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    Anon Top young gymnasts in US currently?

    This thread seems to be a halfway blend of thirdhand gossip about specific gyms and athletes, and a specific focus on a small group of minor athletes (who, even if they are not named, could easily be identified from info in this thread) I can't point to any specific rules being broken and I...
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    Coaches Increase Score on Floor

    That is a delightfully unusual pass
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    Coaches Increase Score on Floor

    Wait, so say you start at corner A facing corner B, you run, hurdle, and front 1/2 towards corner B, then dive roll back towards corner A, and stand up from that dive roll directly into a cartwheel? So the second half of the pass travels back in the opposite direction from the first?
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    Coaches Increase Score on Floor

    I'm having a really hard time picturing how this pass works
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    Women Coach search

    @Allisonrank we don't have specific rules regarding use of AI here (side note: we probably should), but in general here we prefer human contributions. If we want to know what Google or GPT thinks, we'll ask Google or GPT.
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    Anon Worth competing tsuk layout half twist on vault

    Every athlete/program/coach is different and it's impossible to confidently say what the ideal choice is without being there and working with her in person, so take this with a grain of salt, but most likely if I were her coach I'd mainly focus on building the 1/1 and wouldn't bother competing...
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    Coaches Concerns about another coach

    Can't imagine what that reason might have been
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    Anon Worth competing tsuk layout half twist on vault

    Generally, I think you should always learn a 1/2 before a 1/1, always learn a 3/2 before a 2/1, etc. I think it's important to know where each 1/2 turn is, and be able to precisely control rotation. HOWEVER I don't think a tsuk 1/2 (or tsuk arabian, as I like to view it) has any real value...
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    Coaches Hot takes, unpopular opinions, etc regarding technique and/or rules

    What are your coaching opinions that would likely get this reaction in most coaching circles? The ones that you are utterly confident you're correct about, but make other coaches stare at you like you're crazy? Here are a few of mine: 1) Athletes should not run or even power hurdle into any...
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    Off Topic Happy Holidays!

    Usually, my dad's side of the family gathers together for Christmas every year; this year due to scheduling conflicts, we moved the gathering after christmas.... and then almost everybody caught flu and couldn't come anyway. My wife and I celebrated New Years Day by doing the extended Lord of...
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    Women Which event are you always mentally prepared for, and which one completely ruins your mood when your coach suddenly switches to it?

    Speaking as a coach: I am ready to coach any level of tumbling at a moments notice. I could (and in fact have) give a quality coaching clinic on any particular aspect of tumbling right off the cuff with zero prep time. On the other end of the spectrum, I have an unreasonable level of hate for...
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    Parents Looking for gymnastics bar

    I am not a parent, but here's my 2 cents as a coach: I think having an at-home bar set up for actual swinging is a bad idea, for three main reasons. 1. I don't have actual statistics onhand, but anecdotally if I were to list out every time I've seen a crash requiring an immediate ER visit for...
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    Off Topic Happy Holidays!

    Happy Christmahannukwanzahumanewtonaliasolstivus to all! Anybody go anywhere fun? Get any cool gifts? Have any fun family traditions? Post about it here!
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    Parents When did you “know”?

    I never thought I was gonna go elite and honestly had no interest in doing so; I just liked tumbling and vaulting and then one day I realized I had the necessary skills to put together elite-ish routines on floor and rings, and figured what the hell.
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    Women Setting in back full

    Hope it helps!
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