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    Parents Gateway skills for DP Compulsory Levels?

    Level 3 the big step up is a round off back handspring. It is also the first time they compete a front handspring vault (although over a mat stack not the table) but I feel like for most level 2s the big focus is that round off back handspring. A front hip circle on bars is also required as...
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    Parents 4 Year Old Gymnast Advice

    When my daughter was barely five she moved to training six hours a week and it was a BIG and honestly somewhat painful adjustment and she was and is quite mature for her age. I cannot imagine her doing that a year earlier and for NINE hours a week. Until that point she was in a pre team class...
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    Parents Looking to narrow down gym choices that would be a good fit for our competitive daughter

    I can’t help with the specific gyms but I think it would be helpful for people to know your daughter’s age and level/experience to help point you to a good fit.
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    Women Competitive Mess

    I’m assuming she’s at least six and therefore eligible for silver/level 3? Levels can definitely be frustrating. I’d ask for a coach meeting to clarify the plan for her and get direct answers for all your questions.
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    Parents XCEL at lower levels, then JO

    My daughter just finished xcel silver at a gym that uses xcel in place of compulsories and I think it’s a dual edged sword. For her it is the right environment: the repetition of compulsories probably would have had her quitting the sport years ago. Starting in xcel has allowed her to thrive...
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    Parents Needing some commiseration

    Oh that’s so discouraging. I’m so sorry she’s going through that. It’s probably making it so much worse that it’s being treated as a gateway. Hopefully she’ll rock her BHS and they’ll stop making it an issue
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    Parents Needing some commiseration

    Thanks! I don’t. She does them on her floor beam when she wants to and I don’t discourage her but maybe I should.
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    Parents Needing some commiseration

    Thanks. I definitely try not to ask her; she came cheerfully out of practice yesterday volunteering the information about her triumphs on high beam 😆. I came here wondering if this skill specifically is a common hang up; at our gym it seems to be one most girls grasp fairly quickly. I know there...
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    Parents Needing some commiseration

    I don’t think so. She’s dabbling with them on floor and low beam but the back walkover is highly emphasized in her gym. Like it’s a huge gatekeeper skill to gold for them for some reason. She said she had a good practice today and was able to do several unspotted on high beam so I guess we just...
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    Parents Needing some commiseration

    I don’t think so. She’s dabbling with them on floor and low beam but the back walkover is highly emphasized in her gym. Like it’s a huge gatekeeper skill to gold for them for some reason. She said she had a good practice today and was able to do several unspotted on high beam so I guess we just...
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    Parents Needing some commiseration

    That makes me feel so much better. I’ll tell her too. Might just have to get through this phase and take the .5 deduction more often than not. Although she said she landed 5 on high beam today but tomorrow may be a different story 😆
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    Parents Needing some commiseration

    Our gym does bronze-gold in place of compulsories. She did silver last season. Levels for next season aren’t finalized yet but her coach already told her she will be competing it next season regardless. That may be part of the problem- she may be feeling pressure and may be building it up as a...
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    Parents Needing some commiseration

    I’m posting here hoping for BTDT folks to give me a pep talk. It’s about the one skill that has become such a road block for my daughter and I’m feeling a lot of uncertainty and frustration that I don’t want to unload on her so I’m coming here instead. 😆 My daughter is 7 and has always picked...
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    Women Stalder skills on floor

    Also I guess MAG would have been the more appropriate forum but I only know WAG.
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    Women Stalder skills on floor

    So other internet searches say doing like stalder rolls/forward rolls into the press can make it easier but coming into it from a handstand roll is basically controlling a negative and then having to reverse that momentum to go into the press and that it is a much more challenging variation...
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