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    Parents Does your gymnast care what event they start on at a meet?

    My daughter didn't care so much about what event she started on, but looked to see where certain of her competitors started...she knew certain competitors did better on some events earlier in the rotation than later, and hoped they drew the later slots on those events!
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    Parents My 11 year old DD just received a recruiting letter!!

    [emphasis added] This is the big loophole...they aren't "Prospective Student Athletes" until they start high school. Until then, the recruiting rules are kinda mushy.
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    Parents gym with very few optionals

    How well does the compulsory team do? Over the years, have the optionals been successful at State, Regional and Nationals? With the current coaching staff or other coaches? When my daughter was L7, her gym had 10 optionals, only 1 L10. IIRC, the entire JO team was maybe 60 kids. Optional HC...
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    Parents Should we change gyms?

    THIS!!! Times 100!!! Our daughter, in a big name gym, basically lost her first Level 10 year due to an unexpected coaching change. The new coach was young, didn't understand the CoP (for full 10.0 SV), couldn't offer meaningful corrections, and more. My daughter lost confidence in her coach...
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    Parents Booster Club Question

    Answers depend in part on the legal structure of your booster club. If a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) then a lot more restrictions. In a tax-exempt, accept the fact that not everyone will participate but everyone must benefit. From what I've seen, benefit does not have to be equal, but it cannot be...
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    WAG any experience with tibial plateau fractures?

    Not a gymnast (daughter is)...I suffered a TPF about 5 years ago, skiing (bad conditions--another friend suffered the same injury on the same ski hill that day). Mine was a Type II injury, with a 2cm depression into the lateral condyle requiring bone grafting. Surgery was required (plate & 9...
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    Parents Does this happen often?

    Some states have a Fall and Spring compulsory season, so a girl could compete two compulsory levels in one school year
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    Parents Spinoff-how many left?

    There were 40 in pre-team...24 were selected for Level 4 By level 6, we were down to 6. At level 8, just 2. My daughter was the last one starting at level 9, and we moved, so of that original group, none :(
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    WAG Need Stories about Meniscus Tear

    My D's experience: D's knee locked occasionally, indicating a tear. Dr hoped it was a simple tear in the periphery (outer, "red zone") but it turned out to be a more complicated "parrot beak" tear that could not be sutured back into place. Consequently, the torn tissue was removed. Plus...
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    Parents Personal experience: Dallas area gym

    Since the topic of coaching styles has come up, something you may want to confirm is their approach to practice groups, coaching assignments, and move ups. Specifically, will your girl stay in a practice group with the same coach as she moves up through the levels? (Few gyms do this). Or will...
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    WAG Grips for bigger, higher level gymnast

    US Glove will custom-make a 2-buckle version of the Millennium. Good to know--my daughter has been in Hot Shots since L5, now a L10 with those release moves...she likes the narrow width of the palm for exactly the same reason--to feel the bar on the sides. But durability is poor as she's at...
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    Parents Sour grapes/navigating jealousy

    I've observed a gymnast who, after winning a medal on an event, goes back to sit with her team, waiting for the next event to be called up, during which time she stows her medal in her bag. No matter how many times she's gone up and won a medal, her next trip up is without any hardware. By the...
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    WAG Too young for Optionals?

    My daughter competed the old L4 at age 7. She had a competitor that year who was then 8. We didn't see her the next year (looked for her--she was impressive as a L4). In fact, they wouldn't compete against each other again...she jumped to L7 the next year while my daughter went thru the one...
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    Parents Gyms:Far East dallas/mesquite.

    One of those coaches returned to Metroplex a month or two ago
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    WAG Level 5 Gym Switch?

    This post strikes a chord with me...we moved gyms 3x for one of my girls. Two of the moves were performance-motivated. One went well, the other...rough. But we had been warned by another family that moved just before us). OP, you really raised a big red danger flag for me with already talking...
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    Parents How much sleep does your gymnast get in a weeknight?

    For younger kid: 6th grade, public school, bus pickup @ 8am, school till 3pm, gym from 4-8 M-F (L8). She probably slept from 10:30p to 7a, so 8.5 hrs/night 7th & 8th grade, private school, 2x/day training 3 days/week, 1x/day training 3 days/wk (L9 & 10). Wake at 6am, practice started at 7am...
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    Parents 2 competitive gym athletes...dolla dolla Bill ya'll

    I forgot about that part! And do you ever have to coordinate car pools for the kids in different gyms? ;)
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    Parents Bars at home

    This. When my girls were in rec classes (ages 4 & 6), we installed a pullup bar for conditioning (my younger girl ALWAYS had to keep up with her sister). We put in the type with secure brackets into the door jamb, not the kind that hangs with tension from the header. The bar we bought...
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    Parents 2 competitive gym athletes...dolla dolla Bill ya'll

    We had two girls in gym at one time (both started at level 4, eventually a level 6 and 8 when the dual track stopped). While the cost was challenging (about the same in each gym), what made it worse was they were in two different gyms, slightly different directions from home, and in two...
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    WAG Div I NCAA Walk-On Offer Info

    Correct. D1 W-Gym has a headcount of 12. If they give a girl even $1, she counts as one of the 12, same as a girl who gets a full-ride. D2 W-Gym is equivalency (I think 6), so they can spread out the money that would cover 6 girls amongst more girls, and the amounts don't have to be equal.
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