my SoCal friend is moving to NorCal, and there are so many gyms to start with. We counted 10 gyms within a 30 minute drive of Palo Alto. Any suggestions?
hi, my daughter had a successful level 8 season despite her wrist problems in the beginning of the season. She scored a 9.275 on her vault at regionals and has been pretty much getting that score since the beginning of the season.
At one point her coach was going to teach her the yurchenko pike...
I know of 5 girls at two different gyms with OCD. 4 of them were diagnosed during or after their level 8 season. One of them just after her first year as a level 10. They all have faced long recoveries.
Can someone tell me, is this purely genetic, bad form, or overuse ? What is the best way to...
My DD participated in a very large meet in Texas almost a month ago, and the scores are not on online anywhere even though the website says it would be on MeetScoresOnline. I did not write any scores down, thinking I'd be able to see it uploaded, but it is not there yet. I would like to know...
Coaches, I'm embarrassed to admit that I am not your favorite parent. I am a worryer -worried about my daughter's safety (especially after an injury), and worried that my daughter will never learn a skill, and this has come out in my communication with the coaches when really, I should just...
Question for you all:
How many of your gymnasts complain about pain in the wrist? Does she just push through it and it goes away, or does she take a break, and for how long? Does the pain come and go or does it progress until she takes a significant break.
I heard that gymnast wrist affects a...
My DD is at the age where she is growing an inch every three months. Coupled with her arms also growing an inch while her legs grow, it is a gym mom's night mare. ;)
She now does her giants with flexed feet when they are gliding past the low bar because she doesn't want to slam them into the...
Hello! My DD's coach thinks her free hip to handstand is better than her cast to handstand for pirouetting. I think it sounds like a harder, riskier routine. Does this make sense to anyone? Have you guys seen it done often in level 8? She is still getting a hang of level 8 routines, so she...
My daughter will never be an elite, but I enjoy watching the elite competitions and am trying to understand the difficulty score.
How much harder is it to go from a difficulty of , say, 5.2 - 5.4 in terms that a level 8 mom can understand? Is it like going from a level 4 to level 5 in JO? Or is...
Have you guys ever wondered if judges are biased by the previous event's score? For instance, as a booster club volunteer, I sat next to the floor judge and I heard her commenting to the other judge "bad vault. ", "great beam", or "poor girl is having a rough meet".
Granted this judge has been...
I have questions about the cast handstand. DD seems to have no problem getting to handstand when coming from a glide kip cast on low bar or high bar, but she has trouble getting into a handstand when she is in a front support and bouncing her legs off a bungee, as needed for a pirouette drill...
Hello,
I am posting this again, but this time in the correct forum. =)
It is now September, and as of last week, the level 8's only does Yuchenko drills about 2x a week. The other 3x a week, they do FHS vault drills. My DD has done a Yuchenko tuck into the pit over the summer, maybe during a...
My daughter is in level 8 and excited to choose her own floor music for the first time. She seems to like music that sounds "epic". She's middle of the road in terms of age and size. She's not particularly a power tumbler or a ballerina type.
I've never paid attention to floor music selection...
Hello. My daughter completed level 7 and did reasonably well and is eager to learn level 8 skills. The problem is that she still practices the FHS vault a lot. How does this benefit her? Is it foundational for achieving a good level 8 vault?
She does do yurchenko drills a couple times a week...
My daughter seems to be allergic to tumbling, literally. She always has to run to blow her nose in the middle of practice many times. I recently started giving her Claritin every day, and Sudafed on some days. She's been off Sudafed this week and I'm thinking of giving it to her tomorrow (her...
Has anyone else had a child get a bad bone bruise but no fracture? The doctor looked at the MRI and called it a stress reaction. When I look in Google, it sounds like the healing time can be up to a year. The doctor will look at my daughters foot in 2 weeks. In the meantime, I can't help but...
At my daughter's last beam rotation (level 7), on her BHS last series, her left hand slipped off the beam and somehow she smacked the top of her dominant foot really badly on the top beam as she was falling. She has had pain in the top of the foot ever since and is now in a boot.
The grieving...
Considering all other things being equal, how much better can a floor/beam routine if the judge likes one routine more than another? ie. if the choreography or music fits a gymnast really well, or if a routine just has a little more pizazz?
I know in running, before a race, it is good to taper the workouts to optimize race times the day of. Is there the same benefit in gymnastics? I noticed that at my daughter gym, they train the full 5 hours the day before a meet. I'm guessing they don't do intense conditioning that day, but even...