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  1. Swiftli

    Parents Need help finding a sport psychologist

    My 14 yr old DD has spent 8 years in the sport and is currently level 8 for the third time. She has a fear of back tumbling that she battles. She has been battling mental blocks her whole career. When she is confident, she is a beautiful gymnast and excels however, when the fear starts...she...
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    Parents Bone Cracking

    My DD (12yr L8) has this lovely habit of cracking her bones....just about all of them and just about all the time...toes, fingers, back, neck....I am thinking it is a nervous habit... I am trying to just let it ride it's course but has anyone heard of any long term issues with misaligning...
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    Parents 2013 YMCA Nationals

    location announced to be Savannah, GA June 26-29. :)
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    2012 YMCA Nationals

    I found an article where it was announced that the YMCA of Metro. Milwaukee will host the event in 2012. I was kinda hoping somewhere further south, like Florida, but oh well.
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    Push through the pain

    Funny little story. My DH had trained in martial arts for years in our early "honeymoon" years..pre-kids. He recently came across a local MMA gym that would allow him to do the type of training he used to do in order to get back into shape. First night there, he was wiped out. Just not as...
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    Level 7 Bars Start Value

    If a Level 7 gymnast competed the Level 6 bar routine, what would the start value of the routine be?
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    Parents Meet Report

    Where do I start? My DDs session for this meet was Friday. She was excited to get out of school for it. About an hour before we were to leave, it started snowing. Who knew that 1/2 inch of snow could paralize a city? What should have been a 1 hour drive turned into a 3 hour white knuckled...
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    Off Topic Canadian help

    Outside of the gym, my DD participates in Girl Scouts. Every year they have Thinking Day, where they pick a country and present cultural items, foods, and anything relating to scouting in that country. Our theme for Thinking Day this year is Canada. My DD's troop is in charge of making a...
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    Parents BHS Beam Mental Blocks

    My DD 1yr Lvl 7 worked all summer on her BHS and I have seen her practice it beautifully. It took awhile for her to have confidence. The coach used panel mats stacked up and allowed her to drop it slowly until eventually she was doing them on high beam. I have seen her do her whole routine...
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    Off Topic Sports Parents

    So I have two sons-6 and 7. They are quite a handful and seem to feel it is ok to wrestle just about anywhere. I signed them up for soccer and they ended up on the same team. At practice they are just all over the place...playing in the dirt, kicking each others shin pads, climbing the...
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    Parents Need help with making decisions

    Lord help me decide on something....anything! lol DD is 9yr old lvl 6. She is scoring about mid to high 34's all season. I haven't seen much improvement in her skills just more consistent. I have been on the fence about switching gyms. I am not pleased with the constant changes in coaches and...
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    Parents Floor Choreography questions

    Who does the choreography at your gym? Is someone brought in to do this? Do you have an extra fee associated? If you don't like the chosen choreographer, does your gym allow you to go outside to have this done?
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    Hours in the gym?

    What is the hours your gym requires the team girls to practice at each level? Do you feel the time is 100% productive at those hours? My gym Lvl 4 6 hours lvl 5 12 hours lvl 6 16 hours lvl 7-9 25 hours Personally, I feel there would be alot of downtime for the girls and that maybe...
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    Parents Is this acceptable?

    A head coach gathers up the lvl 5 & 6 girls she coaches and sits them down for a pow wow during practice. Reminds them that while she loves to coach them, so is also a coach to another girl. This 1st time lvl 9 girl is the ONLY girl from the gym to make it to lvl 9 regionals and it is...
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    Parents Chalk?

    Has your child ever had a reaction to the chalk? And/Or are there different brands of chalk with certain chemicals in them? After practice last night, the girls came out of the locker room and told me my DD was crying and she had a really bad rash. I went in and found her just...
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    Meets after break

    Well....here we go....DD has a meet this Sat. and next Sat. BOTH with a 7:50 registration time....yuck! One is about 1 1/2hrs. away and one is home. All last season we had the early meets too! What is up with that?!... In addition, when you add lack of practice time over the holidays...
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    Parents Doing the happy dance..

    So I just got a call from the folks at Woodward. They were giving away a free week of camp through their booth at the COTC meet this past weekend...and my DD was the lucky winner! I am so excited. She had been wanting to go for a few years now but I knew that is just was not in our budget at...
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    Parents COTC--not pretty....

    Let's start out with the good news....meeting some fellow CB'ers was kinda cool. I sorta felt like a stalker asking people in the crowd if they were Nettyinpa....LOL I can see much improvement in my DD's routines but you would never know it if you looked at the scores. She managed a...
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    Parents Spirit/Good Luck gifts

    Our gym tries to give the gymnast little good luck gifts or spirits things on their lockers or in their meet bag right before a meet. I am running out of fresh ideas. Anyone have any cool ideas I can steal ;)
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    Parents And another thing...

    Forgive me if this is long winded... Our home meet this weekend was a YMCA league meet. We had all levels competing in 3 sessions in one day. I showed up to my DD session (session 2) of the day and dropped her off for stretch. The first session (lvl 4) was just getting ready to do awards...

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