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1. At what age did you see the change when your gymnast started to really get into their training, the age you started to see it change from fun to that point where they wanted to be in the gym all the time, started to be driven, learned new skills at a rapid pace etc. Somewhere around 6, as...

I would have let her start, yes. I would have let her go to team as she did at our small gym with a close knit community and coaches that loved her. But when we moved to a state with more intense (and expensive!) gym, I would have pushed for her to go to Xcel. That last year just really burnt...

My daughter's leo and warm up pants last year were purchased used (the gym actually facilitated it all and tried to make it so that nobody had to buy everything new in one year) and when she quit at the end of the season, we handed it down to a friend to use. Those things are way too expensive...

Different gyms will approach it in different ways, but the only "progress" I'm looking for from a toddler gym class is that they sleep well that night and over the course of the year are better at following directions, listening to another adult, taking turns, etc, and are more comfortable...

Depends on the gym/coach. At our first gym, each meet was a different girls' turn going first on every event and they followed a specific order. I do think for the first meet of the season the coaches tried to have the most solid kid head-wise be the one to go first but after that it never...

And as for the longevity piece...two thoughts. 1) like I said in my last post, I think those are good "rules" regardless of the sport and longevity and 2) by the time a kid is competing in gymnastics, a fair amount of money and time has been sunk into the sport. I imagine not many parents would...

I would argue these apply to most sports. They do not apply to the arts as much because it's a whole different ballgame- less instructional time/more at home practice time, less to get "right" and more open for interpretation, and less room for injury for sure. But as for sports: -make sure your...

Also, FWIW, our coaches always prohibited anything more than handstands, stretching etc at home. We had a beam and a mat and generally my girls used them to make up "routines" on snowy, cold days. It kept them entertained for hours but I'm fairly certain it didn't progress their gymnastics...

No way would I drive 2 hours one way for any child's extra-curricular activity, let alone a 6 year old. And please please please try to keep perspective on this. You could be describing my daughter when she was 6. She lived gymnastics 24/7, came home from practice and went downstairs to her mat...

My 5th grade teacher used to do this! She kept reiterating that everyone needed deodorant- because everyone could tell there was someone in the class who needed it but wasn't using it. If it were me I'd buy some Toms for your daughter and call it a day. They work out hard enough that she's...

My daughter quit earlier this year. It was a TOUGH transition for the first month but since then it's been wonderful. We were lucky that literally the day after her last meet, she jumped into play rehearsals 3X week for the school play- something she never would have been able to try out for...

My DD's coaches used to push her to tell them when she was scared so that they could encourage her, break the skill down if necessary. As for what I said? I always used to ask "has coach x ever asked you to do something you weren't ready for?" and she would respond "no" and I would remind her to...

To me it would depend on if it's nerves, as in getting nervous before a meet? Or if it's more constant nerves/anxiety. We just went through a similar scenario, repeating L4 at a much more competitive gym, and DD ended up deciding to quit (she wanted to quit halfway through the season, we asked...

We've had anything from 2 coaches for 5 girls at a smaller gym (both coaches weren't always there, and sometimes the girls were combined with another group of 4 so then it was 2 to 9), to 4 coaches for 20 kids (but usually only 2-3 coaches working with the kids, and on rare occasion- other...

My daughters two years in developmental was mostly conditioning and shapes and very basic drills to skills. She had coaches that made it a little more fun, sure, but it was crazy boring stuff. Lol. I feel like we watched hurdle, then hurdle-RO, then hurdle-RO-rebound for two years getting...

Agree. We are in the same area, just a little bit farther out, and we paid nothing close to that (but still about $6000 a year for L4), not including travel and paying to get into meets, parking at meets, etc.

My kid was flexible, first to have her back walkover in her group, first to start working progressions towards back handsprings, and last to get it without a spot. She's a kid that could never quite trust her body until she had done every little step at a snail's pace. Every kid is different. :)

Totally agree. At our old gym we got an itemized list at the end of the season, along with a +/- account balance (it was always pretty close either way). If we had overpaid, they credited the next month's tuition. If we had underpaid, we had a certain amount of time to make it up (never happened...

That sounds really frustrating. Our meet fees last year were about double what they were the year before at our old gym, which seemed crazy to me (yes, bigger meets, but less of them, and a higher coach to athlete ratio so presumably divided amongst more gymnasts). It's a really challenging...

Um, YES X 1000 and I'm kind of horrified that it isn't commonplace. I've always gotten that training and was the responsible trainer when I worked at a church. We reviewed all of this information with all of our volunteers- including that they need to report to LAW ENFORCEMENT, provided the...