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    Men Moved to Regional (Canada) - practice during school hours

    We are also in Canada but I’m not sure what “regional” means. Is that like interclub? I’m only familiar with provincial / national streams. All the boys at my son’s gym train during daytime hours (1-5pm). Most boys at his gym attend schools that accommodate this type of schedule. He’s 16 now...
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    Parents Is Competitive Gymnastics different at each club?

    I’m not an expert by any means either but my daughter did level 6 at age 10 (age 11 for competition purposes) and she was still on the younger side. There were some super strong girls doing 6 at age 12 and up too. I don’t think they need to rush to 6 at all. Ideally the girls are learning skills...
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    Parents Is Competitive Gymnastics different at each club?

    My daughter was also underage her first year competing. She was 6, but 7 for competition age. They get medals/ribbons depending on their placement but we never saw her scores. Level 6 by age 9 is extremely rare in Ontario. It was more common pre-covid. It’s not even a goal for most gyms so I...
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    Parents Is Competitive Gymnastics different at each club?

    I'm from Ontario but a different part of the province. I would say Oakville, Burlington and Manjaks all have strong reputations but personally I don't know anything about their coaching styles. I don't have experience with ODP either, just OCP. My daughter competed levels 2, 4, 5, 6 and will do...
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    Parents Competitive Gymnastics tuition costs

    We are also in Canada. We pay as follows for two different gyms, which is why there’s a big difference in the fees based on hours: MAG - 24 hours / week $655/m WAG - 25 hours / week $890/m It’s really a lot but your fees do seem high for 4-6 hours per week. A lot might depend on your city but...
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    Parents Canadian gymnastics

    Xcel is newer here but we do have it. Otherwise, our provincial program follows the JO/development levels. We definitely have fewer competitions than it seems you do in the US. Scores can be found on the gymnastics Ontario site under “results”. They used to be easily accessible in beyond the...
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    Men Home Training

    My son is too busy getting a PhD in fortnite to bother working out at home His coach sent out a conditioning program but he hasn’t actually done any of it. He will do chin ups and play on the trampoline, but that’s it for now. Bought him a pommel trainer thing (called the colt) because we had...
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    Age category changes - Gymnastics Ontario and Gymnastics Canada

    I'm very amused at the fact that I could potentially be an 'expert'.. hahahaha. I feel like I've been navigating in the dark for a couple years, but because of that, I've become very familiar with some GymCan and GO technical documents! I'm super impressed that you even emailed them to ask about...
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    Age category changes - Gymnastics Ontario and Gymnastics Canada

    My son is similarly impacted. He was too young to compete level 3 last year due to his fall birthday and now suddenly he’s considered to be two years older for competition purposes and will compete as a 12 year old rather than a 10 year old. It will impact him even more for level 4 the following...
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    Men his own worst critic

    My kid is the same. He has only had two meets and he isn’t doing as well as he thought he would and he has been making lots of mistakes on things he’s otherwise extremely strong. I’ve tried to talk him through some of it by having him set some goals (as described above) for the next meet. Like...
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    Parents Informal poll - What does your gym require for volunteer work for parents?

    We have to volunteer for 48 hours per year (number is based on how many hours per week your gymnast trains X 3, but kids who train 6 hours or less don't trigger volunteer requirements) or pay a penalty of $20/hr. Purchasing food/drinks to be sold at meets also counts towards the hours. We are...
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    Parents 2 on Team?!?!?

    My son is competitive but my girls are in developmental programs (I guess similar to pre-team?). The 4 year old is in WAG and the 7 year old is in Trampoline. We got a discount for having 3 in annual programs. My son is there 16 hours a week (M,T,Th,S), one girl is there Friday and the other...
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    Men Any Boy YouTubers?

    My son had a YouTube channel where he did a few “instructional” type “how to do a backflip” videos but it soon disintegrated into long and unfocused clips of him and his friends doing things like “the lemon challenge” He does follow some channels that are male gymnast focused so I’ll see what...
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    Which day to go for men’s events?

    My husband is actually from montreal so I don't know why he's suddenly afraid to drive there. We're coming from Ottawa. He'll end his work day early, grab the kid from school after lunch and they'll hopefully get there a bit early. This works out perfectly since my son's birthday is on Wednesday...
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    Which day to go for men’s events?

    Thank you! I’ll get tickets for Thursday. My husband is dreading the drive into Montreal during rush hour but he’ll survive!
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