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    Parents Coaches are moving my daughter from JO to Xcel

    Hi all, Would just appreciate your thoughts and feedback. My dd is 14 (just turned this year) and will be starting high school in the fall. She had several injuries last year (fractured ankle, fractured knee, sprained ankle, sprained toe, and constant back pain- doctor says a ring around her...
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    Parents Is this too many injuries- or normal for some?

    Can you give some advice on whether or not my daughter is getting injured too often? I am clueless on these things, but I'd like to understand more of what may be going on for my daughter. My daughter just turned 13 and she's level 5, training level 6/7. During the year, she trained 16 hours a...
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    Parents Scoring low in first 3 competitions..

    Hello! Dd works out with her L3 team 20 hours a week and this is her first competition season with them. She's placed in the lower half of her first 2 competitions and scored almost last in her most recent (the 3rd) competition, and I just wondered is this normal and/or ok for a first-season...
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    Parents Question about coaches and pain

    Hi there, Dd is on a compulsory team at an elite gym that's well-known for being aggressive and extremely competitive. Is it ok for a coach to pull / push the gymnasts' legs beyond normal splits, to the point the girls are crying and telling the coach to please stop, but the coach insists they...
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    Parents Do you think we should switch?

    Hi there, Can you give some advice? We'll find out next month if our gym will advance my daughter from the pre-team to the junior compulsory team, or if she'll be recommended over to the Exel bronze team. Of course, dd is dying to join the junior team (she dreams of Olympics and is obsessed...
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    Parents Any advice on how to find and try out a new gym?

    Hi all, My dd wants to try out other gyms as a result of some issues I described in a prior post here: http://chalkbucket.com/forums/threads/help-pressure-to-switch-to-excel-and-leave-compulsory-track.52266/#post-397667 Do you have any advice for how to find a new gym? I'd like to have her...
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    Parents Help: Pressure to switch to Excel and leave compulsory track.. :(

    Thank you all, so much, for your incredibly helpful and supportive comments. Thank you, thank you! I was in tears earlier when a very kind gym mom from dd's pre-team asked me if dd was invited to join the junior-team. The mom was fully surprised when I told her that my dd was only offered Excel...
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    Parents Help: Pressure to switch to Excel and leave compulsory track.. :(

    Hi all, I would love to hear your feedback about the situation we're in with my daughter. She's 9 1/2 and in Level 2 on the "pre-team" at our gym. She passed the beginner and intermediate rec classes within 10 months, and was promoted to the pre-team 6 months ago. Since she was 9 at the time...
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    Parents 9 year old daughter may be too old to join team :(

    Thank you, thank you so much for responding. I felt so bad last night, and was really beating myself up for not letting her start gymnastics earlier so she wouldn't have all this age trouble going on right now. But you're right MILgym, that I did the best I could at the time, and I am going to...
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    Parents 9 year old daughter may be too old to join team :(

    Hi all, Would love any thoughts or feedback, I'm just feeling really sad for my daughter right now. She absolutely adores gymnastics- goes 3-4 times per week to her level 2 classes (would go more often if we'd take her!), has progressed so fast since she just started Level 1 in January of this...
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    Parents Suggestions for shorts to protect from bars? (newbie mom)

    Thanks so much for the feedback!! Dd says she's going to try and see if she can "tough it out" on the bars without the shorts after all (after I read her your posts!). If she can't, we'll go for some velvet ones (maybe not GK, unless I can find them for cheap on Ebay, too!). :)
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    Parents Suggestions for shorts to protect from bars? (newbie mom)

    Hi there, Newbie mom here. Can you suggest what kind of shorts I should get for my daughter to protect her upper thighs on the bars? She's been complaining about how the bars rub against her thighs and make them hurt. Her coach suggested shorts. I got her cotton biker shorts to wear over her...
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    Parents Need advice for Newbie mom re: classes

    Thank you so much for all your replies. You have great insight and advice. :) I appreciate hearing how a child's attitude is very important in the sport, and that coaches will take that into consideration while teaching and promoting kids to the next level. DD wasn't audibly crying in the...
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    Parents Need advice for Newbie mom re: classes

    Hi all, I'm a Newbie mom here, and my daughter's been begging to take gymnastics classes for years. She's 8 1/2 now, and has taken dance classes since 2yrs, and figure skating since 5 years. Graceful and athletic (soccer since 5yrs, too). We had her in 6 months of gymnastics classes at 6...

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