WAG No Level 5?

[Jenna Marie]

Level 5 is compulsory. All girls do BASICALLY the same routines…
On floor, they can do a split leap or a switch split … On beam, they can do BWO or BHS or Back extension roll.
Bar skills: kip, clear hip, kip, squat on, kip, long hang pullover, swings, flyaway
Beam skills: handstand, back acro listed above, full turn, leap, jumps, L4 dismount held longer
Floor skills: full turn, jumps, leap, splits, Front Tuck, Front Handspring step out front handspring to 2 feet, ROBHSBT
Vault: front handspring

In L5, bar casts do not have to be to handstand and splits do not have to be a full 180º yet.

Level 6 is Optional. Routines can be individualized to a gymnast's strengths using 5 A skills and 1 B skill per event.
Bar skills:
Cast to at least horizontal (but harshly deducted if not close to handstand)
a bar change
a 360º clear circling skill from group 3, 6, or 7
a dismount that is an A or a B.

Beam skills:
Acro element from group 5,6, or 7 starting and finishing on the beam (cartwheel, roundoff, BWO, BHS, Back extension roll, HANDSTAND, etc)
A leap or jump with 180º cross or side split
A full turn
An A or B dismount

Floor Skills:
Acro series with 3 directly connected elements (do not necessarily have to have flight)
A salto or aerial acro element, isolated or in a 2nd series
Dance passage with a minimum of 2 DIFFERENT Group 1 elements, including a LEAP with 180º cross or side split
Minimum of a full turn

Vault:
There are actually options… the same ones for L6, L7, Xcel Gold and Platinum

wow thanks so much for this! It really helped!

 

[Jenna Marie]

Our gym doesn't compete lv 5 either. My dd went from lv 3 to lv6, other go from lv 4 to lv 6 or lv 7 depending on which skills they get.

Vault is the same

Beam-you can do bwo, bhs, or cartwheel (when dd competed lv 6, they required bhs)

Floor-one front pass(can be a punch front or fhsft) and one back pass (I think it has to be robhsbt but I could be wrong)

Bars-this is the tricky one! Free hip to base or 45 (I can't remember-but this is one that girls get dinged for a lot) and every cast needs to to 45, I think. I just know that it needs to practically be at handstand to count), flyaway dismount can be tuck it layout.

She will love optionals! You can tailor your routine to showcase the gymnasts strengths and hide her weaknesses!

Tell her to go for it!!

Thanks for the feed back! It really helps!

 

[Jenna Marie]

Not all kids do better at 6. My dd had two meets to score out of 5. She broke 37 on both of them. (These were real meets where she was top of a pack; not just inflated scores from a generous in-house judge.)

She competed 6 just a couple of months later and only score 36 twice. Bars killed her as she never hit a handstand on either of her casts. And the judges were much tougher on the "same" vault.

Thats usually what holds my cousin back as i have watch a few of her routines. I think she is working for 6 for this upcoming season, so thank you for the feed back!