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My favourite bar routines are the ones that don’t look like everyone else’s. It sounds like your daughter is talented and her coaches have the ability to coach high level skills. She has been scoring excellent on bars by the sound of it. I would try my best to trust the process, as difficult as...

I am in BC, Canada as well. Our gym is doing zoom training for now, but we’re not sure we will be able to actually reopen until September. My daughter is 100% willing to train for the year and not compete, but she is more of a skills driven gymnast than a competition driven gymnast as it is. I...

Coming up on a year on and off (mostly on). Have tried xbrace, massage, nsaids, and taping. Nothing makes a significant difference.

I don’t think it’s fair to pit survivors against current elites/hopefuls. That is all I have to say about that.

Level 3, 9 hours a week, $325 tuition only. Meet fees and leos, warmups, etc are about another $1800. We are on the west coast of Canada. As for housing, it’s pretty similar to Toronto. About $800k+ for a one bedroom condo, minimum $1m for a single family 20 year old house. Rent here is about...

Our pediatric sports medicine doctor recommended Superfeet insoles in her day to day shoes and they seem to be helping.

My daughter just turned 8 and was supposed to do 4 hours/day (7:30am-11:30am) Mon-Thurs for summer. I made arrangements with the gym to pick her up an hour early because I start work at 11, and even then, my kid is exhausted. By Thursday she is sore and cranky. There’s no way she could do 4.5...

My DD just turned 8 and trains similar hours. She isn’t currently in swimming lessons, but she swims for fun for about 90 minutes 3-4 times a week from May-end of September. I think it’s good for them to have fun but also to work muscles in different ways, especially in such a low impact...

Kind of. It’s basically a national developmental program for kids who get to JO7 level by age 9-11 to identify 2024 hopefuls. There are camps they can qualify for by video submission. There are Aspire 1 and Aspire 2 categories at competitions, with different routine requirements than JO...

At our gym to get into tryouts for pre-team/team they need a decent cartwheel, handstand, and a pullover on bars. Then at tryouts they are assessed on strength (rope climb, L hang on bars), listening skills, and ability to take corrections. I am in canada though and all of the gyms in our area...

Not a huge fan of our summer training schedule either. Gym is 7:30am-11:30am Mon-Thurs. I start work at 11am a 30 minute drive from the gym. I’m a single mom, her Dad is not involved, and all of my family works Mon-Fri 9am-5pm. We live 30 minutes away from all of the other gym families so nobody...

We are in BC and although I love the concept, I think it’s still more of an ideal than a reality. For sure there are some clubs who adopt this approach, but there are just as many who have 7-9 year olds training 18-22 hours a week. As long as the aspire program is in place in a Canada, there...

We are in BC and although I love the concept, I think it’s still more of an ideal than a reality. For sure there are some clubs who adopt this approach, but there are just as many who have 7-9 year olds training 18-22 hours a week. As long as the aspire program is in place in a Canada, there...

Here is her statement: https://usagym.org/PDFs/About%20USA%20Gymnastics/statement_052318.pdf

My daughter is level 3, training 4 and her summer schedule is supposed to be Mon-Thurs 7:30-11:30am. I had to make arrangements to start work at 11 and pick her up an hour early and drive her directly to daycamp on my way to work. It’s tough, especially as a single parent with nobody to split...

We have never had any kind of meeting or email about coaching changes, but each time it has been handled differently. First gym we found out DDs coach was charged with sexual offences against gymnasts via a newspaper article. We left the gym on bad terms after that an the ensuing chaos. 2nd...

How much do they uptrain? What is the attendance policy? Is there a club required move up score? Do they have upper optionals? Parent viewing policy?

Gym is closed for one week in July and one week in August. Schedule for my dd changes from Mon/Wed 3-6 and Sat 12-3 (9 hours) to Mon-Thurs 7:30-11:30 (16 hours).

I agree. Do it now. We went through something very very similar last year. Old gym got rid of JO, DD didn’t want to leave her existing teammates and the familiarity, but knew for sure she wanted to compete JO. We switched last July, it took a few months but she now has new gym friends and...

Our compulsories are given a summer training group. Then about two weeks before the end of summer training they are given new registration forms to complete and their level for the upcoming year. They compete that level for the season until championships and then those who have most of their...