Thank you for all the replies? I guess I should clarify a little. The Meets up to state I feel like they are maybe playing with what will work the best. Her bigger skills are hitting at practice but not translating well to competition. Lack of experience I assume 🤷🏼♀️. I feel like it’s about...
I have noticed some gyms will compete girls as level 10s but will compete “easier” skills that may still earn a 10.0 sv or slightly below. (I realize no lvl 10 skills are easy but there is a wide range). You will see easier, cleaner routines out score more difficult ones that have more...
Some I have learned first hand others I have just witnessed over and over.
1.Progress is NOT a linear path.
2.Fear is not rationalized/punished or bribed away
3. Lower level success/fails does not predict optional level success/fail and Lvl 9/10 is a different game.
4. Form in basic skills...
Nebraska and MU still offer overnight but, Nebraska I think is just their high performance camp. I really hate that so many colleges have stopped doing them after covid. It feels like the colleges discovered they could still charge as much but save the Time and cost of overnights. Maybe that’s...
Ok…my poor kid is/has been trying to master a good vault for, well, all her gymnastics career this far! She is a level 9 (2nd year) and the coaches really want to move her to 10 but do not want her to move quite yet because her vault is..:well not good yet! She competes yurchenko (sp?) pike and...
I have recently witnessed some coaches that may not know the correct score needed to test out of some levels. I don’t think they are doing it maliciously I just think maybe they aren’t aware of the scores needed. Unless the score needed to move from 8 to 9 is not a 34…then I am just wrong
I am curious. Once a gym skips a kid a level does anyone ever check to see if they actually achieved the mobility score? Also, is the mobility score to move from 8 to 9 still a 34?
This is so Interesting to read! For my DD I say it depends on definition of hard. Anything vault would be her answer, she has competed yurchenko pike for 2 years and will start with it again this year. Just can’t get a good block to save her soul! The hardest mentally has been the handspring...
I don’t have anything amazing to add other then to say trust her coaches and to share my DD current similar position. She is 13 and will be repeating 9, mostly because the changes that were made this year that allow lvl 9 to compete harder skills. She has hand lay lay on beam and ro 1.5 dismount...
Agreed! DD gym is ran by coaches that have a lot of college recruiting experience and this is exactly what they recommend. Lvl 9/10 and coaches will start looking was the advice given, along with teaching the kids how and when to reach out to colleges via email to start getting on the radar. Yes...
DD was Around 9, She did her first full year of gymnastics as a 7 year old. She is now 14 yo and training lvl 10. time
Goes too fast!! So many fun firsts and the giant was definitely one of them!
Younger DD has had one injury (insert knock on wood, cross fingers, don’t jinx her here!) She fractured one side of a vertebrae when she was 9. It was a fluke. She was out for 3 months..of everything, couldn’t do anything that could even possibly jar it. Then PT to build back slowly for a couple...
I absolutely agree that this, in the mind of the coach, did not originate as a crazy idea meant to harshly control. BUT, I have already voiced my concerns in regards to the effects it’s having on my kid. It’s been implemented now for a couple months. DD is not often on this board BUT lives in...
That’s a good point! The thing I do not get is they are asking children to control/ignore or hide their negative emotions and most grown adults I know can not. Also, they themselves aren’t controlling their emotions. Most of these kids are straight A students in school, never had a name on the...
That would be a better way to respond but my fortunately an already frustrated and upset 12 A type personality 12 year old does not find it funny at all.