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    New video uploaded

    She looks good, especially on floor! She did a really good job with the choreography and connecting the elements. Thanks for sharing.
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    New Mom

    That video is great, E thinks it's hilarious.
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    Parents Too young to leave?

    Yeah, they just kind of let the kids wander out at this gym, which is strange because they pay so much attention to them in class! I just needed to change to view it as my responsibility to be there at the end of class to catch him as he comes hurtling out. The snack area is just outside the...
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    holding sticks on beam?

    That makes much more sense--these girls were about 12-14 so the balance thing seemed wrong. Thankfully, I watch enough gymnastics to know what you're talking about with the open posture, etc. Thanks!
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    holding sticks on beam?

    Just a silly question-- was at the preschooler's gym class and noticed a class of the older girls on beam holding 2ft sticks above their heads with their hands twisted around backward. How come they were doing this? My best guess was that they were learning to balance without airplane or...
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    New Mom

    I'm a little late saying hi but I wanted to wave to you. I'm the gym taxi (and 20 years older sister) for another preschool gymnast just getting into the "big" gym. E will be four in October but he'd love to live in the gym as well. He told me he wants to go eleven times a week, so I think...
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    Well hello! (warning, you may not like me)

    Mattie Larson is awesome-- And once I read that you were a boy the rest of the post made much more sense. Welcome.
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    Home-decorated gym shirts!

    E was jealous of the girls' pretty leotards, so on a suggestion from gymdog we made our own: (Falling out of a rare headstand (I know they're not good for his little spine)--note the upside down name) Because "Go" is one of the three words he can spell. I suggested this thinking...
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    Where are the other little boys?

    MdGymMom01 -- we're in MD, too, in northern Baltimore County. It's nice to see another family with a little boy doing gymnastics. My little brother has good body awareness but is hopeless with a ball or stick so gymnastics seemed like it might be a fit for him. Plus his aunt was a fairly...
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    olympics trouble

    Isn't that only the case if the gymnastics are shown live, in their entirety? In my experience watching olympics the events are nearly always taped and then edited down. You'll need to check the website for the network to see when they're actually showing the event as opposed to when it's...
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    Parents Too young to leave?

    On this topic I just had to tell this story-- my little brother is 3.5 and I had to use the bathroom for almost the entire class, but hate public restrooms and was trying to wait. The what I thought was a 45-min. class was running to 50, and I thought perhaps I had the time wrong and had the...
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    Where are the other little boys?

    I really appreciate your answers, gymdog, and I'm glad to hear from an outside coach that the attention/skill bar is fairly low at this level. I don't want him to have a lot of pressure, but at the same time, I totally don't want him to be a total class disrupter. In other words, I don't mind...
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    Where are the other little boys?

    Thanks, it's helpful to hear that eventually there will be more boys. He does not really care whether it's all girls or not. The main problem is that, like many boys his age, he's much less concerned about doing what the others are doing. Girls latch onto that earlier, at least from what...
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    Where are the other little boys?

    My little brother (3.5) has been playing with gymnastics for a while, and since we saw he was pretty serious about staying with it (for a three-year-old), we are now sending him to a real gymnastics gym. He's in a toddler class, and is obviously very beginner, but there is not one other little...
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