Parents, coaches and owners of east cost Aussie gyms - how are your gyms holding up? My daughter’s gym is fine - it’s in an elevated part of Sydney. But it has been devastating to see what has happened to other gyms - especially on the backs of two lengthy lockdowns in two years for some of...
I know it’s accepted that by a certain point a gymnast tends to always have aches and pains, but my gymnast (repeat level seven) is now always sore in that overworked muscle sort of way. This is a fairly new thing - she used to get sore like this for the first week after the Christmas break or...
Usually the girls just use gloves supplied by the gym, but now each girl needs their own.
GMdirect is my usual go-to but they are sold out until mid July.
Are they just the sort of white cotton glove you would use for handling old books? Or are they special in some way? I am getting a...
This might be a bit early, but I thought I would start a thread where people could share return to gym stories. I liked the one from NZ that someone shared in another thread. And I saw a beautiful video on other social media of a (chalkbucket, I think!) gymnast getting all excited about...
Are the 2020 floor routines for levels 3-6 new routines to the old music, or have they just had the choreography changed slightly to reflect new requirements?
Two of the gymnasts named to the team have had to withdraw due to injuries that happened the day before they were due to fly out. Rhianna Mizzen has a ruptured ACL.
What is the level four music? I don't even have a child in level four but a group in my daughter's gym is practicing for the state championships and I have heard it so often that it is stuck in my head. I think I need to listen to the whole thing all the way through in an attempt to put it to...
Hi All, this is my first post, but I've been reading (and learning a lot) for a while. I was wondering if anyone had any experience with IDP and height. My daughter is in the IDP program at her gym. When she was first asked to join a little over a year ago, she was on about the 25th percentile...