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    Parents Dance and Gymnastics?

    Mine has done both gymnastics and competitive dance for the past three years. Gymnastics is 16 hours/week (L7) and dance is 10 hours/week. She is also at an academically rigorous private school with a good amount of homework, so it’s a lot. We’ve been trying to get her to chose one or at least...
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    Parents Axis Board for ankles?

    My daughter (L7) tends to have kind of sloppy landings. She doesn’t stumble all over or anything. It’s just that she generally has some sort of wobble or slide of the feet that prevents a true stick even when she feels like the landing was clean. Would a balance board designed for ankle...
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    Women Y Scale on Beam

    Does anyone know the value of a y scale on beam (DP)? Thanks!
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    Parents Day after competition

    I haven’t noticed that with my gymnast, but I’m always amazed at how drained I am the day of or after a meet - even if it’s not a travel meet.
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    Women Bra Under Comp Leos

    My daughter always gets her mesh leotard sleeves lined with a nude liner. She says it’s much more comfortable and warmer that way. She doesn’t wear a bra, but it would also address that concern.
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    Women Changing Bar Settings?

    Is it common to have a gymnast practice on different bar settings based on who is in the practice group that day? My daughter is just putting her giants on the bar set and she’s only comfortable doing them on the wider setting, but it seems like about half the time she has to go on the closer...
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    Parents Giants

    My daughter has picked up her giants pretty quickly, but sometimes she doesn’t quite get over without a tap from the coach and sometimes she loosens her body at the top instead of staying tight. Are there any drills or conditioning exercises she could do at home to help address this? Any other...
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    Parents L7 Floor Requirements

    Thank you, both! That is very helpful. So how do I know if she has enough A and B elements? My understanding is that for L7 floor you need 5 As and 2 Bs, but I don’t know which things count elements or how they’re valued.
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    Parents L7 Floor Requirements

    As a parent, I was very familiar with the compulsory routines/requirements, but I find the optional requirements confusing because I don’t know the value of most elements. Does this routine work for L7 floor? RO, BHS, LO FHS, FT Switch leap, straddle jump (do both have to hit 180, or just...
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    Parents How to know when a mental block is not going to go away.

    Your daughter’s situation sounds very similar to a close friend of my DD. This gymnast is also a talented dancer and she’s decided to forego this competition season and reduce her hours at the gym in favor of dance. She is still going to work out with the team about 10-12 hours a week and plans...
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    Women Same music different routine?

    My DD wants to use the same floor music as she had last year, but with new choreography. I feel like that could be confusing especially under pressure. Has anyone done this or is it not recommended? Thanks!
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    Gymnasts Leotard for team tryout?

    Agree that it probably won’t matter, but I would go for the third one. I wouldn’t wear a leo from another gym unless it was a meet or camp leo. In my experience, gymnastics isn’t like dance where plain leotards are preferred. That being said, make sure you wear what makes you feel comfortable...
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    Parents Grips while learning kip

    At my daughter’s gym, they put the girls in grips before they get their kip. My daughter got her grips in 2020, so it’s been awhile, but I think they told us that they didn’t want the girls to have to relearn their kip with grips.
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    Parents Should we switch gyms?

    So here is how I see it. We could debate all day on what scores, skills, form, etc. kids “should” have to move up to L5, but that’s not really the problem here. If you can objectively say that the coaches are moving up girls who aren’t scoring as high on bars as your gymnast and aren’t...
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    Coaches Coaching compulsory children with ADHD

    @raenndrops Can you describe the tape position a little bit more? I think this could potentially help my DD, but I’m really bad at visualizing things. Thanks!
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