Recent content by gurlgymnast

Do you have a set of boys pbars at your gym? If you do you can set one higher and one lower. Put your hands on the lower one and hips/legs on the higher one. Then cast to handstand (put a stack of mats in front of the lower bar so that you can land on them in a way similar to handstand flat...

It was just a really bad knee sprain. I didn't do any damage to the ligaments other than stretching them out a bit. I've been going to physical therapy for the last month because my knee was still popping out when I got any height on floor (especially front tumbling) or vault. At my last meet (a...

I don't compete in the ladies' division because bars is my favorite (and best) event...I just do level 7

We have 2 loose foam pits, 3 in ground resi-pits and around 7 or 8 portable resipits (the red ones move easier than the blue ones) but I would love to be able to get on a gym nova pit...I bet it was really soft. My gym mostly has AAI equipment, but I once went to open gym at a place that had the...

I hade a grade 2/3 (I almost completely severed a few ligaments) a couple years ago and I could barely move it for several months...it's probably only swelling because you're using it a lot. I would probably concentrate a lot on landings. You can definitely do bars, beam shouldn't be so bad...

We can wear the soffe type shorts as long as they are really tight or gk shorts. I like wearing the gk shorts in practice because I just feel like they give me a little extra protection especially on bars. It doesn't bother me to not wear them at meets because you are on the equipment at the...

woa, grizzoline...no spring floor that sounds scary...good luck!

Clear hip to handstands, uprises, clear hips to a block, front giants, stalder circles, basically any circling skill

Vault - Be able to vault like every other day without my knee hurting Bars -Be able to do my bar routing hitting all casts and free hips within 20 degrees of horizontal -Stop chickening out and do my giant on the real bars! Beam -stop chickening out and do my back handspring on the...

I got them at the local sports store

I had shin splits before and you can by this neoprane sleeve thing that fits on your shins and keeps them really warm. It doesn't fix the problem but it makes them feel a whole lot better while you practice.

3 levels of preteam mostly invited from the two levels of advanced preschool classes and competition starts at level 5.

I started teaching myself seriously (practicing 1 to 2 hours a day with the help of library books) when I was 9. When I was 13/14, I got to take a gymnastics class once a week for about 3 months. When I was 16/17, I got to take a gymnastics class once a week for a year and a half at a dance...

Sorry, I meant I use my right foot first in my roundoff but I twist to the left...It's been like that for years so I don't think I'm planning on changing my twist direction (at least I can use the barani twisting method though)

I think strap bar is great! I don't like the pvc pipe on it though so I just put extra chalk on my hands and get smaller straps and go straight on the metal (I don't like gloves, they feel funny and usually have holes on both sides anyway). Then I have to shift my wrists anyway.