My 7 year old daughter made the gymnastics team and I am so excited for her. I thought this would be a good place to join and ask questions as we are new to this journey.
She has been in gymnastics since two year old, but at her old gym, she went to up until last summer, she had went there on and off while she tried other sports such as tennis, t-ball, and dance, but the recreational coaches were teenagers and honestly my daughter did not really progress in the years she went there. She had never learned proper terminology or even how to use the vault/springboard. They basically had them play games and jump on the trampoline.
Anyway, at the beginning of last summer I could tell she was getting serious about wanting to improve her gymnastics, and so we switched to a gym that is 30 minutes away, but is SO much better. Walking in, they actually had quality equipment, experienced coaches, and on the first day the gym owner formally evaluated her and put her in an advanced hour and a half recreational class for 5 and 6 year olds.
She did that "little gym stars" class for the summer, and by the end of summer, she had improved so much, we were amazed, and so they put her in their "platinum" level recreational class and explained that this was the highest level recreational class for 6 years and up and this was the class were they pulled from team. So for fall and spring, she did 90 mins twice a week and in March this year, all 100 or so platinum level gymnasts were evaluated and 10 younger girls were taken for level 1 team and 10 older girls were taken for the excel bronze team. She was the only girl evaluated that 10 pull ups and 10 leg raises and all 3 splits! She knew evaluations for team were coming and worked super hard and was placed in the level 1 team.
We had orientation yesterday and they said the level 1 routines are basically the same routines they have been learning in their recreational platinum class, so I am little worried she will be bored this year because of doing the same skills, but she also said they will be training kips and other higher level skills but they want them to be "beyond prepared" to perform their meet routines. She has been talking about making team for months so we are really excited! Any advice as we start this journey would be super appreciated!!!
Thank you everyone.
She has been in gymnastics since two year old, but at her old gym, she went to up until last summer, she had went there on and off while she tried other sports such as tennis, t-ball, and dance, but the recreational coaches were teenagers and honestly my daughter did not really progress in the years she went there. She had never learned proper terminology or even how to use the vault/springboard. They basically had them play games and jump on the trampoline.
Anyway, at the beginning of last summer I could tell she was getting serious about wanting to improve her gymnastics, and so we switched to a gym that is 30 minutes away, but is SO much better. Walking in, they actually had quality equipment, experienced coaches, and on the first day the gym owner formally evaluated her and put her in an advanced hour and a half recreational class for 5 and 6 year olds.
She did that "little gym stars" class for the summer, and by the end of summer, she had improved so much, we were amazed, and so they put her in their "platinum" level recreational class and explained that this was the highest level recreational class for 6 years and up and this was the class were they pulled from team. So for fall and spring, she did 90 mins twice a week and in March this year, all 100 or so platinum level gymnasts were evaluated and 10 younger girls were taken for level 1 team and 10 older girls were taken for the excel bronze team. She was the only girl evaluated that 10 pull ups and 10 leg raises and all 3 splits! She knew evaluations for team were coming and worked super hard and was placed in the level 1 team.
We had orientation yesterday and they said the level 1 routines are basically the same routines they have been learning in their recreational platinum class, so I am little worried she will be bored this year because of doing the same skills, but she also said they will be training kips and other higher level skills but they want them to be "beyond prepared" to perform their meet routines. She has been talking about making team for months so we are really excited! Any advice as we start this journey would be super appreciated!!!
Thank you everyone.
