Recent content by TGRI08

The red head is Dulcy Caylor. Beautiful, amazing gymnast! She is 15 years old and just started in the Senior group so that's probably why they didn't show any of her routines. They usually focus on the young ladies that are "on top" at the moment but it would be nice to see something from...

My daughter will be repeating level 9 this year. She competed the flic lay last season but she had a back injury a year ago and the lay gives her some issues. After a talk with the coach, they've decided to change her series to front toss backhand this season. She says it's much easier for...

Could be an issue with the gym but honestly, I would say it doesn't really matter until the upper levels and then, it won't matter at all. Let me explain... My daughter entered Team late and was pretty much an instant success. The skills came easy to her but she did put in the work and took...

My daughter has been dealing with this for 6 months now. At first the pain didn't allow her to do much. She was on full restriction for 3 weeks. As soon as she started back to her skills, the pain returned. After lots of PT, the pain did get a bit better and she's been able to keep it to a...

My daughter is in her first year of 9 and bars has been a struggle for her. She won bars at state in level 8 with a 9.8 but she is really struggling with the swing half to overshoot transition. However, she spent most of her training season injured (6 injuries total) so that probably slowed...

My daughter was a recreational gymnast for 2 years. She was asked to try out for team in August 2018. At that time she was 9 years old. The head coach of the team did invite her to join them but he wanted her to wait until after their compulsory season was finished (in December 2018). When...

Started recreational classes at age 7. We didn't know anything about team but she was invited to try out (at another gym location) at age 9. Team accepted her to start as a training level 4. Age 10 - Level 4 Switched gyms Age 11 - Level 5/ Level 7 (same season) Age 12 - Level 8 Age 13 -...

My daughter (level 9) is really struggling with her swing half. She had it almost to handstand and then she had to start connecting it to her overshoot. At that point she lost it. She gets so frustrated with the timing because she either doesn't go up to handstand before turning or she goes...

Are back to back injuries normal?

Wow! I'm so sorry your daughter had to go through that. That sounds like a horrible and scary injury but I'm very happy she's doing better now. 30+ hours a week is actually very common for gyms in our area. Most of the gyms have day homeschool programs with anywhere from 28 to 35 hours a...

That makes sense! She home schools but the program she is in definitely got a lot harder this year. 7th grade comes with an additional class so her workload increased quite a bit and she's having a hard time keeping up with assignments. This does stress her out a lot. It doesn't help she's...

I agree. It's a lot of hours and I've asked her to skip some of the afternoon practices but she believes she is behind (because of the injuries) so she's not wanting to take off. I suppose I will just have to put my foot down at some point and make her. The foot fracture just happened last...

Thank you. I really appreciate the insight! My daughter started gymnastics late and moved to team at 9 years old. She competed level 4 at 10 and then did level 5 & 7 in the same season but she never had any injuries until she was training for level 8. At that time her hours did jump from 20...

Is it normal for girls to have back to back injuries? My daughter is training level 9 (almost 13 years old) and over the past 6-7 months she has had 3 foot injuries, 1 hip injury, 1 back injury and 1 finger injury. None of the injuries are major. Three were overuse and three were from falls...

We're in the US. My daughter is 12 years old and she does 34 hours a week (twice a day). She's currently a training nine but she started that schedule in level 8. Our gym typically does Level 3: daytime 12 hours or evening 9 hours Level 4: daytime 16 hours or evening 12 hours Level 5: daytime...