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    MAG Akash Modi hurt?

    I was watching the podium training of Akash Modi on floor and it looks like he's afraid to land on his ankle. Does anyone know what happened?
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    MAG Look at this gymnastics compilation....

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    MAG US Championships

    I wanted to give a "shout out" to my boys' friend and our neighbor who just tied for 1st at the US Championship- WOW! Congratulations to Fuzzy Benas!!!!
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    MAG Diamidov

    So my son came home from gym the other day and told me that he made a diam but not to handstand and that the coach told him that if he made it to handstand before 2 of the gymnasts training level 10 that he would take him to the movies. I figured it would be weeks or months until he made it to...
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    MAG A site like Chalkwarrior for men's gymnastics?

    Seeing the issue with the Gymprofiles person and Chalk Warrior got me thinking.....Are there any sites for the boys or because it is such a small community and they don't mature until later, is there not a need for athlete profiles on the boys side?
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    MAG NCAA Camps

    I have seen this posted before and I am probably too late to do anything this year but I want my son to start visiting gymnastics camps at various colleges so he can get a feel for the campus and do gymnastics at the same time. What camps have you experienced and what colleges offer gymnastics...
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    MAG First Nationals in the books!

    My son finished his first nationals (12yo lev el 8/ JE) and going into it he wanted to be vault champ but he wasn't ready to throw his kas lay which he would have had to throw and land well because of the necessary difficulty to place among these incredible gymnasts. He did place 16th on pommel...
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    MAG What ages/ levels can go to state in your area?

    I was looking at the website for our state meet and I noticed that in our region only level 6 (8-14), level 7 (10-14), level 8 JO (12-14), level 8 JE (11/12), Level 9 JO and JE (13/14), and level 10 JO and JE (15-19) and then JD can go to the state meet and therefore regionals. I assume that...
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    Parents What does your gym do if gymnast gets a large rip on their hand?

    There have been a few times when my DS has gotten a large rip on p-bars doing a lot of under bar type swings and then gone to the next event which happened to be high bar and is expected to do his routine on a fresh rip. He gets to a point where he can't do the routine because his hand hurts. In...
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    MAG How are your regionals run?

    I checked the region 3 website today and discovered that next year (2019) they are going to break up the optional gymnasts and the compulsory gymnasts into two separate competitions, on different weekends in different places. Also it gave the breakdown by percent of who would qualify for...
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    Parents How does your gym warm up vault in competition

    My son's coaches want the boys to throw their vault the very first time they hit the runway in competition. I have seen other gyms work progressions to get used to the apparatus and take many runs to warm up. My son is doing a kas this year and he can't get his body to do the entire vault the...
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    MAG Mock Meet as a new optional in the books!

    DS had his mock meet for level 8 today and I think it went well. His warm up tumbling on floor looked really good but when he did the routine he got winded and lost his concentration on the whip half barani ( a pass he's been struggling with) and fell and then fell on the double full right after...
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    MAG DS almost took out a rec kid last night

    I got to see the tail end of practice last night when I went to pick DS up and I got to see some floor. He was working on his double back onto a mat on the floor. In the middle of his double back I hear the coach yell "STOP!" After DS landed I see the coach talking to the rec coach about "being...
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    Parents Using a four incher for floor routines in competition

    Last year when one of the level 9 boys competed a double back on floor they had him land on a four inch mat. I have seen this done during broadcasts of gymnastics meets so I know it is "a thing". My son wants to compete his double back this year but our coaches, after talking to another coach at...
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    MAG Proud Mom Brag

    So my son struggled with fear issues last year and repeated level 7 for a 3rd year. Since last year he has been much more confident and willing to "go for" scary skills. Well last week he went back into "scared" boy mode and got in trouble for not going for a skill and ended up having to...
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    MAG Regional Future Stars

    Has anyone competed Future Stars? My son and 12 of his team mates just competed at Future Stars in hopes of qualifying for nationals. My son's coach thought he had a good chance of making nationals as a 12 year old...I was surprised because a 78 is a hard score to get. Well....he didn't get it...
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    MAG OMG Regionals!

    If anyone remembers back in September/October my son was training level 8 but was scared of the difficult skills they wanted to put in his routines so he began to freeze and started to lose skills. The coaches, Nate and I decided that another year at level 7 would help....Well, it was the best...
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    MAG Flew to Chicago for a meet...to not compete

    We went to Chicago for the Windy City Invite hoping Nate wouldn't get the flu like his twin brother had earlier in the week...well- he got it! He didn't get to compete at the first optional, out of state meet we've ever tried to go to. On the up side, we DID get to see a city we normally...
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    MAG You Tube videos of your gymnasts

    When my son started competing 5 years ago I went to YouTube to find examples of other gymnasts and meets so I would know what to expect. That being said I would LOVE to see what your gymnasts look like in action. I watch the girls and the boys gymnastics and it's WAY better than TV (in my...
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    MAG First "Real" meet of the season yesterday

    We had our competition yesterday and the scoring was SO different! Nate only got a 9.5 on pommel after getting 10-11+ for the last two seasons in the same level. We had the Olympic judge on pommel and the scores were very low....except for a couple of super stars who got 10-11+...Yikes! Last...

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