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Let’s also not forget that a fair chunk of “serious” injuries for gymnasts happen in kind of ridiculous situations. Like the girl in NCAA last year who broke a bone while excessively celebrating a teammate’s routine. I had a really awful ankle sprain that took months and months of recovery...

Also seems like “able to do it on the floor or at floor level” doesn’t always immediately translate to “is so comfortable with it she can warm it up in 3 turns on an unfamiliar floor at a meet.” Meet warm ups are rough!

“Plus, there really isn't such a thing as "getting" a gymnastics skill. It's not like riding a bike. It's more like riding the stock market index.“ Best description I’ve heard—doing a skill in a practice is awesome! But “getting it” only works if it is consistently practiced and actually done...

Thanks! Kinda cool—though that really makes for a very long season if you start in early November… (and fewer weeks in summer to focus on level up skills).

Has anyone heard anything about Region 7 starting to host regionals for Level 7? Someone told me it had recently been decided but I can’t find any evidence of it online.

20 minutes is honestly a crazy short commute for a decent gym. Hope you get to switch!

My daughter works with Dani Winks on flexibility stuff, including anklepoint. She really loves these exercises and they have definitely helped her point: https://www.daniwinksflexibility.com/bendy-blog/getting-a-pointier-toe-pointe

I have often wondered whether gyms should go to an “every other year” competition season for this very reason. Compete one year, spend the next on skill development (do score out meets right before comp season if you’ve progressed several levels). But then a lot of the kids love meets the most…

We've been working with Dani Winks (a flexibility and contortion coach), and it's been going really well. My daughter has two thirty-minute sessions a week via Zoom (and Dani has her change her move/turn to make sure she can see the relevant angles to make sure she's doing it properly), and...

This is such a helpful thread! My daughter has been working on toe hands with and without a spot without the arch snap (so close!) and then separately working on the arch snap and I was (foolishly) thinking that her toe hands were “wrong” because they don’t look like upper level toe hands. (In...

For folks doing TOPs, curious how skill/routine development is going in your gym.

Hi everyone! I was wondering if some coaches, gym owners, etc. might be willing to weigh in on an important but mundane topic--vacuums! What vacuums do a good job with chalk without immediately having the filter clogged so the vacuum stops functioning after just vacuuming a floor or a runway...

It’s easy to do flexibility incorrectly when following YouTube or general classes in a way that defeats the purpose of the exercise. And when flexibility improvements (in hips, shoulders, etc.) are needed to prevent injury (in addition to reducing deductions), some lessons could be helpful at...

It seems like spotting serves different purposes on different events, and can therefore be useful or not useful on different events. On bars, for example, spotting can help with building strength to do skills, building confidence to make connections that are difficult, and allowing the gymnast...

I really, really, really wish our gym required this, and I would be absolutely more than happy to pay extra dues for the coaches to take this kind of a class for the team coaches (and I have heard other parents say the same!)

Hi everyone, I was wondering if anybody had suggestions for flexibility coaches who offer private coaching sessions remotely. Thanks!

What does the future look like for TOPs?

Yeah, my daughter got a BHS on high beam in one day (from floor to high beam ready for competition). She got a roundoff layout dismount because her coach suggested off-hand that she try it. Same with BHS BHS series on high beam. But bars? Lord help me. She’s terrified to shift her hands on...

Bahaha this makes me feel better. I sat watching this thread for a good 24 hours and kept shaking my head and thinking to myself, "How on Earth? Is he really not checking scores online 8 billion times during the meet? I mean yeah I'm sure I'd find it more enjoyable that way but how could i...

New scores came out recently: https://usagym.org/PDFs/Women/Committee%20Minutes/IEC/iec_091622.pdf