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- Dec 23, 2006
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My daughter got her 1st pair of grips about 2 mos ago. She has done a season as Level 6 and once meet season is over they work giants full time. When she got them(Ten-Os with dowel) one coach told her to get a 0. She tried a pair on and the coach who does bars thought they fit too tightly over the knuckles(I know you can use sandpaper to make the finger holes larger) and told her to give them back and get a size 1. This is our 1st journey into the world of grips, so size, feel etc. are all new. She is past the "feel weird, don't trust myself stage"and they are broken in. Now she is saying that the finger part sometimes slides off her fingers since they are stretching a little.
Big problem is they are going to a big out of state meet and have gone back to doing the Level 6 routines to get ready. She feels fine except on the kip after the clear hip. Says she is "regripping." She thinks she did this during meet season, but then she did bars with bare hands so it didn't make a difference. Now she says she gets the dowel hung up on that skill. I don't know if she is just thinking too much or the grips aren't fitting the way they should. Asked her when she does a clean routine what does she do differently and she says "I probably don't think." This is a kid who normally scored from 9.2 to 9.4 on bars this year and she is just so frustrated.
Any suggestions/thoughts would be greatly appreciated!!!!
One solution told to her by a Level 9 was to just take the dowels off---I don't think thats what we want to do.
Big problem is they are going to a big out of state meet and have gone back to doing the Level 6 routines to get ready. She feels fine except on the kip after the clear hip. Says she is "regripping." She thinks she did this during meet season, but then she did bars with bare hands so it didn't make a difference. Now she says she gets the dowel hung up on that skill. I don't know if she is just thinking too much or the grips aren't fitting the way they should. Asked her when she does a clean routine what does she do differently and she says "I probably don't think." This is a kid who normally scored from 9.2 to 9.4 on bars this year and she is just so frustrated.
Any suggestions/thoughts would be greatly appreciated!!!!
One solution told to her by a Level 9 was to just take the dowels off---I don't think thats what we want to do.