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Our gym let gymnasts chalk their feet/hands. But also let them draw lines (thin ones) of chalk to mark the beam for their acro series start point etc. But they are not allowed to cover the beam in chalk

^^^ this! My gym used to shut down for 2 weeks in the summer and I would be away for a week as well so 3 weeks off. I swam 2-3 times a week at my local swimming pool and every day when I was on holiday. I also did lots of walking and a little bit of conditioning. Swimming is the best thing to...

One of my old coaches supported / spotted loads of skills on all pieces right up until she went on maternity leave. Some things she would try and say it wasn't comfortable so someone else would do it. And as you said, she didn't spot anything that had a high chance of her having to catch them...

Based on my experience of coaching bails. I would say it is a weakness in her core (or simply not fully engaging her core), as it appears that as she clears low bar she is loosing tension causing separated legs and an off balance HS on LB x

I vaguely remember one of my gymnasts complaining about pain like you describe. She was about 8/9 at the time. I would take her to the doctor or a podiatrist to get it looked at. Almost sounds like scar tissue in the way you've described it

With the really young ones in our beginners group (aged 5-6 average but some older ones) we try to do 3 15 minute rotations as they get bored easily and don't have as many skills to work on for each piece

For our 60 minute rec classes we do a 15min warm up including cardio and for advanced classes extended flexibility. We then do 2x 20minute rotations as we find 15minutes isn't long enough. Leaving 5 mins at the end for cool down and certificates for passing badges :) Within our 20 minute...

That's what we did. Raised loads of money to help fund our week away for an international invitational :) we played games and all sorts haha

Also, I helped set up our floor in the new set up, but I have no idea what our spring set up is specifically. But probably a bit more spaced out that the set up you mentioned

We never had this issue with our floor - the causing of joint pain. But our older/more advanced girls complained that the floor was too stiff and not springy when we upgraded our set up. We did a fundraiser - pay £2 to come and bounce. Open to the public, did 4 30 min sessions and basically...

This. It is hard with the really young ones as a lot of communication with this age group needs to be verbal and quite loud to get the attention required for you to be able to instruct and explain activities to them safely. But @ayyyrial is right. Coaching in itself if you stack up a lot of...

What sort of level are you coaching? And what age? It all kinda depends on the age/ability of the gymnasts in your care

Here is the link to the USAG website results from the meet. There are a few girls in the US that I am following and was looking everywhere for the results and just happened upon them. https://usagym.org/pages/women/events/zonequalifiers.html If you scroll down the the head 'national...

At my gym we teach uprises to the girls too. In some cases as a save incase a high bar skill goes wrong - for example some of our girls who have only recently got their high bar upstart/kip have been taught to uprise so that if they miss the upstart they can uprise and still get credit for a...

The rule is that they can't do the empty swing out of a shaposh - so we will probably still see some kips/upstarts out of them. Just without the extra swing in the middle. I was on a coaches clinic about the new CoP a couple of weeks ago, and the tutor mentioned the possibility that some girls...