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    WAG Gymnastics is F*****

    Wow. Very powerful article. I agree with crazy pushy parents. However, for normal non-crazy parents, it's hard to really know what's going on. We are asked to drop off our kids at the gym, and stay the heck away and not watch. It's very different from all the other sports that my other kids...
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    Parents Good reminder for us parents

    Funny video that is relevant to this topic. I sent this to our coach and she said she actually experienced this.
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    Parents How do you feel about 100% medals placements?

    I think Top 3 or Top 20%, whichever is higher, is a good approach. For the typical 15 to 20 kids per age group, that will be Top 3 to 4 getting awards. 80 kids in one age group would be Top 16. That's a lot better than awarding 40 kids.
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    Parents How do you feel about 100% medals placements?

    Yeah, I'm learning that. That is why I'm in this forum. Haven't participated much, but learning a lot. I've always been frustrated with the awards ceremonies, and my wife always asks me why can't they just award the top 3. But we've kept it to ourselves and just assumed that this is how...
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    Parents How do you feel about 100% medals placements?

    Good point. No, I haven't had the chance to look behind the scene. I have volunteered as a timer and I see the judges keep a handwritten record of all their scores. I didn't know all these scores are manually verified all the time. I've never seen the final scores in meetscoreonline...
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    Parents How do you feel about 100% medals placements?

    Was citing baseball bec some previous posters mentioned that other sports, specifically baseball, also does awards every weekend. I wanted to share that the awards in baseball isn't that time consuming, doesn't impact all of the participants and their families, and only awards the top 2 teams...
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    Parents How do you feel about 100% medals placements?

    Glad my wife and I weren't the only ones thinking this. We were shocked by the first award session we've been to. It's not uncommon for the award ceremony to last almost as long as the meet (had to wait 30 min or even an hour from when the last girl finished their routine to when the...
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    WAG East Coast Travel Meets

    But why not just find meets in places with more temperate climate? I wish our gym did this. I travel a lot for work and I avoid travelling to and through Chicago in the winter.
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    WAG East Coast Travel Meets

    We were at Chicago Style a couple of weekends ago. It was a well run event. However, this is our first "fly-away" meet and I don't get why, if we have to spend money for a plane ticket and a hotel and miss a few days of school, why can't we go to somewhere warm with nice weather and not worry...
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    WAG Interaction after meets.

    Our coaches don't stay for the awards, regardless of whether they are working the next session or not. I initially wondered about this but after experiencing my first award ceremony, I don't blame them one bit and would do the same thing. It's very easy for them to know the result without...
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    WAG Federal Child Pornography Charges Filed Against Dr. Nassar

    Why doesn't USAG implement a private database like what was described for England? I used to work for a background check company and there are a lot of precedent and established best practice from other industries for setting up private databases, along with the appeals processes that comes...
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    Parents Our First Season of Competitive Gymastics

    I looked up the requirements for Xcel Gold and they do not require competition experience prior to competing gold. Based on my deciphering of the Xcel Gold routine requirements, I think the gymnasts are required to land on their feet for vault. Our girls are still not ready for this. They...
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    Parents Our First Season of Competitive Gymastics

    I did learn and grow to enjoy the awards ceremonies that are well run. The number of awards given was something I still have to get used to coming from other sports (like baseball and basketball) where only the top 2 teams were given awards, and the fact that my only exposure to gymnastics...
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    Parents Our First Season of Competitive Gymastics

    BTW, another thing that surprised me a lot in our first few meets is how tedious and time consuming the awards ceremonies are! There was one meet where the awards ceremonies was longer than the meet itself. I was surprised also by how many awards were given out for each apparatus, for AA, and...
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    Parents Our First Season of Competitive Gymastics

    Lol. I always try to be careful when I post but I guess I still gave too much info there... But it's good to hear that you know our gym as I am really curious what your perspectives (and other's perspectives) are. Yes, there are 3 levels of pre-team. We didn't know what we got ourselves into...

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