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  1. Dr Maleficent

    Parents How to know when to let her quit

    My daughter left at 9, and my son left at 12. My son stuck out the year under difficult circumstances - he chose to do that - I wouldn't have made him do it. My dd was essentially given no choice by the coach - she developed a fear and the coach told her to get over it or quit. She tried for a...
  2. Dr Maleficent

    Parents Anyone have trampoline regrets?

    To add to the debate, my daughter broke her arm falling off beam (at the gym) and my son broke his ankle landing on a springboard (also at gym)... and don't even start me on the number of sprained ankles, all sustained at the gym - gymnastics is a dangerous sport. Home trampolines aren't the...
  3. Dr Maleficent

    Parents Anyone have trampoline regrets?

    Wow. The lawyers have a lot to answer for.
  4. Dr Maleficent

    Parents Anyone have trampoline regrets?

    We have a trampoline - with net, springs outside the net. No issues. However a friend's kid was at our house, ran down a path, tripped and needed stitches. Moral of the story - kids can get injured anywhere, doing anything. And someone I work with spent a month in intensive care after falling...
  5. Dr Maleficent

    Parents Negative "motivation" from coaches?

    My son gave up gymnastics because of this kind of behavior by coaches. If possible would consider new gym.
  6. Dr Maleficent

    WAG I'm annoyed

    She is pretty similar in body type to my dd. We have had the same comments, but never from the gym. I do watch what she eats as she has inherited the family tendency to put on weight, but her weight has always followed a particular curve. She is active and healthy. For me, encouraging healthy...
  7. Dr Maleficent

    Paralympics

    The Last Leg is awesome!
  8. Dr Maleficent

    Dancing with the Stars

    Claudia Frangipane is going to be on the UK's 'Strictly Come Dancing' too!
  9. Dr Maleficent

    Welcome to Slacklining...

    I went to an accrobranch centre with my kids this summer and was forced to walk along a 20 metre slackline around 10 metres above the ground (with safety harness, of course) - it was flipping terrifying. As was skateboarding along a wire, scooting across a wire and sledding across one. Are the...
  10. Dr Maleficent

    WAG Article in Dance Magazine

    What does? Or, in my case, what doesn't?!
  11. Dr Maleficent

    WAG Article in Dance Magazine

    I agree with the article in so much as the 'dance' elements can be very distracting when the gymnast clearly has no aptitude for dance at all. Beam is the worst for this - what on earth posesses coaches to think it looks good for a girl to do an amazing sequence then stand at the end of the beam...
  12. Dr Maleficent

    Gymnastics 101

    Can we add: 'they're here to compete!'? Gosh. I thought they were here to crochet Pokemon. Actually one of them maybe- I heard they racked up a $3700 mobile bill playing the game...
  13. Dr Maleficent

    Gabby Douglas Hate - (Hopefully) An End

    I read that as 'green bears' and was slightly worried. Then I got to the part about eating abandoned zucchini children. This thread is sublimely random. Hooray!
  14. Dr Maleficent

    Gabby Douglas Hate - (Hopefully) An End

    Just don't put it in the ratatouille....:)
  15. Dr Maleficent

    Gabby Douglas Hate - (Hopefully) An End

    BASIL!!! (said in best Sybil Fawlty voice).
  16. Dr Maleficent

    Gabby Douglas Hate - (Hopefully) An End

    Now I really have learned something. I thought a zucchini was the same as a courgette (what we call them in the UK). But apparently a courgette is a half-grown zucchini, and an adult zucchini is what we call a marrow, which could be said to be less delicious than other vegetables. Confused yet...
  17. Dr Maleficent

    Gabby Douglas Hate - (Hopefully) An End

    Sigh. So much negativity. Give zucchini a chance. A little kindness and careful treatment and it may amaze you.:)
  18. Dr Maleficent

    Gabby Douglas Hate - (Hopefully) An End

    Wow, I didn't know that 'being a good role model' was an Olympic sport with its own scoring system. I learn something new on here every day...;)
  19. Dr Maleficent

    Mens Finals

    Go Mighty Max!!
  20. Dr Maleficent

    Off Topic Pokemon Go

    Ok, that is better then. I was imagining people wandering around bumping into people and ignoring the scenery. I do like the fact that an Australian (I think?) dog shelter is persuading people to take rescue dogs out for walks when they are doing their Pokemon game.

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