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Every couple of months or so, the gym plans a big outing for the entire team (all levels). These have included a halloween amusement park trip and a trip to the great escape water park. But I haven't gone because the price was too high (plus I hate amusement park type places anyway). I feel kind...

My coach ordered grips for the entire level 5 team about 2-3 weeks ago. We were supposed to be used to them by the time the next meet rolled around, but we only have about 4 more practices and I seriously cannot do a good bar routine with them. Plus, now when I take them off, my bar routine is...

I know I've been posting a lot about this stuff lately, but I thought this was really interesting and wanted to post it. My friend does modern dance and was having difficulty with a move that required her to lift both legs while lying on the floor. She is about my height; 5'7". She sees a...

This is going to be long... Yesterday at practice we were doing pretty hard conditioning (at least relatively), suicides and then frog jumps and inchworm pushups. I got sent to the back of the line because my pushups weren't deep enough; apparently our chests were supposed to touch the floor. I...

I just got grips and this was my second practice using them. When I swing on the bar, the buckle part of the grip pulls upwards, so when I get on top of the bar my arms won't straighten because the buckle jams into my wrist. I'm worried the grips might be too small; the grip part sits pretty...

Just curious as to your thoughts... I have measured "hardness" as the amount of time the gymnast "feels the burn" during the exercise. I know 8 is a lot of poll options, but this is a wide spectrum :P

We don't do very tough conditioning compared to other gyms, but I think somewhere along the line the coach gave the team an assignment (conditioning or otherwise) that was too challenging, and no one said anything and just cheated. Over time, it must have become a habit, so now the coach expects...

In practice today I was doing my beam routine, and I missed my cartwheel. It normally wouldn't have been a problem but my foot landed half off the 8-incher and I rolled it. :mad: I sprained my other ankle in September (for the same reason; foot landed half off a 4-inch mat coming down from the...

I had my first meet last weekend :) It was fun, but kinda badly run and the equipment sucked. The bars were so low I hit my feet jumping to the high bar, the vault measuring tape only extended to 65 ft, and the beam was caved in :eek: Scores Vault: 8.05 6th :rolleyes: Bars: 8.5 3rd :eek: Well...

My first meet ever is tomorrow! I'm competing level 5. It's a very small meet; only a couple of teams are competing. My main problem is my vault-- I've only done it by myself a couple times. Almost everything else is shaky but okay. Good luck is appreciated! :D If I get a video I will try to...

Just post anything funny, crazy, or just weird that happened during a competition! I wasn't there to witness it, but apparently at a level 4 competition, a gymnast on our team had a loose tooth and it just fell right out during her floor routine. She finished the routine, grabbed the tooth...

I'm having a bit of a conflict because there's a prestigious boarding school that I'd like to apply to (because my current high school is, frankly, filled with morons-- yes, even the honors and AP classes), but because I'd be a residential student, I'd have no way of doing gymnastics. Believe it...

Basically had a bad practice yesterday. Our first meet is in less than 2 weeks and our coach is on the fritz. I know she just wants us to do well at our first meet of the season, but it still gets on my nerves when she yells at everyone for a mistake a couple of people made, because I can...

First of all, this is not a medical question. I'm having vision therapy to fix this, so I don't need medical advice. I just want to know if anyone else has experienced this and how it turned out for them. About a year ago I was diagnosed with amblyopia in my right eye, which causes poor depth...

I know I made a similar thread about a different brand recently, but my decision-making process is very slow. :p I'm thinking about getting a grab bag leo from Destira. I know there's some risk involved with the grab bag, but none of the leotards I have seen from Destira are ugly, even though I...

So some of you may remember my post about getting to work birthday parties for $25. I was super excited about it because it was going to make getting money for gym really easy. Well, not anymore. According to someone who worked with me, probably a girl I'll call Lacy, I don't interact with...

Okay, so there's this coach at my gym who I think is very nice and good person overall, but he's just a terrible coach. Yet he coaches level 6+. He used to work with another coach who was pretty good, but she left for college and BAM! The higher levels start falling apart. :( Here are the main...

My kips have improved a LOT over the past couple of months, but the problem is, I'll do a nice straight arm kip, and then... nothing. I'm just on the bar. Or worse, my hips won't even be all the way on the bar and I'll kind plop down on the bar after the kip (not possible to cast out of that). I...

I saw this leotard online and fell completely in love with it :p Solar Spin Foiled Side Swirl Leotard Actually, I loved practically all of the designs they had listed, but this one especially. I'm thinking of asking for it for my birthday. The thing is, all 3 of my leotards are GK, so I've...

My family is somewhat (although not terribly) financially disadvantaged, so I usually pay about a third of the monthly cost of gymnastics (total is $165, not bad considering what other gyms might charge, but I pay the $65) with my pocket money and odd jobs. For example, this past winter I let...