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    WAG Does this sound like a stress fracture?

    I am a former level 10 gymnast, after nationals my senior year in high school my body could not longer handle the training, so I stopped and now run track in college where I am a heptathlete. Like every gymnast, I've endured many injuries; including broken back, dislocated elbow, cracked hip...
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    Back injury...please help?

    I'm a second yr level 9 gymnast and I've had 3 broken vertebre for probably the past 3 years now. I've been to 4 chiropractors and have had every treatment imaginable (physical therapy, heat/stim, cold laser therapy, acupuncture, massage therapy ect.) but NOTHING has helped at all. I used to...
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    Grips

    I was just wondering if anyone knows where to get the buckle grips, not velcrow. :idea: :spin:
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    What Level?

    I am going to do a second year of level 8 next season.
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    Who won states?

    No i'm not a level 5 i'm a level 8, but at our gym this year it was really kewl because all of our levels (4 - 9) placed in the top 6 at states!!!!
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    Who won states?

    Thanks for answering, but yesterday at gym I found out that OUR level 5 girls team won!!!
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    Who won states?

    I just have a quick question, does anyone know who won the New Jersey Level 5 state championships this weekend!! (May 17-18):confused:
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    Change to compulsory routines this year?

    I thought the routines stayed the same for 4 or 5 years. They have only been the way they have for like 2 years.
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    Coaches Press handstand troubles

    Well i need a lot of work on them, I can barely get my feet to the floor like I'm going to start a standing press.
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    Tiger paw usage.

    Just so you know paws make your wrists really weak, so when your dd wrists stop hurting try and have her stop using them. For a while i was using paws and now i hardly ever use them.... i hope your dd wrists get better.
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    Coaches Press handstand troubles

    I am a level 8 gymnast and i still don't have a stradle press handstand from sitting on the floor. :yikes: I'm just wondering if anyone knows any drills or has any advice on how to do them, because I am having a hard time with it. (I would love to finally be able to do it). :bouncy::applause:
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    Gymnastics Bloopers

    One time when my coach was spotting me for a handstand on bars, his hand slipped and he punched me in the face, then another time when the same coach was spotting me i accidentally punched him. lol it was soooooo funny. So for a while we had that going on because every time he would spot me...
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    stressed from gym

    Thank you so much for the advice... i will try it.... (it's possible to get out of this head thing right? because i have had it since last May)
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    stressed from gym

    Has anyone gotten so stressed out at the gym and you just wanted to quit. Thats what it has been like for me for the last couple of weeks. I really don't want to quit because i can't imagine my life without gymnastics.... and i still love it..... it's just that i have been having a lot of mental...
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    Breaking in Grips and an Update

    The first day i got my first pair of grips I hated them too. Now I love them. your DD just has to get used to them, and yes there is a certain way to fold them.... i still fold mine everyday when we get off bars!!

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