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    Gymnasts What level should I be in?

    You actually have platinum routines on everything except bars. You would need to work on kip, clear hips, and flyaways for platinum. However, you would still need to score out of gold before even moving up to platinum, so you would have to complete at least 1 meet of gold and get the qualifying...
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    Parents Team sizes

    On each event or at the entire practice???
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    Parents Team sizes

    It really depends on the size of the gym and how many people are in a practice group
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    Women How easy is it to transition into A&T or Stunt?

    Hello, I am looking a bit into A&T/Stunt for something to do in college after graduating high school. Since gymnasts tumble on a spring floor bare foot, and A&T is on dead mat with shoes, I was wondering how easy/hard is it to transition into the sport (I have only ever done gymnastics in terms...
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    Coaches Getting into coachint and advice for beginner coaches

    I applied to coach at my gym last March, started training in June, and became an official coach in September. Due to my age when I started training, I was not allowed to spot, so I learned most of my spotting from either asking some of the other coaches or looking up tutorials on YouTube. For...
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    Women Cast handstand flyaway and bad back layout

    For layout, think about going up first before going back. It helps to look at a spot on a wall to spot for help yourself not whip back
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    Women Gaining Body Awareness

    Hello, I am working on cast handstands, but what my coaches tell me I struggle on most is bending my hips first and getting my hips up before my legs. They tell me to focus on feeling my hips so I know where they are, however, no matter how hard I concentrate on my hips, I can not feel them...
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    Women Projected xcel level?

    Bronze at most until you get a pullover
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    Women Front Tuck set trouble

    Spot something on a wall (at our gym, we have a line that runs across the walls that we spot), look for it as long as possible before you flip. This will help you not throw yourself into the flip before you rise
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    Women How easy is it to learn back twisting from an arabian?

    Hello, I am an xcel platinum (working diamond), and I am not a huge fan of backwards tumbling (slowly working back to rbh and rbh tucks), but really advanced in front tumbling (working front fulls and front 1.5s). I need to work on upskilling my back tumbling, but I was wondering if I started...
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    Women Toe on instead of free hip Level 7 bars

    By toe on, you are referring to toe on to handstands? (not toe on to jump to high bar). That works requirements wise, check with your coaches to double check if they will allow you to compete a toe on instead of a free hip.
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    Women Floor Music Copyright

    As long as you are not on TV, it should be fine. Ask your coaches to double check, because though it may be allowed for no copyright, gyms might choose to not use popular/copyrighted songs.
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    Women Does the Xcel Code of Points use difficult values from the FIG WAG Code of Points at all?

    You have to purchase the xcel code of points to get the full list of values (not the free PDFs you find online). FIG and xcel do not share many of the same values, but xcel and DP do.
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    Coaches Games at practice

    For beam, we have a game called "pressure cooker", where each person does a skill on beam, and if they fall or wobble, they get pit blocks thrown at them (after they are done with the skill of course, not mid skill)
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    Women Double Backwalkover on Beam Help

    Draw an imaginary line in front of you that goes straight back onto the beam, you are going to want your hands to follow that until it reaches the beam
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