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You guys are the best btw!!!

I also agree with posters who have cautioned about them getting burnt out by L6 and quitting gymnastics entirely. Versus maybe doing excel or AAU early on and sticking with it? Here’s the deal though...our high school is super competitive and they are AAU. I talked with the coach and they are...

So, she did do the JO3 yesterday. I’ve signed up for the month. No fees are due except the monthly fee. She said she loved it but I still woke up thinking is it right for us to go down this path? I really wish we had programs around that would allow moving from AAU or excel into JO. This gym...

We drive about 20 mins for this gym. There is also an Xcel gym 5 mins away. And an AAU gym about 5 mins away. I have heard of one more JO program about 15 mins away but No one talks about it. Not sure how great it is. Other than that, we’d have to drive maybe 45 mins for the next JO gym. I’m...

I did ask her that very question. It came out that she felt one of the coaches was mean to her. By mean it turns out she was very hard in her criticism and how she delivered the feedback was sarcastic. A 6 year old does not get sarcasm. I did approach the coach and she was very receptive. My...

Also, I stand corrected the other program is the AAU. So our options are JO, Xcel or AAU. Our high school competes JO levels but come up thru the AAU program. Does that even make sense???

I do not have other children.

Wow...I wish we had a program that was highly competitive w/o having to do the high hours in the gym. Doesn't seem those two things go hand-in-hand though.

I think you hit the nail on the head for me. Even if I can get my mind around 9 hours this year, what is the point if I'm not okay with 12 hrs and 16 hrs etc? Why even go down this path at all? That is exactly what I'm thinking. But I would like her to be able to do high school if she is still...

I know she won’t have a problem with it over the summer. We have no other real time commitments. She can 100% do it this summer. She will walk away saying it’s just fine. It’s her personality. It’s more about how will it affect her and our family during the school year? I personally can’t...

Thank you all so very much!!! I’ve flip flopped (ha, see what I did there?!) my decision so many times in even the last few hours. Now to make it even more confusing I ran into the lady that used to coach me this morning. She runs the AAU or GIJO program. She felt the xcel program here wasn’t a...

Thanks for the reply. Yes, she can train over the summer for JO and then decide by fall. I guess I was hoping not to prolong the decision. And I thought 9hrs/wk won’t feel like a lot during the summer bc she’ll have the rest of day wide open. I don’t think she’ll do the gymnastics over the...

I guess I should also ask...if she absolutely is loving it later and wants to take it more seriously at some point, is moving back over to JO ever an option? Obviously she’s be at a lower level than had she stuck with JO. But at least it would be her decision and not mine to make. As of now, I’m...

My daughter will be going into 1st grade. She has been doing gymnastics since she was 2. She was asked to be on the JO L3 team last year and I turned it down because she was going to be entering full-day kindergarten too. She repeated pre-3 this past year at 3 hrs a week. Now the decision is...