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My optional Gymnast is finally old enough to play modified sports. He wants to do a fall sport and a spring sport. Any advice on how to handle both? It would be so much easier if they could somehow incorporate a ball into gymnastics!

My dd is 15, and has never had time for boys and crushes and all that the dating world entails, since she has gym 6 days a week. She liked gym more than boys anyway. Then we switched to a gym with a large MAG team. Suddenly, there is a boy at the gym who has caught her eye, and she gets to...

My 9 year old son will be going to Flip Fest next month and I could use some advice from parents who boys have gone to camp before. I feel silly even asking, but I am a bit worried about how he will manage at camp ;) My son would probably be totally okay (and it might not even occur to him, ha!)...

This might be a little tmi and my son would be mad if he knew I was asking but it's driving me crazy.... What kind of underwear is best? It seems like my son is always messing with his while in the gym. We don't see it at home so I know it's not a wrong size issue. Thanks!

Woops! I just went to check the Top 100 and see if my DD had been bumped off yet, and the rankings are all messed up from boys scores being added (since their scores are so much higher). They bumped all the girls off. Like this, for example...

My son is 8 (almost 9). He has done gym for almost 3 years, pre-T, level 4 and level 5. Sometimes, I swear he just doesn't have what it takes to be competitive. He is not a terrible gymnast, he has a lot of his level 6 skills even. For some reason though, when he competes, he is a mess. Will he...

It is that time of year where us parents and families can give something to the coaches who work so tirelessly with our children. You work all week, travel to meets, deal with their nonsense.....You get them to do AMAZING things when I cant even get them to pick up their room!!LOL What do you...

Out of pure curiosity, I'm wondering if anyone is familiar with any famous gyms in Japan that focus on boys' competitive gymnastics. My husband is from Japan, and I often think about how fun it might be to spend the summer there. Since Japan's men's team is strong, it could be a good opportunity...

Semi random... Was surfing around some former national team listings and came across the gym name "CTC". I was thinking this was just the Colorado Training Center where senior team resident members like John Orozco train, but then I noticed there were junior members listed in past years, and so...

Boys gymnastics conditioning question. My boys team currently only goes three days a week as I have responsibilities coaching girls optional team too( and their are a lot more of the then my whole boys team). The boys go wed, sat and Sunday. I'm looking for the most effecient conditioning...

With the boys' competition season coming to an end soon, I am looking for a new team for my son. I have been looking most closely at Capital Gymnastics NTC in Burke and Apollo Gymnastics in Woodbridge. Both seem to have strong programs and, not unimportant given the traffic in my area, are...

DS is six and is doing his second year of a one hour rec class. At his age he spends half his time in class pretending to be a Ninja or rescuing people from the "pit monster", but he also really loves the gymnastics. Now that his older sister is on the Xcel team he's been asking me when he can...

My 2 boys are asking for compression shirts for practice. There has to be a more cost effective option than 40-70$ on GK and GK under armour. Are there are cheaper sites?

I've been asked to coach a young beginning boys class once a week for an hour. I can't not seem to keep the boys attention no matter what I do! Boys are so much different than girls. I don't even know where to beginning. In short the entire hour is spent yelling the boys names to even listen to...

And a toddler aged girl, who had best pick a cheaper sport. As a family, 2015-16 will be our 5th competition season. I know so little about gymnastics I am not even dangerous. But, I guess I know more than I did 5 years ago!

I have also posted this in the WAG forum but I wanted some feedback from you MAG people too! So it's that time again we are thinking of coming to the US for our kids to compete, I went to presidential classic this year and what was a very good meet for girls the boys side was low and not much...

So it's that time again we are thinking of coming to the US for our kids to compete, I went to presidential classic this year and what was a very good meet for girls the boys side was low and not much of a challenge for the boys This time I am looking all over the US not just Florida, what...

Spin off from another thread. I am wondering what is the "normal" ratio of number of girls team (ish - could include team track, TOPS, etc) to boys team members around the country. I know that in any successful gym the recreational program will be the largest and the place a gym makes the...

We are combining boys with girls this year for our invitational meet. Any gifts that boys have enjoyed at meets? I have girls in the sport...I know what they like! But have never been to a boys meet! Thanks!!

So I know that "mens" gymnastics peaks a bit later, but when do boys start training/competing? My son is 5 (April birthday) and loves gymnastics (we did basketball camp last week and he was doing cartwheels on the side lines) and wants to start doing twice a week (and recognizes that his...