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The Social Group that was for parents of new Optionals last year has been changed to a private social group who want to stay together and move through the Optional levels together. Therefore there is no longer a group for parents of girls moving into Level 6 or 7 this coming season. Anyone who...

My DD is almost 11 and a new level 6 (USAG). She has recently been saying that she doesn't want to go higher than level 6, she likes it there, she has no desire to shoot higher. She even told her coach that the other day and her coach was not happy because she feels it will affect DD's efforts...

She is 10 and training new level 6. She would like to keep up her training while we are on vacation and she also loves to have the opportunity to train at a gym that has pits, as her gym doesn't. Anyone here know of a gym that's receptive to outsiders coming in to train with the team on a...

I have created a social group for us. It is geared towards parents of gymnasts, not gymnasts, and it is for new optionals regardless of if you're starting in level 6 or 7. It is moderated so that I have to approve new members - this is just to keep weirdos out, it is not meant to be...

Those of you who have been or know anything about it, can you tell me whether the meet accommodations at the Atlantis Resort include any meals? I could not find this kind of info in my searches. We are trying to do budgets for attending this meet, and it makes a big difference if some meals are...

Do your gyms travel out of state/country for Prep op or Xcel meets? Are there many meets that incorporate both tracks in the same meet? Do you need different judges for prep op/Xcel? The reason I am asking is that we have had a request by a foreign club to add novice optional to our meet next...

The meet itself was pretty cool - some small issues but nothing major at all. We only ran about 15 minutes over time by the end of the night, which was thanks to our experienced meet director from SC who scheduled the whole thing really accurately! We held the meet in an aviation museum in which...

This was DD's biggest meet ever - prior to this the biggest had been Crown of the Carolinas when she was in level 3. It was well-run and we enjoyed both the meet and being in Orlando. It was a little on the expensive side, especially when my other DD lost her spectator ticket and I had to buy...

The Barbados Amateur Gymnastics Association (BAGA) is hosting its first ever invitational meet from April 20 - 22, 2012 in Barbados. I am part of the organizational committee, and also Treasurer of the BAGA. It is not going to be a large event for our first year, but because our team is the only...

I have searched the internet but cannot find prior years' schedules. The meet is Friday - Sunday, but for the purposes of booking flights etc. it would be good to know how early they usually start on Friday. i.e. do they start from morning or only from afternoon/evening? I am going on the...

Hi, our gym is having its first home invitational meet in April next year, and we're in the midst of planning it (I'm a gym parent on the committee). The venue we've had to use does not allow outside concessions, so we cannot use that as a way to make a little money. So we were thinking of...

My 8 yo DD (Danielle) is on the Level 4 team, starting to uptrain to Level 5. I also have a DD 18 months older than her (Katie), who has done rec gym and goes with her sister to gymnastics camp during school holidays. Katie tried out for team the same time Dani did (in Aug 2009), and they both...

Our annual fundraising gymnastics show is at the end of June, and we don't have a theme for it yet. Can anyone share fun and successful themes their gym may have had in the past, for shows or meets (we could adapt it). Last year was Michael Jackson, for obvious reasons. The finale (performed...

Last night at a committee meeting we were discussing how we are going to manage the funds that we are collecting to finance meet trips for the gymnasts. We are forced to travel to every meet (airfares and accomodation) so as you can imagine it gets expensive. One member raised the point that...

OK, it was messy, but she got it! Even in warm-up she wasn't getting it, but during the actual competition she was able to. I was sooooo proud! I felt for her, though, because she fell off doing the heel snap turn, which has never happened to her before. But she was very nervous and shaky...

It was just 10 push-ups -nothing too painful. But it really worked - I was surprised! DD's L4 group was doing bars with a coach that they don't often have, and they were all pretty sloppy. They have a meet on Saturday, so it's crunch time this week. He decided to motivate them with the threat of...

I think we are. It's the last weekend in February. Trinidad is an easy hop for us - less than an hour in a prop plane. I usually don't expect any CBers to be at Trinidad meets, but this meet is Caribbean vs USA so I assume there will be US teams there! Just wondering if it's any of you guys!

Does anyone know of a mixed gender (or just boys) meet in easy driving distance from Dallas that would welcome a Barbados team (USAG) of level 4s and up? I have searched the internet and the USAG website, and all I can find is a Houston one in early March. Based on my research, Houston doesn't...

For some wacky reason, it is often cheaper for us to get from Barbados to NY if we fly JetBlue than it is for us to travel to Puerto Rico or Miami on American, even though they are much closer to us. So we have started looking for meets that are in driving distance from JFK. Plus, we are...

We traveled a few thousand miles to this meet - from Barbados to South Carolina! It was a great experience, that's for sure! I was a bit disappointed for Danielle that she didn't do better - she was so hoping to get some medals. I find that she's still inconsistent with her skills and routines...