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Midlands - would definitely expect London to cost more!

We pay £90 a month for 8 hours (also UK, completed club grade 6 earlier this year, now preparing club grade 5) so more expensive than us, but no idea what the 'standard' would be.

We couldn't get WAG tickets but we have trampolining tickets (and women's football!) so very excited here!

We're in the UK, my daughter is 7 and she seems to be doing about 5 or 6 a year plus Grades. We've never had to travel more than about 35 mins for one.

https://www.british-gymnastics.org/scoring-guide I think starting scores have been around 13 or so at my daughter's current level - I guess the harder stuff gets the higher it can go.

Oh, and we don't get nice neat scores out of ten haha!

I'll share what I've figured out to this point (which I hope is approximately accurate!). The first year of 'proper' competition in WAG is the year in which the gymnast turns 8 (this year for my daughter, so we are right at the start). Some kids are already on the compulsory route at this...

That nearly everything on the internet about gymnastics is about the US and it is a very different ball game to the UK - I was so confused at the beginning .

I mostly post to a private group for close family, who I know want to see as much as possible because they all live at a distance/abroad. I occasionally share something to my wider friends list too

We are in the UK and not quite two years in yet, but my little girl started a recreational class in April 2021 when she was 5 and a half. About four months later she picked up a second recreational class and was then invited straight to squad in December. She did a few small competitions last...

My little girl screamed with so much joy about Jessica Gadirova on floor just now (Mummy! She's from OUR country and she won a gold medal for gymnastics!) - amazing!!

My 6yo is one of the younger ones in her squad, but the tallest. She's also the tallest in her school year. I'm 5'10 and her dad is 6'4 so it's not surprising. There's only one in her group who is properly dinky though

Thanks so much for these replies! So helpful

My little girl could do 10m on her front, 5m on her back at 4.5 and now swims a few lengths of all 4 strokes at 6.5 (technique still developing) and my 5 year old can probably do about 5m (he's less of a natural water baby). I'm all in favour of starting early

My 6yo is in a WAG foundation squad. They do 6hrs a week (3hrsx2) and there is a lot of conditioning and stretching going on. They seem to really be working on perfecting basics with increasing amounts of skills starting to appear as they go along.

About 1000 including recreational, but only about 15 on WAG squad.

I probably stay for about 70% of practices (2 x 3hrs a week at the moment) but i bring my laptop and it's really just an opportunity to get extra work done. Sometimes my husband does the same. Our daughter seems to be getting new skills all over the place at the moment so it is quite fun to see...

I think the thing I value most so far, with a little one in the early stages, is the nurturing environment in her gym.

Thanks both! She's been managing to get her front leg up a bit more from the floor so the compulsive practising on the trampoline must be helping

I don't know much about this at all (I have a 6 year old daughter in WAG foundation squad, so also coming at this as mum of a girl), but at our gym there is recreational, advanced recreational and squad. The advanced rec team seem to compete quite a lot in Gymnastics For All competitions.