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    Weighing your gymnasts?

    How do they expect gymnasts to lose weight every month? Most gymnasts aren't overweight, and even if they were, they could not continue to lose indefinitely. I have heard of gyms requiring athletes to stay within a certain range (which is not okay either). Bizarre...
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    To Get Grips or Not to Get Grips?

    It is totally up to you, but just remember that they are going to take at least a month to break in and they might be painful at first. When I first got grips about 2 months ago, I hated them because they dug into my wrists when I did anything with straight arms. I only just started doing good...
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    Meet uh oh

    At my meet today, I did a good bar routine except that I had too much momentum on my kip and ended up falling over the bar... Didn't actually fall off but it looked kind of weird lol
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    Off Topic Rebecca Black's "Friday"

    Her voice itself isn't that bad in my opinion, though it is kind of annoying (it may not be fully mature as she is pretty young). It isn't much worse than other pop stars', anyway. The video wasn't even that bad, though it definitely wasn't very good. It was the lyrics. They were so...
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    Coaches/parents, what's the best way to help a child who is an extreme perfectionist?

    I'm around her age and I get frustrated and cry sometimes, I think part of it is a hormone thing... However, I've never heard of anyone being so extreme about a teammate merely performing the skill; I agree with those who say maybe she should see a mental health professional. I know it is hard...
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    Off Topic Score the Leo (repost)

    6.5/10. It's not ugly, but too plain This leo would probably show underclothes unfortunately :'(
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    how to handle attitudes in the gym

    Sounds like the level 7s at my gym. It makes me so mad, because their coach is actually a very nice guy and even though he never made me feel stressed out or pressured when I worked with him, I always thought he must be a bad coach because his gymnasts were so bad at gymnastics. Now I see that...
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    underwear

    I gave up on underwear because I could never get it to fit right under my leo. Generally for practice I wear shorts and no underwear; my leos are velvet and pretty soft inside. For competition, I ordered underwear from I think 10.0, but it was the wrong color so I sent it back and ordered...
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    Texting meet scores

    I haven't gone to a single meet with electronic scoreboards, though I have seen them on youtube and such.
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    What would you do?

    My gym competes about 1 meet per month. Most are more than an hour away. If there were more meets that were closer, I guess we might compete more than once a month.
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    Interesting information from my dancer friend's physical therapist

    My friend's mom told me she talked to the PT again about this. Her opinion remains the same, although I think it may have been implied that exercises could be done safely with some modifications. I don't know what these would be.
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    Off Topic What does your (or your DD's bedroom look like?

    I have a loft bed and a papasan (sp?) chair, but other than that my room isn't that cool lol. The walls are light green except for one wall, which has flowery wallpaper (it was that way when we moved in). I have 3 posters of astronomical objects up by my bed. On my door are a bunch of stickers I...
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    Off Topic Help choosing classes?

    If you are not planning to go into science, physics won't be necessary, but I recommend looking to see what other science options may be available to you; some schools offer classes in nutrition, neurology, etc. If faced with the choice between AP English and British Lit I would choose AP– but...
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    Fear

    What an immature coach... Crazy. Congratulations on her getting it though
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    Meet uh oh

    Once my cycle started coming to an end about 2 days prior to a big meet. Tampon didn't work out and I had to wear a pad the whole time. I didn't do so well :p Then another time I rolled my ankle walking back to my team after my beam routine! I had just rolled it pretty badly a few weeks back...

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