Parents Grips while learning kip

[StephensMom]

For those with more experience, what are your thoughts on getting grips before or after girls get their kip? Last fall, my daughter’s training group were told they could get grips and my daughter chose not to. She was barely 7 and has small hands. She only competed level 2 so really didn’t need them. Now, she’s in upgrade season and very close to getting her kip. She is the only girl in her group not using grips. Do you think this helps or hurts her? She is not in a hurry to get them because she saw friends struggle to adjust to them.

 

[ORgymmom]

Our gym’s rule is Kips Before Grips. Depending on when girls get their kip, they may or may not compete level 4 with grips. Girls who got kips late before comp season did not get grips until training 5 because of having to relearn everything with grips on a short timeline.

If the coaches aren’t saying anything and she doesn’t have crazy bad rips, let it be.

 

[ORgymmom]

Our gym’s rule is Kips Before Grips. Depending on when girls get their kip, they may or may not compete level 4 with grips. Girls who got kips late before comp season did not get grips until training 5 because of having to relearn everything with grips on a short timeline.

If the coaches aren’t saying anything and she doesn’t have crazy bad rips, let it be.

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[StephensMom]

Our gym’s rule is Kips Before Grips. Depending on when girls get their kip, they may or may not compete level 4 with grips. Girls who got kips late before comp season did not get grips until training 5 because of having to relearn everything with grips on a short timeline.

If the coaches aren’t saying anything and she doesn’t have crazy bad rips, let it be.

I’m not planning to say anything. Just curious to see responses and if people think they generally are helpful or harmful before girls get their kip. I have another daughter coming up through the pre-team too so will have to go through this decision again. My older daughter is so close on her kip that I wouldn’t dare change anything up at this point.

 

[ORgymmom]

I’m not planning to say anything. Just curious to see responses and if people think they generally are helpful or harmful before girls get their kip. I have another daughter coming up through the pre-team too so will have to go through this decision again. My older daughter is so close on her kip that I wouldn’t dare change anything up at this point.

Not a coach but what I was told was that if they get their kips before they’re in grips, they can better understand shifting their hands vs. after.

 

[NYGymfamily]

Kips before grips, but get the grips when her coach says its time. My daughter has a teammate who waited too long before wearing grips, started doing giants and release moves without grips, and is now struggling to adjust.

 

[GymnastPotterhead]

I'm just a gymnast but I learnt my kip with grips. And having had my kip for a few years, I still don't think I can make one without grips. I kind of wish I had learnt it without grips to understand the wrist shift motion as that has caused me some trouble learning circling skills (because I don't know how to shift very well). There definitely is an adjustment period for grips though in which you may lose skills.

 

[AlexandraU16]

I don’t have much to add except my 7 year old is kipping, jumping to high bar, doing fly aways, starting to work clear hips, giants on strap bar, all without grips. She was told she could get them when she got her kip but didn’t and hasn’t been told anymore about it. I feel like I see golds and up in grips unless they’re really young/small. My daughter would like to delay it as long as possible and I’ve heard it’s good for them to really know how to swing etc before introducing grips.

 

[GymDadWA]

Grips won't be the magic pill that makes them get their kip.