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    Parents Australia Futures league competitive stream

    Realistically, you’d have to be in or close to a capital city, (or Gold Coast now, I guess, as Ruby Pass and her coach have recently moved to Gold Coast Gymnastics). I’ll let other folk weigh in on their own states, but in Sydney the gyms that have current seniors who have been given...
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    Parents Australia Futures league competitive stream

    I’ve wondered this! As far as I can tell, AGC isn’t an entirely alternative organisation like RGA. They don’t register clubs, offer club/gymnast insurance, coach training etc. I think they just provide independently run competitions? I know from their social media that their competitions...
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    NCAA Judging Accuracy in College Gymnastics

    I can't watch NCAA gymnastics anymore because it seems almost pointless - more like entertainment than sport because the scores only have a vague correlation to the performance. As a judge, you are supposed to apply the full range of deductions available to you in a consistent way across a...
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    Coaches Competitive leotard mark ups?

    We mark all of our competition stuff up just enough to cover the cost of postage - so not at all really, a couple of dollars more than the tag price, and probably less than a parent would pay for postage if they ordered directly. We debate it almost every year before deciding that the sport...
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    Women Floor Music Debate

    The first one. I don’t know how artistry is judged there, but in Australia, the second one would be risking a ‘background music’ deduction because there isn’t a lot of variation in it to interpret in the choreography. The dance of the sugarplum fairy gives a choreographer a lot more to work...
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    Off Topic Introductions Thread (2025 Version)

    Feels weird to be posting in an introduction thread when I joined in…(checks profile) 2013! Wow, time flew. I first joined when my kid was invited out of a rec class and into a development class for four year olds. She’s 16 now, and in her second last year of high school. It’s been a...
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    Parents Australia Futures league competitive stream

    Aussie Coach may know more - most of what I know about this came from a brief discussion at a gym committee meeting nearly a year ago. So it may not be entirely up to date. My understanding is that Future League is the ‘competitive’ stream offered by Recreational Gymnastics Australia, which is...
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    Women Summer Gymnastics Jobs in Europe (or Australia?)

    That's actually a great idea. And winter in, say, Sydney, is spectacular.
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    Women Summer Gymnastics Jobs in Europe (or Australia?)

    Australia would take a significant amount of organising. We do offer working holiday visas to tourists who want to pick up casual work here to fund their holiday, but I don’t know if the USA is one of the eligible countries. If she has an EU passport it is likely to be easier. A...
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    Parents Leotards for sensitive kids

    The SP sublimated leotards are soft - just avoid mesh etc, as their mesh isn’t terribly soft. Their mystique leos are still quite old school, but I don’t know if they do those much outside of competition leotards now. My daughter trains in GymGear (which she loves) and competes in sublimated...
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    Women Shorts for competition

    Girls who wear Nike Pros to competition here generally fold the waistband under so the big logo on it isn’t visible.
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    Coaches Gymnast Win

    Things can change as girls go up levels. Sometimes gymnasts are excellent compulsories but struggle as skills get scarier, and sometimes kids who struggle with compulsories blossom once they can tailor routines to their strengths. Because coaches can’t see the future, they tend not to do...
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    Women restroom debacle at comp

    In Australia, the gymnasts are reminded of their order by the judges at the start of each rotation, and the judges will note if any gymnasts are missing. Technically, after that, if a gymnast isn’t ready to go within 30 seconds of the flag being raised, they get a .3 deduction, and if that...
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    Parents Question about age

    Take a deep breath and let it go. Sometimes there is an explanation, sometimes there has been a glitch, (and honestly, occasionally gyms make a one off mistake that they are too embarrassed to admit - like entering a birthday as 3/10 instead of 10/3, which can definitely stuff up age groups)...
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    Parents Meet Critique Website

    The other thing to consider re meet critique is that the video is rarely taken from the judge’s angle. They see so much more from where they are seated than you do from the stands. They will see things that the video doesn’t, and occasionally they will miss things that the video picks up. Also...
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