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    Parents Most Common Gymnastics Injuries

    Actually on reflection, most of the bad injuries her teammates have had over the years have not happened in the gym - a finger fractured playing soccer that needed surgery and a pin, an ankle sprained playing soccer, an arm gashed by damaged equipment at an athletics carnival, an arm broken...
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    Parents Most Common Gymnastics Injuries

    My daughter is a second time level 8. We skew cautious here and take the R in RICE very seriously when an injury is new, so she has missed the occasional week here and there with a twisted ankle while we wait to see how bad it is. She missed a few weeks while we were waiting on an MRI for...
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    Parents Rides before competing?

    Ahh, my kid goes to a travel meet that's two days with a day off between. The girls always make the finals (it's a team event) on day one, then spend the day off at an amusement park, and then crash and burn on day two. It never occurred to me that there could be some sort of vestibular effect...
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    Parents Australia Futures league competitive stream

    Interesting. I know they did that with RGA, as some clubs were attempting to insure their rec with them and stick with GNSW for competitive. And that seems fair to me - to make clubs choose an organisation to register with. But banning one competition stream (out of the large number of...
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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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