What's your favorite march-out that a competition has had? We've had some call out individual gymnasts and spotlight them as they runout, I vaguely remember Buckeye having a big opening night party one year (not sure if this was part of their march out or not though), another gym set-up a small...
A jump off of a thread in the parent forum. Obviously some meets are notoriously high scoring and others are notoriously lower scoring. I live in a state where are scores, overall, tend to be extremely high (L3 state had 18 38s so several of those kids didn't even take first AA!!! 91 kids...
Just ran across this on facebook today, what a great reminder that gymnastics is the athlete's sport!
http://www.gymmomentum.com/uncategorized/how-to-coach-your-gymnast-at-home/
I was looking through the updated Women's Rules & Policies for the 2015-2016 Competition Season and ran across this on page 96:
"Meet Directors may not refuse entries from competitors who wish to enter a competition that serves as a Sectional Meet or any competition that serves as a qualifier...
We ordered our competition leotards the last week of August from Dreamlight whom we have used in the past and LOVE! However, our estimated delivery date is for December 19th, a 15 week turnaround. I just inquired about ordering one additional leotard as we have a new athlete on our team, and the...
I know some coaches are salaried, but a great many others are hourly. I'm interested in those hourly competitive team coaches. I know it has been discussed a few times that many hourly coaches are not paid for their time off to attend competitions, but I was wondering what was the norm. on a few...
Do all of you coaches attend the full warm-up and conditioning of your teams? Is it normal to decrease costs by limiting the amount of coaches that can attend this portion of practice to 1?
USA Gymnastics has devoted a new page to the 2013-2020 Compulsory Program:
:: USA Gymnastics :: 2013-2021 Junior Olympic Compulsory Program ::
The chart featured on page 3 of this PDF also confirms that competing at the new level 6 is not required...
I'm just wondering how many team coaches out there are salaried and how many our hourly? Our HC is salaried, but the other 2 main coaches are still hourly. As hourly employees this becomes a problem for us when we miss multiple Friday/Saturday practices for competitions (which we often don't get...
Has anyone (or their DD) attended the IGC Thanksgiving Clinic? If so are the girls split into groups based on skills or levels? Will the girls uptrain any skills, or are they stuck working skills they already have?
Are you the owner of a gymnastics club? Or how about a parent or gymnast? We are asking members of the gymnastics community to fill out this simple and quick 10 question survey regarding your club's website. The point of the survey is to get a better idea of how people are actually making use of...
Hi I'm a gymnastics webmaster as well as a coach (as well as an ex-club and HS gymnast). I signed up because I was interested in finding out more about this site since its name is EXTREMLY close to my own sites name.