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mouey77
DD is just turned 6 y.o. I have posted about this before. She just got placed on the level 1 team at her gym. Back in January when she was 5 and bored in a preschool group, we thought about moving her to a new gym. I took her to the new gym in January for an evaluation and they wanted to place her on their level 3 team at that time (I guess this will now be called level 2 this season). We decided to stay at our old gym. The coaches are really good with the little kids, and they do place well at meets. On the other hand, the communication is not good at all, so the parents really have to make an effort to get feedback from the coaches. They did a "try out" at our gym in May, and they placed all the new girls on level 1 team.
DD did some tumbling with a level 10 gymnast at a cheer gym with some friends. I had considered letting her do competitive cheer as well since she loves the tumbling, but we decided to hold off. She does nice back handsprings and can almost do a back tuck on her own. Wouldn't these skills be level 2 or 3? As far as I know, poor form is not an issue as her gymnastics coaches seem pleased with what she is doing. So, she picked up the level 1 skills on bars, beam, and vault quickly and is doing that by herself just fine since May. So, my question is: I am seeing lots of people posting about young children 6 or 7 STARTING team at level 4. I see only much older kids on level 4 (8 and 9 yr olds at our gym) on level 4. I have now had the cheer coach who was a former gymnast comment that it is ridiculous for her to be placed on level 1, and a friend of mine in another state whose daughter does team said the same thing.
Should I be asking the gymnastics coaches about this? She has never competed before, so I would imagine starting at level 4 (now level 3) would be way too daunting for her, but what about at least moving her to level 2 team? On the other hand, she might be a lot more comfortable doing skills that are easy for her at level 1? Weirdly, a lot of her skills appear to me to be as good or better than many of the level 2 girls, but she is younger than most of them. Or, is this the kind of thing where if she does well in meets at level 1, they might have her skip to level 3? Do they have to obtain a certain number of points before they qualify to be on a level, and if that's the case, how are these young kids starting at level 4? How does placement on a level work?
DD did some tumbling with a level 10 gymnast at a cheer gym with some friends. I had considered letting her do competitive cheer as well since she loves the tumbling, but we decided to hold off. She does nice back handsprings and can almost do a back tuck on her own. Wouldn't these skills be level 2 or 3? As far as I know, poor form is not an issue as her gymnastics coaches seem pleased with what she is doing. So, she picked up the level 1 skills on bars, beam, and vault quickly and is doing that by herself just fine since May. So, my question is: I am seeing lots of people posting about young children 6 or 7 STARTING team at level 4. I see only much older kids on level 4 (8 and 9 yr olds at our gym) on level 4. I have now had the cheer coach who was a former gymnast comment that it is ridiculous for her to be placed on level 1, and a friend of mine in another state whose daughter does team said the same thing.
Should I be asking the gymnastics coaches about this? She has never competed before, so I would imagine starting at level 4 (now level 3) would be way too daunting for her, but what about at least moving her to level 2 team? On the other hand, she might be a lot more comfortable doing skills that are easy for her at level 1? Weirdly, a lot of her skills appear to me to be as good or better than many of the level 2 girls, but she is younger than most of them. Or, is this the kind of thing where if she does well in meets at level 1, they might have her skip to level 3? Do they have to obtain a certain number of points before they qualify to be on a level, and if that's the case, how are these young kids starting at level 4? How does placement on a level work?