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    Parents Communication with the gym

    Yes, this is very normal. Most parents have not done gymnastics themselves and wouldn’t necessarily understand the corrections and feedback. It’s never a good idea to practice at home, at best it can allow bad habits to creep in and at worst can result in serious injuries. The gym may...
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    Coaches Lesson Plans & Circuits for Class Management

    That is just a ridiculous situation. The behaviour needs to be nipped in the bud: Keeping the kids busy, is not going to magically improve it. In reality, which would bother you more as a parent. Paying for a class in which your child had to sit out for a period of time to manage their...
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    Coaches Not making corrections

    It’s until that your gymnasts are failing to make corrections because they don’t care or they don’t want to be better gymnasts. The ability to apply corrections is a complex thought process and some kids master it earlier than others. There are lots of reasons why kids don’t make corrections...
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    Gymnasts Competing after graduation

    In Australia, it’s very common to continue training and competing and moving up the levels with your club after graduation. Students don’t tend to go away to College, but live at home and attend University locally. All the other things they did in High School can just carry on as normal. I...
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    Parents Team requirements

    This type of acting up is actually perfectly normal in young, talented gymnasts. It does NOT sound like a disorder, it sounds like a child with an active, outgoing, driven personality. Which can get you in trouble at times, but can also be an incredible asset. Children who are super talented...
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    Gymnasts Strength in pullovers?

    I would also like to point out, that even for gymnasts who don’t compete a pullover if very important. A pullover if like a gate keeper skill on bars. Once it’s achieved, it opens the door to your bars development. Firstly because the strength required for a pullover will be important for all...
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    Gymnasts Experiences/Advice for wrist complications?

    I find a big cause of wrist pain is poor technique, on common skills. If the poor technique is repeated frequently then the problem becomes very chronic. Most commonly the mistake of turning hand out when doing skills like handstands, walkovers, back handsprings, front handsprings etc. This...
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    Coaches Vault Drills for Level 8

    The Tsukahara can be easier to learn initially, as you don’t have that same blond board entry and it can be less scary for kids. But the Yurchenko is ultimately a lot more progressive, especially for females. It’s harder to produce a lot of power from the Tsukahara, but the round off flic flac...
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    Parents Coach dress code

    I’m a gym owner. My coaches have a uniform, in Australia most gyms have a coach uniform which usually consists of a coaches polo shirt in club colours with a club logo and a club jumper in club colours with a club logo. Some have set shorts or pants, other just require them to be certain...
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    Parents Gym wants girls training 1-2 levels ahead

    There could be a real positive to this. Having her repeat a level where she already knows all the routines inside means she will not have to spend very much time on learning, training and practicing routines. She can just quickly run routines and spend the vast majority of her time...
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    WAG Average age per level?

    I know you are looking for what is the norm and what is average, but really it’s not relevant at all. And comparing to much to the average May be sending out the negative idea that gymnasts need to be a certain age by a certain level. The level you should be is what ever level is...
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    Parents Increasing elite age from 16 to 18

    In reference to my point of boys developing their strength after puberty: I was more referring to the type of strength needed for MAG, than boys development versus girls. A great deal of the world done in MAG, relies on an enormous amount of upper body strength, that busy develop after...
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    Parents Increasing elite age from 16 to 18

    With a great deal of good genetics and good luck, you can start gymnastics at a later age, progress slower and move onto elite. Making it to elite takes a great deal of good genetics and good luck at any age, but this is even rarer in those who start older, so it would significantly narrow...
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    Parents Increasing elite age from 16 to 18

    You can not compare MAG and WAG. MAG predominantly relies on the adult strength that boys do not develop until after puberty. There are many skills in biys gymnastics, that you simply can not reach them until the teen years when they are developing those adult muscles. For girls it is...
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    Coaches Kicking out a gymnast

    Yes, of course. I own a gym, so naturally these things are down to me. it’s quite rare, my gym is very large and I have only ever had to kick out 1 kid every couple of years. For rec kids, I have had a few I have had to ask to leave due to behaviour. As a gym owner you do need to prioritise...
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