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    Parents How many meets does your gymnastic do a year? What level are they?

    My daughter currently is doing xcel Gold and they have 3 local meets and 1 optional travel meet plus state. It’s been really nice not doing a lot of meets! Next season she will be level 6 or 7(if she can get her giant more consistently she will be 7) and they do 4 local meets, 1 travel meet 3...
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    Coaches Difficulty?

    also I’ll note some xcel programs are ran differently too. If your child is doing harder skills they may be trying to prep them to move to optionals. For my daughter they compete harder skills and don’t worry about scores in xcel. Their goal is to move her from gold to level 7 next season(she...
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    Coaches Difficulty?

    Typically only in level 9+ do they get higher points for doing more difficult skills. Really only level 10 to elite are where they May focus more on those harder skills for points any other levels it’s just for the challenge and not to gain points.
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    Coaches Difficulty?

    Doing a harder skill in xcel doesn’t give you any extra points and it’s all based on execution. That’s why some gyms compete easier skills so they can place higher. This has been hard for my daughter in xcel gold because she doesn’t understand why someone beat her score wise on bars doing a...
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    Women Switching from Xcel to JO

    Most gyms would be supportive if you are willing to put in the work and show up to practice consistently. The hours would be more than you’re used to many gyms train around 16-20 hours a week at level 7+ so that’s up to you if you can handle that many hours. Also Jo tends to be a lot more...
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    Women Lowest score?

    my daughter got a 7.1 on bars in level 4. She missed her squat on and then didnt make her kip on the high bar. Then on beam she didn’t even kick up on her handstand and forgot her turn and got a 8. Then floor she went the wrong way and got confused and just stopped mid routine for like 5 seconds...
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    Women Switching from Xcel to JO

    I would say with those skills around level 7 but your best bet would be to call around and see if you can get into an evaluation at a gym that offers Jo. They would be able to give you a better idea of where you’re at.
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    Parents Mental block/growth spurt

    My daughter is 10 and had her first mental block this year and It was so frustrating. Hers stimmed from a bad fall onto her back. She wouldn’t do her round off backhandspring back layout or back tuck she would just stop after the backhandspring and then do it. She also wouldn’t connect her round...
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    Parents Comp Leo recommendations

    Our gym uses Higo. Their long sleeved Leo’s with lots of bling cost around $275-$350. They are super comfortable and fit true to size. All of the girls seem to really like wearing them. They used gk in the past and all the kids hated the fit of them it ran extremely small and not much stretch...
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    Parents WAG/Xcel does your gym switch between?

    My daughter has been at two different gyms and both ran different. Her original gym you could not switch from xcel to usag but you could go usag to xcel. My daughter was put in usag level 3 at the age of 6 and was moving too fast with too many hours and getting a lot of mental blocks on back...
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    Parents Excel → DP? Rookie Gym Dad Asking Smarter People for Help

    Personally I agree she should do a year of xcel gold and work on up training to test out of level 4/5 and move to 6 next year. Level 3-5 can be extremely boring and repetitive and xcel is much better and keeping them interested. My daughter is 10 did level 3 and 2 years of level 4(she had a...
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    Parents Age/Level and Path they took to get there

    my daughters journey so far 3-5-pre comp gymnastics classes 5/6-T and T(level 5 on tramp, double mini and level 3 on floor) 7-level 3 8/9-level 4(2 years to master her Kip) 10-xcel gold Next year she will be level 7. We switched gyms this year(they don’t do level 3-5 but xcel instead) and...
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    Parents How to help gymnastic with mental block?

    I have definitely been starting to stress too myself because I know she has been working so hard. I’ll try to step back and give her space thanks for the advice!
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    Parents How to help gymnastic with mental block?

    I’ll look into this thanks
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    Gymnasts going back after 4 years

    You could most likely do xcel platinum or possible level 6 if you want to go the usag route with the skills you currently have. Best bet would be to go to gyms and try out. Depending on their meet months you may have to wait until it’s not meet season to join since some gyms don’t take new kids...
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