Canadian_gym_mom
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- May 26, 2011
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So my dd is competing probably the equivalent of level 7 there, training some level 8 skills. The pre-novice national category in canada.
Her coaches have the opinion that they like certain girls to hold off on getting grips. Well the national levell girls have been going to another gym once a month for some extra training and the coach there said he wanted to get my dd wearing grips by next season for sure, to start introducing them now so she will be ready.
Her biggest bar issue has been the chalk on the bar. Without grips she like the bar to be without chalk and damp. Otherwise she is afraid (not sure of rightfully so or not) that she will fly off the bar. Too slippery, she says.
So her coaches have started having her practice some skills with a bit of chalk on the bars as she waits for her grips to arrive. She hates it.
The rationale for introducing grips and chalk for them is that because she needs the bar to be chalk-free, that in competitions she will have almost no warm up time of the coaches have to spend the whole time removing the chalk and prepping the bar for her.
I guess I just wonder if there is anyone else whose dd does not use grips/chalk, or who waited a longer time before starting with them, and if they ever ran into issues at competition.
Her coaches have the opinion that they like certain girls to hold off on getting grips. Well the national levell girls have been going to another gym once a month for some extra training and the coach there said he wanted to get my dd wearing grips by next season for sure, to start introducing them now so she will be ready.
Her biggest bar issue has been the chalk on the bar. Without grips she like the bar to be without chalk and damp. Otherwise she is afraid (not sure of rightfully so or not) that she will fly off the bar. Too slippery, she says.
So her coaches have started having her practice some skills with a bit of chalk on the bars as she waits for her grips to arrive. She hates it.
The rationale for introducing grips and chalk for them is that because she needs the bar to be chalk-free, that in competitions she will have almost no warm up time of the coaches have to spend the whole time removing the chalk and prepping the bar for her.
I guess I just wonder if there is anyone else whose dd does not use grips/chalk, or who waited a longer time before starting with them, and if they ever ran into issues at competition.