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  1. Coach Kate

    Parents Cheap meals for gymnasts

    Cook all your grains in bone broth, so when you do buy meat, use the bones to make broth. Our kids love lentil bone broth oatmeal, bonus for adding a nice runny egg on top. You can also cook rice in bone broth. We make our own yogurt using the boil method and straining it into Greek yogurt...
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    Women Help for Floor Routine

    Did you record a video when she learned the routine? I always have my families do that so they can see exactly how it was choreographed and then they can practice at home. If not, see if the coach has one for their record, or if they would be willing to do a video for you. It really does help...
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    Parents Advice for new (kind of) to gymnastics

    I really find privates unnecessary at this stage. I find it preferable to have kids do a second class instead, or alternative complimentary activities.
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    Parents American Cup

    I wish it could have been later in the season. The athletes just didn't seem very prepared.
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    Women Gymnast Trying Out For Cheer

    I would go ahead and take those classes and if you're friendly with anyone on the team ask if they have advice or maybe even some time to give you some help.
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    Parents New gym for xcel gold team

    Inside scoop on the process - we keep track of all the inquiries we get all year. There are usually over a dozen. Then at the end of season, we invite people to come to a week long trial based on where we think we have space and who seems like a good fit. We try as hard as we can to accommodate...
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    Parents New gym for xcel gold team

    Washington? Bothell gymnastics club is where I used to work and I really enjoyed my time there. I only stopped because I started having babies and then moved.
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    Men When to move?

    For boys, it is a bit different because the goal is really to get them to college and then from college to elite, whereas with women they more often are elite and then college and then maybe elite again. Your guy is still very young. Is his coach aware of his goals? What does he think about...
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    Parents Elite training

    Here is the recap and results from winter cup. Clubs are listed. https://usagym.org/rivera-takes-senior-womens-all-around-title-national-team-reordered-to-conclude-2026-winter-cup/
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    NCAA Mountain West History

    I'm coming back to say that Air Force broke 196 for the first time in program history. This is a team on the rise!
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    Women Prospect

    I mean funky progressions. Generally you see a pretty standard progression - so not having the Giants down is odd with some of her other skills. Beam series more typically progress around back handspring series. There are probably a lot of holes that a lot of higher level coaches would struggle...
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    Anon Beam Connection

    This actually looks pretty good!
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    Men Winter Cup/Elite Team Cup 2026

    I never know those things! Nastia was filming dancing with the stars in LA while attending NYU. Maybe some of his classes are asynchronous/online?
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    Parents Help with level 10 routine

    I'll speak as a coach: no, I don't really want the parents of my athletes asking the Internet for ideas for skills for their child to try. I want them to know that I have the knowledge and the resources to put together the best possible routine composition for their child. If I'm not sure, maybe...
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    Men Winter Cup/Elite Team Cup 2026

    And I think Fred has already missed or not competed in some of Michigan's meets. Case in point - did he miss for the winter Olympics? It all just seems a bit odd. Again hopefully we'll hear some more on the reasoning. I'll have to keep listening to neutral Deductions to see if they get any...
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