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    Coaches Program Concerns

    For us the owner/director sets warm ups, conditioning, floor shaping drills and line drills each week to be used by all levels. The compulsory head coach does event plans every week for levels 3-5. For levels 6-10 and Diamond, there are head event coaches who set the plans for their assigned...
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    Women Xcel Diamond Vault

    A strong handspring vault can work for Diamond. After competing yurchenkos at level 8, my daughter refused to do flipping vaults in Diamond. She wanted to protect her ankles for track and field and knew that her yurchenko was inconsistent. She also had the "benefit" of many years of handsprings...
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    Coaches Games at practice

    Stickers and small cheap prizes they can win for moving series or acro up to high beam on "game day." Brought in a portable speaker to the beam area and played games of how many series can stick during the song etc Coloring sheets and crayons and designated how they can color based on...
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    Parents Favorite meet gift?

    My daughter's favorites, that she still uses post college graduation, were pajama pants and a beach towel. Both went with her to college and will now make the journey with her to her first full-time job!
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    Parents Changed gyms

    That coach seems beyond petty. I choreograph routines, I get paid for said choreography, the routine now belongs to the kid. Over the past 30 plus years I have experienced kids moving on to another gym and competing the routine that I choreographed. It was not a big deal to me, because I...
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    Parents Senior celebrations?

    We recognize seniors at the banquet, which is specifically scheduled around the seniors' obligations. This means it normally happens before the end of the school year. Each senior gets a special gift (changes very year), a plaque, a coach says a few words about them, and then they give their...
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    Coaches Coach gift ideas

    I really love getting a framed photo of the team and/or a personal note from gymnasts. Aside from photos, a couple of gifts that have stood out over time were an engraved cool looking clock for my desk and a nice stop watch (no longer as needed with iPhones etc. but back in the day I loved it)...
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    Parents Finish Times (Late Workouts)

    Practice times for us vary by level. 8-10 tends to come 3:00 - 7:00 or 7:30 depending on the day. Levels 4-7 and Xcel have practices that run either 4:00-8:00 or 5:00 - 9:00 or somewhere in between those times depending on the day. The late end time is not ideal for kids or coaches, but it is...
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    Women Lowest score?

    My daughter got a 6 something on level 4 bars after falling three or four times (maybe more, I lost count) on the squat on. I am not sure why the bar coach didn't have her climb up after the first or at least second fall, but she kept trying. I (coach but not bar coach) kept saying just climb...
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    Coaches Ideas for what to do during floor routine practice?

    We have several side stations including arm thru routines (gymnasts do just the arm movements from their routine); mini-dance thru where they walk thru the dance of their routines in a small space focusing on details; leap stations; turn stations; sometimes tramp drills if one of the tramps is...
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    Coaches Usag certs and compensation

    As an employment lawyer (but not offering specific legal advice here) I would have concerns that there are FLSA implications for not compensating hourly employees for time spent obtaining certifications required by the employer. I believe that this time would count as hours worked under the FLSA...
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    Parents Low to high score progression

    My daughter scored a 36 only once in two years of level 4 when she happened to get a really high bars score and somehow stayed on the beam in the same meet. Never scored a 36 in level 5 - best score was probably a low 35. Once she started level 6 things she started scored over 36 consistently -...
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    Parents DP or Xcel?

    My daughter switched over to Xcel Diamond after one season of level 8, and has no regrets about the 5 days a week life she lived for levels 6-8. She says that she had the best time in the gym during those years with her best friends, and because she had such a solid foundation she was able to...
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    Coaches Tuition for your own child

    I did not pay tuition for my DD but did pay meet fees etc. However, I was paid a very low hourly rate for my coaching (think a couple of dollars above minimum wage) while my DD was in the program. Coaching is not my fulltime job - it is what I do for fun. So getting free tuition and a little...
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    Parents Favorite meet gift?

    My daughter's favorite was always pajama pants that were given out at a particular meet. She was always disappointed if that meet wasn't on her gym's meet schedule. She still wears them all now!
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