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  1. ReluctantGymMom

    Anon Qualities of Compulsory Gymnasts that Predict Successful Level 10/Collegiate Careers

    My daughter skipped from level 3 to level 6 based on her bars - she competed a level 7 bar routine. She’ll be going into 8 now and it’s literally because of bars - beam… she just scrapes by and hopes for the best, bars however, the gym wants her score for the team score
  2. ReluctantGymMom

    Anon Bullying in the gym

    We’re dealing with this right now. One girl who viciously hates my daughter and because she bullies people, is able to get other girls at the gym to treat her like she’s invisible because they don’t want her to turn her attention to them instead. I talked to the coaches, who talked to the girl...
  3. ReluctantGymMom

    Anon Qualities of Compulsory Gymnasts that Predict Successful Level 10/Collegiate Careers

    You can definetly tell who isn’t going to make it, the girls, the coaches, the parents all know which kids don’t want to be there and aren’t going to stick it out any longer than they have to. But predicting anything around puberty is like picking lottery numbers. The tiny little stick figure...
  4. ReluctantGymMom

    WAG Twisting wrong direction?

    This seems like an exceptionally odd thing to get hung up on in this case - she can’t change her twisting direction and she can’t change her round off
  5. ReluctantGymMom

    WAG Twisting wrong direction?

    Haha this is def a big hang up. It bothers him a lot that she does it on other skills that aren’t his events (leaps on beam for example). Like this is a huge pet peeve
  6. ReluctantGymMom

    WAG Twisting wrong direction?

    She twists the same direction for forwards and back - leftie. Why then would a coach get so stuck on this?
  7. ReluctantGymMom

    Parents Georgia high performance camp

    Anyone’s kid gone? How’d they like it?
  8. ReluctantGymMom

    Coaches Why choose harder "A" skills over easier "A" skills?

    Some A skills are easier for some kids than others - that goes for all letter skills, there’s skills my kid can’t believe are valued what they are because they’re so easy for her, and others she’s like… hell no, hard pass, could never
  9. ReluctantGymMom

    WAG Working bars with rips.

    Both our current gym and our previous one expects girls to continue doing bars with a rip, especially one that isn’t bleeding. Just tape it and keep going. If you can’t swing bars, you can go to strap bar or work drills. I feel like a 13 year old should really be able to push through to do...
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    Parents Excessive loss of team members?

    We started with a large level 9/10 group, the girls who couldn’t make the move from 9 to 10 dropped, all of the 10s got injuries that required months of rehab, there were 5 8s who all repeated, we started with 8 level 7s and by the end of season, only 2 remained. It’s pretty wild what happened...
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    Parents Excessive loss of team members?

    We lost like 80% from start of season to end. Maybe more than 80%! I’m only referring to the optional levels
  12. ReluctantGymMom

    WAG Twisting wrong direction?

    Yeah I’m not seeing that she’s having any luck with this lol, but I’m not in the position to just be like forget what your coach said, change the round off. I’m more hoping he just…. Gives up on changing it eventually unless there’s an actual reason to have the directions of everything matching...
  13. ReluctantGymMom

    WAG Twisting wrong direction?

    Her round off is with her right leg - he seems very insistent on changing the twisting not the round off, although I think the round off would be a struggle to change too.
  14. ReluctantGymMom

    WAG Twisting wrong direction?

    Does this actually matter? My daughter is a righty who actually does a bunch of skills lefty, but I guess because in preschool she did a cartwheel as a righty that’s just how she’s been labeled. She twists lefty and it’s driving one of her coaches crazy - but she can’t twist the other way at...
  15. ReluctantGymMom

    Anon Dd wants to join team but wasn't invited--what to do?

    When I worked front desk, I def warned the coaches about kids coming to try out who had rude or difficult parents. It’s 100% part of selection, and we had to kick out a super talented little girl whose mom was just crazy. They tried to go to a well known elite gym, that contacted our gym about...
  16. ReluctantGymMom

    WAG No Foam Pit

    I don’t have a good answer for you but my daughters level 7 friend tried out a gym with airbags, she said when she dismounted onto them it felt like it recoiled into her if that makes sense? Like she didn’t sink into it like a foam pit, and it hurt her back to land on
  17. ReluctantGymMom

    Coaches Appropriate leveling?

    Yes for sure, a discussion should be had with parents if you see them trying to implode their families for gymnastics. They probably won’t appreciate it, might change gyms to one that “believes in the dream” but at least an honest conversation there can be warranted
  18. ReluctantGymMom

    Coaches Appropriate leveling?

    Drive can’t be taught and lots of girls have drive until they hit a certain age and get fed up with what they’re giving up. A 7 year old can be easily bribed into working harder but a 13 year old isn’t going to give a crap if they don’t give a crap. There’s a girl who is on our level who is...
  19. ReluctantGymMom

    Anon If you had to choose…

    We made that exact choice. We chose good coaching fit, HORRIBLE team mates. The number 1 reason my daughter didn’t do virtual school this year is that she finally made school friends, and that I couldn’t imagine these girls being her only social interaction. Most of the girls are nice, when the...
  20. ReluctantGymMom

    Parents Hills Gymnastics/Gym for Preschooler

    If she’s bored now in the “fun” class where they let her flip around, prepare to be REAL bored in preteam (presumably where she’ll go as she’s too young to compete). Preteam and lower compulsary is just endless repetitions of handstands, cartwheels, rolls. Over and over. My kid must have done...

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