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I mean, now I can everything fine with the other events but....... my good ol' enemy, THE BAR..... dud dud dun..... yeah, i fail at bars..... it took me two years to get my pullover and the only that's blocking from level two is that good ol' bar. Well, not really, my back hip circle. I can...

I've been dealing with some pretty bad upper & mid back pain lately (enough to bring me to tears, which is unheard of for me) and had to sit down and ice/rest it the last two practices (also unheard for me). My coach is making me take the next practice off, which conveniently is right before...

Just need to rant to people who get it! I was so angry today at practice (and I'm not one to get super emotional) because I have knee pain which is slowing down my progress, especially on floor and vault! It wasn't my day in general- gymnastics-wise and "regular"- so bars (my best event)...

DD 4 is on her third session of the advanced kinder gym class for 3-5 year olds. I was fine with it at first. Her class had about 6 girls, a head coach and an assistant. Sessions are 10 weeks (which adds to the inconsistency IMO). The next session we got a different coach. She was more focused...

Had a whole long post and the CB ate it! Ack! It was probably too long or something, lol. Anyway, I am extremely ticked at DD's gym, and could use some BTDT advice. Since my fingers are good and sore from my first attempt, I will try to summarize my issues in point format! 1. Have had...

Sorry have to vent my anger Just found out that my dd's coach has cancelled the next two training sessions which means that she has no practice sessions before regionals. Really not happy about it. She needs all the practice she can get.

Munchkins are the adorable younger siblings/friends of competing gymnasts. However, a lot of the time their behavior is not so cute. I have had my nachos stepped in, camera knocked over, and have tripped over them. I have listened to the wailing of overtired toddlers who could care less about...

I haven't been visiting Chalkbucket much lately. I apologize for coming here just to vent, but I'm really mad about this situation and want to share with people who will understand, or who will tell me I'm overreacting. :) So my son moved to a new gym just before this season started. He's...

My gymnasts have a competition on Saturday. When we sent the entries off, we had to put down a nominated judge. The judge we put can no longer do it as she is on holiday. Our club only has 4 judges - 2 of them are on holiday, I have gymnast in the competition so am supposed to be taking them...

I have already emailed DD's coach in a very polite manner to let her know how my child felt and I need a place to vent how I really feel and what I really wanted to say. DD is a 5yo L4. They recently began working a few L5 skills into their rotations. One of those skills is a dive roll. The...

My 5 year old dd missed a lot of classes these last 3 weeks due to vacation and illness. We decided to try an open gym class. They separate the kids by ability level so my daughter was put in a group of older girls. They out right bullied her. At first, they wouldn't even allow her to get on the...

I have had the same phone for over 2 years now, LG VX8550 Chocolate. It still works well, despite a close call last fall when I played ultimate frisbee with it in my bra and the screen stopped working for a night. So my dad decides that I should get a more reliable phone before heading back...

So last year when there was the roommate matching program online for my college I had killed my dad's laptop which I was using after I killed my upstairs computer, and I was super busy with gymnastics, cheerleading and such, so I missed the deadline to select my roommate. I had requested to...

I have a rant that I must get off my chest, and it's not even regarding my dd or her team! As you may know, dd switched from artistic to T&T last Spring. All is very well w/ her, thanks to her supportive, well-trained, NICE coach. :p YAY! Not so for the girls' artistic team, who were...

So I paid over $50 for the new (came out a few weeks ago) COP, and low and behold, after owning the book for less than a week, the first errata came out today...49 replacement pages!:mad: That's 1/5 of the book! Who does the editing in Indy??? USAG strikes again.

Anyone have any great insight into why the big change for westerns this year. It makes no sense to me. It seems to help the smaller, weaker regions and hurt the bigger regions. For example, region 2 last year sent about 65 kids to westerns, this year they will send 96. Keep in mind they only had...

as most people here know, i was born profoundly deaf in both ears. my mom is a sign language interpret an now is a specal/deaf ed coordinator so i grew up signing. i've had hearing aids a couple times but they don't do a whole lot. i can't lip read and i can't talk (well i've been in speech...

This is why I hate it when it gets warm in February! (My definition of warm in February is anything above 0C/32F aka the freezing point of water.) Today where I live in southern Ontario (Canada, across from upstate New York) it has been absolutely pouring cats and dogs all day. I was out for...

I do not know if I’m posting this in the right forum but I just had to know. Does you body type have very much to do with how good you will get at gymnastics. I have had people tell me they can tell I am good at gymnastics because I am petite. What does height have to do with it. I’m...

I love gymnastics, more than anything! What sucks is, my gymnastics dream literally cant come true because of my age + working full time, it really sucks wanting something so bad that just isnt possible. I mean if I was wishing that I could win a million dollars or something fair enough, but...