My now 9 year old competed a level 3 full season in fall 2017, scored out of of level 4 in Jan 2018, competed a short level 5 season in fall 2018, trained 7, and is now just about to start level 7 season, except she isn’t quite ready, and her coaches want her to skip the first meet. So she is still 9 years old, almost 10, and has leaped from level 3 to 7 in about a year.
I’m SO PROUD of her, but wonder whether I should question the decision to push this pace, because at the moment she really isn’t quite ready to compete level 7, and feels like a failure because she is getting scratched from the first meet (I think mostly b/c bars - clear hip to handstand and giants to dismount).
Should we have a chat about maybe competing 6? Or even.... five at the invitationals?
And how much communication is it reasonable for me to expect? I got an email a week before the first optional meet saying she isn’t ready to compete.
I’m SO PROUD of her, but wonder whether I should question the decision to push this pace, because at the moment she really isn’t quite ready to compete level 7, and feels like a failure because she is getting scratched from the first meet (I think mostly b/c bars - clear hip to handstand and giants to dismount).
Should we have a chat about maybe competing 6? Or even.... five at the invitationals?
And how much communication is it reasonable for me to expect? I got an email a week before the first optional meet saying she isn’t ready to compete.