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My daughter is in her 8th week of recovery from a broken wrist. She has 2 more weeks of no weight-bearing on her arms restrictions and she is going crazy with boredom. Her coaches haven't given her anything new to do during practices so she is repeating a few skills and dance moves over and...

My DD has come home from gym practice miserable for at least the last month. She is not having a good season, so she (and coach) is frustrated. But that isn't really the problem. There are 2-3 girls who are having very good seasons and they are making DDs life miserable. These are all...

Argh... leo left in bag for a week and now it really smells. Mostly stale sweat. Before I do anything to ruin it right in the middle of DD's meet season, any thoughts/hints/whatever-you-do-don't-do-this? If this were an everyday leo I'd just drop in the washer with some extra baking soda but...

I saw something this weekend at DD's meet that I hadn't seen before and am curious about it. This is L4. On the bars, one team's coaches were standing very close to where their gymnasts were. So, one between the high and low bar, one of the far side of the high bar (on landing mat). Both...

My DD wanted to take a ballet/jazz dance class this summer to prepare for a school-based choir performance group next year. Of course, it couldn't hurt gymnastics, right? Except that there were only a couple of studios within reasonable distance that didn't conflict with gym AND were offering...

I got a very upsetting email from DD's coach this morning, noting that the coaching team feels she is "not reaching her full potential" due to "lack of focus" and "excessive use of injury log" (which means not doing a full work out due to whatever injury/pain/issue is present. Their conclusion...

I'm getting more than a little frustrated with our HC, but I'm not sure if it's warranted or not. Background is that this is only the 2nd year this gym has fielded a girls team and last year all of the girls (regardless of age or prior training) were required to start by competing L3. But...

OK everyone, I need recommendations. I have an 11 year old gymnast who shows every sign of starting her period very soon. What do you recommend for practice and meets? She seems so young (and tiny) for tampons, but won't pads show/move? Gym does not allow shorts and discourages underwear for...