My daughter loves to flip upside-down too! It's a super thrill for her. She stopped artistic gymnastics and now does T&T and that is less time in the gym. And she has enough time to do golf too. It's not her first love, but she is good at it because of the good body awareness that gymnastics...
These were the routines I competed! I still can hear the floor music in my sleep bc I was always afraid I'd forget my routine so I'd actually sleep with the tape going. The lady would describe the skill with the music on in the background. I listened to that on repeat. So fun seeing it on here...
At the T&T meets my daughter goes to its very common, might even be more common for the athletes to wear shorts while competing. So I'd say giving kids the choice to cover up more may be better received than you think.
I think a lot of the college girls are unfortunately buying into misogyny...
Also, its not just gymnastics. My son has a few teammates on his soccer team with full on production studio quality IG accounts. Seems a little early in the process considering my youngest is in 4th grade. They have big dreams this early on, I guess.
Our gym's rule was atleast a level 9 and atleast 8th grade. They said there is no reason for it before then except to show off to the general public. My daughter has a trampoline and tumbling one now that she is a freshman and she is considering doing Acro and Tumbling in college.
This happened when my daughter stopped artistic gymnastics as well. My daughter announced she was leaving through an email after she took a couple days off to gather her thoughts. Then a week later she went in to gym to say goodbye to her teammates and coaches and clean out her locker. The head...
I am sorry to hear that your daughter felt pressure to quit her sport because of an unsupportive and what sounds like a downright hateful atmosphere.
Let her know that the gymnastics community is large and maybe a better fit for her sport is at a different gym.
But if that gym left an...
I am so sorry to hear they are struggling. As parents we all want to go in there and fix these issues to help a child and teach them that they are worth fighting for. And your child is. My take is that in this particular place it sounds like the issues are systematic and not just related to the...
My daughter quickly transitioned to golf and Tumbling & Trampoline. She then added school cheer. She is also going to try a season of track before she begins high school next year. Middle school allows for more freedom and variety in school athletics. Once she gets to high school she will need...
Meet results aren't listed the way artistic gymnastics meets are. The best way I know to find results is to figure out which meets the gym attended. Some of the meet hosts or meet websites will have past meet scores listed there. Especially if it was a big meet. Also I believe the USAG T&T...
Yup! All of them, every event, even now that she is in T&T. It was a tradition when she was little to watch them later with family who didn't attend the meets. Now I send them to her afterwards so she can watch them. I think that we are ending this stage as she is starting to get her coaches or...
My daughter moved on to school cheer and T&T and loves it. And in the end, after a period of (my) transition, I'm so glad she left gymnastics bc she has so much fun in cheer. And gymnastics prepared her really well for Cheer.
Most of her old gymnastics teammates have now retired too, but they...
I know bone bruises can take a long time to heal, my daughter had one after over extending her knee once, and I know that foot injuries are also super stubborn to heal as well. They rarely get rested for long, and can have less blood flow to the area. When she rested over break was she in a...
You may be competing against some teams that train like your head coach/xcel coach. It can bring in some short term profits.
Also if you recently took over this program it will take a year or 2 for your results to materialize.
I'm not a coach. Just a parent. I believe there needs to be a...