Just wanted to post an update. My daughter is 9 weeks post injury and is back to full weight bearing. Was pain free doing handstands etc at around 7 weeks. Isn’t tumbling or anything yet but started back with bar basics, giants, cast handstands, strap bar work and tramp tumbling.
Most girls we saw this year were doing yurchenko pikes, more layouts as the season went on, those were usually the winning vaults. Second to yurchenkos were tsuks and then the rare front handspring-front.
Our booster club gives money to the gym, which credits all the parents accounts equally to lower meet/coaches fees. We have a contract with the gym saying what the funds will be used for.
It’s hard as a working parent, I work full time and as of this year am required to be back in the office 3 days a week. I’ll start my workday from home early, then drop my daughter off on the way to the office, then use my lunch hour to pick her up, and then finish my day from home. It makes for...
I think USAG should then question WHY nationals is about a battle of some arbitrary regions that aren’t evenly matched anyway. Region 2 doesn’t even have enough girls to fill out half of most of its age groups for example.
Does anyone even really care what region won? I’ve never once looked it...
I’m not sure, it doesn’t mention that situation at all here. https://cdn1.sportngin.com/attachments/document/c702-3150145/2024_All-Star_qualifications.pdf
I agree, if they aren't willing to redistribute the states into different regions for more parity, then do a % based approach. Why does it matter if the age groups are consistent at regionals and nationals?
Has USAG ever looked into readjusting the regions to make the number of girls per region even slightly more even?
Looking at the number of girls per age group for level 9/10 regionals and it just seems massively unfair for those girls in larger regions. For example if you’re a level 9/10 in...