My daughter has always straddled her giants, however her coach recently switched her to pike instead to help with her tap technique for double lay dismounts. (I have no idea how that helps, but that’s what she told me) She’s 5’2.
Honestly I’d probably just do a plain GK customized, I think with the name on the front they should be right around $40 depending on if you choose embroidery or spangles etc.
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I don't think there are any benefits, when my older daughter was little she started competing at age 5, level 1. While it was adorable, it served no purpose and didn't help with her future development in the sport. She "retired" after her level 8 season before HS. My younger daughter didn't even...
I can’t imagine going to my daughters coaches and asking for a skill by skill breakdown of deductions.They don’t have time for questions like that from parents. 😅 I’ve only used meet critique once, and it was more a curiosity thing. I’m not paying to run every single routine through it. I also...
I was trying to test it out with a recent bar routine of my daughters and I keep getting this judge is offline error. It’s a very clear video from the side so not sure what the issue is.
My daughter is a level 10, we do 4 regular season meets a year. Actually all our levels 3-10 do 4 meets a year. This isn’t counting state, regionals, westerns or nationals, however only level 6+ goes to state.
When my daughter was age 9/10 she had a metal bar with a wood frame in the backyard my husband built her. Her favorite thing to do on it was a "kip" where she put her feet on top and landed sitting on her butt. She also figured out how to do monkey giants (sole circle?) and would do those for...