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Flipper (level 9) has competed at this meet 5 or 6 times. It is a fun meet with lots of activities associated with it. There is a college meet and a small international meet. However, if you are loking for high level competition, there are better choices. The competition level doesn't compare to...

Flipper had Severs and was told that 8 weeks off her feet was the best course of action. Of course, she thought the world would end if she had to be out of gym for 8 weeks, so we bought Cheetah cups and they helped some. Then she broke a foot and was in a cast for 3 months. She was back in the...

Flippers diagnosis was changed to OCD (Osteochondrosis Dessecans). She had surgery at the end of January. The surgeon was not able to reattach the cartilage (no bone attached), so just removed all the pieces. The chunk of cartilage was just over an inch long by half an inch wide - huge for a...

After Flippers first meet, she ran up to me holding up her medals and exclaimed, "Look what they gave me - and I would have done it for nothin!"

Never heard of it? Neither had we - or Flippers coaches (who have been coaching for long enough they have run into nearly everything). Flipper was diagnosed with Panner's about a month ago (MRI). It is a rare bone disease the affects elbows, mostly in 5-10 year old boys who play baseball ;>...

Flipper goes to public school. We started talking to the school board, counselor and principal several years ago about letting her out early (has a study hall type class or art the last period each day). Last year, the school came up with a plan that works for everybody. Flip stays in her last...

Flipper trains 5 consecutive days (24 hours per week). Practice is in the morning. In the afternoon, she goes to the pool and jumps on the tramp or goofs off with friends. They adjust and get used to the schedule. After years of this schedule, she has energy to burn at the end of the day. I pull...

Be careful what you say The mother of flippers teammate sits beside me at meets and tells me that her daughter is better than Flipper and that the coaches tell the judges to give Flip better scores. Seriously! Does she really think that would work?! On the other hand, while I had this mother...

Flipper spent 7 months of last year in casts after breaking first one foot and then the other. Battled back and did one meet this year before getting pneumonia and missing 2 meets. She was finally healthy and had a great state meet. 2nd on floor with a 9.575, 1st vault 9.6, 1st beam 9.8, 1st...

Flipper will be 13 next month. She grew a lot (for her ;>) when she was out of the gym due to injury. She is below the 3rd percentile for both height and weight, but that is not surprising because she is asian. Hormones attacked her while she was out of the gym for 7 months - can't say if it was...

Flipper started gymnastics at 3.5 years old. She had her first real injury last competition season - on her 12th birthday - she developed Severs and we discovered a stress fracture in her foot. She was sidelined with 12 weeks of no weight bearing, but was able to do upper body conditioning...

Flipper works out 4 weekdays for 4 hours per day plus 4 hours on Saturday for 20 hours total. We drive nearly an hour each way to the gym. She started 7th grade TODAY. This year, the school is helping by allowing her to leave early everyday. We have been discussing what could be done to free up...

We have 2 kids: a 14-year-old son that loves baseball and a 12-year old gymnast. The baseball player is on a traveling team that plays mostly tournaments. He is actually switching from our small town school to the bigger town just down the road in order to play baseball in high school (and...

Flipper is in the gym 20 hours per week (plus 10 hours of travel per week). During the school year, she has very little time for anything but school, church, family and friends. She makes up for it during the summer. She is taking dance, spending every moment possible swimming with friends...

Flipper (12) also has Severs. We have found that this conditions comes and goes and makes life really difficult when it flairs up. Always stretch very well, use ice - and rest your feet when they hurt. We got Tuli Cheetah Cups for her heels from Amazon - not a cure, but they do help her feet be...

Flipper went to a very small gym with minimal equipment through level 7. We loved the owner and coaches and felt a strong sense of loyalty since she had been attending classes there since she was 3.5 years old. However, we choose to change gyms for level 8. The difficult skills at higher levels...

Flipper update: Got the last cast removed on Thursday. She fell down the stairs last week and was convinced she broke her ankle (in the cast). Took her in - surgeon said it would be nearly impossible to break an ankle already in a cast. When the cast came off, he decided that they needed to...

On the order of gymnasts - Our coaches mix it up. However, I always hope that Flipper won't go directly after one of her team members who has incredible form and execution on bars. After judging that young lady, everybody else looks pretty sad! On judges giving low scores early in a meet - One...

Thanks for all of your encouraging comments. Flippers surgery went well. She has 2 wires sticking out of her toe for the next 3-4 weeks. The surgeons had to make an incision on the bottom of her foot to have better access to the fracture and ligament (we were hoping they wouldn't have to do...

Well, she managed to stay out of the blasted ortho boot for 8 weeks. Monday at gym, she missed the beam with most of her foot in her acro dismount series. Broke the big toe of the other foot in the growth plate. Also has soft tissue damage. Planning surgery for Friday or Monday to wire and pin...