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  1. Coach Kate

    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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    NCAA It's nationals week!

    I agree but man it just feels like it's theirs.
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    NCAA It's nationals week!

    Based on what I saw at regionals, I see Florida winning but I think the all around battle will be very exciting - Jordan Chiles, Kailin Chio, Selena Harris Miranda, Anna Roberts, and more! And Maggie Slife of Air Force will be rotating with Oklahoma.
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    Coaches What do you get paid for as a coach outside of taking classes?

    We had old school time sheets where we wrote out when we worked. If we sent emails or called parents, we were just told to keep track of it and add it to our shift. So if it was a half hour, we'd just write an extra half jour and put a small note on the side saying "parent emails".
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    Anon Anyone with experience transitioning to dance?

    I did gymnastics through level 10, track and cross country in college and then came to dance in my early 20s. I took their 8 week basic ballet course and then the instructor pushed me into the intermediate and open classes - open had professional dancers in it and often a live piano! It was so...
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