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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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    Parents Keep paid up

    She sounded ready to walk away, it's OK to leave the sport. Scoring out requires learning new routines and skills, if she doesn't know these already then it might take all summer. Are you hoping she does the score out at the other gym and then will want to stay at that other gym and keep going?
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    Men Basics

    Strength is built through progressive overload, unless the intensity (weights) are increasing you are not strength training. You may be conditioning your muscles for more endurance, or building bigger muscles (body building), but you aren't really getting stronger without scheduled intensity...
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    NCAA NCAA athletes who don't compete

    https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/44823761/judge-delays-house-settlement-approval-roster-limits "Roster limits could signal the end of the walk-on athlete in college sports and, as Utah freshman swimmer Gannon Flynn noted in his testimony as an objector, imperil smaller sports...
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    Parents Should we switch gyms?

    Having a flawless kip is a huge requirement as the majority of the bar skills start with a kip cast handstand. If she has a weak kip then getting to handstand is just about impossible. But it might not be just the kip, there are several foundation skills that your gymnast may just struggle on...
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    Parents How much does ballet help gymnastics training?

    I don't know how much it helps score wise but watching competitions especially at the higher levels the more entertaining routines are the ones where the dance portion is performed well.
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    Men Mixed team Gymnastics coming to the 2028 Olympics

    It makes sense, Gymnastics is the most followed sport in the summer games so having more opportunities to see it is in the IOC best interest. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1245746/summer-olympics-most-followed-sports-us/
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