Parents My DD is a gym "nerd"

[MILgymFAM]

My DD13 is currently studying the JO code of points like its a school project and learning how to gauge a D score. She knows the Xcel code inside out and is the go-to for questions her HC has about routine construction and xcel requirements. She studies past olympics and important gymansts, and makes up quizzes for the DD11. Her level of obsession is high, but adorable, and I wanted to share. She is always doing walkovers and handstands like many gymnasts, but she makes everything academic, and gymnastics wasn't immune!

 

[roll123]

Thats so funny! Before
You know it she will be watching routines online and scoring them!

 

[B.Gold]

Awesome! Sounds like a future coach to me.

 

[raenndrops]

She sounds like me... I am HC's go to about Xcel.

I also know enough about the JO Levels 3-7 and am working on Level 8 (for next season when we SHOULD have 2 Level 8s on team).

I try to quiz my brother because we go to meets together (he's my driver) and when I am away, he will talk to people and say "You should really ask my sister, but I think they deducted "x" for her "z skill not being y enough" ... but he only pays attention to half of what I say and then picks "stupid" times to ask me questions (instead of AT HOME, when I am watching a VIDEO of a routine, he will ask AT a MEET, when I am trying to RECORD or WATCH!) I also watch routines online and score them

And he sarcastically calls my CB interactions "Saving the sport, one gymnast at a time."

 

[MILgymFAM]

Thats so funny! Before
You know it she will be watching routines online and scoring them!

She does score routines! Her teamates' routines in practice, all the time.

 

[sevenatenine2]

That was me as a kid. Not so much the judging, COP nerd part, but I was a gym history EXPERT!

Raenndrops critiques my kids to the tenth! It was amazing!

 

[MILgymFAM]

She says when she is done taking gymnastics as far as she can get it to go, she wants to coach and be a judge (after medical school, of course). I guess she's getting a head start. I have no doubt she can manage to do pretty much whatever she wants.

 

[refugee]

She can begin judging (level 4/5 and/or 7/8) at age 16--Just has to pass tests and get safety certified!

 

[MILgymFAM]

She can begin judging (level 4/5 and/or 7/8) at age 16--Just has to pass tests and get safety certified!

I told her this and she said that's better than her license at 16! Ha ha ha

 

[refugee]

I told her this and she said that's better than her license at 16! Ha ha ha

Haha, but YOU will want her to have her license when you have to drop her off and pick her up from meets all over the place!

 

[Amusibus]

Awesome! Sounds like a future coach to me.

Sounds more like a future judge to me! Is she a virgo, by any chance?

 

[MILgymFAM]

Sounds more like a future judge to me! Is she a virgo, by any chance?

I don't think so- end of July, what sign is that?

 

[COz]

Leo (if after 21st-22nd), Cancer before that.
Don't judge me. I learnt the order in astronomy!

 

[MILgymFAM]

She's on the cusp then, the 22nd. Does that mean she gets the personality of both?

 

[COz]

I don't really know. But from what I know about her, I'd say she was possibly more Cancerian - like me

 

[momof5]

DD is the same way. Coach always asks her questions about elite gymnastics since he knows that she knows the answers. She knows the JO code better then the coaches. The coach keeps telling her that her turn on floor is a B even though DD knows that it is a D. Also DD has a D skills on beam that coach thinks is a C. DD won't correct coach though. She is afraid of being accused of talking back.

 

[marie83]

I am and always have been one of our gyms 'gym nerds'. The 92 Olympics were my first experience of watching elite gym and I was hooked from then! As a teen I was to be found watching any competition footage I could find!
Unfortunately these days I don't get to watch as much as I would like but try my best to keep up as much as poss.
Oh and yes I am now a coach, judge and part club owner! Ha!

 

[Iwannabemargo]

which bit do you get @marie83 ? Hope its not just the loos and reception