This has nothing to do with me personally--it's just something I've been wondering as a former gymnast who knows a LOT about summer camps through both my experience/friends' experiences and is going into a career in which I may find myself at some point working in an administrative position at a...
I know that the Xcel program (like the national Xcel program with requirements that apply to the entire country) started in 2013. And I know that before that, many states had their own prep op programs with distinct rules. But I've for some reason recently been really curious about the prep op...
Thought you all would appreciate this :) Found this on the Odyssey, a college student online newspaper, and these are all just way too relatable!! What do you think?
http://theodysseyonline.com/brandeis/13-things-gymnasts-understand/378850
I've been watching youtube videos of gymnastics for a really long time, and recently realized something. There are many gymnasts who do very hard skills at level 8. I'm mainly thinking of 5 or so years ago when gymnasts were still allowed to do unlimited c's at level 8(then they changed it so...
So my feet/ankles are just simply not that flexible, I can't really point them that far. My coach even told me that they don't point super far, and my sister who does dance says my feet are "terrible." I know it's partly just genetics, a few years ago I had plantar fascitis in one of my feet and...
Hello, if anyone remembers about a month ago I was really upset about some things that were going on with my high school team (in my thread called "I feel so alone...help :(") I just wanted to say that things are going SO much better with the team. For some strange reason, when I came back from...
I am just frustrated to the point of tears about this. I've had my back handspring on my floor since I was about 9-10 years old(I'm 17 now, so that's 7-8 years). I used to be absolutely fearless about them, I could do them anywhere, several at a time, I would do them in the backyard, outside at...
This is a LONG vent, so please bear with me.....
High school gymnastics season just started....which normally I would be SO excited for, but after our first practice today, I just don't know. A little background: I'm a senior, so it's my last year. Did club gymnastics for 10+ years when I was...
I really hope I don't get laughed at for asking this....
High school gym season is starting soon. I don't do club, just high school, so I only do it for one season each year. I am someone who is very perfectionist about how I look and I like always having my nails painted, at least my...
I have an extremely flexible back, but recently I've realized that I'm way more flexible in the left side of my back than my right. I think it's because a lot of the skills I do that involve back flexibility also involve putting my good leg(right) in front(say a ring leap), so since my left leg...
So I was a gymnast for 10+ years, and the year before I went to high school, I started to become REALLY excited about high school gymnastics. I improved immensely that year because I really wanted to do well. Then, I made a dumb decision to not be on the high school team because I had started...
I went back to gymnastics this year after taking two years off, I'm on my high school team. I want to work on more skills for next high school season, so I go to an adult class 1-2 nights a week. It's mostly like an open gym for adults, with some coaches there to help you if you need it...
I like to do bridges to stretch at home, but for some reason, lately(and this has never really happened until this year), whenever I do bridges I feel really really fatigued and dizzy like I'm about to faint, or fall asleep. I know that other people have complained about this, so I'm not the...
It seems like the optional girls from my old gym, from what I've seen, do a lot of extra acro on beam in level 7......for example, one girl in addition to her series and flight also did a front walkover, another girl did a cartwheel-roundoff which fulfills the series and flight but then also did...
Sometimes I'll be looking at scores sheets and there will be this box that says "range." It says like, for scores 9.5-10 the range is .2. What does this mean and how does it affect a score? Thanks!
Does anyone have good suggestions for getting a bigger split in my switch leap? I'm really flexible in my legs and can do a 180, maybe even beyond in just a regular leap but for some reason the switching legs just screws it up. Also, can I have some suggestions for Strugs(tour jete 180 with...
Haha so this is a little off topic but it IS related to gymnastics so I'll ask anyway. I'm doing a project in my art class where we have to draw someone doing something, broken down into 6 different pictures. Of course, I'd pick something gymnastics related :) I've decided just to keep it simple...
Hey so I am thinking about maybe doing high school gymnastics this year. I actually know all the requirements you need for each event, how many superiors, etc. and the bonuses you need. But I have no idea how to go about actually constructing those routines with the requirements. It seems...
So I've always had a really flexible back but lately it hasn't been as easy to do some of the stuff I used to do with it and it kind of hurts. Can you recommend some exercises/skills I can do every day to make sure I don't lose my back flexibility? Thanks!
So I was on a prep op team at my gym and didn't really know girls from the JO program at the gym that well.......I felt like if I ever ran into them in public somewhere we would recognize each other but not know each other and it would be really awkward. Like once I was going to the pool, I had...