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Good Morning. First time poster here. My 10 year old daughter just started taking gymnastics class in January. After realizing her natural ability and love for it we asked about competitive gymnastics. Unfortunately the gym we are at only invites children at a younger age. We decided to...

My daughter is 15, almost 16 and currently XCEL Platinum. She is considering switching to JO (I know it's called something else now but I still say JO) next season. So, she would have to score out of level 4 and 5, correct? Then if she has all her level 7 skills, can she skip level 6 and go to...

Need advice on picking a program. So we are new to all of this. My dd is 6 and originally joined preteam at an Xcel gym. She has all the required skills for silver but needs to be more consistent getting over the mat for vaulting. Shortly after joining pre team at this gym she was asked to join...

Hi- my daughter is 6 and has been on preteam for a couple of years. Shes able to join jo level 3 with her skills this fall. The practice schedule though would be 3 days/week and about 3 hours each class. This schedule seems like alot and I know shes not dedicated enough to want to do that. (*...

Hi. I have a kid at my gym who is 9 years old and she just finished competing her first season of Xcel Diamond. She is already excelling out of the diamond program. She is starting to throw BHS LO LO on beam and double backs on floor. We are unsure what we can do to help her continue to grow...

I know there are various reasons in general to move JO optionals to the fall, but I’m thinking now might be just the time to do it. Regardless of how this thing plays out, it will likely take the athletes some time to get their skills back, and maybe it would be safer to have the next season...

Just heard from our coach that nationals have been cancelled. I am sure they will send out more info later on whether or not they are trying to see about rescheduling. But for now, the word is, cancelled.

Our 14 yo daughter had a late start in gymnastics but fell in love and progressed fairly quickly. She competed Xcel up through Platinum last year, and over summer was "graduated" to JO Optionals. So far, she competed one lvl 4 meet, and then one lvl 5. She did well on scores and now is...

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My DD is in xcel silver, she wants to move to JO to go farther in her gymnastics. She is really old for her skill level so she worries about if it’s worth it. She’s 13, and according to the required skills, she will be sitting about at level three or four once she gets her round off back hand...

Was is start value of these vaults as a level 10 / JO: Yurchenko Layout Yurchenko Layout 1/2 Yurchenko Layout full

I am asking this for a friend. Her daughter has done two years as a level six. Done fairly well, has some upgraded skills, would say she is in the middle skillwise. The child would like to do less practice time now that high school has hit, and is lucky the gym has xcel available and waiting...

Good day, My daughter just completed Level 4 and is ready for Level 5 except for her kip cast hands. Her Coach says getting her to get to 45 degrees would be a nightmare. Coach wants to move her to Xcel Gold in order to avoid this skill and begin training kip straddle handstand in order to do...

My 9 year old recently joined the JO team at her gym. She will be competing level 3 this year and is with girls who have been on preteam for several years. Her background is just a couple years of rec classes. She insisted this was something she wanted to do and I know she IS capable. Now, one...

Hello We’re new to gymnastics. My 11yr old daughter is about to start her first competition season in level 3. While we’re hapoy for her we are a bit concerned that we will not be able to keep up financially. When she was invited to join Pre Team I asked a lot of questions and was told in total...

Hi all. I'm new to this group. We live in Alaska and our only gym recently converted to Xcel only, partly because the gyms we compete with have also gone this route. My middle school daughter was really hoping to do gymnastics in college (not necessarily a scholarship, but that would be nice...

Hello! I’m am currently an xcel gymnast, and competed xcel platinum last season and I’m training diamond. I started gymnastics at the age of 3, and the gym that I started at didn’t have jo, so I started in the xcel program and continued with it. Although I have just completed platinum, I have...

Hi all, Would just appreciate your thoughts and feedback. My dd is 14 (just turned this year) and will be starting high school in the fall. She had several injuries last year (fractured ankle, fractured knee, sprained ankle, sprained toe, and constant back pain- doctor says a ring around her...

My daughter will be going into 1st grade. She has been doing gymnastics since she was 2. She was asked to be on the JO L3 team last year and I turned it down because she was going to be entering full-day kindergarten too. She repeated pre-3 this past year at 3 hrs a week. Now the decision is...

My 9 year old daughter has been doing gymnastics recreationally, once a week, for about 2 years. She recently joined the Xcel team at her gym and was ready to move up to level 4 in the rec classes before she joined Xcel. She's been insisting she wants to do JO so I pushed and the JO coaches...