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We recently switched gyms, 4 months ago, due to issues with the boys team not being able to keep a coach and were so far very happy with the new gym. But.... Move up letters went out. 2 of my children got the placements we expected but 1 did not. She was preteam at our last gym, working 6...

I know this topic had been discussed a lot, and I looked through all the threads I could find, but only getting more confused about which ones to get. LOL DD's coach recommended English Bulldog, but I see others here recommending Ginasta, US Glove, Hot Shot, etc. DD is a beginner Level 4, she...

Hi... This is my daughter's 1st competition year as a bronze level gymnast. We are a small, modest gym, and not crazy competitive, but very capable. Prior to this year our gym was UUA, but switched to USAG XCEL this year in the hopes of giving our girls a better chance at placement (i.e...

Hi everyone! I am a relative new gym mom. I have a 4 year old DD on pre-team level 2. She seems to have a natural ability for gymnastics, but I will admit, her life does not revolve around gymnastics. I know that she is very young, so I don't push her at all. She loves the gym and learning new...

DD and I went along to cheer some team members on (she's not competing yet) today. I noticed that a lot of clubs entered girls who clearly could not achieve some of the necessary skills (lots of nasty bars) whereas ours only entered girls they knew would do well. However the thing that...

I have 2 girls who are in rec gymnastics, ages 3 (Tiny) and turning 5 (Big) in a few weeks. At my gym, there are 2 more advanced rec classes the kids go to from which they select kids who go to pre-team. One class (let's call it Jr.) is for children ages 3 to 5, and another (Mini) is for ages...

Hello! I've been browsing Chalkbucket for a little over a year now, and just recently made an account. I'm 14 and competing Xcel Platinum this season. Read a bunch of other introductions and didn't find much to help. Just a question, how do you change things in your profile like favorite...

I'm really confused about how the new levels are going to work. Do all the levels just move down so a level 10 gymnast now would be considered a level nine? Can someone explain this to me? Thanks:)

DD is just turned 6 y.o. I have posted about this before. She just got placed on the level 1 team at her gym. Back in January when she was 5 and bored in a preschool group, we thought about moving her to a new gym. I took her to the new gym in January for an evaluation and they wanted to...

My son started gymnastics on a whim, and we ended up at a pretty good gym, just by luck. its a new gym and a very small program with a good coach, but regarding stability and success over time, who knows? He is learning good technique, discipline, emphasis on very clean basics etc. One of the...

Hello to all you wonderful Gymnastics parents! I was a gymnast growing up and love the sport. I took my soon to be 4yo DD to the gym near our home for open gym the other day and I left feeling very confused and of course so excited. We were there for 5 minutes when the coach came up to me...

Well, I moved the girls over to the new gym. They will start next week. The new gym did VERY WELL at the Pikes Peak Cup...

Sorry....I wrote in Word...cut and pasted it...and still does not post correctly. When I type...my computer says the website locks up and has to "recover" page and losses all data! SOrry - frustrated!

I have 2 girls in gymnastics (one will be 6 next week &a 7.5 yr old). They have been going tothe same gym for approx 4 years. Theyare on the "developmental" team which is approx Level 2. I am having some issue at my gym and decided to have themtested at a 2nd gym At the second gym, they...

Okay, so next year i will be a first year university student and have to decide what i really want in terms of gym. If i was to continue training, it is likely that i would be in the gym 6 days a week which i honestly think would be too much for me so i would either have to stop coaching or...

My son competed in level 5 this year and qualified for regionals. However he didn't do that well in regionals, so the coach decided to keep him in level 5. Now he says that he is borded and that his summer training isn't challanging. One thing i noticed is that he is only training 9 hours while...

I have always encourage my DD to eat a high protein snack before her practice. I've told her that it will keep her full longer and will give her longer lasting energy than other foods. However, another gym mom told me that this actually is not correct. She told me that a high protein diet...

I was wondering if someone could give be an explantation of the elite procedure. I know that in order to qualify for elite you need to have a compulsary score and an optional score. The score you need depends on what you are qualifing in (SR,JR etc). But from there I have several questions...

Just curious how common this might be and what could help fix the problem ( I'm sure her coaches know but I'm curious) Daughter hasn't been in gymnastics long but has progressed fairly quickly. She considered a 6/7. She has confusion issues when she's asked to do layouts. Instead of RO BHS...

SO... I am working yurchenkos onto the crash mat.... I have done soo many round offs, fall to my back to prepare... But when it comes to the back handspring part, I get so confused! It am not scared to do it, but I feel like my brain wont process the bhs.. Its the same thing doing whip on the...