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Gym ACT will put on a beginner judging course as soon as there are enough people wanting to do it. We might be able to help out with that. I'll send you a PM with our details and we can look at getting a course added.

Apparently it is the WAIS WAG program, which would pretty much mean no elite WAG program for WA.

I don't think the article was blaming Larissa, I think it just questioned the selectors who decided the funding. Rather, it was mainly the comments that were negative to Larissa. But I do agree, the funding should have been shared around the team rather than going mainly to 1 gymnast.

I noticed it says you can skip level 6. Do many gymnasts skip level 6? Or is this quite rare?

Are the region numbers (eg region 6) just a gymnastics thing? Or do other sports use these too?

Thanks everyone. So being more rec focused, does Xcel/IGC have much higher participation numbers than JO? Would most gyms put all their rec gymnasts in XCel/IGC or would they have another non-competitive rec program?

I've just been reading a bit about the streams in the US and trying to understand them. I have gathered that JO is more serious than Xcel. I was just wondering how most gyms work. Do most gyms do both streams or do they just focus on one. Also what proportion of kids go into the JO stream and...

I believe gym skills is the rubbish GFA program from GA. It includes every gymsport under the sun shoved into one (including cheer) and they don't even have a cartwheel until level 6. The kids get bored ****less. So that's not really much of an alternative. I'm glad my state still has state...

Lol, I'm a bit like that. I'm long retired and still have an old box of gym stuff with about 100 grips.

It could be a punch rudi (pronounced roo-dee). Rudi is a front layout with 1.5 twists. Or it could have been a rudi punch front.

I know I'm a bit late to this thread, but I just thought I would add that if you want to pursue other sports to a high level then a lot of training is required. If you read about top tennis players you will see that they often train 4-5 hours a day hitting thousands of balls every day. Top...

Has anyone got one of (or tried) the current model of Acromat Double Minis? We are looking at getting a new one and wondering how bouncy it is. We have the old model (at least 20 years old), and it is decent and serves our need, but I noticed the newer model is wider so just wondering if anyone...

Thanks for both perspectives. It's good to get a balanced view.

I used to do a different roundoff when doing saltos vs bhs. The change I made was to do a snap-down instead of a block. When going into a salto I didn't feel a block, instead I pulled down really hard with both hands until my feet hit the ground at which time I lifted my arms up really quickly...

We are looking into getting some area savers for bars similar to these: http://www.american-gymnast.com/shop/Space-Savers-P350.aspx But I was wondering if they might be a problem for higher level skills. Has anyone used these for skills like giants? If so, do they make the bar bounce any...