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I am relatively new to WAG. I have a MAG competitor....Night and Day!! Once the routines change, is USAG trying to eliminate the need for Xcel? Or will this still be part of track B (if you will)? I fugure that with the added L6 L7 L8 it gives more room for girls to be part of the JO program...

I'm trying to find out if a gym needs special equipment to train high level 9-10 gymnasts. Is a pit with loose foam required for advanced bar and beam work? Or can a gym get away with not having that equipment. I'm concerned about safety and how a lack of proper equipment can impact progression...

I know that this is a bit of an off topic comment, but I can assure you that most gyms are not making much (if any) money on their team programs. Most of the kids that stick with gymnastics through high school are team kids, paying a drastically reduced (per hour, compared to a rec kid) tuition...

Hi everyone! I have some questions and hopefully you'll have some advice for me! I took over the head coach position at my rec gym for the girls level 4 team. Our girls had a nice fall season, but didn't really place well over the competitive area I'm in (West Texas & Dallas areas). We...

:DIn a good way!!! My ds is only a level 4 but we have seen a huge increase in our boys program. We have added another coach and it's great to see the enthusiasm and talent growing on that side of our gym! I am lucky to have a boy and a girl in a gym with strong programs. Love boys gymnastics!!!

Has any gym owner/coach used the Resilite holiday gift program? I like the margins for the owners but all our equipment is AAI/TumblTrak. Would hate to sell something that isn't high quality. Any experience with the company would be appreciated.

Hi Everyone, I was wondering if the board members can help shed some light on this for me. In every club I have worked at so far, there has always been a team director, but they never did much more than some basic administration towards getting kids signed up for meets and handling some fees...

Does anyone have a copy of the 2013 CPP? I need to know requirements and such before competition season! My gym hasn't recieved it yet- they don't even have the 2012 verision. Thanks in advance.

We are looking to grow our program by starting an Xcel program that will run alongside our JO program. The most sensitive issue is that we are trying to to present it as lightly as possible when moving kids in that direction and we already have some girls in mind who would clearly benefit from...

How would one go about starting an Acro program? What are the necessary materials and knowledge base, and where can I acquire one? How can I find competitions? Anything else I should know?

In our area it seems that there are either elite gyms or gyms that run a decent program but show up to meets looking like the "Bad News Bears". There is nothing in between. My daughter is not an olympic caliber gymnast but she has gymnastics in her heart and works her butt off. She very rarely...

We are trying to revamp our class schedule to meet the growing demands of our gym. We are almost getting more students than we can handle, which is not a bad problem to have, but we want to make sure we are being as efficient as possible. Our gym is not that big (1 set of bars, 1 high beam, 3...

Does anyone here do the Xcel program at their gym? It seems like this is starting to become the new trend. I'm worried it might take over the Girls Competitive program if we add it. Anyone have any thoughts or suggestions for this?

I read on another gymnastics forum that the Canadian provincial programs will or may be changing to align with the USA's JO program. Has anyone up here heard that? Does anyone know if it would be the rest of Canada that is different from Ontario, or just Ontario or what? And where would one...

Hello, I have been on this forum for a few months...some of my previous posts were "reality check on switching gyms", and possibly moving to a "tumbling exhibition" team instead of doing a formal gymnastics program. We tried two different gyms but both of them had a "Russian" focus with...

My husband wants to pull our DD out of the TOPs program. She is struggling with some fear issues and has lost some of her skills - will only do layout fly-away when coach is in view, does cartwheel backtuck off beam now instead of roundoff backtuck, afraid to do back walkover back handspring on...

I've checked the forums here, googled it and looked it up on the usag website but I can't seem to get a good picture of excactly what the Xcel program is (ie how works and how it differs from the JO program). Our gym is going to start one of these programs and I'm trying (from a booster club...

I have a few questions about the J.O. Program (for WAG) that I'm hoping someone can answer! Firstly, can someone give just a general overview of the way the program works? I've read the USAG website but it's a little complex for a newbie like me. Secondly, how do girls qualify up a level? I...

The team coaches want Joscelyn who is 5 to wait until she is level 7 to actually start competing. They want her to train on the tops program and do the testing until that time. I don't want her to lose interest having to wait until she is at least 7, but the coaches seem to think time spent on...

Hello. I have a few questions about future stars and the new JO program coming soon. First let me say that my son is 7 and is on the preteam level 3. He has been in gymnastics for a year and loves it. He is very strong and pretty flexible to. He almost has his forward and side splits. (i guess...