gotsta keep your arms/elbows straight. Thanks for answering my question so quickly.
My DD is L4 and 7 y.o. and has tons of problems with bars...straight, tight, just plain doing the skills...she has problems. Anyway, in the past couple weeks she has been doing more of the work on her mill circle (is now doing it alone, yipee!) and FHC and she has been coming home really bruised up on her hips and back of the knees. My older DD also got like this in L3 and L4 when learning bars skills. I laugh and telll little DD that now she is actually doing "real bars" because she is getting the bruises!!! Many of our gymnasts in L3 and L4 are very bruised up when first really learning those skills. She will be ok once she gets the skills down and straightens out!
I've read so much about the dreaded mill circle on here and from what I've been able to see (way across the gym behind a HUGE beam support) I've never seen anyone working on mill circles. Her gym doesn't compete until level 5 so hopefully they don't even do them? I really have no clue though. She talks about BHC, FHC, glide swings and "jumping to the big bar" though. I think we'll get a chance to talk to the coaches soon, so I'll have to ask but like Dunno said, I'm sure it is that fact that she is bending her arms just based on the huge smile she gave when I asked if her coach had said anything about bending her arms. I've read enough on here to know that I should stay out of her gymnastics; I just was wondering if all gymnasts have them all the time or if it was part of the learning process. The other thing she has mentioned is a sore neck. I feel sorry for her.....having NEVER done more than a cartwheel, I have no clue what is normal or not. I'm sure she is doing something else wrong, but I don't know.My DD is L4 and 7 y.o. and has tons of problems with bars...straight, tight, just plain doing the skills...she has problems. Anyway, in the past couple weeks she has been doing more of the work on her mill circle (is now doing it alone, yipee!) and FHC and she has been coming home really bruised up on her hips and back of the knees. My older DD also got like this in L3 and L4 when learning bars skills. I laugh and telll little DD that now she is actually doing "real bars" because she is getting the bruises!!! Many of our gymnasts in L3 and L4 are very bruised up when first really learning those skills. She will be ok once she gets the skills down and straightens out!
The bar coach must be pulling his hair out! 
I'm not doing hard skills at all actually on bars im like level 1 
it annoys me because they don't hurt they just look like ive been bashed up :/I get a MASSIVE bruise right across my stomach/hips sometimes and other times i'll have none then other times i will have 2 about the size of a 50c coin (one on each side), today i have none and i had gym yesterday, I think mine may be a weight issue (im overweight so the pounding on casts wouldnt help) it is not a straight arms thing or anything because i keep my arms straight well most of the time ahah
"wow...this is a neat trick...wish we would've known this last summer...my dd spent the whole summer with a white stripe up the back of her leg because of where the mill circles had peeled off her tan! lol...
