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My 11 year dd complaints about the too many hours gym practice, and even she consider switch sports with less hours. Right now 25 hours / week level 6. Is it too much? And Her school has lots of homework.

DD is competing a tsuk pike this season for l8 and is a strong vaulter. Comp season starts soon, and her coach is talking about having her switch to a yurchenko, which she's not as good at. She feels her tsuk will score really well and isn't excited about making a switch for this season. Is...

Struggling with deciding whether or not to switch gyms. My daughter is on level 3 (age 8 - almost 9). The overall energy at our gym is pretty negative and draining for all. In general, the coaches seem very uninterested, the parents (who I desperately try to avoid) are constantly gossiping and...

Hello and thank you all for your advice. My daughter is a level 6/7. Practicing 20 hours a week. Her one coach is leaving, which happens to be the her favorite event. The gym did not find another coach yet. She wants to make a move to another gym. As a parent I am concerned for several reasons...

My daughter not willing to change her gym. Any suggestions? I talked to my daughter, 13 year old . She is training level 9. However her gym is small , has no pit . Not so many level 10 kids . There are only around 7-8 level 9 and level 10. Last season , the scores of last year are not high ...

I feel so frustrated that My daughter , a level 9 , always resisted to change team . Especially we recently changed team a little more often because of COVID and Her original team was dismissed. We are in a small gym without pit with more hours and optional experience. But I feel the coach...

Anyone have tops for a straighter back leg in switch leaps?

My daughter just turned 8 and is finishing up her first year of competitive gymnastics. She competed Xcel Bronze, with three other girls on her Bronze team. One of the girls is age 9 and the other two are age 12, so in middle school and much "cooler" than the younger girls. At our gym, Xcel...

Currently my DD is competing Xcel gold. She has all her skills for platinum , but wants to switch to JO. Do you have to do level 4 or can you skip it and possibly go to 5? She wanted me to ask this but I’m almost positive she has to compete level 4. Thanks.

Like many gymnasts, my 7 yo has high aspirations for her gymnastics career (college and beyond). She has also been talking about wanting to switch to the JO team since last year, when she was on Xcel Bronze and saw the JO team practicing in the gym. On Xcel Silver this year, she has placed 2nd...

My daughter turned 13 in October and her world is changing. Her friend group is basically divided right down the line. One set of friends play volleyball and the other does cheer. This year she has watched as each group grew closer and she grew apart from them. School is different too. She only...

Did anyones kiddo switch to rhythmic? How did it pan out. DD is 9 and thinking she may want to make the switch. She is super flexible and Im told she has naturally pretty lines. But rhythmic seems to require alot of focus. She is aware that she may not be able to compete right away. But she...

DD is level 7 and decided she wants to switch gyms. Her season just ended and we had planned to start contacting gyms right away. The problem is she just injured her foot and is currently in a boot. Nothing too serious but it will be several weeks before she will be back tumbling. We don't want...

DD is on a compulsory team-TAAF (like AAU) Gym didn't do USAG this year but will next. Some coaches got fired, there was a change of coaching philosophies and they bumped DD down in October w/ 2 other younger girls. My dd issue they say was lacking 2 bar skills for her level. Their 1st comp is...

My daughter is a JO level 3 at a top gym in our area. She loves her gym and coaches, so we follow that lead. There's a disturbing pattern of lip service to parents, though, and I don't know how big of a red flag that should be. Over the summer, several parents were concerned about a particularly...

Hi parents! I’m new here and would like some opinions. My daughter is 5 and has been doing gymnastics for 2 years now. She started off in a preschool rec class, but a year ago received an invite to a special program at her gym. She has been doing this program for almost one year now. The goal is...

DD tried out a new gym this week and is officially moving. There were so many red flags and disturbing rumors about the old gym, but for quite a while I kept thinking things were ok and my daughter wasn't being affected by the toxic environment. Over the last few weeks she's been sharing more...

My daughter competed level 3 this year as a 6 year old (turned 7 a few days ago). She ended the season with a 37.25 at state - First on bars (9.775) and low 9s on the other events, 6th all around. Her current gym decides levels in April (before state) and it was decided she would repeat 3. There...

My 10 year old wants to switch gyms so that she can be on a JO team. She just finished competing her first season as an Xcel silver. She is very driven in that she is required to practice 6 hours a week, and she religiously attends an optional extra 6 hours. She says she wants to go to JO...

This is my first post here...scary! But I've been going back and forth about switching my daughter (8) to a different gym for a few months...since her gym was bought out by another gym in our area. We live in a very small area of East Tennessee. Last summer the gym she'd been at since she was...