quitting

Hello All. I am a mom to a wonderful daughter who is practicing a level six with optionals this year. Over the summer she had mentioned wanting a break - and we didn't give her one. The coaches are always so against it. She has been complaining and dreading going to gym the last several...

Hello, I am writing this post in question of wether to quit. I am a 13 year old level 5 (also there is no way I could or want to be elite or collage) For the past 6 months I have been dreading going to practice. But in the past month I never ever want to go to practice, I have been...

http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/parenting/the-real-reason-why-our-kids-quit-sport/story-fnet08ui-1226645601355 saw this article and just thought i'd share it as I'm sure statistics would be true for gymnastics if not a higher drop out rate

Dd, who just turned 7, is training new level 4 on our club's training team. She takes ice skating lessons once a week for fun. I really wanted her just learn how to skate, but she has progressed rapidly through the levels. We live in a northern state where kids skate shortly after they walk. So...

I am a 14 year old xcel gold gymnast. I've done gymnastics for almost 6 years yet I haven't really became a good gymnast. I work so hard in practice but its just like I never get any better or get new skills. I've gone through several injuries that have kept me from tumbling; I am currently...

My 10 yr old daughter has been in gymnastics since 5 yrs old. She quickly showed a talent for it and progressed very quickly, joining the team and started competing in 1st grade. We are not in the US so the system is very different. She loved it and couldn't get to the gym fast enough! She has...

My dd is almost 7. She has never competed and is training 9-12 hours per week for level 3/4. She LOVES practice and her coaches but absolutely does not want to compete - only wants to train. So much so, in fact, that she would rather quit than compete. She says that she doesn't want to go...

My dd is 11 years old and level 9. She's progressed quickly, but right now she is having trouble. Last season she had a block on her bhs bhs bb series. She is working towards getting it and has done it quite consistently lately. All of a sudden now, she has a fear of doing her giants and...

My daughter just turned 10 and is training for the new level 6. She competed level 6 this year. She had a hard year. She had fear issues for months, broke the same bone twice and came back. Now it's time to switch up to the optional program (summer training hours) and she's getting cold...

My friend used to love gymnastics. All parts of it. She, maybe almost three months ago said that she wanted to get so good that she could compete as a level ten. Just today, she started out in a great mood and then settled into a bad mood. She says all she likes is floor and so she just wants to...

I just don't know where I'm going in gymnastics. I love it but I'm not sure if the time put in to being on team is worth it...cheer me up and tell me your favorite thing about gymnastics.....doing your back tuck or staying at the same hotels as your teammates for meets or some inside joke that...

Should i? I have been having HORRIBLE practices all month. I come home with headaches and im just in so much pain. Everything i do i fail and somehow manage to hurt something. I hate it and love it so much. I don't know what to do. Whenever someone looks at me im walking on my hands or doing...

I'M FREAKING OUT. I think I got a stress fracture and I've already broken my elbow once from gymnastics. I started in August and am a level 4. (I'm fourteen) My parents started reading about the injuries, back problems, possible paralysis, and possible eventual arthritis. GYMNASTICS IS MY LIFE...

Hello, I'm here looking for some advice. My DD just turned 6 (2 weeks ago) and is in level 1 gymnastics. She's been in gymnastics since age 2 and always seemed to love it. Last night she told DH and I that she wants to quit. She's been sick on and off for the past month, and her gym was...

Dd 5 is on the developmental team. She got bumped up to hour and a half twice a week at the beginning of summer. She's been going an hour twice a week over a year now. She has started saying she doesn't want to go because it's hard work, makin her tired, or she wants to stay home because she...

I've always told both my gymnasts that continuing to do gymnastics is their choice, that when it stops being fun is the time to reconsider. Ds has been ambivalent for a few months, saying that gym "is no fun anymore" and flip flopping between continuing one day and then quitting the next day...

My dd is 14, level 9/10. She is supposed to compete level 10 next season. She seems to be very conflicted. She says she doesn't want to quit but she also doesn't want to go to gym. She says that she wakes up in the morning and says to herself, "I don't feel like going... Why am I going if I...

I got to do gymnastics as a little kid for a few years. I loved it. I feel like it's in my blood. I had to quit when my parents separated. I missed it for years and years and finally got to join a HS team last year. I am now 17 and going into 12th grade in the fall. My learning curve is high and...

i dont know what to do i am 13 i quite gymnastics this year i was a level 8 and i started when i was 3 i do tumbling classes once a week for 1 hour and i hate it but my mom makes me do it how do i tell her that i want to stop

okay so i recently moved to a new gym in texas and they're just really more competitive than my old gym. i miss my old gym which is also in texas, and they're more of an easy-going, fun, not really competitive gym but yes they do compete. the reason i moved gyms was because i AM A REALLY...