Recent content by Katkiwi

I haven’t posted enough to qualify for the private area yet, but would welcome an Antipodean group for when I can!

I tried to do a shrug emoji at the end of my last post but somehow that got lost in translation along the way!

To further reinforce the point about the gym world being a small one, where we are based according to the governing bodies report from last year there are a total of 305 junior WAG competitive gymnasts and 169 senior ones- across the whole country. If I now mentioned what levels my girls were...

Kia Ora Janneke! Thanks for your perspective, the youngest was going to compete step 1 this year but given the change in rules she is too young to compete now. Not sure what the plan is for her for the next year or so, guess will just have to wait and see. I actually think not competing for a...

Thanks all for your comments. Agree re not broadcasting our decisions- we just need to get better at deflecting when we are asked directly I guess. I also agree that the particular parent who just kept pushing about this when we were trying to avoid the discussion wouldn’t have had the same...

Hi all, so I’m finally delurking! I have two daughters who are in competitive gym. My 8 year old has been training 11 hours and is about to move to 14 hours (we had been missing a session the rest of the squad were doing) and my 5 year old has just moved to 6 hours (3x 2 hour sessions). I know...