Thanks Mariposa! Great links! I've visted them before( I've been to every fear/mental block site in existance,lol!). Lots of useful advice in these links you've posted. Thanks for sharing!
Awesome post Mariposa!!! My dd still struggles with the backward tumbling...going on the 3rd year now. But I feel that she has so many other strengths in the gymnastics that it isn't really that much of an issue right now. The league she is in allows spots at meets and you can interchange skills. I think in Level C (Level 7) you can get away with NO backward tumbling at all with the skill substitutions!!!