Any coaches here feel this way? Just curious.
I am not a coach [or even a very experienced gym mom] but I know that the gym our daughter started at opted to have her compete L5 and L6 for full seasons and then planned to have her do a score out meet at L7 and compete L8. Her life changed after that score out meet, she came to live with us, and when we let her return to gymnastics it was at another gym where they also usually compete full seasons at L5 and L6. Both of these programs start competing at L5 and require kip mastery to qualify to their USAG competitive team. [Her current gym has a slightly different developmental competitive team track as well. I don't think this existed at her old gym.]