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    Coaches Successful Clinics?

    I used to go to a kip and cast clinic!
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    Coaches Conditioning program advice

    A tip that I got while being mentored as a young coach is to break down the major skills you're working on. What muscles are involved? What shapes are they moving through? Then you can come up with exercises to help with those skills.
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    Anon Question for 2027 Recruits & Commits

    Congrats to her! I saw the announcement this afternoon!
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    Women Daughter Discouraged because of gymnastics videos

    Get off social media. Kids growing up now have not only social pressures from people they know, but also the entire Internet and only the image they want to present. As an adult, it can be hard not to get caught up in the comparison game. How much harder is it for young impressionable children...
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    Coaches When a gymnast wants to change gym

    We actually helped facilitate some transitions! Our gym got rid of our DP program post COVID so if we had kids we thought would thrive in that program, we sat down with them, explained the differences, and helped them explore their options. We had some leave and then come back even a few years...
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    Parents Can Coaches Accept Vacation Gifts from Parents?

    It sounds like there are a lot of other problems at that gym, but I don't necessarily think using someone's vacation home is unethical honestly. If I planned a trip to Wyoming and one of the families I knew really well and had a relationship with said "oh, we have a house there. Are you looking...
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    Women What was your daughter's experience on getting an offer from college

    And she's off to such a great start at that school! I'm glad it worked out for her.
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    Women Best Xcel Diamond Vault Option

    Many diamonds just have a lower start value on vault. Super nor.al.
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    Women Best Xcel Diamond Vault Option

    It depends on what vaults you've been training and what resources you have. Our gym didn't have a way to vault into a pit so we focused on handspring twisting progressions - handspring half off, half on half off, handspring full off, etc.
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    Anon Owner searching bags for cell phones

    Is there another coach who is close to the owner that you would feel comfortable talking to? Maybe gently trying to figure out if there was something that has triggered this extreme opinion about cell phones? I agree that there has to be something else going on. It is absolutely inappropriate...
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    Gymnasts Best Vault Option For Xcel Diamond

    Can you upgrade to half on full off?
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    Women National Xcelebration coming in 2027

    Calling is Xcelebration just makes it sound more like an invitational vs actual championships, that's why I was curious.
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    Men US Champs -MAG

    He really doesn't have medal potential at worlds. Everyone they're sending does. I'm actually most bummed about Colt Walker struggling on pbars night two because his routine is world class.
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    Women National Xcelebration (XCEL Nationals)

    There's another thread discussing this a bit more: https://chalkbucket.com/threads/national-xcelebration-coming-in-2027.72840/
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    Women Yurkchanco Vault Xcel Diamond

    At the gym I coached at, they all did the twisting progressions. That was actually the upgrade for golds with strong handspring vaults. Many platinums did handspring half off and then in diamond did the full off.
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