My daughter skipped from level 3 to level 6 based on her bars - she competed a level 7 bar routine. She’ll be going into 8 now and it’s literally because of bars - beam… she just scrapes by and hopes for the best, bars however, the gym wants her score for the team score
We’re dealing with this right now. One girl who viciously hates my daughter and because she bullies people, is able to get other girls at the gym to treat her like she’s invisible because they don’t want her to turn her attention to them instead.
I talked to the coaches, who talked to the girl...
You can definetly tell who isn’t going to make it, the girls, the coaches, the parents all know which kids don’t want to be there and aren’t going to stick it out any longer than they have to.
But predicting anything around puberty is like picking lottery numbers. The tiny little stick figure...
Haha this is def a big hang up. It bothers him a lot that she does it on other skills that aren’t his events (leaps on beam for example). Like this is a huge pet peeve
Some A skills are easier for some kids than others - that goes for all letter skills, there’s skills my kid can’t believe are valued what they are because they’re so easy for her, and others she’s like… hell no, hard pass, could never
Both our current gym and our previous one expects girls to continue doing bars with a rip, especially one that isn’t bleeding. Just tape it and keep going. If you can’t swing bars, you can go to strap bar or work drills. I feel like a 13 year old should really be able to push through to do...
We started with a large level 9/10 group, the girls who couldn’t make the move from 9 to 10 dropped, all of the 10s got injuries that required months of rehab, there were 5 8s who all repeated, we started with 8 level 7s and by the end of season, only 2 remained. It’s pretty wild what happened...
Yeah I’m not seeing that she’s having any luck with this lol, but I’m not in the position to just be like forget what your coach said, change the round off. I’m more hoping he just…. Gives up on changing it eventually unless there’s an actual reason to have the directions of everything matching...
Her round off is with her right leg - he seems very insistent on changing the twisting not the round off, although I think the round off would be a struggle to change too.
Does this actually matter?
My daughter is a righty who actually does a bunch of skills lefty, but I guess because in preschool she did a cartwheel as a righty that’s just how she’s been labeled.
She twists lefty and it’s driving one of her coaches crazy - but she can’t twist the other way at...
When I worked front desk, I def warned the coaches about kids coming to try out who had rude or difficult parents. It’s 100% part of selection, and we had to kick out a super talented little girl whose mom was just crazy. They tried to go to a well known elite gym, that contacted our gym about...
I don’t have a good answer for you but my daughters level 7 friend tried out a gym with airbags, she said when she dismounted onto them it felt like it recoiled into her if that makes sense? Like she didn’t sink into it like a foam pit, and it hurt her back to land on
Yes for sure, a discussion should be had with parents if you see them trying to implode their families for gymnastics. They probably won’t appreciate it, might change gyms to one that “believes in the dream” but at least an honest conversation there can be warranted
Drive can’t be taught and lots of girls have drive until they hit a certain age and get fed up with what they’re giving up. A 7 year old can be easily bribed into working harder but a 13 year old isn’t going to give a crap if they don’t give a crap. There’s a girl who is on our level who is...
We made that exact choice. We chose good coaching fit, HORRIBLE team mates. The number 1 reason my daughter didn’t do virtual school this year is that she finally made school friends, and that I couldn’t imagine these girls being her only social interaction.
Most of the girls are nice, when the...
If she’s bored now in the “fun” class where they let her flip around, prepare to be REAL bored in preteam (presumably where she’ll go as she’s too young to compete). Preteam and lower compulsary is just endless repetitions of handstands, cartwheels, rolls. Over and over. My kid must have done...