That Facebook group is awful! It's just a big competition about who has the most home equipment, who does the most hours and who spends the most money on leotards!!!
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http://newcastlegymnastics.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Results-National-Compulsory-Grades-ROUND-1.pdf
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Why not give it a try and see how she enjoys it?
My daughter was also 4 when she got picked out of the pre school class for the development squad. She started with 4 hrs a week aswell.
At our gym there isn't large numbers that get invited onto the development squad, which I think is probably...
Thanks everyone.
From the sounds of it, our gym is a middle ground one, we do have girls doing well at compulsory grades and going to nationals. It has good facilities and we're certainly happy here so far!
Thanks again for answering my questions!
I saw a post on here the other day referring to high performance centres, and it made me wonder about them.
Which gyms are HPCs? And what makes them one, coaches? Facilities? History of creating elites?
And would a gymmie be invited to join one based on potential or would a smaller gym refer...
Thanks for the ideas and help everyone.
Good points about correct form - I never did gymnastics so I don't know about these things!
There's no pressure for her to do this at home, but she wants to do it so I'm just trying to help her in a safe way.
xrachx your ideas are great, thanks. The middle...
My dd is 5 and in a development squad, she's been advised to practice her splits at home. She loves gym and is happy to practice at home but we don't know exactly how to help her get her splits.
She doesn't seem naturally flexible to me and is probably a couple of inches away from her splits...
A friend of mine just told me about this selling group on Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/groups/981229925286743/
Buy and sell gymnastics leotards UK
Thought it might be of use to some of you!