Anon "bad" teams vs. "good" teams

[Anonymous (2eda)]

Everytime I go to meets there's usually two or three teams that you know will always win the team awards. Usually they're the giant teams who train a lot more hours than the smaller teams (like mine, which is all Xcel btw), but there's 1-2 small, low hour, Xcel teams that DO consistently have 1st place individuals and teams.
My question is, what makes the "good" teams better than the other teams? Is it coaches? Equipment? What are the factors other than training hours?
I'm xcel gold and often place/score the best of my team with low 36 AA. What's the differences that make my team score lower?

 

[Anonymous (2eda)]

Also, I forgot to add, are there any things I can be doing myself to help improve my scores? I really want to get better but I'm not sure how.

 

[Coach Kate]

Speaking from a low hours team that won team titles at 5-9 hours a week Xcel bronze-diamond, it starts with a strong feeder program. They trained coaches and developed our rec curriculum so everyone coming through it was well conditioned with strong basics. Then you get into making the most out of practices, routine construction, and attention to detail.

 

[Anonymous (6eeb)]

Speaking from a DP perspective, but often the dominant teams are huge and/or have very strict rules for move-ups and repeats. And are very selective about who can join the team in the first place. So the girls dominating the podium are repeating their level or maybe were one girl chosen from a pool of 10 in a rec class to get to do pre-team.

I know other teams that do it with superior coaching or training as mentioned above.

 

[Anonymous (f24f)]

My daughter is on a team that just about always wins team awards and in our case it's the coaches. We were at a previous gym with them and they also won there; they aren't necessarily picky about move ups/level repeats, though it does happen, but they know how to create super clean routines that minimize deductions. They'll continue to make routine tweaks throughout the season to improve scores as well. Our team is comprised of 11 level 7's, most of the girls are first year.

 

[Anonymous (8f76)]

A lot of the DP teams that are “good” are very selective about who they bring into their program. They do also have good coaching, but a lot of it comes down to the talent.

 

[Anonymous (3a74)]

I think generally it’s the coaching - obviously hours and facilities help, but they’re not everything. There’s a local gym that generally do pretty well despite having a tiny space with minimal equipment, our gym do well despite much lower hours than pretty much every other gym in the area, and there are some gyms we compete against who do much higher hours and have great facilities and equipment who generally do pretty poorly at comps. Hours and equipment aren’t everything