Some of my girls do a side start full turn. One of them saw it at a meet and they wanted to try it. I was surprised how well it worked for a few of them.
I make my girls routinely switch beams. If I notice that they keep trying to go to the same beam, I ban them from it for two weeks. I tell them “There isn’t a single beam in this gym that I am going to stick in my car and take to the meet.”
This year I have 2 bar settings, fig and big. Next year I will have a ton of little girls that have to catch the high bar, so I will also have a little. No coach enjoys setting the bars a lot but my girls’ safety it the most important.
I love Flipfest. I am taking my girls week 7 and my son is taking his boys week 3. We work at different gyms and it is the first time that we have gone different weeks. I love that there are so many activities besides gymnastics. This will be my 13th year taking gymnasts.