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I would say go for it. Our gym has had a couple JO to XCEL and XCEL to JO transfers and all our XCEL to JO kids are really doing well. You’ll be a little old but it’s not too bad (I’m 16 training with a majority 10-12 yr olds). Just go over and show that you want it. Try for 7 for this season or...

There’s no required height in Xcel but there will be form deductions and likely a rythym deduction (.2, because of the momentum)

It would be kip, cast, clear hip, kip, squat on, tap, dismount (or HB kip, dismount)

Does anyone have a video of what this would look like? DD is doing well and is working for platinum but doesn’t have a bar dismount yet (maybe a flyaway, but it’ll take time). She competed tap swing half turn last year for gold and it sounds like something she would find easy. Any advice on the...

Maybe don’t do this on the real bar, but get a lower bar or a floor bar, and drape a sting mat over it. Have her work squat ons on her own or with minimal spot and show her that it won’t hurt if she does it properly. If she thinks she will hit her skins when the time comes, then she can always...

flyaways and high bar kips are very common in BOTH Gold and Platinum. Personally, I would say don’t skip levels. There are plenty of older kids competing gold, and it’s much better to do a solid year of gold and then a solid year of platinum rather than jumping up a level and struggling really...

For beam, a barani dismount works (and can be super pretty if done well). For bars, you need 1 kip (but it doesn’t matter where) and you don’t need a flyaway. on floor there’s more options. Your first pass HAS to have two skills, and one must be a salto(flip). Because you don’t have a back...

I would say go for “older” retro music (70s, 80s), try out some video game or movie soundtracks she likes, or to go try something super out there (DD wants to try and find “clown music” for next year)

Monthly tuition is about $300 for 9 hours/wk. Uniforms (leo, warmup, backpack) is about $300 for everything, about $120 for just the leo Assessment (covers coaches fees, national congress, meets (not including states and regionals) and end of season celebration) came out to just over $1000. The...

Maybe a little harder, but FHS step out RO, RO BT for the silvers, FT step out cartwheel Anything I would suggest for Bronze is listed above, silvers are a lot different. (On the silver team last year, our hardest skill was a RO BHS BHS, but she already had a standing back tuck and had a RO BhS...

In my experience, harder A skills can score better. On Xcel Silver, the ‘basic’ routine for our gym was glide swing-pullover cast cast back hip circle (specialized dismount by kid). DD and one other teammate both ended up competing kip front hip circle - cast - back hip circle - underswing...

So DD is currently training Xcel Platinum and their coach is having them heavily train clear hips and “cast away kips ”. DD has a pretty good clear hip (she drops fairly welll, gets good clearance at the end) but she can’t figure out how to fix the kip out of it. Her coach says she’s not...

At DDs gym, this would be more than enough to go Gold. It really depends on what your gym wants and requires.

I believe it is by start of season (Nov/Dec) for some meets or before states (late March/April). Either way the kid should be pretty close to 5 by winter time.

DD, an Xcel Gold, was wondering if doing the roundoff dismount on beam with one hand would count. When she uses both hands, it is sloppy and she can’t stick it. When she only uses one hand for support, it is smoother and she can usually stick the landing. We looked through the code of points and...

For xcel gold, If you complete the sole circle all the way around and then jump to high bar, yes. If you do not and fall off without going to high bar, no

not conditioning, but you could have her try laying in push-up position, and then ‘squatting on’ and jumping up/off so she could work on positioning and where she’s looking

Try working with her to find things that will make it less scary. Figure out what is scary about each skill and ask the coaches (or you could) work through her fears. When DD had to move silver to gold, she was terrified of her cartwheel on the high beam. Would do it fine on low and medium...

I have the same problem. Just use meet scores online or myUSAGgym for now I guess

It’s completely down right now does anyone know what’s happening