Recent content by krisnkids

My daughter hyper-extended her knee in the middle of meet season and missed 2 weeks. She came back the week before Sectionals. Worked out 3 times, competed at sectionals and scored higher than she ever had. Her coach accused her of training with another gym for those two weeks, AT Sectionals...

Congrats! And good luck to her!

My daughter's first meet with a new coach was a disaster. Her level 4 routine (old 4) she did her leap pass to the turn, stepped back after the turn and did another leap pass, completely missing key elements. Completely off kilter she winged the last part of the routine, fell on her dismount...

She'll be fabulous at soccer! Good thing? Less hours. Bad thing? Practices and games are outdoors until indoor season.

Only option is to rest it. You think it's heartbreaking when the doc says she has to rest it and not train tumbling? Be thankful that he didn't say retirement.

The judges score on the number, not the name or age of the child. The meet host either has a scoring system that the judges enter number xxx and score 8.6 or the host gym provides cards with the gymnast's number. Ages are broken down so similar aged kids are competing against eachother. Most...

I haven't posted in a long time but thought I would considering your post. My daughter had a possible growth plate injury/tendon injury to her wrist. She refused to quit and kept working out. We went through casts, splints, braces, cortisone injections. Her wrist never recovered. It was career...

If you don't want to stop then don't. A friend of ours went to a college and was on the college's gymnastics team for the first year. She was not able to compete at that level so she created a club team at the college. They just finished at nationals this year.

6.85 Not bad considering a "fall" and a couple of missed elements and repeated elements.

On my retired gymmie's team in California one of the girls mom's was a judge. She never judged any meet that our team was competing. She only judged one competition that my daughter was in, by that time our gym had closed and our girls went to separate gyms so there was no longer a conflict of...

I absolutely despise school PE classes. My oldest son fractured his orbital floor playing soccer during PE, which required surgery because the eye muscle got caught in the fracture. My oldest dd fell roller skating bruising her elbow so bad that they had to put her in a cast for 3 weeks. I...

I really wonder how my retired gymmy's coach did it. She got a group of girls when they were 6-7 years old and trained them together. They LOVED conditioning, I mean to the point of when they would have play dates outside of the gym they would make a conditioning list and do it. They did...

I love to watch Tammy Biggs coach. My daughter was at a camp years ago with her and she is just incredible. Watching her with higher level girls going back to the basics was enlightening. Even tho it was years ago I still look at my retired gymmie and say "TIGHT TIGHT TIGHT" while clapping my...

I really think the floor routine is awesome. I like it when the music and choreography coincide with the gymnast's personality and attitude. I also do not see a problem with her dance moves.

I'd be willing to be that the 14yo is resentful of the fact that she is no longer doing gymnastics and feels slighted that you are still going to the gym with your other dd. I have 4 kids as well, 16, 14, 12 and 9. 16 is a ref and plays airsoft, 14 and 12 play both rec and hs soccer, 9 yo is a...