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Not my kid. She has an impeccable work ethic regardless of who is watching. When she knows someone important is watching like me, my Mom, or our gym owner she cracks under the pressure, balks, falls, etc. She tries too hard, instead of doing it just like normal. Judges are fine and she...

My DD was overweight and very weak when she started at 10 in L2. She didn't have the chin up part of the pull over AT ALL. Over the course of 1 calendar year she transformed into a body builder body type with strength to match. 2 years into gym and she is L7 and can climb the rope to the very...

THIS!

If you are happy with the gym and coaches, maybe ask them if they'd be interested in starting T&T team, because your DD has interest. Great if they do. If not, that'll set the ground work for if/when you decide to move on to a gym that does have T&T.

Gym #1 we left after they announced they were cutting their USAG program. Owner and coaches were very supportive and happy to see my DD move on into a program that would keep her challenged. At gym #2, DD experienced rapid improvement and decided that she wanted to pursue a D1 scholarship...

Thanks, that's a fair answer. I didn't know if there was a standard.. :)

My DD is fairly weak on bars as a L5. She recently changed gyms and they do the TOPS conditioning program, which is much more intense than her previous conditioning. How many weeks of that conditioning will pass before it really starts to show on bars?

The feeling of being lost in the air is pretty terrifying. If you've ever been in a roll-over car wreck or a spinning car wreck, it feels similar. Or if you've ever played the age old "team building" head on the bat race, run around bat in circles - you get it. It's alarming when you suddenly...

NO, a coach doesn't know, and can't know what a gymnast's upper limit will be. There are way too many factors to consider and most of those are out of the control of the coaches AND the parents. What they can tell, is if that child will make it to X level by X year though, b/c they are...

I don't think any coach should say things like "your child will never succeed at gymnastics, dance, etc or they aren't cut out for XYZ." I think it's appropriate to say "Our gym requires XYZ before X age to be on the team. Your DD isn't meeting that criteria within the time we expect her to if...

We are in DFW, TX area. My DD is in middle school and her school district offers "External PE" for athletes like this. Her gymnastics coach grades her and sends the grade to the school. Doing External PE also grants her early release from school on the days her would have had PE, which gives...

Thanks. I am just antsty. My DD's coach set an expectation of 35.0 AA to move from 5A to 5P. DD scored 34.875 so didn't move to 5P. I'm trying to figure out if she does A at the next meet, then P at District if she'll get to go to State (last year all L5's that competed at District made it).

It's hard for the smaller gyms to retain their elites. Once they get a gymnast to that level, they start looking around at gyms that can take them to the next level, like Buckeye. Quite a few gyms "train elite", which is quite different from having a competition team full of elites. On that...

Sounds like the DFW area.. there are 5 solid elite gyms in my area. But this is the hotbed of gymnastics. To get a feel for reality, http://www.mymeetscores.com/meet.pl?meetid=1000000284 is a pretty well attended elite meet and you can see the teams represented.

Does anyone have a resource that would describe the exact qualification requirements to make USAG L5 States in TX? I'm looking for specific wording regarding if a gymnast competed 5-Achievement in pre-sectional meets. Competed 5-Placement at Sectionals(Districts here in DFW). How many meets...

Living in DFW, this is very common around here. We have multiple elite/Olympic track gyms that many of the girls want to give a try. It doesn't always work out, and they come back. But there are TONS of gyms to choose from here, TONS!

My DD11 started gymnastics last year and competed level 2 and level 3. She appears to have a natural talent and has taken to the sport and "live, breathes, sleeps" gymnastics. We had a gym change and she is on their fast track to compete level 5, and training up as well. Her goal is a college...

My girlie follows a 7yo gymnast (actually it's her Mom that posts but it's all about this little girl)on Instagram. My girlie told me that the girls gym was doing eliminations and the girl was eliminated. Now, she is worried that her gym will do this(they absolutely do NOT). I've been in the...