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    Parents Leotard recs

    My youngest DD struggles with eczema. We are having a hard time keeping it under control and there is a direct correlation with her increasing her gym hours and having her eczema get worse. Our doctor seems to think that it is related to her being in leotards more frequently and the spandex...
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    Parents Unpopular Opinions

    Seasoned gym mom here. 3 gymnasts, oldest is starting her 8th season of competing. Hindsight is always 20/20. For those seasoned parents, what are some unpopular opinions that you have about gymnastics in general? I’ll go first. 1. Private lessons are a scam. I feel like some gyms use...
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    Parents Gym Struggles

    My DD1 is really struggling this season as a 1st year L8. We’ve had a lot of things happening in our lives, so I don’t know if those could be contributing factors or if this is a sign that we either need to find a new gym or scale back all together. Backstory: we moved last summer. New school...
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    Parents Shorts at practice

    Just curious… With USAG announcing that shorts can be worn during competition for women’s gymnastics, has your gym allowed shorts during practice and/or meets for this season? Our gym has always encouraged shorts, however we are still getting gym transfers in from older girls who want to wear...
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    Parents Shift to AAU gymnastics

    Has anyone’s gym/region/local area had a shift from USAG to AAU memberships for their meets/gyms? Our gym has always done both because the AAU season extends beyond the USAG season and their national meet is usually someplace fun and our gym likes that AAU memberships are inexpensive and offer...
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    Parents Coach Communication

    I am just curious. Our gym is very strict about communication with coaches. All communication between parents and coaches it to be done via email via the gym’s email platform. Texting a coach directly is a big no no- unless it has to do with a private lesson- they have to be coordinated through...
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    Parents Heartbroken DD

    My DD1’s gym bestie, who she has been on team with since we first started 7 years ago just announced that she is switching gyms for next season. My DD is crushed. The reasoning behind the switch is that the girl feels as though she hasn’t made any progress this year (she also had an injury that...
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    WAG And the drama continues

    I have posted a few times about my DD2 and the drama that she has had with her school ‘friends’ over gymnastics. A little background info: In 2019 and into 2020, DD2 was XS. A group of her friends that she has been tight with since kindergarten are also gymnasts at another local gym who tries...
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    WAG Cheetah Cups

    My DD has worn cheetah cups for the past almost 2 months and they make my DD’s feet smell so bad. She normally doesn’t have issues with smelly feet, but ever since she started wearing them, it has been terrible. Like to the point that we could barely stand to be in the car with her driving to...
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    Parents Loss of skills

    Is it normal for gymnasts to have difficulty with the most basic skills once they start to progress upwards? My DD1 is L7 and having issues with her squat-on to high bar. She can’t do a normal cast to squat-on. In order to get to the high bar, she has to do a toe circle to a squat-on, which I...
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    Parents Sever’s Stories

    Has anyone had a kiddo with Sever’s disease? If so, I’m curious as to what your treatment path was. DD1 has recently been complaining of pain to the heel/arch area of her foot. She says it is worse when she points her toes and has been pronating her foot when she walks. There is no known...
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    Parents Gym parent burnout

    Is this a thing? I have 3 DD’s who are preteam-L7. We have been at our gym on team for 6 years, total of 8 years if you count time spent in rec classes. So, for the last 6 years, we have spent many evenings at the gym, eating dinner in the car, late nights finishing homework after practice...
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    Parents School Performance

    I just thought that I would share something that is quite comical about my DD’s and their grades they received in PE this past semester. They each got B’s in PE for the second quarter in a row. The specific area that they both received this in was the ability to maintain healthy levels of...
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    Parents Would you let your kids compete?

    DH and I have both had COVID over the past 2 weeks. DH is out of isolation and I still have a little over a week left. Our local health department just advised us that our kids will have to further quarantine for 14 days past the date I come out of isolation, which is 12/31. This is despite the...
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    Parents Mental recovery from bad meets

    We had our first meet of the season this weekend and my DD1, L7 didn’t do well... at all. She has always been a podium finisher in all events over the past 6 seasons and today she placed in vault, but totally bombed her beam and bars routine. She had a complete mental block on beam and did not...
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    Parents Floor Music

    How often do your optional gymnasts switch up their floor music? DD1 was XG 2 years ago. This is the level where our owner allows the girls to start using their own music and routines. We paid for choreography and music then. She competed a full season of XG with that music. Last year, she did...
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    Parents Frustrations

    Last gymnastics season, my DD2, age 8 was belittled by her gymnast ‘friends’ at school for not being a ‘real gymnast’ because she was XCEL Silver (our gym doesn’t have a L2-5 team, so not an option for her)- to the point where her teachers noticed and contacted me and the school counselor about...
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    Parents Anyone having issues with Meet Scores Online?

    My daughter had her L6 meet today. Her team was divided into 2 separate sessions. She is asking me how her teammates did in the session following hers and none of the L6 sessions have posted today. I didn’t track her meet because WiFi was spotty and I am running low on data, so I was unaware...
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    WAG Friend Drama, Gymnastics related

    My 8 year old is currently competing XCEL silver and is crushing it. She is doing so well, scoring at least 36AA at each meet, breaking PR’s at each meet as the season continues. Her team as a whole is doing awesome and has snagged a few 1st place finishes so far. Anyways, she has a group of...
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    Proud momma to 2 competitive gymnasts. Oldest is 10 years old and level 6. Little sister is 8 and XCEL silver in Region 5

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