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    Anon Training groups

    DD finished a very successful level 5 season, is training 6/7 and mostly “has” her skills but they need work (recently started swinging giants inconsistently, working on beam flight series, tumbling is very strong). She was informed she will compete 6 next season (Jan 2025). We are ok with that...
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    Anon D3 College Gymnastics possibility

    The idea of Xcel or High School to D3 comes up from time to time and I think some of the responses here give an inflated sense of hope to aspiring collegiate gymnasts. All NCAA gymnastics levels (D1, D2 and D3) use the same scoring guidelines. To maximize scores, coaches will be looking for...
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    Anon Ever have an entire team have a bad year?

    I’m wondering if this is normal or if I should be worried about our coaches and gym. After a couple of strong years (consistently getting everyone into 1st-4th places in AA at States in their age groups), my daughter’s gym and coaches seem to be struggling to hold everything together. They have...
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    Anon Cast squat on

    Hi I’m a silver gymnast and I’m 14 and I’m the oldest and they won’t let me move up when I got my back walkover on beam and a front handspring on the vault and I’m still on silver. But it is on teeny tiny problem….i don’t have a squat on well I have it but when I do it I only get one foot up...
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    Off Topic Motivational Quotes / Videos / Etc.

    It's sort of a take on the Erin Hanson poem: “There is freedom waiting for you, On the breezes of the sky, And you ask "What if I fall?" Oh but my darling, What if you fly?” ― Erin Hanson
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    Off Topic Motivational Quotes / Videos / Etc.

    "you have to fall before you can fly" -Isla Fisher, Full Out
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    Anon Clear hip to kip-how to not hit feet on ground

    My daughter hits her feet on the ground when doing her clear hip back into a kip. It has improved and now she is barely touching her feet but she competes in a week and would like to fix this. Any advice for her? Thanks!
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    Anon College Recruiting experience, insights and opinions

    Not surprising but it is sad. Choosing a college is not an easy choice and really, they need to be older. Most kids pick their college as seniors. Even MAG waits until senior year. Waiting for juniors should be the minimum.
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    Anon College Recruiting experience, insights and opinions

    This is not unexpected. Wouldn't surprise me that this is happening with 2027s
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    Anon College Recruiting experience, insights and opinions

    There is no direct contact with the gymnasts, but there is little doubt they are there to express more than just casual interest in 2026 gymnasts. They communicate through the club coach who relays it to the gymnasts. What we have seen is that even though colleges are not allowed direct...
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    Anon College Recruiting experience, insights and opinions

    Recruiting? Or visiting? By rule they are not allowed to be talking to sophomores. THey can be evaluating them, watching film, etc, but that is it. I hope they are not pushing things to go back to the super early recruiting. Junior year in hs is early enough to be committing to a college!
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    Anon College Recruiting experience, insights and opinions

    Another timeline marker in regards to recruiting. Our gym is seeing colleges start recruiting 2026s now in November (so that would be their early sophomore year of high school) even though there are still 2025s yet to commit. A lot of gym visits to evaluate 2026s.
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    Anon College Recruiting experience, insights and opinions

    Well into Official visits season now that college football has started. Things that we have learned, Travel day on Thursday Friday details of university, academics, pictures, watch practice, meet team and host. Depending upon schedule, a day or evening outing (bowling, lake day, fun at...
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    Anon Coach making me feel belittled and worthless.

    Hello everyone! a little background about me is that I am a current high school senior, 17 and I do xcel platnium! Ever since I came to this new gym there is this one coach (we will call her Coach A) who has made me feel that I should quit the sport. First day I got there my coach (Coach B)...
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    Anon Bra Question

    Keeping this anon because it would embarrass my gymnast. Our new comp leos are low back mesh, so sports bras are basically out. This was not an issue last year, but she recently developed. A lot. I had a breast reduction at 20 and gymnastics didn't save her from genetics. My kiddo needs support...
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    Anon D3 College Gymnastics possibility

    It is possible? Yes, but I'll come back to that. The main thing is that D3 coaches look for 10.0SV for routines so your DD has three more years to achieve and perfect skills. While you see the occasional front-entry vault competed most coaches prefer a Yurchenko-entry. Again the focus is on...
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    Anon College Recruiting experience, insights and opinions

    Dont forget to register with the NCAA!! It may be one of those things that are just assumed everyone knows, but we have had a few girls get surprised as they head into the June 15th recruiting date that they need to be registered with the NCAA before schools can bring them on campus. Not sure...
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    Anon delusional parents - come on already

    For some reason, the gymnasts at my daughter’s gym think that qualifying to regionals (levels 6-8) means that they will skip a level now. There are level 7s (just finished season) who think they’re going to level 9, level 4s who think they’re scoring out of level 5 and going to 7 when they still...
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    Parents New trend in gym ownership? (The Business Side Of Gymnastics / Powers Gymnastics)

    Bull city Anon parent here. The daytime schedule will stay for the school year. Perhaps kids who cannot do daytime once summer ends will find other options, but it was made abundantly clear that will be NO evening optional program going forward as of 6/5. Not just for summer, but ongoing. The...
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    Parents New trend in gym ownership? (The Business Side Of Gymnastics / Powers Gymnastics)

    Anonymous Bull City parent again... @Oopski, The evening optional program will end on 6/5, lining up with the last day for most schools in Durham NC. Summer schedules were released for all groups and there is definitely no optional evening program anymore.

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