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    Parents Advice for surviving competitive teammates/workout group?

    That sounds like a toxic gym culture.
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    Off Topic Tracking gymnast scores using a mobile device

    Sorry, I should have said almost every meet my so has attended. Recently, I’ve seen scorecat glitch out mid meet and the organizers never got around to posting the results of some of the sessions. One meet they recorded all zeros for the 2nd place kid in my son’s session and posted incorrect...
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    Off Topic Tracking gymnast scores using a mobile device

    Meet organizers are messing up the inputs in ScoreCat at almost every boys meet. Also, a lot of the features that were free with myusagym are subscription only with scorecat. I wish USAG would charge us all an extra $10 to fix myusagym and then make it mandatory for all sanctioned meets. It...
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    Off Topic Tracking gymnast scores using a mobile device

    I use MyUSAGym, meetscoresonline. And now ScoreCat. I prefer myusagym but they have a bandwidth problem, so it often freezes on the weekends. How would your app differ from these services?
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    MAG Good ways to get a back hip circle and pull over

    Swimming is a really good activity for building strength and coordination in young gymnasts. If your kid can’t swim all the strokes correctly and swim 100 yards without resting, it’s time for more swimming lessons. It’s a two-fer: physical prep for gymnastics and an essential safety skill. My...
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    Parents Advice for surviving competitive teammates/workout group?

    Your daughter is 10 and it sounds like she needs some help gaining perspective. The current situation is temporary; everything is going to change over the next few years. Some of the girls will get burnt out and leave the sport, some will struggle with injuries or fears, some will have a rough...
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    Parents Advice for surviving competitive teammates/workout group?

    It would be helpful if you included your daughter’s age. The answer will be different depending on whether she is 8 or 18! Also, when you say “it all came to a head” what does that mean? Are we talking crying in the car, threatening to quit, saying negative things about herself or her...
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    Parents The gymnastics coach does not like that my niece plays contact sports

    It’s none of the gymnastics coach’s business what she does outside of the gym. I would encourage her to refrain from mentioning rugby at the gym and, if asked, she should make it clear that she is not seeking feedback on that topic. She should definitely shut down any discussion about her body...
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    Parents Levels of gymastics

    Boys level 5
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    WAG Question (Elite Path)

    I can easily imagine that happening with an immigrant gymnast who was already elite level in another country.
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    MAG Fred Richard's Uniform Changes At Winter Cup

    I love Fred and I appreciate his enthusiasm but I do not like the uniform he presented. i think he should focus his entrepreneurial efforts on warm-ups and non-competition gymnastics attire.
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    MAG Late start and path?

    You should also join: Our Flippin’ Boys Men’s Gymnastics Facebook Group. There are parents of Gymact, ncaa, and notional team members there. You can learn so much from these parents.
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    Parents Parenting an Extremely Driven Gymnast

    This is truly excellent advice. ❤️
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    MAG Late start and path?

    We have two boys in our gym who started as 5th graders and followed the path 3, 4, 6, 9! They are doing well in level 9 this year despite struggling with some injuries. In retrospect, I think they should have skipped 4 not 5. We have a similar boy who started a year after them and he has...
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    [Meet] Age Divisions For Awards

    Every meet does it differently. A common method is to order the athletes by birthdate and divide them into equal groups. Youngest 12 kids are Child A, then the next 12 youngest will be Child B and on up to the Juniors and the seniors. In a small meet there might only be two groups: junior and...
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