Well, dd had her sectional meet this past weekend. Unfortunately, she did not do well. She had a higher score all-around last year, at the same exact level (level 6) by about .4 We tried to stay positive and did not say anything after the meet. DD did not seem too concerned. I finally was able to speak with her about it a little last night and she agreed that she was getting to the point where she is scared of doing the higher level gymnastics skills and is not even sure herself about how far she wants to go with it. She has had fear issues in the past and perhaps that is part of the wall she has reached. The question now is, how long do we wait for her to push through that wall? If it such a huge sacrifice for the family as far as time and money, should we just say that it time to move on? We could try to be more patient, but I feel like giving her an entire year to work on skills and improve from last year showed some patience on our behalf already. We thought that some "breathing room" was necessary because of some fear issues she was having over a year ago. We noticed last year she was getting afraid of bars and was struggling a little on beam. She seemed to work through some of the beam issues, but her improvement on bars has stood completely still. Also, there has been little improvement on vault and her scores on floor are worse. As for quitting, DD will miss her friends, but she will have much more time to spend time with friends she does not get to see very much because of gym. DD will miss the exercise, but she will be able to find other sports to try. She already mentioned skateboarding, surfing and snowboarding. (not sure why fear issues do not come into play with those sports but I guess as a beginner it is not an issue.) So here we are. We have two weeks till State and I hope she does well, but I think it is wise to get her to start thinking beyond gymnastics.