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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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    Parents Gymnast left out

    The social dynamics are tricky, really hard to find restaurants that can seat 20+, a lot easier to find a place that can do 6-8, as a group we try to put it together once or twice a season, but it's fatiguing to coordinate for such large groups and no matter what someone feels left out or...
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    NCAA Thoughts on player compensation, roster limits, House settlement, etc.

    Here's an idea: The professional collegiate sports programs can pay rent for facility usage the same as any other business that would like to use the colleges facilities. That money could then be used to fund the non-revenue sports or help with any of the college's budgetary needs. But like...
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    Anon Coach suddenly leaving

    Reminding them it is nothing that they did wrong and the coach leaving is not because of them, sometimes people just have things come up suddenly and unexpectedly that they have to deal with where they don't have time to say good bye.
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    NCAA Thoughts on player compensation, roster limits, House settlement, etc.

    Football needs to be it's own organization and governing body the Big10 and SEC are ready to do this on their own anyways as they don't see value in any of the other conferences (see what they feel the CFP should be). If football wants to be a professional league with paid athletes and free...
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    Parents Advice for 5 Year Old

    You really don't need to specialize your 5 year old in any one activity. It's OK to do swimming once a week, gymnastics once a week, a dance class, a basketball team, piano lessons, all those things help form well rounded athletes. Since you have an older child on team you know when the hours...
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