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Is this normal in the gym world? I know a few gym parents who have home gyms in their basement (a bar, beam, trampoline). However another gym parent got a full size balance beam. Just wondering if this is normal...

My 7 y.o. is L2 (gym has it as L3 training team, so they will be L3 next year). Right now they are training 6 hours a week and will move up to 9 hours/week in a couple months. Right now we're not happy with the quality of coaching- the head coach is not able to lift the girls, so her husband...

Hi everyone, I haven't had time to check in or post lately but will hopefully more now. My 7 y.o. (turned 7 last month) was invited on the level 3 training team! They start this fall, then will compete starting September 2016. She is very focused and determined, but I am wondering if she is...

My almost 6 y.o. told me that gymnastics is too hard, and wants to quit. She just moved up a few weeks ago in her pre-team level (has one more level before team). She goes twice a week for one hour. I think part of it is that she is with a different coach who is stricter, but she does also do...

DD is in the 4-6 year-old group of pre-team (has been since fall) and last time her coach told me she needed to do a backward roll flip on the bars (I think??? DH takes her 90% of the time, so I'm not sure of all the terms) in order to advance. Tonight she did it!!! We had a make-up session...

My DD started gymnastics this past summer, and got invited to pre-team in fall. This weekend her gym had an in-house meet. She didn't place, but everyone received a trophy and she was so excited. It gave us a good taste of what competing would be like (especially with bringing siblings...