Recent content by huronvalley93

Thank you everyone!! Our current gym made some coaching changes, which we really like and we have decided to stay. DD and team will compete 5 for the first meet and, if they do well enough, 6 for the rest of the season. Thanks everyone for your insight and advice!

Would anyone care to share their experience or advice on the best way forward after Level 4? I understand some gyms prefer their gymnasts to score out of 5 and spend a year competing 6. Others prefer their gymnasts to compete a full season at 5 and then go directly to 7. And still others prefer...

Did you mean red flags #1 and #2 about the coaches’ approach?

A million times yes to #1! It doesn’t make sense on any level: (a) as a parent with your child’s best interests in mind, (b) morally, since you’re exposing everyone else, and (c) strategically, because everyone will be big mad at you when they catch an infection and realize the source was your...

Following! My level 3 dd is in the same boat! Scores well on the other events and struggles on vault. She also alternates her hurdle leg; one of her coaches noticed and instructed her to work on using the same leg, which at first reduced her to tears because she apparently felt like each leg was...