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Hi everyone! I am trying to help a friend of mine. They live in TX and their daughter just finished competing Level 2. They are looking to switch gyms and they want to make the right decision for the long haul. They were very impressed with WOGA, but it's twice the tuition they are paying now...

My Level 3 daughter just came home from practice and told me that she somehow slammed her big toe down on vault and that it really hurts. The pain is not really in her big toe though. When she bends it down, the pain is actually up the (in)side of her foot starting about 2 of my fingertips down...

For those of you who travel far to gym, how do you handle birthday party invites, etc. that will require you to travel back out that way on a non-gym day? Do you allow your child to go or explain that it's too long of a drive for a party? Do you have them pick and choose which are the most...

My daughter has really small hands and tiny wrists. Her grips are a 00 Narrow. We chose the narrow because bars was not her strongest event at the time and her coaches agreed that a little more contact with the bar would be a good thing for her. She has really worked hard and her bars are great...

I wasn't quite sure which forum to stick this question in. For those of you with gymnasts who will be scoring out of Level 5 this season either via the first meet or a move-up meet - when will they be learning their Level 6 routines - or are they already? This is the plan for my daughter and...

My daughter has a sprain - not broken (we did x-rays) and it has been pretty swollen for a week now. She has been icing it (with a large "soft" ice pack) all of the time, taking ibuprofen, etc. The swelling still hasn't really gone down. Yesterday, her coach told her to stick it in a bucket of...

Coaches, I would love your opinion on this. My younger gymmie (6.5) just started Level 3 in July. She has quite a few more "advanced" skills... cartwheel on beam, back walkover on beam, handstand all the way up and complete split on beam, back walkover on floor, front walkover on floor, back...

Is it generally considered preferable for a gymnast to focus on backwards tumbling on beam rather than doing front tumbling skills, even if they are more advanced? For example, if a Level 6 gymnast has a great FWO but struggles with their BHS. Or if a gymnast has a forward tumbling series but...

Our school starts dismissal at 3:35, but the children can not actually leave the building until 3:50 when they are sent to either the car line or buses. It's not an exact science, so sometimes it's more like 4:00. We switched to a new gym toward the end of last school year that is 31 miles away...

Is the only vault option in level 6 a FHS? I'm not very good at interpreting the USAG charts. :)

I am sadly starting to realize that this is our gym. Our gym has never produced any elites/Olympians. A handful of girls have received scholarships to the local Division 1 school. They are typically never in the top three for any level at states. They have rarely had anyone go to nationals. The...

Does your team gymnast do any other sports? My daughter has been asking to do a local recreational running club with her brother. It is a short-term thing, three months. It will end two weeks before the summer schedule at the gym begins. It is very flexible, they have practices four times a week...

Does your gym allow team members to have private lessons? If so, are there certain rules about it? (i.e. a coach has to agree it is necessary or no uptraining or only so often) If yours does not, and your child was struggling with one thing that he/she just could not "get" during regular...

I am just curious if any of you have had multiple daughters competing at the same time, and (aside from the $$$ and crazy schedules) how that panned out. For example, a younger sister passing an older sister, one sister being chosen for TOP's and not the other, one excelling quickly and the...

We live in a fairly affluent area, and at our gym - compulsories seems more like glorified babysitting. The other parents just don't seem "into it", and aren't really interested in their children going far in the sport. In fact, they have made it very clear that they don't want that and they...

I did a search, but it didn't turn up much. We were originally considering IGC (my daughter has done the Thanksgiving clinics, which she enjoyed)... but then I heard about the Parkettes competitive camp. It's half the price and a little closer to us. I also think that maybe staying with a family...

My youngest gymmie is five years old and she is on pre-team. While she is well beyond the other girls in her group in strength and maturity, she doesn't have all of the skills she needs to move up to the next pre-team group yet (she still needs her back hip circle). I suspect that this is mostly...

As the result of a move, my daughter switched from a gym that did no up-training at all (until after states) to one that up-trains year-round. This has been a really positive change for her, because it keeps her excited and engaged and she has gained a lot of confidence. There has not been an...

Tips for hands getting "stuck" on the table instead of popping off? My daughter is really struggling with this.

If you have a daughter competing the "new" Level 4, how has the scoring been where you live? My daughter had her first meet of the season today (she did "old" Level 4 last year with consistent AA's between 36-38+) and the judging was a complete shock to most of us parents. There were VERY few...