A friend of mine just started her daughter on pre-team this spring. They've changed the levels since my daughters were in it, but I'm guessing the group she's in is pre level 1 or maybe level 1, so very early on (our gym doesn't compete until Level 3 so this is a non competitive training team). She told me they were surprised (who wouldn't be!) because she's sending her to China for 8 weeks so she'll miss practice that entire time. 8 weeks might not be exactly right but it's long - it's somewhere between 6-10 weeks. I told her at this age/stage it probably wouldn't be a huge issue. But then I started to wonder - when would it be an issue? Just curious what you all think!