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    WAG Experience with gymnastics at NON-gymnastics summer camps?

    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...
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    WAG When did prep op/xcel really start?

    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...
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    WAG Very relatable article :)

    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
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    WAG Significant uptraining between levels 7 and 8?

    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...
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    WAG Feet flexibility...is this weird?

    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...
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    WAG I feel so alone....UPDATE :)

    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...
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    WAG Back handsprings.....so frustrated.....help :(

    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...
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    WAG I feel so alone...help :(

    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...
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    WAG Nail Polish?

    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...
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    WAG Flexibility in half of my back?

    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...
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    WAG Need advice :(

    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...
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    WAG Specific practice routine

    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...
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    WAG Dizzy in bridges???????

    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...
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    WAG Lots of acro skills in beam?

    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...
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    WAG What does this mean?

    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!
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    WAG Switch leap drills?

    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...
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    WAG A different sort of question.........

    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...
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    WAG High school routine construction?

    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...
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    Back flexibility

    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!
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    Awkward interactions with other girls from your gym?

    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...

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