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    Women Benefits to competitions at lower levels?

    Agreed. I personally do not love competition even now because of the expense and time suck.
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    Parents Motivation to Go to Meets

    My daughter has been competing for 6 years. All meets are now a car/plane ride My husband and I trade off trips for our sanity. It’s good for everyone but she is literally the only one in her group who ever has her dad bring her. Side note: our mid size city does have enough 9, 10 girls...
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    Women youngish Level 7

    Being a young 7 was humbling for my daughter.
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    Parents Raynaud's causing pain during tumbling

    I obviously know almost nothing about your situation so this is definitely not a well informed opinion, but the things known to cause Raynauds are high blood pressure, poor circulation, excessive alcohol use, nicotine, genetics, and poor nutrition. Since it’s extremely unlikely your daughter...
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    Parents Raynaud's causing pain during tumbling

    In the nicest way possible I’m going to recommend a nutritionist. There are many causes of raynauds but you might want to rule out malnutrition. But I’ve become a nutrition evangelist after my daughter and I took a workshop. She now eats a shocking amount of food (mostly healthy) is a tiny...
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    Gymnasts Not nice people in gymnastics

    I think you need to be a little self centered to be successful. My daughter is at the age where a lot of her friends are starting to like boys but she isn’t really interested and I honestly can’t imagine her devoting that much time or headspace to another person right now. She is fully focused...
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    Parents Grips while learning kip

    Grips are to help grasp on to the bar. Not to get too nerdy with you but the force pulling you away from the bar increases with your weight and velocity and at some point it will outpace grip strength. Typically no one needs grips until they are around 80lbs and swinging giants. My daughter...
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    Parents When is it time to quit?

    Not to be a Debby downer but if my daughter (8th grade, training 9-10) told me that she wanted to quit we would be gone. High school sports are so fun, and your athletic gymnast will probably be a standout somewhere else. Plus she will have more time for other teenager pursuits (music, friends...
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    Parents Advice for 5 Year Old

    That does sound frustrating. If there is an actual issue, meaning she’s just not being overlooked. That sounds really frustrating. In my experience, if she’s just not being overlooked, the issue with moving small children up is either 1. Maturity or 2. Strength. Is she good on both of...
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    Parents Balancing gym with school

    I’m watching this too. My daughter will be a 7th grade level 10 who is very academically minded. (My, I can almost not bare to share it on an anonymous website dream, would be for her to use gymnastics to get into a top school). The intention is for her to take ap & honors, but I’m not sure...
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    Parents How long should gymnast be at L10?

    I agree that she is in the realm but not a shoe in. And it will be such a sacrifice to get there, possibly taking her out of regular school, no high school sports, less time with friends, no summer job, etc, etc and it’s very possible she could make miss all these typical adolescence milestones...
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    Parents How long should gymnast be at L10?

    It’s such a delicate balance. My daughter is a 7th grade second year level 9 who is doing great, on track for 10 next year, but maybe not great enough (she’s never scored above a 37, those 9.9s needed for college recruiting seem far off and she’s also tall) and I have no idea which way to...
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    Parents Dropping out of Pre-Team?

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    Parents Are gymnasts entitled

    I hope so too, their familes are mostly pretty nice.
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    Parents Are gymnasts entitled

    At a minimum a competitive gymnastics needs a ride to practice and far away meets and a lot of money. My gymnasts, who I consider a very nice girl, gets that plus the best medical care anytime she is hurt, homemade high protein smoothies for breakfast and a pregym snack, more leos than she...
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