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I've been watching a few youtube videos to see the national grade 3 beam requirements. I notice that some sit on the beam before the russian lever, and some go straight into it. But my googling also turned this up, but I don't quite understand the way it is written...

My 8 year old daughter has been complaining on and off for about a month about knee pain. We think she injured it working on her front tuck. Three weeks ago I took her to the doctor and they said the knee was inflamed. Told us to ice it, give ibuprofen, and rest it. We did that but continued...

I was researching gyms on mymeetscores.com, and some of them have levels of 33,34, etc. what does that mean? Evidentally a lot has changes since I've been in the gymnastics world!!!!

I've had people ask me why its called that and I haven't been able to even make an educated guess. Can anyone tell me why its called that? Are there other sports that have a JO classification, too?

I was just nosing at the startlists for the English Championships (getting excited) and noticed the abbreviation RB against some of the entrants. I may be being stupid (it is Saturday night) but I can't work out what it means. Can anybody put me out of my misery?

What does DD mean?

I have had 3 different coaches at different times and separately tell me that my dd (who just turned 7) will be a better optional than compulsory. The first time was last year and by a coach who has 30+ years of gymnastics coaching experience. At the time, I felt it was a compliment. Then the...

I know this has been discussed before, but I need some advice. DD is 8 and there are two girls in her level that are already showing signs of "mean girl" behavior eventhough they are even younger than DD. DD came home with hurt feelings last night, although I was proud of her for standing up...

What would you think of a HC telling an 11 year old that she's a disappointment? She just competed L4 and is working L5 skills plus giants on the strap bar. She apparently wasn't making the nice hollow shape.

My 6 yr old DD has been in gymnastics for a year now. Her progress has been amazing to this untrained and completely biased eye of mine.... But I often am left wondering, what is it that her coaches are able to see in her that they find so special related to her gymnastics ability? Obviously she...

Both of my DDs are on the same team (level 4) and there are only 9 girls including them, so it's pretty small. There is another girl, same age, same ability and during the meets they all trade between 1st,2nd & 3rd place. This other girl has gotten very mean and snotty to my daughters' to the...

My gymmie is my oldest child, so I don't have much experience dealing with the "mean girls" out there. My DD is the youngest in her training group, but not by much. The other girls are 1-3 years older. Recently, almost every practice she comes home and complains that some of the girls are...

I have been thinking about posts I read on here recently about running and vaulting. As I was driving by the high school track this morning, I thought to myself..... My daughter is not the slowest or fastest runner. But the only time she really runs much is the conditioning run before...

I have seen this word come up on Chalk Bucket before and wondered what it means and how it relates to gymnastics. Does it relate to some sort of level or some sort of set routine within a level, sorry if it seems like a silly question, I really don't have much idea about the "other side of...

How do you deal with mean teammates? There are some teammates I know who say one of their their teammates is bad, pushes them to the ground, sits on them, takes advantage of them, and are not encouraging at all. One if their teammates who has been bullied for months just quit because they...

Hi, only my 2nd post here. My DD asked me what "GK" means because her coach exclaimed "GK" when DD did her splits as directed by coach. She thinks it was a compliment but didn't know what it meant. Only thing I could think of was "Gym kid." Anybody know what she meant?

I was looking on "mymeetscores.com" and for when you look at some gymnasts levels, some of them say GL, POI, SI, and 7s6. What do these mean?

Sometimes I'll be looking at scores sheets and there will be this box that says "range." It says like, for scores 9.5-10 the range is .2. What does this mean and how does it affect a score? Thanks!

My daughter trains in a high-level group of little girls (ages 8-10). They are competitive and talented children. My dd is 8 and holds her own but definitely is a half step behind the older girls (though ahead of where they were at the same age). I talked to the coach a while ago about one...

A few months ago I began feeling a huge amount of back pain in my lower back, especially when i was tumbling. I ignored it, telling myself to suck it up and stop being a wimp. I eventually told my mom and she took me to a physical therapist who diagnosed it as a stress fracture in my lower back...