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Hi all, I found this board when looking into reviews for summer camps. Finally got around to joining up and looking forward to learning and helping where I can. My sweat pea competed level 5 this past year and is training 6/7. I'm learning as she grows and am looking forward to learning...

Shoot me now. DD is having gymnastics camp this week from 9am to 5pm. I normally get off work at 4:30, but camp is 2 towns over from my office. So I make sure with the boss that it's okay I leave 15 minutes early to get to the gym on time. Fine. No problem. I'm patting myself on the...

Hi everyone, I thought I would introduce myself. I'm a mom to three girls, but only one gymnast. She is my youngest and when she was a toddler she was a busy bumblebee and I wanted to find something for her to be involved in that would burn off some of her excess energy. At age 3, we started her...

So my daughter is almost 4. She does well at gymnastics and really enjoys herself. I was told by her gym today that her coach won't be advancing her because "she's too short"...... Really!?! I feel I need to have a chat with her coach but I don't want to be a crazy mom type. I would accept...

Gym'sgirl Mom, I bought the Ginnasta Grips for DD. She used them last night and LOVED them!! She said she will only wear those bc they never slipped!! I just wanted to Thank You! From a girl who hated to grips to finally finding ones she loves is a miracle! Again Thank You!!

Hi there, Newbie mom here. Can you suggest what kind of shorts I should get for my daughter to protect her upper thighs on the bars? She's been complaining about how the bars rub against her thighs and make them hurt. Her coach suggested shorts. I got her cotton biker shorts to wear over her...

My daughter is 4 and in rec classes. She has just about all of her level one skills and some of her level two ones. Team evaluations are this week at our gym and today was her first class for this week. She has been working towards making a team all season and today she went out there and did...

I was bored and missing gymnastics over spring break so I was re-watching my old meet videos. My dad was the one videotaping while my mom (unknowingly) entertained all the parents in the stands with her monologue that I could then hear when I watched my meet on the camera. Even though my mom...

Many of you may have read this already, but I wanted to share Rita Wieber's blog she recently wrote about tough vs. abusive coaching, what it looks like, and what to do about it. It seems to me that in gymnastics, there can be such a fine line between "tough" and "abusive", and it can be hard to...

I've been taking TL (19months) to a mommy and me class for about a month, I love the people/coach but it's not really what I thought it would be so I'm wondering if my expectations were wrong or if I should take the time to look at some of the other gyms around. This is what a class involves-...

My 5 year old started gymnastics in September and is loving it. She is so close to getting her round off back handspring back tuck alone. She can do it on the tumble trak. She has been working so hard. She wanted to get it before she turns 6 in a few weeks but I told it, it will come when it...

There is a girl on DD's team that has been continually up trained 2 levels above but the mom refuses to have her compete at those levels and wants her to compete a level below where the coaches would like to place her. It is extremely frustrating because my DD is in her age group. Obviously she...

Hi everyone! I am a relative new gym mom. I have a 4 year old DD on pre-team level 2. She seems to have a natural ability for gymnastics, but I will admit, her life does not revolve around gymnastics. I know that she is very young, so I don't push her at all. She loves the gym and learning new...

Hello all! This will be long winded, as I am a new gym mom floundering around trying to figure things out as we go. I have two girls, ages 10 and 12, both of whom are new to the sport. Both girls have been dancing for many years, and recently (1.5 yrs for the little & 5 months for the big)...

So my dd recently a level 4 gymnast has had a lot of trouble getting consistency on her back hip circle on bars consistently. She has a perfect routine one minute but then it can be a total mess the next where she loses all control on the bars and is risking injuring herself. Her coach is...

Hello all. I have a beautiful Level 2 gymnast . We live in PA. she absolutely loves this sport, but has a self confidence issue that I hope will be taken care of this summer at IGC. No matter what I say to her, shes negative about her gymnastics. anyways. Glad to be part of this forum as I can...

I just have to know. Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one in the gym that feels this way because I do not see any emotion in any of the other moms. But when another child in the gym, (doesnt have to be your child), cries because she cannot perfect a move, or gets hurt...does any other Mom or...

Hi all, I'm a Newbie mom here, and my daughter's been begging to take gymnastics classes for years. She's 8 1/2 now, and has taken dance classes since 2yrs, and figure skating since 5 years. Graceful and athletic (soccer since 5yrs, too). We had her in 6 months of gymnastics classes at 6...

DD is in the 4-6 year-old group of pre-team (has been since fall) and last time her coach told me she needed to do a backward roll flip on the bars (I think??? DH takes her 90% of the time, so I'm not sure of all the terms) in order to advance. Tonight she did it!!! We had a make-up session...

So, I just saw a couple episodes of Dance Moms for the first time today. Wow... Abbey Lee Miller is literally the WORST coach I've ever seen. I'm a new aspiring coach, and watching this show has basically shown me what not to do while coaching. Even though this is for dance, and not gymnastics...