What criteria or score does your gym require for boys to move to the next level?
Our gym is moving from evaluating each boy's skills and situation independently to a hardline score, so I'm wondering how other gyms handle this.
My son has been using grips made by a local craftsman who is very popular around here for his gymnastics grips. The dowels on his ring grips are the same size as the dowels on his high bar grips. His coach wants him to switch to grips with larger dowels, but he has small hands and is having a...
The only hang up with age is that a boy cannot compete level 8 until they are 11. I believe there is some sort of exception where you can qualify through the future stars program. A boy that competes level 4 at age 6 or 7 is in no rush.
Update: I took him to the doctor, and it turns out that he has a sinus infection. According to the doc, that accounts for the exhaustion and dizziness, and generally feeling like crud after tumbling. The poor kid has infected sinuses and a little resulting lung inflammation and I had no idea...
That's another good thought. He was definitely exposed to the flu pretty extensively via a good friend we thought just had a bad cold at the time, and although he didn't come down with it, he's been sniffly on and off ever since. I did buy him a good multivitamin last night. We'll see if it helps.
I just found out that my gymnast has been getting exhausted shortly after starting floor each practice, and sometimes on pommel or vault for a few weeks now. He's able to complete the practice, but his endurance is just not the same. Outside of the gym, he has a normal energy level, and he's...
I think there is a fine line between boys quitting because they're bored with skills that are too easy and boys quitting because they're overwhelmed by skills that are too hard. My son is happiest when he is challenged with attainable goals. I think that's what I like about the new routines. For...
I didn't know that boys had to be 11 to compete level 8. My son is an 8 year old level 6 and our gym doesn't do future stars...so that may come into play. He just did his first giants without the straps this week, and he's having a blast this season so far.
I would go with IGC or FlipFest. I have heard that Woodward has a lot less structured gym time. We are doing IGC this summer, but have teammates that have had a blast at FlipFest.
In our region, the level 4 boys who are on the podium at meets are usually scoring 88-90+ AA. Our coach does not usually move a boy up to level 5 before they are scoring at least high 14's on each event and have had at least 2 meets with scores of 88+ for AA.
It sounds like your son still has...
Thank you. That helps a lot. The IGC website does nothing to explain any of this. It just says that they use a loudspeaker system to let the kids know where to go.
This is a big part of what I'm wondering. Do the kids just decide on a whim that they want to do the ropes course, or swim, or whatever and they trot off to the activity without anyone knowing where they are actually supposed to be?
At the camp my other child goes to, they sign up for their...
I am thinking of sending my son to IGC this year, but I have some reservations. How much supervision is ther outside of the gym? Are the younger kids just left alone to wander around the campus? Is there any accountability to make sure they get where they're supposed to go?
I'd love to hear...
We had this trouble with my son for a bit. When he started level 4 he would do his 1/2 turn either way on the high bar and could cartwheel/roundoff equally on either side. On vault he lead with the right and on mushroom he circled to the right, so the coach had him zero in on the right side and...