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    Parents Grips Level 5

    Grips provide the chance to work longer hours without as many rips as barehanded + a little bit of extra support for releases and so on. But Chinese, Russians, Romanians, Spanish and some more were doing elite skills without grips up to the mid 2000s. That includes gymnasts like Khorkina doing...
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    Women Identifying talent for your teams

    The potential "talents" that we find are invited to extra classes like once to twice a month from October to May (we can add kids if we find new potential ones) and there we assess better the qualities, how they adapt to more specific corrections,... at the end of the season if we think they can...
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    Coaches Training - school/xmas Holidays

    I'm in Europe. Usually the girls don't do any gymnastics in those weeks (well aside of playing at home,...) as camps are pretty rare here. I was a gymnast long time ago and it was the same, I usually went on vacation, swam, played and also did conditioning and played gymnastics a lot. In fact...
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    Coaches Training - school/xmas Holidays

    I'm not sure what level they are, but our gym stops for a month-almost a month every summer. It has not been a big issue usually.
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    Coaches New Level 2’s: Tips please!

    Lots of static shaping (hollow, arch, tuck, pike, front support, back support, candle,...), for me the handstand shape on the floor is an absolute basic that I always do with the youngsters. A very fun thing for them is to make tree falls/doll in a box/.... tightness challenges, where they have...
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    Women Identifying talent for your teams

    That's a very good point. I actually have one of those girls in my team right now and I was one of those gymnasts myself.
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    Women Identifying talent for your teams

    I guess it is not that big compared to US (not sure if that's were you are) but gyms here are usually much smaller. I forgot to add another 100 or so that are part of a physical activity program of our city and an afterschool activity in a school that are also coached by our team and we can also...
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    Women Identifying talent for your teams

    Hi! I'm just curious to know what items/indicators do you clubs use to identify kids that have potential to put them in your competitive teams. Our club has a relatively big rec side, with about 40 kids in our toddlers program (3-5) and about 100 girls in the different recreational levels, also...
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    Women Bar salto DM’s other than a flyaway

    I'd keep trying the dismounts from underswing, I think they must be the easiest/better. Or maybe it would be better to just work on accepting the no-10.0 start value and improve execution, may lead to the same score.
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    Women What is your “why”?

    I can't point to the specific thing, but I have a thing for the constantly trying to improve little by little and achieving something. I was a gymnast than the transitioned to coach and judge, even though I still play around with some little skills. I've been away for some time after having...
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    Parents Grips Level 5

    I'm guessing by the score she probably had pauses in between the skills, most probably after the kips, which are a pretty heavy deduction as far as I know. Also probably something like angles on casts and on the clear hip. Bars is a pretty hard event sometimes. My daughter is 10 too and also...
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    Parents Grips Level 5

    In my opinion, grips might help with some skills, but the main thing is having the proper strength and technique. I'm not sure if she's still pretty young (like under 8 or so), because the kip is complex technically and some younger girls, even if strong enough, sometimes have a hard time...
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    Parents Looking for some advice / feedback on some questions regarding Level 2 Gymnast

    I'd take a look at how the upper levels in the team are doing. If they are doing well and they have done so for a while it is because they have a system that works. If they don't, then maybe look at some other gyms around who are doing better in the upper levels. Sometimes there are gyms that...
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    Coaches Quick beam question

    As per FIG, you can mount either side, just you can't move the reception (dismount) mat. However, in small/local meets sometimes you are limited by the space in the venue and sometimes you might only be able to mount from one side or end of the beam.
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    Women Feet separated in swings

    Probably, if it is not affecting the technique or the future progression of the skill and is a minor and not easily fixable thing (without maybe messing with other potential problems), they prefer to focus on other corrections.
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