Yes, that has been my experience as a gym mom to a daughter who did 7 years of level 10 and is now in the NCAA.
Each gymnast has different needs. Without being her coach the most obvious reason is they don’t feel she is ready to do upgrades. It’s impossible to know the reason so you should...
Then you would have to assume there are two options.
1) The coach dislikes 2 girls on the team and is going out of their way to exclude, sabotage and/or punish them. Your only solution is to leave.
2) 2 girls on the team aren’t ready to work on the upgrades the rest of the team is ready...
Why do you think a month is too late to fix things that have been a struggle all season? It seems like a good amount of time to make a final push towards being as prepared as possible for state and the post season.
From your description it sounds like the coach is giving each athlete what...
I’m going to slightly disagree a bit on it being so crazy that a kid could not get a kip training 16 hours per week.
One of my daughters had to repeat level 3 because she had no kip after her first year of 3. She almost had to repeat level 3 a 3rd year because she still didn’t have her kip...
I think it depends what repeating a year of level 3 looks like at your gym. Is the second year spent mostly working upgrades because the intention is to then do level 4 while being ready to score out of 5 and hop to level 6 that same season?
I see some gyms around here using that formula. 1st...
To be fair, it’s a sport many gymnasts seek out as a way to stay involved and use their skills. It’s highly likely parents here will someday have questions regarding cheer.
Fierceboard has almost no traffic. When I was a new cheer mom I found more information here than anywhere else. I...
I admittedly don’t know that much about all Star cheer even though I have a child doing it haha. She’s on a level 6 team having switched over from gymnastics.
One thing I have learned is it’s not about the tumbling. Tumbling is a small part. It’s about how you fit with the teams the gym has...
My younger daughter was in a similar situation competing level 9 at age 12 and wanted to quit due to pain from injuries. Having parented her older sister through this sport I knew it only gets harder from that point on. So for me it was easy to let her move on. Had she been my first I would...
This thread took a turn, but I wanted to reply to the original question.
Every athlete when going through the recruiting process decides what is important to them. Some girls want to be on a championship team and train in that environment even if it means never making a line up or making...
My daughter had a similar experience, but even worse.
She was seriously injured a month before her sophomore season. The projected return to gymnastics was 9 months to a year. In addition to that, her freshman year was covid so while she was competing well that season, it was cut short. She...