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    Parents Running dive rolls, but only landing on dead mat? 😬

    This! All of your post, really, but I just picked this part to quote. The owner hails herself as an acro technique “queen” and how she stresses the technique for “safety.” She often goes on and on about other studios not teaching things correctly and how it scares her. Well, I always had...
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    Parents Running dive rolls, but only landing on dead mat? 😬

    Just to update all of you. Another mom pulled her daughter out around the same time frame as us (this past week). I had no idea until moms wrote me saying how sad they and their kids are that we are gone. Then they told me she also left. That mom said her daughter was extremely unhappy too...
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    Gymnasts Help and advice

    I'm so sorry for the comments being made. Something that helps is practicing handstand blocks. You can do them balancing against the wall or not. They really build up the strength you need to block in a BHS. :)
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    Parents Running dive rolls, but only landing on dead mat? 😬

    Thank you so much for your quick reply. We did make the decision to pull them, and I feel very relieved! Yes, I agree, and I so would have, but she didn't even realize the black spots were anything connected to it. She didn't tell me about it until after she was feeling better, and I asked if...
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    Parents Running dive rolls, but only landing on dead mat? 😬

    Hello, My DDs are not in gymnastics, but they have been doing competitive dance. Their dance teachers recently had my older daughter (11) and her acro class doing running dive rolls over stacked mats between 3 & 4 feet tall. My DD is only 4.5 ft tall. This was a new to them skill; they had...
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