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    Level 8 bar Requirements

    Is there some special requirment to have a free hip to 3/4 at level 8. The coach told my daughter if she did not do her free hip (which follows a piourette at handstand and I think a kip and a cast on the low bar) to at least 3/4 height, her routine would have a 9.5 start value. The JR. Op...
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    Tips to add Muscle?

    Any suggestions on how to help build muscle? My daughter's thin and long legged training 8. Coaches keep staying "if you could just add 5 lbs of mucle. ." It's not as though she has no mucle-her older sis actually keeps photo of her lil sis' "abs of steel" in her phone. I think she just...
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    Optional vault practice-how often?

    How often do you have your gymnasts train vault? My daughter is trying to learn a level 8 vault. Floor, beam and bars seem to be worked on almost every practice, but they seem to often not do vault. It seems to me the way to learn a new skill is to work on it often, at least some at every...
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    Vadez

    My daughter taught herself the valez after seeing it on utube. She taught herself to start with an outstretched arm on the side of her bent leg but just learned from her coach that she should be starting with her arm and leg extended on the same side. She finds it difficult to do it that way...
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    Stealing/Using Routines of others

    Saw a L7 floor routine on u-tube that appeared to be close to an exact copy of a very utube popular/successful now elite gymnast's L7 routine. A gymnast at our gym had a former gymnast who had moved out of state take her routine off u-tube. Her mother did call and say they were using it and...
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    practice beams for optionals?

    Just wondering if there are any optional gymnasts who use a beam at home. My daughter competed level 7 this year and I'm wondering if a low beam or floor beam(and mat) would be useful to practice things like back handsprings

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