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    Coaches Coaches, how do you know when a child is ready to try giants on the strap bar?

    My daughter is 12, just started at a new gym and she was working out with the level 7's for the last three months. She has a weakness on bars, she never uptrained giants on strap bar before at her former gym. Everyone on her team has giants, even the level 5 and 6 kids have them on the strap bar...
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    Coaches What are some good upper body strength exercises to do at home?

    my daughter needs help with her upper body strength. Her free hip could be better and she could work better on the uprise and giants if she did more exercises at home. What exercises would you as coaches recommend? She has always been weakest on bars. thanks..
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    Parents Has anyone's child had or have a baker's cyst behind the knee?

    My daughter had a knee sprain, 5 weeks of crutches and 6 weeks of PT. She had an MRI and was found to have a bakers cyst. There is not much to do about it except for ice and motrin. She wears a soft brace and takes motrin before each practice but it kills her. I wonder if she would be better off...
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    Parents Do you stay during team practice, or leave if you have a long commute?

    Hi we just moved to a new private gym and we are now driving 35 minutes without traffic to the gym. I just end up staying because I dont want to come and go two times in one day. Her practices are between 3 and 4 hours long. its a killer for me just to sit there when I could be at home making...
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    new to chalkbucket and happy to be here :)

    hi I am a parent of a 12 yo girl who started gymnastics a 1.5 years in a mommy and me class. She was preteam at age 5 and moved to level 4 at age 5 going on 6. She completed two years on level 4, two years on level 5, and one year on level 6. This past season she was on excel platinum but is...
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    Coaches Daughter who has back tumbling fears, but great front tumbling.. What to do?

    Hi Coaches.. my daughter started her back tumbling fear in level 6 with the ro bhs btuck. She can do it, but at times will have her mental block take over and will chicken out. Her front tumbling is great. Its fast and fearless. She completed level 6 and wanted to move to level 7, but her gym...
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    Parents new usag level rules coming this summer, does it affect JO levels at a YMCA gym too??

    Hi i am new to Chalkbucket. I have a 12 yr girl who was at a private gym for 9 yrs, then switched to a ymca about a year and a half ago. She competed till level 6, then was switched to excel platinum. She really wants to be a level 7, does not have layout or giants yet... Anyway, her gym, a...

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