Recent content by gymmommy72

My daughter just competed level 6 and is training level 7. Up til now, most skills came with just a little work...meaning she really didn't have to spend a lot of time getting them. She's not a perfectionist and does not enjoy always having to do the same thing over and over to perfect them...

Eme777.....changes gyms is not even an option. She loves the coaches and says she knows there will always be girls that are not very nice. She loves the sport and is not ready to quit...being a good mom...I will push through this valley and hope her coaches see she is so close and move her...

Clear things up a little, it's not her scores that make me want to move on to other things...it's repeating every level. It takes at least 4 hours of our day four days a week...because we live far enough that we don't come home between drop off and pick up...if the gym was 10 minutes and we...

Her coach hasn't come right out and say she's repeating, but with talking to her coach, the impression we are left with is that she will not be moving up. As far as level 6 skills, she stuggles with her kip cast, she can kip and she can cast, but struggling with putting the two together. Floor...

Question: As a parent I am wondering if it isn't time to have my daughter start looking at different sports, leaving gymnatics behind. This is not an easy thought...I know we would both miss it, but she is 9 1/2 just finished level 5, with an AA high of 35.5, she is more than likely repeating...

I think you have legiment concerns and should address them with her coach, the head coach, and or gym owner. Communication is a big thing. At our last gym, I was not big into communicating because I didn't want to be one of "those" parents...that really was our biggest mistake. When we...

Ihmom...very interesting. Sounds like what flip4fun's gym is doing. Apparently a lot of gym's are doing this. My question now is what is going to happen with all the changes are coming to all the levels in the upcoming years? Anyone whose dd has done prep op and then level 7 please provide...

Let me get this straight...you must still learn all the level 6 routines in order to score out of level 6, then you do prep op until you are ready for level 7. If you must learn all the 6 stuff....why not just do level 6? What is the reasoning for it? I have heard level 6 can be brutal but in...

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It can take awhile...adjusting to the new routine will probably be the easiest part...leaving friends behind seems to be the hardest. My daughter switched gyms at the beginning of Jan and really likes the coaches and how practice is ran...but she is missing her old teammates...just tonight she...

Glad you are looking at other gyms. We went through the same type of thing in December. It wasn't that our dd coach couldn't coach, it was the way she went about it...yelling, negative comments, and nothing was good enough. Our dd had been there for 2 1/2 years and finally it was more than...

good luck to flipper...sending 34AA fairies...or even higher AA!!!!

I vote swab the equipment...gross...I don't think I'd want to know the results...germ-fest!! Good luck on the project!

Daughter scored a 35.275....beam was her downfall...although it was beautiful she did stick the cartwheel...the past 2 meets the cartwheel just wasn't stickable (LOL)...I think she over thought the cartwheel...but the overall routine was beautiful!!! She took 16th out of 47 girls...if she'd...

MaryA....good luck to your dd at her state meet !!! My dd had stuck cartwheels all meets, except the last 2...just when all the pieces came together, the cartwheel left...LOL crazy!!!