One of my gym mom friends and I were discussing the state meet the other day, and there is one very large gym in our area that apparently uptrains the girls (ex., they are training level 2&3 but competing level 1), but has them compete down a level. We live in an area where even levels 1&2 are taken seriously for competition--I know this isn't the norm. Anyways, at state meet, the girls from this "sandbagging" gym took all of the awards with scores of 9.8 and above on some events and AA scores of 38+. These girls are repeating levels 1&2 in many cases! Two girls from our old gym switched to this gym, and despite doing well at state with AA scores over 37, they will be repeating level 2 next year. What is the point in doing this at levels 1&2? I thought the idea was to move up as quickly as possible.