MILgymFAM
Proud Parent
Not sandbagging, but I will say that the gym could still score her out. Missing the SV on one event doesn’t preclude a score out if a gymnast could be ready for a higher but less restrictive level.There is one girl at my gym who may be accused of sandbagging in level 6. She has a beautiful cast handstand - clear hip handstand - giant x2 - flyaway, beautiful front walkover and bwo - bwo on beam, and a very good front handspring vault along with great front tumbling on floor (front layout front tuck). However she cannot back tumble at all. Not even round of backhandspring. Since USAG requires a back layout for level 7, she is unable to move up. Last competition season she was getting 37's right from the getgo and I can see how people would wonder why she wasn't a level 7. She will be repeating level 6 this year and I think (not sure) that the plan is to get her to score out of level 7 next year (?) in order to compete level 8 where there are less specific requirements about back tumbling. In my opinion this isn't sandbagging even though she is knocking it out of the park on 3/4 events.