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    Parents 4 Year Old Gymnast Advice

    Did you want our advice or our approval? What the gym wants to do is not normal, long term physical and mental harm are the risks. Sounds like your mind is made up anyways so good luck.
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    Women Daughter Discouraged because of gymnastics videos

    With videos in general remember they are edited to show the highlights and not the times the gymnast is struggling. Might need to have a heart to heart with her and ask what her goals are, she might be setting some unrealistic expectations.
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    Parents Gateway skills for DP Compulsory Levels?

    I would caution against talking about skills too much with your DD and/or teaching them at home. Saying things like "you almost did a bhs today!" actually starts to create pressure that they need to get skills and that struggling with a skill makes them feel like they are doing something wrong...
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    Parents Can Coaches Accept Vacation Gifts from Parents?

    It's the coach not the gift. Lots of coaches get thank you gifts that don't create any kind of favoritism. Additionally do you really want to be the parent that takes away one of the few rewards a coach might get?
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    Parents 4 Year Old Gymnast Advice

    Burnout is very real and she can't start competing XB/DP3 for a couple of more years. If it were my family I would keep with rec classes until age 5 and do swimming/soccer/dance/ninja/etc. along with gymnastics for as long as you can. I know you must feel like if you take a miss step now you...
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    Parents First post ever..please be kind. Crying after a bad performance?

    Try not to talk about scores and ribbons in general, if it's important to you it will be important to them, and/or if you bring it up after every competition and practice they will feel pressure to score well. I know we all say "we just want them to have fun" but also often say things like "you...
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    Parents Looking to narrow down gym choices that would be a good fit for our competitive daughter

    At the pre-team level I'd just pick the gym that is the most convenient for your family. Either close to school, close to work, next to a gym that you want to exercise at, etc. If the facilities look nice, the coaches seem nice, and they have gymnasts at all levels, you will be fine. I...
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    Parents Intentional placement at lower level?

    I would not worry about the level. Very common to just skip 3 anyways as it is not a required level. What is most important is that she likes her coaches and teammates. Both levels are an introduction to competition, they help new gymnast understand and feel comfortable with meets and how...
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    Parents Intentional placement at lower level?

    Lot of reasons why they would do this but it is unfortunate that they aren't communicating well. The most likely is that while she can do upper level stuff she isn't doing it correctly and is beginning to ingrain improper form that will hold her back in the future. Things like bent arms during...
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    Women Should I quit gymnastics?

    It's supposed to be fun if you aren't having fun find something else to do. I'm sure your athleticism would translate well into another activity.
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    Women Phasing out compulsories?

    If you take out "require" and replace it with "allow" then it seems like a very helpful motion that would help out many gymnasts who did not want to focus on DP early on. Like I said earlier having a compulsory routine as the gate for upper levels is an antiquated idea, it's ridiculous to...
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    Women Phasing out compulsories?

    It's really hard for smaller gyms to have both Xcel and Compulsories, just not enough coaches and not enough space, so I can see why a gym would choose/say that the trend is to do one or the other. Our gym is trying to train them together, like you do the same training but compete either silver...
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    Parents Multiple repeat level 3s who train 16 hours per week

    Might be as simple as until you have certain skills like Kip, BHS BHS, Cartwheel on Beam, etc. you can't move up. Then the question is if those are the restrictions why aren't the gymnast able to develop those skills training that much.
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    Women What makes a good Xcel program?

    More and more gyms just aren't doing compulsory, so Xcel is being treated the same as low level DP with eventual migration to optionals if they are aiming for collegiate or Diamond/Sapphire if they don't. Seems like gyms that used Xcel as a punishment (not allowed to repeat levels, have to go...
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    Parents Grips while learning kip

    Grips won't be the magic pill that makes them get their kip.
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