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We have a very young team, generally. Our coach is a "put them where they will be successful" type of coach and up trains in practice a lot. My son is 11 and this is his 6th season. Level 4x 2, Level 5x3 and level 6x1. He is too much bulldog and not enough ballerina :) We have several level...

It was more likely that kids fell off 6 for 6 than hit 6 for 6. Our whole year last year was like that. I don' know what has changes here, but at least 5 hours on the floor and 1.5 seems to be the new norm. Our coach staged a multi team competitive bottle flipping contest at one point!! I...

Maybe a few years ago I was a new gym parent and I was excited and the time seemed to fly by. But I swear 5 years ago meets took far less time. Like 4-5 hours and we were done. Today was our first of the year and the session started at 1pm and awards ended at 7:35. That was for 72 6-10's...

My gymnast son is an athletic Beast. My younger son looks like a baby giraffe when he tries to run. It causes quite the conflict between the two of them. The things that have worked well have been swimming , because even a giraffe is graceful in the water , and the ninja class at the gym. Both...

I can attest to the fact that a 3 year spread is as much as Woodward will do under normal circumstances. (For boys gym, sometimes the spread is a little more just because there are so few). I was hired this year for 7 weeks as a director, for my son, weekends will be essential that he sleep...

At 7, I think every practice is optional. You are the parent and sometimes taking a night off or leaving early is what YOUR kid needs. The nice thing about an "optional" practice is it can give you sone flexibility if you need to take a night off you can go to the optional to make it up. But...

I can't imagine my doing giants without grips. I would ask. The coaching search is no fun!! BTDT many times!

I texted the coach to have him look and make a size recommendation. They look like they are in good shape. He is 60 lbs and just started swinging giants, so I'm thinking it is about time.

My son has had this set of High Bar grips for 2 years. His hands haven't really grown, but I am thinking before the summer camp season he should start to break in a new pair "just in case". How long have grips lived for your son??

Well, it appeared my worst fear was going to happen. He fell on his best event!! He was #19 and needed to be #18. EVERY OTHER member of his team made it. He handled it REALLY well until the fact that he would be at practice for 6 weeks as the only kid not going sunk in and then the tears...

So for the third year in a row my kid has competed level 5. Last year he missed the regional by .5. It is highly likely that he will miss it this year by 1 spot (they are taking the top 9 in all age divisions) again this year. The whole year they were told divisions B is not going to...

Dear Meet Director: It might be a great venue, it might be a great city. I know you want to include your small boys team in your gyms event. However, if you don't get enough entries to support having a full slate of judges, please do all of us a favor and cancel the event. We will be sorry...

The war between my son and his pants is in full swing. You see my kid is not a small kid and not a big kid. He is 10, 52 inches tall and 60 lbs, his legs are on the short side. His GK medium pants (that are going in to their 3rd season) are getting to be too short, and the larges look like...

Mine is picky and almost vegetarian. Just about the only meat he will eat is chicken nuggets. We have made a stop at Chick-fil-a a meet tradition as long as it is not a Sunday session. His bag is full of pita chips, pretzels, fruit snacks. They are mostly for boredom control than hunger...

My son is having wrist issues and has skids for mushroom and nude tiger paws for floor. He is insistent that the black skids are not acceptable for competition, they must be the nude color. Is there any truth to this?

If they are going to do 4 and 5s together, or any group with more than 80 athletes in a session, it should be the last session of the day, then if you run late, it sucks for you but not everyone the rest of the day. At our meet the entire day was more than 90 minutes late on the floor. The...

At ours the posted groups covered a BIG spread. Like 6 to 9 and 10 and up. I think they try to keep them not more than 2 just because the difference on maturity. Awards were given based on 3 groups instead of two in the end. I'm sure it was confusing when award time came around

The 5 with bonus had 3 age groups I know my kid had 9 in his and it was a last minute split. The program only had 2 age divisions. There were 19 or so originally. This meet goes 100 percent. It truly is parental hell.

He is a 5. I'm not sure why a parent looks at the schedule and sees 108 and knows it is going to the FOREVER and the meet directors think, level 4s and 5s don't take that long. We started warm up at 8am and walked out at 230. That is a really too long.

We survived our first meet of the year, and it went well for us. 2nd AA by .2 is a good start, especially after leaving swings out on high bar. But the cherry on top of a good meet was the coach finding me to rave about my kids... wait for it.... focus and leadership with his younger...