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  1. Coach Kate

    Women What Should I do lvl 4 or 6?

    I would focus on level four. If you get a 36 twice then you could compete 6 the next year. The levels really are designed to be progressive and making too many leaps tends to create holes in your gymnastics. Level 4 is the first level where you vault over the table, compete kip cast...
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    Women Sapphire Routines

    I'm not trying to be a grumpy old former coach, but it's not sitting well with me that your coaches are telling you to compete a level that they don't even understand enough to be able to tell you the requirements, especially when it would mean skipping a level to get there.
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    Women Sapphire Routines

    I don't think your bar routine has enough skills. You need 3 As, 3 Bs and a C and I believe the C could be the dismount. I think any cast has to be horizontal to count as an A and has to be within 20 degrees of handstand to count as a B. Beam also needs 3 As 3 Bs and a C. Your d would count as...
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    Women Sapphire Routines

    What's the reason for scoring out instead of just competing diamond? It very much sounds like you could compete diamond while training for sapphire. The 1/2 on full off is a 9.9 start in diamond, 9.6 in sapphire. For the tsuk to be a 10.0 start in sapphire, it would have to be a pike or layout...
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    Women How many hours a week should a Xcel diamond train?

    We were a low hours program and diamond did 9.
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    Anon Level 7 to Xcel Diamond

    We've definitely had a number of athletes do this and it wasn't hard at all. Vault can sometimes be the biggest hang up - going from the timer vault to either a flipping vault or our gym did a lot of handspring halfs or fulls - but it sounds like you're aware of that. Needs a B turn on floor...
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    NCAA It's nationals week!

    LSU won two years ago. OK has found a formula that is really working for them. I really thought it was Florida's year though.
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    Anon Gym-wisconsin

    M & M has a good group of high level athletes right now and Midwest Twisters is solid. @JBS could probably tell you more - my information is all outside looking in at this point. I don't know what Salto is like these days.
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    NCAA It's nationals week!

    Boomer Sooner again folks. No one had a truly dominant performance. I really thought it was Florida's year but they couldn't find their vault landings, and just generally got stuck in the 9.8s. Good but not good enough. They were in too big of a hole going into their best event and even bars...
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    Women Excel routine requirements?

    I would talk to your coach because your gym may have their own requirements.
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    NCAA It's nationals week!

    I honestly think it will come down to Oklahoma and Florida. LSU just doesn't look sharp enough this year.
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    NCAA It's nationals week!

    What a wild ride for Minnesota! First finals appearance in program history and the first time a school outside the top ten has made it! And faith torrez is your national all around champion after not even competing the all around at all this year until today.
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    NCAA It's nationals week!

    Well first semi went more or less according to plan but it got exciting in the middle
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    Gymnasts Beam series and floor twisting

    I did front walkover front handspring. You can also do front handspring step out front handspring
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    Coaches Owners/Head coaches: At what point would you let a coach go?

    Ideally it would all be laid out in a staff handbook with clear policies. You want all disciplinary discussions recorded and maybe it takes three violations leading to records of discussions within a certain time frame before termination happens.
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