I can't find a video link (probably would help if I could remember the name of the show! :D), but I will describe it: (this will not be word for word, but close enough) So...

I just watched this gymnastics documentary, Faster Higher Stronger. It is a series of documentaries about the history of sports. Here is the youtube link: Faster Higher Stronger: Stories of the Olympic Games - Gymnastics [Episode 2] [BBC Documentary] - YouTube It is also posted on the gymnastics...

Is the chat thing gone now, or is it just my computer? It is not appearing at the bottom of my screen anymore.