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    Parents XCEL is limiting?

    What you are describing is normal for Bronze. It is possible that this gym is not a perfect fit for your daughter. Have you looked around at the upper level girls at your gym? Are there many platinums or diamonds at your gym, and how old are they? If the platinums are all teenagers, I...
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    Parents Is it normal for older boys on team to pick on younger teammates?

    I agree with every word of this response. This is 100% consistent with our men’s gymnastics experience. I also agree that keeping an open dialog with you son is critical. We have a tradition that he has to talk to me and not use electronics or listen to music until a specific point in our...
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    Parents Grips while learning kip

    Our coaches take the gymnast’s age and weight into consideration when deciding about when to start them on grips. They believe that the older bigger boys need the dowel earlier than the little boys. This makes sense to me. The older boys tend to get grips when they are working on their kips...
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    Anon Bullying for multiple years

    I’m sorry, I should be a bit less self-righteous. I have been there. I know the constant anxiety of sending my kid to a gym that is not a healthy environment. We were able to address the situation at my son’s gym, but I still have to keep a very close eye on what happens there because there...
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    Anon Bullying for multiple years

    When you put your daughter into a situation where she is persistently bullied, you are telling her that that is how she deserves to be treated. This is a lesson that sticks. This is how girls end up not leaving abusive boyfriends—they have been trained from childhood to believe that they...
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    Anon If predicting a kids success at 6 is so tricky, why does Tops start so young?

    I will say that I tried to listen to these guidelines by having my son take a lot of time off during the summer (he missed equivalent of two months during the summer due the to trips, gym closures, illness, and wanting to do other things). When he returned to regular training in the fall, he...
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    Anon If predicting a kids success at 6 is so tricky, why does Tops start so young?

    Here are the standard medical guidelines for safe youth sports participation: https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/sports-injuries/youth-sport-specialization?utm_source=chatgpt.com
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    Anon If predicting a kids success at 6 is so tricky, why does Tops start so young?

    Just type “early sports specialization” into PubMed and read away.
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    Parents Looking for a Gym - Greater Boston

    Some people would consider a gym starting team at level 1 to be a huge drawback as it significantly increases the costs for families and the pressure on young kids.
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    Parents What wacky skills has gymnastics helped your child with?

    Well, my kid has been training with much older boys since he was 8, so now he has the skill of fitting in with teenagers. He knows all the latest slang, curse words, and inappropriate jokes. I had to run him through sex-ed early because he knew way too much. He has also learned how to stand...
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    Anon Bullying for multiple years

    It sounds like you have done everything you can possibly do short of leaving. It’s important to teach girls not to accept mistreatment. She deserves better.
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    Parents Blatant Favoritism

    This does not mean that no favoritism is occurring. It’s entirely possible that this coaching decision could be The result of favoritism rather than the best interests of the gymnasts. If you are coming to that conclusion, then this is probably not the first issue. Other things must have...
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    Parents Blatant Favoritism

    Yes. It is normal and justifiable as people here have stated over and over.
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    Anon Trying to get into college D1

    Most meets have deadlines for changing levels that are usually a couple months before the competition. In the future, go online and look up the level change deadline on the meet website and talk to your coach at least 2 weeks before the deadline about changing. As a teenaged gymnast, it is...
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    Anon Putting age caps for DP levels

    The lowest competition level when I was a gymnast was level 5 (equivalent to current level 4). The requirements for joining team were a kip, BHS-BHS on floor, a cartwheel on beam, and a FHS on the old scary vault. Gymnasts with lower skill levels still enjoyed the sport in rec and pre-team...
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