At watch age do your gym allow children to attempt and work on bridges and back bends (drop down into a bridge from standing)
When my dd was in rec doing or trying to do a bridge was part of the warm up ( from the age of 5), at my dd's development class yesterday they were working on back bends, bridge kick overs ( mixed age group 6 years old +), the older girls in the group were allowed to practice doing a back bend and my dd (6 years old) was not working on them, she said that she was working on her bridge and did not attempt a back bend, this impressed me and given me confidence in her coaches as she has only just started he development group (2 classes in) and she probably won't have the strength and flexibility to do a back bend yet especially as her bridge needed improving ( couldn't do one correctly for very long before development group - she has now made progress in this).
So far things are going great in her new group, she came up a little later then she should and was still bouncing round afterwards. Yesterday was her first experience on the rope and also on what looks like a climbing frame attached to the wall and she loved it despite coming out with chalky red hands.
When my dd was in rec doing or trying to do a bridge was part of the warm up ( from the age of 5), at my dd's development class yesterday they were working on back bends, bridge kick overs ( mixed age group 6 years old +), the older girls in the group were allowed to practice doing a back bend and my dd (6 years old) was not working on them, she said that she was working on her bridge and did not attempt a back bend, this impressed me and given me confidence in her coaches as she has only just started he development group (2 classes in) and she probably won't have the strength and flexibility to do a back bend yet especially as her bridge needed improving ( couldn't do one correctly for very long before development group - she has now made progress in this).
So far things are going great in her new group, she came up a little later then she should and was still bouncing round afterwards. Yesterday was her first experience on the rope and also on what looks like a climbing frame attached to the wall and she loved it despite coming out with chalky red hands.