My daughter Hallie had her first meet today, an in house meet. She just started gymnastics at the end of January and has moved up levels at lightening speed. We always knew she was predisposed to the sport, teacheing herself cartwheels, roundoffs and backwalkovers thinking she had invented them but today we were very pleasently surprised. At the end of January she started out at level 1 (as everyone does) and today, she made it to level 3!!! Her ultimate goal is the olympics but wants to be on the competition team at her gym and we got an invite from the owner to preteam last week. I am unsure what to do about that, but I think we are going to have her move into the level 3 classes until the next meet in June and then accept the invite to preteam then. I want her to get a good foundation at level 3 before she has the added pressure of preteam. It's not the added time, she goes three times a week and never misses an extra clininc, bar, back handspring whathaveyou... but I think a solid foundation at this level and the confidence in herself and the new skills would be nice before she starts preteam would be best (in team and preteam they run it sort of like the military, if somone comes out of their bridge or a stretch during warm ups for example the whole team has to start over). One good thing is she gets to keep her current coach who we both love. She pushes the girls but is great at giving praise when it's really earned.
Anyway, wanted to say hi and see what you all thought. I was in gymnastics for 2 years before I made team level but I after today I can honestly say my little monkey (8 years old by the way) has a gift. I don't want to stifle her but yet I don't want her to loose the love of what she is doing either by going too fast.....
Hi, hope to see you all around and thanks for any advice!
Heather, proud mom to my gold medal winner Hallie
Anyway, wanted to say hi and see what you all thought. I was in gymnastics for 2 years before I made team level but I after today I can honestly say my little monkey (8 years old by the way) has a gift. I don't want to stifle her but yet I don't want her to loose the love of what she is doing either by going too fast.....
Hi, hope to see you all around and thanks for any advice!
Heather, proud mom to my gold medal winner Hallie