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    Parents Cheap meals for gymnasts

    Oh, that's a shame. Maybe you can cut it by parts (you can look it up in YouTube) and make either a soup or freeze some and cook it individual portions in the air fryer. In my country we also have some "soup mix" where you have different cuts of meat (some beef, chicken, pork+bones+some veggies...
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    Parents Cheap meals for gymnasts

    In my country pork and some beef cuts (the ones used for stews) are usually cheap (compared to the rest of meat). Also a full chicken that you can roast and eat for several days is a good option (for one person probably is enough protein for at least 5 meals ) Cottage cheese if you have that...
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    Women Duration to learn new skill

    It depends on the athlete. Half on-half off is vey easy for some and they can get it in a few weeks or take quite a while.
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    Women What would you do?

    I agree with most that has been said, work what you think is appropriate, even if it gives you worse scores for a while.
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    Parents Realistic expectations

    Let her have her dreams. Just little kids want to be astronauts or presidents. Time will slowly put their dreams in perspective.
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    Parents Help with level 10 routine

    I'm thinking connecting one of the rudi to another skill, like front layout+rudi can make it count, but I'm not fully sure.
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    Women Bar routine deductions

    It is the pauses after every kip mostly, also probably the angles in the casts and the free hip. Those are certainly the most costly, then there are some minor ones, but not stopping after kips could give you at least 1.0 more.
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    Coaches Coach Wages

    In my experience, most of the coaches don't, there are some coaches do, but in my country (europe) there are not that many.
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    Parents How important is presentation in floor routine?

    Age plays an important role on it, and excepting some very stage-oriented kids that love it from the beginning, it usually takes time. The first levels, just focusing on remembering the routine and doing the skills correctly is already overwhelming for young kids.
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    Parents How important is presentation in floor routine?

    For scores probably important, but at that stage that is not important for her overall progress. As a mom that has been her daughter's coach for some years, stay away from it.
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    Parents Repeating Bronze?

    Maybe they don't focus a lot on the routines? And the meets are mostly just for fun and for them to show off what they do rather that going for the scores? Routines take up a lot of time in practice, so maybe thy prefer to focus on something else.
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    Women Twisting in BWO

    I'd practice going down to a bridge on floor beam or whatever easy surface you have, and while doing that, push the standing leg hip up and forward. If you still can't feel it, stand in front of the beam with your arms on the beam (think like you were going to do front kicks holding to the beam...
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    Coaches Hot takes, unpopular opinions, etc regarding technique and/or rules

    I totally agree on number 1 and mostly on 2, 4 and 7. I don't care about number 3, enter the floor however you prefer. On the rest I haven't taught those skills as much, so I don't have a strong opinion on those. Number 5 made make think, though.
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    Parents WAG/Xcel does your gym switch between?

    I quite like that approach, as we (different country and comp programs) find it really hard when some gymnasts don't progress at the pace we thought they would early on and we want to move them to a less demanding program, with that approach it would be much easier and the feelings wouldn't be...
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    Parents Why does my daughter have so many mental blocks?

    I was that kind of gymnast and my daughter is too. We are working on some strategies with Perform Happy mental training, and it has helped some but still have blocks on many skills and some anxiety (that's not only with gymnastics, overall she gets very anxious for different things). I wish I'd...
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