Recent content by flippingtogether

Other sports with regionals feeding into nationals don’t have the same number accepted from each region - they instead look at athlete population sizes in each region and come up with a formula that makes sense. It’s important to have representation from all regions, but nuts to use the same...

Yes, yes! Turtle not hare! And of course I cannot edit it!

I am optimistic as well. I am very pleased she has good experience working in the NBA - an org that "gets it." For fun, here is some video of her as a gymnast - she was beautiful and truly artistic! And as a side note Spencer of BB Situation also seems (cautiously) optimistic .... a good...

I have the hare of all hares of gymnasts. She is now 15, first year L9, truly struggling now worse than ever and trying to figure out if she can persevere. She has loved the sport for so long, and has made it through so many struggles, each one she has overcome has been incredibly difficult but...

Sometimes the growth spurt is later than age 12....mine FINALLY grew at age 14 and she grew a ton. She is a first year L9 this year which makes for a VERY frustrating season thus far that will continue on through. She has lost skills, refound them, only to lose them again. As long as she is...

I have a feeling there is stuff going on behind the scenes that we don’t know about / isn’t public at all.....meaning there is a plan coming together for the next wave of this country’s gymnastics leadership. None of this is a surprise. This HAD to happen - USAG has been a complete train wreck...

For the (DETAILED) blow by blow of US womens' podium training and the line up per event (which @wandrewsjr outlines above as well), here you go: https://balancebeamsituation.com/2018/10/23/worlds-2018-us-womens-podium-training/ And for all you wolf turn groupies out there, check out the fourth...

Is a side aerial a D - which can only be first used at L9?

It was $1M severance pay. There are no words for what is going on right now..... and as mentioned all attention should be on our amazing athletes heading to Worlds. Not this nonstop &@*!# show. https://www.newsweek.com/after-sexual-assault-scandal-ousted-us-gymnastics-leader-gets-big-payday-619730

Yes, YES! All of this. "Comparison is the killer of joy" is a quote I think captures this sport (and many other parts of life) so well. My kid - the turtle of all turtles - would have quit by now had she been at many other gyms. BUT she has coaches who help her figure out how to find the...

Thank you. I went to Spencer's site this AM after I heard the news, checked his Twitter and there wasn't anything yet.....but a little patience and time yields the commentary I was looking for! Thanks @CLgym! (my fave gymnastics site after this one!)

So Jade Carey and Trinity Thomas declined invites to the selection camp, and are, I presume, not going to compete this year at Worlds at all. Everything still seems murky to me on how one can get to the next Olympic Games, but I do know that the reasoning of these 2 ladies has to do with their...

Ah, the giant. The dang giant! My gym requires a giant for L7, but my DD is on a slooooow path, so when she was a 7 a couple of years ago, and a VERY strong 7 on every event and every skill except the giant, we found a compromise. She did 2 free hips and it worked out fine. Her form is really...

...and I guess we unpin this and do a new post in about 6 months or so with a new name.

Here is the FB post from TF mentioned quite a bit above - the one that was taken down at some point. This offers insight as to where his head is right now. Good idea to take this down, but via screenshot it lives forever.