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    Parents Bar at home

    As a coach, please don't. Bars is already a highly technical event and home practice usually does more harm than good. A pull up bar, maybe a floor bar for older athletes to do handstand/pirouette work, and a mat if your floors are hard. Handstands, conditioning, and stretching are really the...
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    Women Xcel Diamond Bar Routine

    Your clear hips need to have different entries otherwise the second one won't count. At our gym, many people opted to do two clear hips in a row instead.
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    Gymnasts What level would I be?

    But USAG does have requirements and procedures, even if your gym allows for movement between the programs. You would either have to score out of 4&5 or petition, assuming you're above age 12. Vault needs work for a 10.0 start in platinum. We always work handspring twisting vaults as our...
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    Women Bar routine deductions

    There are actually some good options in your questions! Without a B skill (clear hip), the start value is lowered. We've had an athlete or two do this because they truly couldn't do one worth doing and/or kip out of it. Another option would be to do the clear hip on the high bar and come out...
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    Women Level 10 acro series options

    Round off layout? Side aerial layout?
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    Parents Daytime strategy for summer afternoon practices

    Day camps can be so tiring! If she's going to be in camp all summer, I would aim for something less active and/or inside when you can. She is still so young and three hour practices can be a lot, especially if they're outside all day. As a coach, I was always aware when a kiddo had a week of...
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    Women Switching from Xcel to JO

    Is it possible to fulfill requirements without a backhandspring on beam? Yes. Are all coaches/programs going to be willing to work with that? No. The first flight series I ever competed was front walkover front handspring and we continued to build on that using hand spring step outs and...
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    Women Xcel Sapphire Popularity

    I think it's only been national for a couple years. I would expect it to continue to grow over time.
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    Men NCAA Week 3 Schedule

    I saw Shane wiskus is competing this weekend but I couldn't remember where. I'm assuming Evo?
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    Parents Experience/ Feedback on Years Long Mental Block

    I had a teammate who never got over her block (backhandspring connected to other tumbling. Could do it standing and even on beam, just not from a round-off or other backhandspring). She was able to work around it and competed through level 8 before leaving the sport for unrelated reasons -...
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    Women Switching from Xcel to JO

    Just for clarity for everyone involved, it is no longer called JO, but developmental program. Especially if you're making inquiries at other gyms, using the correct terms can be helpful. I do agree that you could look into some other gyms if your parents are supportive of a potential switch...
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    Women Can't twist

    @Geoffrey Taucer are you the one who has shared all your body awareness trampoline progressions?
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    Coaches Coach Wages

    I coached in a high cost of living area full time from the time I graduated college until the month before our first child was born. I was able to support myself on a pretty modest way -either studio apartment or a shared rental house with friends, yoga studio membership, paying off student...
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    Men NCAA Week 3 Schedule

    Are you posting maybe central time? Surely Stanford wouldn't start a meet at 9pm local time
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    Men NCAA Week 2 Update

    Highlight for me is moldauer coming back to quality to winter cup!
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