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What is the penalty for not having a side element in your beam routine? Yesterday dd did double BHS, her turns & leaps, and then a front pike dismount off the end of the beam. She used to do a roundoff BHS or BLO dismount. Her score seemed low for the performance and then I realized she didn’t...

So my kid has never been a top-of-the podium kind of girl. She has always struggled and frequently watched as her friends passed by her in levels and getting tons of medals. She spent most of last year injured and didn't qualify for regionals (L8) after a not-so-great states. So she did a 2nd...

Would the following floor routine receive any "not up to level" deductions for L8? The routine assumes that all the dance moves, leaps, turns are a minimum of up to level. I'm mostly interested in the 3 tumbling passes: Round-off, back handspring, back layout Front handspring, front layout...

If you are a judge or work providing judges food at meets, what do you provide for them? The few people that handled this area for meets we host are no longer with the gym and I'm helping take over that area. Are there any requirements of what must be provided? (E.g. Vegetarian options, food...

Has anyone tried a parents' night out --- watching kids at the gym --- for a fundraiser? If so, was it profitable? How much did you make? What did you charge? Share all the details you can! Thanks! PS - personally I don't think it would be worth it as a fundraiser but our parents' association...

It has been a long season. Dd, new level 8 this year, broke 2 fingers & dislocated one back at the beginning of November, right before meet season was to start. This was the first year in a while where she was looking solid, feeling confident, and ready to take on the season at her new level...

My L8 dd is working herself back from an injury (broken fingers). For her last meet, she was only able to compete floor and she did a modified routine to remove all work with her hands. She is now able to use her hands and has been working to get her beam routine back. However, she is not yet...

What tumbling passes are required for L8 floor? Dd is recovering from an injury and is hoping to compete a modified routine in a few weeks. Is it possible to have a starting value of 10.0 without doing any back tumbling and no front handsprings? Basically, all hands-free tumbling? Possible...

Dd has made it all the way to L8 with no injuries...until last night. Bad landing on the vault and she fractured 2 fingers and dislocated 1. Heading to an orthopedist this morning. She has worked so hard to get to this level, struggling with so many fears, and now she is going to miss her first...

This time last year dd was having such fear of giants we were looking at the possibility of a 3rd year of L5. The fear had already caused her to do a 2nd year of L5. (Our gym doesn't do L6 and requires giants for L7.) She eventually squeaked out some giants and they let her move to L7 in...

Dd (L7) has been struggling with bars all season. She's been falling on her squat on and balking on her giant. Highest score on bars going into states was an 8.3. I was just hoping she could make it through without any catastrophes. Well, she did more than that. She did almost fall on her squat...

I had posted a while ago about dd's fear of her giant. She finally is doing them on her own. They aren't pretty....but that will come. I'm just so happy she's enjoying practicing again and looks forward to working her new routines. She had her first L7 meet this weekend. No medals, but she only...

Loving seeing everyone's videos. This is dd's L5 bar routine from our recent meet. She's been working really hard and she and I were both pleased with her score, but curious to see what others think. http://youtu.be/dE3tZpoWUl8

Hoping this link posts. I saw this on Facebook and think it probably captures my fearful gymmie's feelings quite well. http://annejosephson.wordpress.com/2014/11/03/i-know-i-am-difficult-to-coach-and-nine-other-things-that-fearful-gymnasts-want-to-their-coaches-to-know/

It is SO hard and I'm struggling with this so much right now. Background: For the past 3 years Dd competed old L5, old L6, then new L5 again due to not having BWO-BHS on beam and giant on bars. She is trying to get to L7 this year again and our gym requires those 2 skills. After huge fear...

When the level changes happened last year, it seemed you could skip new L6, depending on where you were coming from. Dd was in old L6 and qualified for L7 score-wise, but didn't meet our gym requirements to compete it. For some reason they gym decided not to compete new L6, so she had to move...

Dd, age 12, has been struggling with fear issues. She is trying to get to L7 (competed old L5 2 years ago, old L6 a year ago, and new L5 this past year, mostly due to fear of giant and BWO-BHS beam combo, which is required at our gym to go to L7.) She is still having fear on these 2 skills...

How high should the swings be on the high bar before the flyaway dismount? (front and back swings) What are the deductions if they aren't met? Thanks!

My dd is really struggling and I'm looking for some guidance. She competed L6 last year. She did not have a great season, but she qualified for states (and thus got her mobility score.) She's struggling with some fear issues on the beam working her BWO-BHS and doesn't quite have her giant on...

Do they need a twisting element on floor? Or is a ROBHSBLO enough?