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  1. Texasmomof3

    Parents Six months after retiring from gymnastics

    Hi everyone. I was just talking to my dd last night about how much her life has changed in the six months since she retired from gymnastics, and I thought would come say hi and give an update. Especially for kids who have done high level gym for a long time, the fears around "what next" can...
  2. Texasmomof3

    Parents Life post gymnastics update

    My daughter retired from her gym 6 weeks ago. It was about a 6 month process of deciding it was time to move on, as she grew to hate everything about gymnastics. She was training level 9 and in the 10th grade, at a gym that trained 28 hours per week, so gymnastics was really her whole life...
  3. Texasmomof3

    Parents She is retiring

    I knew six months ago that she was at the end, but she wasn't ready to admit it yet. She is ready now. She is 16 and her body just can't take the pounding. She wants to try school clubs, crossfit, Academic Decathlon, attend a high school football game, maybe go to a dance or two, take...
  4. Texasmomof3

    WAG One more level 8 beam question

    My dd’s coach has upgraded her routine, and as a result, she now has two back tucks in her routine. Her series is a fwo-bt and she also has a regular back tuck in the routine. I told her I don’t think two back tucks are allowed in level 8. Am I mistaken?
  5. Texasmomof3

    WAG Up-to-level versus atypical skills

    My dd will be competing level 8 this year after two years of injuries. Due to the injuries, her skills are not the typical ones you see at level 8 from her gym. But I’m wondering if atypical always means not up to level. On beam, she cannot do a back handspring. She doesn’t have the shoulder...
  6. Texasmomof3

    Parents Teenagerdom and gym

    My 15 year old dd moved to a new gym 6 months ago. The coaches are better. The atmosphere is better. There is no more emotional abuse. All good. But the teammates are just awful. After 6 months, dd’s new teammates still don’t treat her as part of their team. They are having a party...
  7. Texasmomof3

    Parents Just a happy post

    Most of my posts on this forum have been about injuries, mentally abusive coaches and fears. But this is just a happy post. In the past two weeks, dd has come home from practice happy every day. She loves her coaches. She is making friends with her new teammates. She is getting new skills...
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    Parents Watching practice woes

    I got to practice about 20 minutes early tonight and watched my daughter training a bail/bale (i can never spell Gymnastics moves). I don’t think my nerves can take bar release moves. That was a whole lot of future broken bones I just watched. This is a whole new level of terror.
  9. Texasmomof3

    Parents Boys

    My dd is 15, and has never had time for boys and crushes and all that the dating world entails, since she has gym 6 days a week. She liked gym more than boys anyway. Then we switched to a gym with a large MAG team. Suddenly, there is a boy at the gym who has caught her eye, and she gets to...
  10. Texasmomof3

    Parents One month later update

    Things can certainly change in the course of a month. To recap — dd, level 8, 9th grade, chronic leg stress fractures the past two season, sudden unplanned departure from old gym due to verbal abuse issues a month ago. She also nasty-sprained her ankle her last day at old gym. With the...
  11. Texasmomof3

    Parents Bittersweet Day

    Bittersweet day, today. We are at the Biles Invitational and it may just be our last meet ever. Dd has been injured all season and just Thursday her coaches strung together something so she could attempt competing at least one last time. She has never even attempted these routines in practice...
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    Parents Finished with gym

    Dh and I just told a distraught dd that she is finished with gym. Her 15 year old body just cannot take it any more, and we can’t keep subjected her to repeated injuries. She can’t stop crying, but I truly think this is the right call. It just feels cruel, though. Her life is her gym. Her...
  13. Texasmomof3

    WAG Leve 8 questions

    I do not want to ask my dd, because i do not want to create extra pressure on her. And i don’t want to bug her coach, but I’m very curious. My dd is trying to get in her first level 8 meet after an injury. She had much more complex routines, but they have scaled them back to just get her back...
  14. Texasmomof3

    Parents Mellow, finally, I hope

    Gymnastics is so up and down and fraught with emotion. The past two years my dd has been injured just before meet season and not competed well. We thought all was finally well until a bad landing led to knee pain and MRIs and more stress fractures being discovered. She is competing only bars...
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    Parents Update on mental blocks

    I posted in the summer about my dd developing a mental block on vault. (That level 8 vault is apparently terrifying for some kids). I pointed her to doc Ali but otherwise resisted even talking about it. Then the fear spread to beam. I told her to not worry about it and it would come back...
  16. Texasmomof3

    Parents Doc Ali/Fears and Blocks

    (Note: I could not find any results on search, but I know this has been discussed at length. Please feel free to tag me in the correct post if anyone has it.) My daughter is 14 years old, currently training level 8. She has never had a mental block before, but she is typically one of the...
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    Parents Recovering from injuries

    My dd has had stress fractures in both of her shins since December. (It started with shin splints last summer that she just ran through.). She actually competed level 7 this spring with the injuries, before it had been properly diagnosed. She has been on complete leg rest since mid-March...
  18. Texasmomof3

    Parents Injuries

    We just got dd's MRI results back from the progressive knee pain she has been having all season. She was diagnosed with OSD when she was younger, so she just assumed that was the pain until it got so bad she could barely walk. It turns out she has stress fractures in both shins. She competed...
  19. Texasmomof3

    Parents Being a gym parent is not for the faint of heart

    Dd is level 7. She has had a knee injury and has been sidelined all season. She competed one full meet back in January. She missed two meets completely and competed only beam and bars on two more. The orthopedic surgeon gave her permission to compete state this weekend, as long as she...
  20. Texasmomof3

    Parents My dd falls apart at meets

    As my title says, my dd tends to fall apart at meets. She practices well. She gets the highest scores from her team at in-house meets. She is extremely strong and practices with tight form, no slacking off. She is the oldest on her team as well. But when she gets to real meets, she gets so...

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