gymmomtotwo
Proud Parent
DD is 10 year old level 7 who just fell short of doing Level8 this year. This is totally fine, she was missing an important element one of the events. Her best event is vault. She has had a beautiful tsuk waiting in the wings for more than a year now for the rest of her events to catch up. She is sick to death of the front handspring vault and how during meet season it limits her ability to do any uptraining on vault. I totally get that gymnastics is a 4 event sport. So why oh why did I watch a level 8 session at an out of town meet, and see only about half of the Level 8 competitors actually perform a tsuk or yurchenko vault? I thought Level 8 was all about having that flipping vault. I was even more shocked to see some of our team's Level 8's doing this. Why does vault get a pass, and you don't ever have to upgrade your skills? Why are Level 8s doing a level 4 vault? I did some research and found that you can do them, but have a lower start value, so you are behind from the get go. I was surprised that our gym would allow that as they are sticklers for having skills months before meet season starts. Thoughts? Are you really a level 8 if you are doing front handsprings?