Recent content by Sk8ermaiden

Yes, according to the rules, she does have to test out. It wasn't always that way, but it changed about 4 seasons ago.

After nationals he finally answered how he would select the team and that he wouldn't just do the top all arounders - that they would be picking the Olympic team with the highest score potential. And the potential to win the most medals. And then he picked the top all arounders, and straight up...

Tom Forster is a coward is why. He is so terribly afraid to do anything except take the top all arounders.

This is from that article and helped me: Also in there it mentioned that you were more than twice as likely to develop myocarditis after Moderna as Pfizer. And since myocarditis is also known to be caused by covid infection... I'm feeling pretty confident about vaccinating DD (11). I still...

There is so much wrong with this. It is not womens' (or little girls' for cripes sake!) jobs to display their bodies for others. If someone says they would prefer to wear something with more coverage it is not ANYONE'S job to try to convince them that if they were comfortable with their bodies...

There is a requirement for a horizontal cast in gold and she is missing it. That means that her highest possible score if everything were perfect would be a 9.5, not a 10. The shape and lack of amplitude in the tap swings and dismount are costing her a lot in deductions and she does a LOT of...

The dance school my daughter just started at seems to retain a really large number of high school girls, and I think (besides a welcoming environment), a lot of it might have to do with their extremely lax hair and dress code. Easier to keep putting yourself out there when you can do it in...

My daughter just moved on and she is doing weightlifting and dance. Before her gymnastics hours were so high, she used to do silks and lyra, and she has returned. She was always way better at those things than at gym and gym gave her so much strength and body awareness that she learns the...

It actually must be above horizontal in Platinum.

I am sorry. Depression and anxiety spelled the end of my DD's gymnastics career this year, and I saw a lot of the same avoidant behaviors. It is so hard watching them struggle and wishing we could carry the load instead. Honestly if it were me, I would tell her she had two choices - the Xcel...

Just know you will be competing against girls doing a simple round off or front handspring dismount, or at most a front tuck, maybe back tuck. I've never seen a flight+connection dismount in gold and you don't get extra points for it, so I'd go for whatever you do super cleanly 100% of the time.

Is it a tank leo or a long sleve? It is fairly easy to take in a tank leo a bit. Long sleeve I would take to a seamstress if it's really obnoxiously big.

In case you're still reading though, since the forum is public, you only need a connection or flight on beam. So the round off alone is enough, plus full turn, jump connection, split jump or leap (which can be in the connection or not), dismount. You'd need one more A skill if your split was in...

I can't remember where I heard or read it (probably here), but I once heard someone say their coach didn't like tiger paws because a gymnast would become reliant on them and not strengthen the muscles or whatever. And the response was that these are not things the human body is designed for. Our...

Oh for sure. My daughter got spondy even at low hours and low impact. In putting some pieces together, her dad, uncle, and grandfather all had the same or similar issues at the same vertebrae, so there is definitely something genetic at play.