Recent content by Gymnastfix

Answering this from a Judge's point of view, none of the judges I know give "cute points" or aren't as harsh with deductions because of how cute or tiny a gymnast looks. If a gymnast stands out to me (whether she's 'cute' or tiny or wearing a damn good leo) you can bet I'm gonna be looking for...

I can say I've had the misfortune to run 15:1 rec gymnastics classes and you get hardly any time with each gymnast. Especially when the session is only an hour long. With warm up and cool down easily taking up half your session there is very limited time to provide feedback on skills. Since most...

Try not to worry about the amount of rehab you're going to go through after your surgery. Gymnasts are strong minded little creatures who always seem to push through and fight for what they want to get! Here's my post surgery comeback video Stacie's scoliosis story - YouTube I wasn't allowed to...

I had something similar with the wrist. I had a training camp and after 3 days I couldn't put any pressure on the wrist at all. Got it checked out and it was an overuse injury (I usually train 6 hours a week, not 6 hours a day for 5 days.) I iced it constantly and took the maximum dose of over...