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    Women life after gym

    I recently quit gymnastics after I was told it was too big of a risk to keep going because of my knee injury I had gotten right before state. The gym I trained at hired me to coach pre-team, lower level Xcel, and rec kids. That definitely helped me turn my love of doing gymnastics to coaching, I...
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    Parents TOPS

    Not a parent but a kid who participated in TOPS I started training for the basic testing when I was 6, strength training every practice and tons of rope climbs. I quit the gym I was at before I was ever able to qualify for it because of a promotion my mom got that caused us to move and no gyms...
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    Parents Grips while learning kip

    my gym starts training kips after level 3 state and focuses on them most of the summer when practicing bars aside from working on future level five skills, our rule is that you need 100 kips to be able to get your grips. We have a whiteboard next to our bar sets with the girls names written...
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    Women Xcel silver bars

    Is this a valid Xcel silver bar routine? Pullover cast horizontal back hip circle undershoot dismount please let me know!
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    Women gymnastics vs show choir

    hi everybody I am a first year show choir kid and a fourth year competitive gymnastics kid. I recieved an email this morning from my choir director stating that the original competition that we were going to as a team (There are three ensembles) we decided to cancel because of the amount of debt...
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    Women xs backward roll

    I'm competing Xcel silver this year and I am struggling on beam. However, a few weeks ago I decided that a backward roll would be my best bet on acro for this season. However, when it came for me to show my full routine to one of the head coaches/owners of the gym she said that my roll needed to...
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    Parents "inability to get skills" - questions about this

    this actually happened to me when I was between 6.5 and 7, I was a very good level 3 but when the beginning of my level 4 season came around and I couldn't get my kip after 4 months I gave up and quit because seeing all of my teammates have it and I didn't made me lose my confidence. It does...
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    Women mental blocks on beam

    i started gymnastics late, i mean LATE. not 7 or 8 or anything like that. I started at 13, more like restarted because I was a level 3 when I was 6.5/7 years old. Im having a horrible time on beam and I need to get my stuff together. I have NO acro for beam. I cant handstand and last year I...
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    Parents 4 Year Old Gymnast Advice

    i think i would consider keeping her in rec classes until she turned 5, some of my gyms silvers dont even train 9 hours a week so i dont know why a 4 year old would need to be doing 9 hours and not only that i think that seeing her teammates coming back from competitions knowing she wasnt able...
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    Women Xcel Appreciation Post

    When I was younger I was in JO (level 3 training 4) and was constantly in the gym especially because I was preparing for TOPS quite early and spent around 25-ish hours and the gym and it burnt me out so quickly because I was so young and my life was already me being in the gym everyday so before...
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    Women Collecting data on training hours for various levels

    currently ours is silver- 5:30 platinum/gold- 9 level 6/7 - 12 levels 8/9- 15 we have no elites atm
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    Parents Team Size?

    my gym is fairly new to our area 3 - 6 4 - 9 5 - 4 6 - 4 7 - 5 8 - 2 9 - 1 we have no 10s at the moments bronze - 15 silver - 16 gold - 12 platinum - 1
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    Women leap question

    i was a ballerina for around 11 years now [still going] and i started competitive gymnastics recently and i have been searching for this answer. in dance our leaps usually go through a 'developpe' where you sort of passe into your leap but ive been told for gymnastics youre supposed to swing...
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    Parents Thoughts on invite to Xcel bronze ?

    i would try a year of xcel and see how it goes. going straight into the DP program for some gymnasts just raises their stress levels because of the change in hours from rec classes to practices nearly every other day. Xcel bronze is a very good starting place, at my gym all of our girls who are...
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    Parents Best summer camp

    My three most favorite camps I've done is 1. GAGE xcel gymnastics camp 2. IGC camp 3. Nebraska gymnastics camp [may be biased because I'm a husker lol]
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