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yep! looks like our living room as well

Our pre-team does L2 skills/routines. They compete, but only in an exhibition type meet, judged by competition team girls. Our comp team starts at L2 and they compete in front of judges but they get ribbons instead of scores. Scoring from judges starts at L3. Not sure if that is USAG wide...

Thank you!

were you registered as one of their "first dibs" groups, or were you just as a "competitive gymnast"? From what I saw on their site registration priority is given to certain groups and then other gymnasts are allowed to register from a wait list if there is room.

Yes, girls do move up in between seasons. So you can be an L3 in fall and an L4 in spring. We don't have girls move up during a season though.

Just curious how other gyms do it. Our gym just does testing in between fall and spring competition seasons and then based on the skills required for the levels moves them up. However, DD did not have her BH or FHC when she was moved up from pre-team to L3. I guess our gym thought she had...

question about testing...does your gym have to participate in something in order for your child to be evaluated for testing?

Sidnito I don't know you or your dd. but I got teary-eyed reading that. What a great moment :)

Looking back on it, I should have known when she was under two. The girl would sleep in a sort of splits position in her crib. She was always freakishly strong for being so skinny and when she would play soccer she would sort of bounce all over the field. And then when she couldn't cross a...

Southern California here...L3 girls need to score 32 AA at the sectionals meet to qualify for state. Sectionals is this weekend! so nervous!

Thanks JBS! What an accomplishment for your girls! congratulations to all who are involved in this!

This all sounds so exciting....but I have no idea what you all are talking about, lol. Can someone explain what TOPS is for a new gym mom? I Googled it, but it doesn't really explain what it is, only talks about the process of the testing.

oh my gosh me too! As soon as I enter the gym I get so stressed out. It was never this was watching her play soccer.

Most gyms in my area require gymnastics to be the only sport/activity. Our gym lets them do other activities so long as they still make it all required practices. That said, when DD made the team we told her she had to choose between gymnastics and soccer/softball. She chose gymnastics. Her...

I feel much better now, thanks. I was a bit embarrassed. My DD however was on cloud 9. It was a meet at our gym and I was working proscore system for the rest of the day and she stayed with me to help volunteer and was running on adrenaline the whole rest of the day, literally bouncing all over :)