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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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    Parents Continue or change?

    I would if there's s a competitive goal set for that group in the future. Not about this season but further on, bars is an event that usually requires the most time to develop skills.
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    Coaches BHS shoulder mobility

    Maybe there's also a strength issue? I see many times they might not be the most flexible but the shoulders themselves are able to open enough when someone mobilizes them, but the gymnast is not able to do it by herself. If that's the case, shoulder strength might help: shoulder shrugs, shoulder...
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    Gymnasts Not nice people in gymnastics

    It is true that most competitive gymnasts can be very driven and intense, but I don't think not nice in general. I'm seeing much more kindness to each other in the current times.
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    Parents Body Image Struggles

    That's absolutely inappropiate and inaccurate. First, 13 is a perfectly normal age for puberty and second, even if it were 10 or 11 it is a doctor matter to evaluate. Puberty blockers have their side effects and are not like magic pill! It is a big red flag for me. I developed my own ED just...
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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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