Recent content by superflipgirl

Wow, good luck to your daughter! I am a former NAIGC gymnast and it was one of the most fun experiences I had in college! I was also nowhere near the "level 8 scale" but like you say, it was so rewarding to just be able to continue my love for the sport and set my own personal goals at an age...

Came here to say this. I'm from Virginia as well, and at my old gym the head optional coach had been a high school gymnast in Virginia and not only allowed our optionals to do high school gym while they were also doing USAG, but strongly ENCOURAGED it!

I appreciate all of your words. I really do. Thank you for clarifying, and I appreciate that we are able to have a civilized discussion. Call me a "snowflake" but I DO believe that there are some ways we should take extra steps to ensure that our words don't hurt others. As far as what you...

I never directly said that, but I feel like the fact that you are responding in this way is kind of further proving my point. I never directly accused any individual of having racial biases in their criticisms of Simone, but rather spoke about how I feel that black women already get so much...

I think people who get unnecessarily mad about these internalized racism claims or claim that people bringing race into it are "part of the problem" have an issue with race more than they claim...just saying... And while I can't think of any athletes off the top of my head, I know that for...

I just have to say: If I were able to respond to some of these posts in the way that I truly would like to respond, I'd be banned from this entire message board. That goes to show how angry it makes me that this thread, and some of these replies, exist. Enough said before I become even angrier...

Name idea: Titanium!

When I was learning back walkovers on beam, I learned a trick from an incredible coach at my gym that really helped prevent me from ever developing a fear of them. What really worked for me was to actually NOT have the "just go for it" mindset that we were often encouraged to develop with...

Not a parent by any means (I apologize if that means I'm not allowed to reply--please let me know if this sub-forum is exclusive to parents), but I think most other responders have hit the nail on the head with saying that she feels done, but isn't sure what life would be like after gymnastics...

Yes, it's very much an American thing. Many camps either go for 7/8 weeks or have 3/4 week sessions and kids who love it that much will stay for both sessions, therefore staying essentially the entire summer. The going to camp for a whole summer is very much an American Jewish tradition, from...

I've heard of Island Lake Camp! Not surprising that they had a large gymnastics program there. Did there seem to be a lot of high-level gymnasts there?

This has nothing to do with me personally--it's just something I've been wondering as a former gymnast who knows a LOT about summer camps through both my experience/friends' experiences and is going into a career in which I may find myself at some point working in an administrative position at a...

I've thought about that too--I intern in an elementary school with many students who don't have childcare outside of school! I'm really hoping, that even if it doesn't slow the speed of cases, then SOMETHING will be discovered/uncovered in the next few weeks that can aide a decision being made...

Gymnastics can definitely wait....I think some people don't realize that as much as it sucks for events to be canceled/postponed now, if we don't take the precautions now, we may have to wait WAY longer before anyone can do gymnastics safely again. Hoping that all of these closures start to make...

I know that the Xcel program (like the national Xcel program with requirements that apply to the entire country) started in 2013. And I know that before that, many states had their own prep op programs with distinct rules. But I've for some reason recently been really curious about the prep op...