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Hello all ... I don't know if many of you remember me, but I was an active CBer a few years back, living in China! My daughter was doing gymnastics in Beijing and then we moved to a smaller city in China without a suitable program and she started ballet instead. Well, now we are finally moving...

I've stopped posting here since DD is now doing ballet and not gymnastics (:() but I remember Sophia from waaaay back when she was a baby level 5 and you could see the talent then, the attention to detail and form that you just don't see from your average kid that age. So glad to see her...

I was about 16 when I quit and for me it was very much a combination of learning how to drive and acquiring an independent social life, having increased demands at school, with AP classes and extracurriculars, knowing that I'd capped out, skill-wise, and struggling with persistent fear issues...

This is definitely true. I remember competing compulsories in the early 90s, and I won a couple of events at States with scores in the 8s. You would see lots of 6s and 7s and 8s, but 9s were pretty rare.

She might also be considering the possibility of injury. She's just come back from an injury as it is and staying healthy through to 2016 is by no means guaranteed. At least this way she can start her NCAA career with a rested body instead of possibly sustaining a career ending injury trying for...

Instagram is my social media of choice too. Some gyms have really awesome Instagram accounts, particularly some of the gyms with high level or elite gymnasts. Parkettes, for one, has a great Instagram where they post loads of gymnastics videos of their high level girls, so you get a bit of sneak...

If your DD herself is wanting to switch to a different gym, that's a pretty strong indicator that the current gym isn't giving her what she needs right now. Usually the kids are the ones reluctant to make a switch (don't want to leave friends, would miss their old coach) even when switching is...

I follow someone on Instagram who has an actual real life full balance beam (AAI, if I remember correctly ... it boggles my mind every time I see it because those things are NOT cheap) set up in their living room. Everytime she posts a video of the kid, a 6 year old, doing backwalkovers and such...

Congrats to your DD and to all the other optionals finishing out their seasons! Here's to a successful regionals for those going and happy uptraining time to those whose season ended with State. :)

MaryA, she also really did get hurt, so that's probably not helping either with this latest fear. The first "big" injury can really shake up some kids. I hurt myself on floor when I was about her age, 12ish -- broke my hand when I came down wrong on a simple ROBHS of all things. It gave me a...

Pretty much all 8 year old gymnasts want to go to the Olympics. Shoot, I nurtured an Olympic dream until I was about 12. I also wanted to be a veterinarian and captain of the starship Enterprise. Kids want a lot of things! It is normal for the Olympics to be their first gymnastics related goal...

Yeah, I was going to say, there are videos of her competing years back and she looks exactly the same. She's just one of those people, I think, who will probably hit puberty really late. No doubt China has falsified ages and probably will do it again, but this girl is, I think, legitimately her...

I recall reading a Mary Lou Retton autobiography when I was maybe 12 or 13? I don't think it had anything particularly controversial in it, but I read it a very long time ago and Mary Lou did train in the 70s and 80s, so you know, the training environment wasn't what it is today. It might be...

I'm the only one in my (adopted) country so far, although there seem to be some guests ... It doesn't identify the username with the pin, but I suppose if you already knew roughly where someone lived and they were one of the few in that area, you could track them down perhaps but it seems...

I think it is easy to forget that most of these Olympians are still children. In my view, Gabby's mom is certainly to blame here, as I find it impossible to believe that she is letting her 17 year old daughter call the shots for the whole family, given what we know of how she managed her...

You say the coach left at the gym is a former elite, top 3 in the world type elite? I'd give her a chance. The transition from really high level gymnastics to coaching is pretty natural for a lot of former gymnasts and coaching L7-10 shouldn't, in theory, be a problem for her. I know that being...

The feed was horrible for me too. Glad the uploaded videos are of better quality, but it would have been nice to have a nice high quality feed. I watched a bit of podium training live and it was fine, but the competition itself was unwatchable.

Also check out Etsy! There are a couple of sellers there that make pretty nice leos using cute fabrics. I got one for DD and if I recall correctly it was less than $20.

I'm so sorry GymBeeMom, I remember you posting about your DD and her dreams and it is terribly unfair that it has to end this way. How is she taking it all? I hope she can find a new passion where she can be happy and healthy!

Haha I remember that silly body wave on the beam too, which never, ever looked right. When I saw that thing had returned I briefly felt like it was 1993 again. Now if only they'd bring back the Charleston-step too! ;)