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    Anon TOPS fomo

    Your daughter’s gym situation sounds great. Training young children like professional athletes is not healthy. The main things you are missing out on are injuries, mental health struggles, school and family life disruptions, and financial strain. Be glad that you don’t have this “opportunity”.
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    Parents Why does my daughter have so many mental blocks?

    Some people are more risk-aware than others and they struggle with activities that involve danger. This is not a sign of poor mental health or a general lack or confidence. If she were afraid to cross the street, ride in a car, order at a restaurant, etc, that would be a sign of a mental...
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    Parents What level would my daughter be at your gym

    As strange as it may sound, having good form on the back extension roll is really critical for future development. Poor form there indicates a need for further development of basic strength and body control, so I would say level 3/silver.
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    Women youngish Level 7

    She should keep working hard, listen to her coach, get enough rest and food, and have fun. Good Luck!
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    Gymnasts College Gymnastics

    it’s pretty rare to do NCAA gymnastics without any DP experience. Do you have access to a gym that offers DP? If you could switch over to get a year at level 9 and a year at level 10, that would really help. Also, do you have access to coaches who are comfortable coaching NCAA level vaults...
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    Off Topic Back hip circle fear

    If she has had a cold recently, that could cause congestion in her ears and that could temporarily mess up her equilibrium.
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    Parents First meet blues?

    My son’s default meet goal is always to get a personal-best for the season on at least one event. The first meet is a real slam dunk because they are all personal bests! We joke about how I’ll buy him ice cream if he gets a personal best and he pretends to be very worried about whether he’ll...
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    Parents Should we switch from NGA?

    Once the competition season is over, I recommend doing at trial and an assessment at the other gym. There is a lot of value to having your gymnast train with a group of similar-age, similar-level girls. Your daughter sounds a bit like my son, and my son has struggled for years to find a place...
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    Women Routine Requirements

    I think I found the skill. It’s a FIG A skill. Not sure what is required in diamond.
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    Men Wrist overuse injury

    I like the way you think!
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    Men Wrist overuse injury

    My son was able to get the MRI. Fortunately, the tendons and growth plate look fine. The MRI showed a partially healed stress reaction with trace edema remaining in the metaphysis of the radius and ulna of both wrists. Basically, it’s partially healed gymnast’s wrist that was caught early...
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    Off Topic Happy Holidays!

    Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! My kids got a slackboard (a small free-standing slackline). They immediately started doing cool tricks on it. Such a win since they are both into physical play and they both currently have broken wrists!
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    Women Al Fong and Armine Barutyan SafeSport Suspension

    I just saw this and I’m interested I hearing what people think of it. https://gymnastics-now.com/gage-coaches-al-fong-and-armine-barutyan-suspended-by-safesport/
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    Gymnasts Fear of peeling

    You should be breaking in a second pair of grips at this point. Do that and you’ll know if The grips are the issues.
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    Anon Safesport question

    That story is not plausible.
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