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I've been doing gymnastics for most of my life, and am dealing with a back injury that I've finally understood probably means the end of my gymnastics career (it's been going on for 5+ years but has gotten much worse recently) . I joined competitive relatively late at the ripe old age of 16, and...

My coworker is buying a small bar and gymnastics mat for her daughter's 7th birthday, and I'm going over to help entertain the kids/run a gymnastics-themed birthday party for an hour or two. I'm a gymnast myself and coached rec for a few years, and fully intend on giving the...

I'm currently training 6 hours a week at open gym and things have been going well, but starting in January I'll be backpacking through Australia for six months and won't have access to a gym at all. I understand that I'll regress significantly but I want to minimize that as much as I can, and...

I'm choreographing my own routine this year and am looking for some inspiration. I particularly liked Jordyn Wieber's 2012 routine because while it wasn't necessarily graceful, she had great musicality and it was mature and fun to watch. I want to avoid making my routine too pose-y, and I love...

I haven't posted in ages but I have some exciting news to share. I've decided to compete Masters this year, three years after retiring! My question is about skill expectations, mainly on bars. Now that the code has changed and routines are compulsory up to Level 5 I would really like to aim to...

** I'm not asking for medical advice. I've been checked out and am going to physio. I would like to hear from others who've dealt with this, thanks!** I'm currently dealing with microtears in my achilles, and it's healing much slower than my physio and I expected. It's not from any one incident...

I'm moving to France for four months from Sept-Dec for an international co-op work term (I'm so excited but also very nervous!). I will be working full-time and plan to do a lot of travelling and exploring the city on weekends, but will hopefully have some down-time. I'm curious to know if there...

About 2.5 months ago I decided I wanted to get my front handspring front tuck on floor. I trained them for a little while on rod floor with varying degrees of success about a year ago. Also, I understand the mechanics of the skills much better now and have a significantly better block from my...

I'm sure many of you have already seen this, but for those who haven't here's the website for the competition - including info on volunteering, buying tickets, and the preliminary schedule! Anyone else ridiculously excited for this? I'm going to be able to go to nearly 3 full days of...

Specifically my own! I'm having trouble maintaining reasonable expectations for myself and have been trying really hard not to get too frustrated, but it's hard :(. I retired from competitive gym last June (I was a Level 5/6 and trained 8 hours a week, I'm 20 now and didn't start competitive...

Maybe a silly question, but why do we always call this vault the 'Mustafina' (round off flic entry 1/2 twist onto the vault, 1 1/2 twists off layed out position) if in the Code of Points it's listed under Cheng Fei's name?

I have two things I'm curious about in terms of scoring: 1. In men's gymnastics they often land with their chests very low and do multiple arm circles to ensure a stuck landing, but do they get the same deductions as the women for the low chest and arm circles? It seems like a 0.1 hop would...

I'm unbelievably excited that the Canadian Nationals will be held in Ottawa this year! Do anyone know when tickets will be available and where to get them from? This the first opportunity I've had to attend of competition of this level and I really don't want to miss it. I've tried some google...

I've recently started working giants again on strap bar and am finding them pretty scary because I haven't quite got the hang of the wrist shift. The strap bar I use has the pvc pipe around the thin metal bars. One time I couldn't get my wrists to shift and was stuck on handstand without my...

Hi everyone, so this is just an idle question that I'd love to get an answer to. What exactly is the purpose of the different floor and beam shoes/slippers that I've seen some gymnasts wearing? Sarah Finnegan wears little half-shoes, while Ellie Black has full ones, and I even saw a Chinese...

Hi everyone, I'm looking for some help with two things, and your collective wisdom and expertise would be greatly appreciated! I am trying to fix my bad habit of piking my hips in my front tucks, and looking for some clarification on twisting direction. Here is a video my friend made of me...

So I've been working on cast to handstands for a while, before I retired a few months ago and now on my own at the adult rec class I've been going to. I can do decent preps (cast to bum up in air and legs in straddle at bar height, like the compressed position for a straddle press), but then I...

Does anyone know where I can watch a full replay of the women's qualification from last sunday? I'm in Canada and can't watch any of the NBC videos, and the CTV full event replay only seems to show floor... Thanks!

I'm curious about what other people have to say about positioning of the thumbs on bars. Some of the girls as my gym train kip cast handstands to giants without switching their thumbs at all (thumbs on top of the bar for the glide, and remain on the top for the handstand), whereas others are...

I'm currently going to an Adult Rec class one or two nights a week, having retired from competitive gymnastics about 6 weeks ago. I'm at a bit of a loss as to what skills I should work on, especially for vault and beam. I have a great handspring vault, but seem to be pretty terrible at twisting...