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    Anon Grips help!

    My child does not use water and has never had a pair of grips break. He’s up there doing tons of giants every day, and he wears fairly soft little boy grips. It’s gotta be the water because that’s not a normal or safe wear rate. The only boys at our gym who have torn their grips are level 9...
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    Anon 2026-2030 DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM CODE OF POINTS

    I hear there are new compulsory routines coming with new music!
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    Parents Advice for new (kind of) to gymnastics

    Welcome to the world of gymnastics parenting! It sounds like you have your daughter set up nicely. If your daughter has time and energy for extra sports, I highly recommend swimming lessons. Swimming develops the muscle strength and body awareness that is essential for gymnastics, and it is...
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    Anon Putting age caps for DP levels

    I saw a post about this online. The gym that posted it made it out as if there are not age groups at meets and that 5-year-olds are competing against teenagers, which I doubt. I don’t see why it’s anyone’s business what other gyms do. Perhaps they could make a rule that age 7 and under have...
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    Anon Coaches how good are you at predicting D1 potential early? And follow thru?

    The odds of a talented 6-year-old continuing in the sport through college is so low that it seems foolish to ever make such a prediction.
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    Women What would you do?

    When I have worked is flawed organizations with misguided managers, I have found that my best approach is to focus on doing my work according to my own personal standards of quality. Train your gymnasts well and don’t worry about trying to comply with every whim from the national governing...
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    Men Talented but bored kiddo

    I’m so glad you came and asked this. This is a super normal issue for kids who come to competitive gymnastics with an advanced rec background. I went through this myself years ago, and I remember specifically resenting not being allowed to do flyaways and back tucks early in level 4. My son...
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    Parents Motivation to Go to Meets

    I have gym parent friends from all over, so meets are big social outings for me. My son wasn’t able to complete this season due to injury and I think that I’ll be very grateful when/if he competes next year. Most gymnasts only compete a couple of seasons, so it’s really quite fleeting. You...
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    Parents TOPS

    TOPs varies significantly depending on the gym. TOPs can be a fairly chill program that provides motivated gymnasts an opportunity to do extra conditioning or it can be part of an intense fast-track program aiming to get kids to elite as early as possible. I know a girl who made the TOPS...
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    Anon Looking for an Elite gym

    I recommend looking for gyms in metro areas that have multiple elite gyms. If I were going to move for gymnastics, I’d want a plan and a back-up plan. The Seattle area has that with Pacific Reign, Ascend, Metropolitan, and a few other small options. I’m sure you’ll find areas in places like...
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    Men When to move?

    Are you in Region 2? I have insight on the states that made up “old” region 2.
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    Men When to move?

    If your primary consideration is gymnastics development, I would recommend moving when your child is competition-age 11 and going into their first or second year of level 6/6E or when they are competition age 12 and going into their first year of level 8. Since your son loves his coach, I’d...
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    Parents Realistic expectations

    You should say nothing. Having dreams is one of the joys of childhood. Every 9-year-old dreams of one day competing at the highest level of their sport and (nearly) every kid eventually figures out that it’s not going to happen. There is no need to accelerate that realization. Often kids’...
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    Parents Help with level 10 routine

    I think that people need to remember that just because the coaches at your gym are attentive and communicative does not mean that every gym is like this. There are many gyms where optional level gymnasts are expected to take a lot of initiative in goal-setting. If a gymnast does not understand...
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    Parents Improvement in season

    I have a boy and it’s not uncommon to see an improvement of 0.5 or more per event from the beginning to the end of the season. My son increased his AA by 2 points (over 6 events) from the first to the last meet. That is typical.
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