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I am curious your gym's policy on canceling team practice. We have practice cancelled multiple times a month during both fall and spring seasons, for reasons such as because the coaches have to be at another meet on a Friday, our gym is hosting a meet and they need to set up, the coaches are...

For the parents: Do your coaches ever 'punish' the team for the actions of one kid? So if one kid falls on a skill then all girls have to do 5 additional repeats. Or if a girl isn't doing the conditioning right they all have to do extra? Or if a kid drops food on the floor or is late. etc...

I have a question about something DD does at the gym. She jumps up from the tumbletrack and onto a high mat behind her, very straight legs and tight body. Then she does the same jump but lands on her back on the mat in a hollow position with her legs pointed in the air. They repeat this a...

Any thoughts on why they chose these eight girls and which 5 will make the team? https://usagym.org/pages/post.html?PostID=16827&prog=h

This is a great one: http://www.goldmedalmoms.com/Blogs/the-marathon-gymnast/

Is the free hip circle a skill on it's own (like a kip) or is it a progression to another skill? Just curious.

Does anyone's gym make kids do a physical thing for being late (push-ups, climb ropes)? We are frequently a few minutes late because it just takes time to get from school to gym and get the girls changed. I just found out our gym does this. Being late is 100% never the girls fault and I am...

I'm wondering if there is a best practice for moms on when to keep a sick kid home. For example, if she has fever in the morning and DD stays home from school, would you send her to gym if the fever is gone at gym time? Even if they still seem a little beat? What if you just sense your kid is...

Anyone have any idea if the girls selected for Jesolo gives any indication of who is in contention for the Olympic Team? Is there any relation at this point in the process? https://usagym.org/pages/post.html?PostID=15644&prog=h

I am interested to hear how gyms structure TOPs programs-- particularly ones for non-home schooled kids where all the gym time is non-school hours. For example, is it extra days a week completely separate from USAG? is it integrated into regular lvl training hours and girls are split into...

What are the qualities/factors you would consider in choosing to move an extremely strong and motivated 7YO lvl3 to a gym that offers serious TOPS training, assuming she'd be accepted? Gyms that offer these options are reasonably further, offer Tops during the day (so she has to be pulled from...

DD7 is coming up on her very first LVL3 meet! I’m looking for advise from moms and coaches on things to say and not to say before and after the meet. Particularly after, if she performs lower than her expectations or where many of her other teammates get medals and she doesn’t. I know the...

At DD's gym they have started an exercise during warm-ups where one girl walks on her toes across the floor (not releve, but on the toe knuckles) holding the shoulders of another girl that walks in front of her. They usually do two passes. Is this a widely used exercise? Are there any short...