Hi all,
Would just appreciate your thoughts and feedback. My dd is 14 (just turned this year) and will be starting high school in the fall. She had several injuries last year (fractured ankle, fractured knee, sprained ankle, sprained toe, and constant back pain- doctor says a ring around her...
Can you give some advice on whether or not my daughter is getting injured too often? I am clueless on these things, but I'd like to understand more of what may be going on for my daughter.
My daughter just turned 13 and she's level 5, training level 6/7. During the year, she trained 16 hours a...
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Dd works out with her L3 team 20 hours a week and this is her first competition season with them. She's placed in the lower half of her first 2 competitions and scored almost last in her most recent (the 3rd) competition, and I just wondered is this normal and/or ok for a first-season...
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Dd is on a compulsory team at an elite gym that's well-known for being aggressive and extremely competitive. Is it ok for a coach to pull / push the gymnasts' legs beyond normal splits, to the point the girls are crying and telling the coach to please stop, but the coach insists they...
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Can you give some advice?
We'll find out next month if our gym will advance my daughter from the pre-team to the junior compulsory team, or if she'll be recommended over to the Exel bronze team. Of course, dd is dying to join the junior team (she dreams of Olympics and is obsessed...
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My dd wants to try out other gyms as a result of some issues I described in a prior post here: http://chalkbucket.com/forums/threads/help-pressure-to-switch-to-excel-and-leave-compulsory-track.52266/#post-397667
Do you have any advice for how to find a new gym? I'd like to have her...
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I would love to hear your feedback about the situation we're in with my daughter. She's 9 1/2 and in Level 2 on the "pre-team" at our gym. She passed the beginner and intermediate rec classes within 10 months, and was promoted to the pre-team 6 months ago. Since she was 9 at the time...
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Would love any thoughts or feedback, I'm just feeling really sad for my daughter right now. She absolutely adores gymnastics- goes 3-4 times per week to her level 2 classes (would go more often if we'd take her!), has progressed so fast since she just started Level 1 in January of this...
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Newbie mom here. Can you suggest what kind of shorts I should get for my daughter to protect her upper thighs on the bars? She's been complaining about how the bars rub against her thighs and make them hurt. Her coach suggested shorts. I got her cotton biker shorts to wear over her...
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I'm a Newbie mom here, and my daughter's been begging to take gymnastics classes for years. She's 8 1/2 now, and has taken dance classes since 2yrs, and figure skating since 5 years. Graceful and athletic (soccer since 5yrs, too). We had her in 6 months of gymnastics classes at 6...