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I agree. My dd is a competitive swimmer (and former gymnast). The tech suits only come into the picture once your kid starts qualifying for higher level meets or is 11yo+ (ridiculous to pay $$$ for these if they are just starting out or are very young) and they aren't used for every meet. only...

If you can make it work, great, but from what I've seen going on in my town it will be very hard. In my town, high school sports require a huge time commitment and regularly missing practice would affect playing time. If my DD was an L8 and wanted to do high school sports, I'd encourage her to...

DD does swim team, lacrosse in the spring, and plays the flute. I don't know if I'd call the flute an outside activity because at our school it is all done during school hours (except practice and the concert). She also occasionally does after school golf clinics, but they usually conflict with...

We're also going through this. DD is a 9yo L3 who also does swim team and lacrosse. If she moves up to L4 (too early to tell) and/or she changes swim practice groups (very likely) something is going to have to give, so we talked about it. She made it clear that she doesn't want to quit other...

I bought a d7000 this year but still need to get the 70-200 2.8 lens. In some gyms I am still getting decent shots with the kit zoom lens. I will try to rent the lens to try it out first. PS, can I join the group? It's not giving me the option to do so. Thanks! Great topic!

Wow, some of these prices are insane. We are in Massachusetts and we pay $190/month for new level 3 (7.5 hr/week). Our warm up was $110, leo $100, meet fees average $75/meet for entrance/coaching fees and we do about 8 meets per year. Team fee was $85 including USAG fees. Our gym tops out at...

At our gym they do pre team for ages 4-7 and then last year they competed either old L2 or old L3. Usually they progress one level per year except old L5 which was typically repeated though not mandatory. DD didn't really do preteam (she is 7yo), they put her right in old L2 this past year and...

Thanks all. It's very confusing as to what is going on with her coach being out. They usually have these groups on Tuesdays: pre team, old L2, old L3, old L4, optionals, and then XCel starts later. For the preteam-old L4 groups, they only had 3 groups instead of 4 yesterday so I don't know if...

So feel free to tell me if I am being crazy and just need to chill out and be patient. 7yo dd competed the old L2 last year. Right after states last month (about 1/2 of the team competed states, including dd, and it was the top half of the team), the coach sent out an e-mail to the parents whose...

We got one too (also region 6) but haven't used it yet. We have downloaded from Amazon before, just follow the instructions (we had to download the cloud player I believe). It will put everything in iTunes. Thanks for the reminder, will need to have dd pick out some music!

DD competed level 2 this year, including the state championship (around 8 teams competed in level 2 states). From the summer schedule I've seen for our gym, it appears they will make level 1 more pre-team oriented (hours are reduced from 4.5 hours a week this year to 2.5 hours this summer for...

Level 2 dd's coach advised that she is definitely moving up to the new level 2 but they are going to see if they can have her skip a level to the new level 3, but they won't make those decisions until June or July. What are the big skills in the new level 3 (old 4)? I'm assuming it's the...

7yo dd (level 2) really wants to get her back handspring (some of her friends who do acro have theirs). Her gym does not offer the clinics (she is currently level 2), but they do uptraining. They work on them at the gym at most 15 minutes a week from what I can see. She is close-- she did one...

Yesterday at practice the L2 team was doing some uptraining on bars-- dd got both her squat on and her single leg shoot through! She was the only one to get both. Her coach was impressed by her determination that day and acknowledged her in front of her team with a ribbon. She always works hard...

My dd competes L2 and they are uptraining L3,4+ skills-- front hip circle, mill circle, some kip, some cast to a handstand; and underswing on bars; leaps, new dismount, cartwheel, bwo on beam; robhs, handstand forward roll, leaps/jumps on floor. They typically uptrain the week or two right after...

We had one meet in October that was traditional (the one where you warm up all events then compete all events) and everyone on our team (it was a L2/3 session) did not like it at all. It seemed like forever between when warm ups started and the competition started. It was a slow meet.

Thanks all. I will (as always) continue to be supportive and tell her how great she is doing. She works hard and absolutely loves it. It's just that darned forward roll! This week they are uptraining L3+ with cartwheels on beam, robhs on the tumble trak, handstand forward roll on the floor...

That seems like a very big class! At my gym last year when dd was doing rec, they would have 2-3 classes going at the same time and split up the kids according to ability regardless of age.

This is my first post here. My just turned 7yo dd is competing level 2 gymnastics. She did a rec class last year, a brief stint on the preteam over the summer , and was advanced to level 2 in July. This is the gym’s first year competing level 2. Her floor & vault are great (scores above 9.0)...