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Hi, I have just worked out how to post in this forum ( if that's the right word lol). I would like a little advice on my little daughter please.
A little background on her situation at the moment.
J has been doing recreational cheerleading for 1 year and was invited to join the competition group around 3 weeks ago as she showed promise. J has been doing 3 1/2 hours a week split into a 1 1/2 hour session and 2 hour session, she has made leaps forward with her strength and flexibility and they do focus on conditioning for a period of time every session, she has also picked up on the skills like a backwards roll, bridge and standing back bend on a 8" mat.
J has been attending recreational gymnastics for 18 months and really loves bars and she is forever doing "parrots" on edges of furniture much to my displeasure, she loves doing skin the cats. It seam at the moment she is always doing something gymnastic related in the house, she has a thick mat that she loves to pull out and do forwards roll and backwards rolls into different positions, landing in a straddle and landing on her hands and feet that looks like a push up, she has been teaching her self this, they rarely do backwards on the floor, the use "sloops", j also likes to work on her splits at home and tries to copy the bigger team girls at the gym.
Just recently they have started a new group in gym for development, J has said to me that she wants to join this group, it seems to be coach initiated and quite a few of the girls who have gone into this group have older sisters on team.
Do you think it is worth having a chat with the coach and letting them know that J s interested or do I just leave well alone and see what happens in the future, J will be seven at the end of the year and I am worried that she will run out of time and be in recreational gymnastics until she has decided that she no longer wants to continue.
J is a well behaved little girl that does as she is told and doesn't hang of the owners like some do.
What is the best way to approach this without being labeled as pushy etc? It's just really frustrating seeing her with so much love for gymnastics being left on the side lines. I don't know how good she is or can be, but to me she is great and I love seeing the excitement in her when she learns new things, but disappointing at the same time as I feel she she be learning these in the gym and not self taught at home on her mat - backwards and forwards rolls.
Sorry for long post, thanks for listening.
Tiny Dancers Mum
A little background on her situation at the moment.
J has been doing recreational cheerleading for 1 year and was invited to join the competition group around 3 weeks ago as she showed promise. J has been doing 3 1/2 hours a week split into a 1 1/2 hour session and 2 hour session, she has made leaps forward with her strength and flexibility and they do focus on conditioning for a period of time every session, she has also picked up on the skills like a backwards roll, bridge and standing back bend on a 8" mat.
J has been attending recreational gymnastics for 18 months and really loves bars and she is forever doing "parrots" on edges of furniture much to my displeasure, she loves doing skin the cats. It seam at the moment she is always doing something gymnastic related in the house, she has a thick mat that she loves to pull out and do forwards roll and backwards rolls into different positions, landing in a straddle and landing on her hands and feet that looks like a push up, she has been teaching her self this, they rarely do backwards on the floor, the use "sloops", j also likes to work on her splits at home and tries to copy the bigger team girls at the gym.
Just recently they have started a new group in gym for development, J has said to me that she wants to join this group, it seems to be coach initiated and quite a few of the girls who have gone into this group have older sisters on team.
Do you think it is worth having a chat with the coach and letting them know that J s interested or do I just leave well alone and see what happens in the future, J will be seven at the end of the year and I am worried that she will run out of time and be in recreational gymnastics until she has decided that she no longer wants to continue.
J is a well behaved little girl that does as she is told and doesn't hang of the owners like some do.
What is the best way to approach this without being labeled as pushy etc? It's just really frustrating seeing her with so much love for gymnastics being left on the side lines. I don't know how good she is or can be, but to me she is great and I love seeing the excitement in her when she learns new things, but disappointing at the same time as I feel she she be learning these in the gym and not self taught at home on her mat - backwards and forwards rolls.
Sorry for long post, thanks for listening.
Tiny Dancers Mum