At our gym in summer:
Preteam 6 hours per week
L3 and L4 15 hours per week
L5 and L6 20 hours per week
L7-L10 25 hours per week
During school year:
Preteam does 5 hours per week
L3/L4 10 hours
L5/L6 16 hours per week
L7-L10 19.5 hours per week
Our gym competes a full season of level 5, and the girls move on to either level 6 or level 7 depending on their skill development in the off-season. Our head coach has strict requirements for L7 (free hip to handstand and giants on bars, full twisting layout on floor, beam series with flight)...
Or gym is hosting a state meet in early May. We have been given the go-ahead to plan a table for gymnast gifts/"good luck grams".
I'm just looking for some ideas that would sell well and that parents and girls would enjoy.
Thanks!!
Our gym recommends grips beginning at level 4 and requires them for level 5 and up. My DD (level 6) is tiny: 49 inches tall, 47 pounds. She has been through two pairs of grips - pixie grips with velcro and now ginnasta double buckle grips. She didn't like wearing them at first, but now cannot do...
My DD just completed the first half of her season as a level 5, and will finish the remainder of the season as an Xcel Gold. She just learned her choreography this week, and her dance pass is split leap, split leap. I have looked at the requirements for an Xcel Gold floor routine, and the way...
Thanks for all the replies! I will have my DD listen to all these selections. She needs to choose soon, as she learns her choreography over the Christmas break.
As to the age discussion, my DD competed the "old" L4 (current L3) two weeks after her 6th birthday. Then last year she competed...
My 7.5 year old DD needs to pick music for her level 6 floor routine. The gym allows girls to pick their own music (HC gives final approval). DD has no idea what she wants. She is by far the baby of the team (most of her teammates are middle school age) and I think she needs something cute but...
Our gym is pretty relaxed about it - you have to get the required USAG mobility score, and be able to safely do the skills required for the next level.
Our gym's lowest compulsory level is the new L3/old L4. We don't compete the lowest compulsory levels. Girls as young as age 4 who show potential ability and high interest level are placed on the L3 training team. They stay there until they are ready/old enough to compete new L3.
Our gym...
Thanks, Dunno!
I realized I have a typo up there. I meant to say "it won't be the LAST time I hear a question like this". Whoops!
What bothers me also, is when the girls compare themselves to each other, for example: "It's easy for her because she is so tiny."
Girls are tough. I have 3...
Coaches - I am in my 2nd year of coaching, and I currently coach preteam (girls training the new L3).
The girls range in age from 5-12. Last week one of the 10-year-old girls on the team asked me "Do you think I'm fat?"
Her question threw me for a loop, and I didn't know how to answer...
In our gym, there seemed to be drop in numbers after old L4 (due to the kip) and again after old L5 (which seemed to have several reasons - fear being one, and age of gymnasts being another. Most girls ready to enter old L6 were around middle-school age, where puberty/friends/social life get to...
The head coach at our gym always tells parents at the team orientation meeting - "Don't get hung up on scores and who wins at the lower levels." Apparently most of our successful L10s were pretty mediocre compulsory gymnasts. And many of the tiny hotshot superstars burned out and quit along...
Oh and about the original topic - yes it's very nitpicky. :) I am currently coaching the L3 training team, and the routines have an unbelievable amount of tiny details to perfect.
Good tumbling alone won't create high scores. All last season my young "old" L4 consistently beat out...
I think a lot of having a younger team vs. older team depends on the gym's level structure and coach's preference. For instance at our gym, we don't start competing until old 4/new 3. Kids in the preteam are chosen by the head coach/owner, who prefers a young team. He picks mostly 4-6 year...
In our state (PA), it's based on age as of the state meet. Our state meet this competitive season is in May, so however old a gymnast will be on 5/3/14 determines their age group for the entire season (November through May).
Every meet we've ever been at has used actual age numbers - for...
I've worked at our gym's huge (1200+ gymnasts) meet for three years now, and done every job - registration, warm-up timer, event timer, score enterer, runner, judge's hospitality, awards.
The best job by far is entering scores. You get to sit at the judges' table and watch the routines. Then...
My DD was growing out a pixie cut during her first competition season. The best style for meets was the spiderweb with tiny rubber bands. Also French pigtails with the little rubber bands.