She injured some soft tissue in her leg and has to have 10 days straight of no activity. It is working but I caught her wrestling her brother this morning because the snow days (3 this week) are giving my kids cabin fever. My dd has been to school for an hour this week because I was told to let...
Ladies, you are so right! I thought about that all night. Beating the pants off should not have been repeated. I apologize if I offended! I have offended myself. Thanks.
I once went through a glass coffee table practicing gymnastics in my mom's livingroom. I still have the scar on my pinky from a minuscule cut I got! Now that I look back on it, I feel bad. The table was 5 by 5 solid glass and it was beautiful!
That phrase came from the other parents. I am just "borrowing it". My daughter has already been given a spot on the level 4 team and we have been told that she will not be competing level 4 twice which is the norm at our gym. She is treated differently but she also works her but off and is a...
newtogym- My daughter is very nice and so am I. Congrats on going to a gym where everyone is nice. Unfortunatley, we don't go to your gym. The kids are made Very aware of what there scores are. Parents right now are all in a frezy for 8 spots on our level 4 team with 50+ kids trying out soon. It...
One of the sad consequences of my 5 year old beating the pants off of her teammates is that she doesn't get invited to their birthday parties and that is something that really hurts her because they hand out the invitations in front of her. She gets invitied to some but they are from the upper...
My dd is injured with a states a couple of weeks away. She hasn't practiced all week and I'm not sure how things will go next week. The positive is that she has had a really good season so if she isn't in shape to compete states, her level 3 season was fun. Please send some healing fairies her way!
Hmm, I still do beam turns in my kitchen on a daily basis. In the summer, the trampoline is my friend. Let's hope she doesn't outgrow it. It brings me joy to this day!
My dd is a 5 year old level 3 who is super small. The vault is basically over her head. She has struggled with this event. Well, this weekend she nailed it. She scored over a 9 and got first place. I am just so happy for her. I know vault may be a nemesis for her because of her size but she...
You are so right Mary. I really am blessed that I am married to a wonderful husband, have a roof over my head and plenty to eat and all my children are safe and well. Everything else is just icing on the cake. I have always told my husband it is a sucessfull day if all of our children are...
She can cast to handstand nicely and go over the bar onto mats but the mats are so low to the ground and she has to fall a long way. It has been suggested that the mats be stacked closer to the height of the bar so she doesn't have to fall so far but to date that hasn't been done. She can also...
No, we have yet to gym hop. Yes, the hoppers are talked about a lot. The coaches don't look upon the hoppers kindly. Usually the gym hoppers are the crazy parents who weren't happy at their gym and are not happy at ours either. They really think their daugther is the next olympian and the...
Dunno-bingo! Seems like the wrong approach to me too. She isn't afraid to do the skill, she is just not into pain if you know what I mean. Let's just make her afraid of the skill too! It just seems so wrong to me. I don't get it either.
10.0- No this is definately not a skill that the other level threes are training. Heck, 99.999 percent of them can't even remember the routines or do the skills for level 3. Funny thing about our gym is that the coaches really try to keep the kids that are training above on the down low as much...
Dunno- The cast to handstand on bar is the main skill she is not happy about. She doesn't like the landing and the coach woudn't stack the mats so she will not do them anymore. I told her that was fine. She does them easily but she is so little and is falling onto her body a long way and even if...