Ah, was easy. Just put OPs screen name into you tube.
I'm sorry I didn't realize you were posting- I wasn't getting any email notifications anymore for some reason. But as I read through all of your comments, I am overwhelmed by a few of you adding to the conversation with very little valuable input on my question but with very negative, purposefully mean responses about my daughter for some reason. You continued on so relentlessly that other posters had to ask you to stop. Thank you to the poster who asked for civility to return in my absence. I will attempt to address your misconception on my original inquiry while addressing some of your off topic nastiness. Then I will not return to this post as I feel it has been overtaken by a few unkind guests with nothing valuable to add. I'm glad it turned back to valuable conversation by the end of this thread.
About my original query: at no time was I centered on my kid. Truthfully, she is just returning from a broken collarbone that occurred picking up a rake in my mom's front yard right as her Xcel season began, so she's not even close to being in top form to win anything right now. I was speaking for the other kids I watch do layout fly always, bwo on beam, robhsbt, fhsft, back tuck dismounts for scores like 9.4 get beat by kids who do double bhs, no kip, and 1/2 turn dismounts for 9.45. They obviously had the same amount of form deductions and scored the same. .05 is a matter of opinion at that point. The lower skilled routine won while it barely squeaked .05 higher than a much higher skilled routine only because there is nothing in the scoring to account for skill level- all skills all equal from a scoring stand point but very different from an execution stand point. That is where I feel bad for the kid whose routine was much higher in difficulty and barely squeaked into a lower placement. That is what does not seem fair to me as I watch everyone- not my kid. I did mention that, but some of you continued to negate that post and continue as if I was comparing a big skilled routine that earned an 8 to an easier skilled routine that scored a 9.5. Well obviously, no matter the skill, one was better. That was not my inquiry, but thanks for so adamantly clearing that up. If I thought it then, I definitely wouldn't now. But I do still feel the same about my original inquiry.
To the poster who started stalking me solely to post meanly about my daughter for whatever reason that made you feel good- and to the posters who openly jumped on that ban wagon of unkindness-
My YouTube channel- you criticize form of my daughter- why? Do you realize those videos were when she first tried a new skill? Whose form is perfect upon first learning? Do you also realize she was 4 or 5 in most of those videos? What 4 or 5 yo has perfect form? Do you realize the kip video you so harshly criticized was the day she kipped up onto the bar for the first time ever and she was not yet 5 1/2? I bet you'd have been proud if that was your dd and you wouldn't have been so critical. But it was of someone else's daughter, so you felt the need to cyber bully. Thank you for your invaluable, unkind comments that at no point was relative to my original inquiry. How about the video of her doing robhsbt, robhsbp, and robhsbl? I wouldn't allow her to even try those skills until after lvl 3 states were over where she was still 6yo. After much nagging, the day after, I let her try- and wow- how amazing. She could do it all with never trying before. Perfect form? Heck no! Again- still 6yo and just learned the skill- but you should see her now at 7yo
She was never taught that in a gym. It's amazing, I guess, only if it were your daughter- someone else's daughter opens up the flood gates of your critical side.
All the equipment in my basement? The tumbl trac? I was a diving coach for 12 years who owned my own program and dry land facility where I purchased all that equipment for use with my divers. After I had my daughter and didn't get to see her as much as I wanted to, I slowly cut back on my coaching hours to spend my time with my family. I stored my equipment in my basement. Lucky for my daughter who loves gymnastics, her mom already owned some pretty cool gym equipment for her to play on
And no, the wall isn't concrete, it's padded, so you can rest your weary worries for the safety of my daughter whom you care so much about to openly criticize.
To the other diving coach. Yes- competing a double pike for 4s will get beat by a clean front 1 1/2 pike any day. As I said in my post, competing a clean front double pike and a clean front 1 1/2 pike- the higher degree of difficulty by far wins when execution is equal or even slightly lower. But that does not happen in gymnastics I see- which is the basis of my original question. So therefore, never will a clean list of voluntaries beat a clean list of optionals. Not even close. I agree that clean voluntaries beat poor optionals that are not meet ready. But in all instances, I am solely talking about skills in both arenas that are definitely meet ready.
To those who criticized me saying "anything above a 9 is stellar"- I'm sorry you disagreed so harshly with me. Wow. That's all I can say- wow. Your expectations of your daughters must be extremely high. Any time any kid earns a 9 or higher is a score to be proud of! That's pretty darn close to precise
10 is perfect- which pretty much never is attained. Any score with less than a full point deducted is indeed stellar in my book, and definitely qualifies the skills that were performed stellar and meet ready as well
To the same posters who criticized me for "pushing" my daughter through the levels. On the contrary, I held her back a year. Her coaches wanted her on "old lvl 3" "new level 2" the day she turned 5. I said no-that's too many hours and I pulled her out of gymnastics as they had no other placement for her but on team. Then they started lvl 1 and asked me to put her there- less hours which I wanted, but way below her skill level (our gym does not upskill at all). So I did. Half way through, they wanted to mover her up to lvl 2. I said no. Let her be 5yo. I don't want more hours for her. After that season, they skipped her to lvl 3 because I was comfortable with her getting older and handling the hours. Then they skipped her to Xcel gold after lvl 3 states because she already had more skills than a new lvl 6 in our gym and the hours were all pretty much the same- 12 hours a week. Again- we don't upskill so for her to practice any of her bigger skills, she'd have to be in Xcel gold. Our gym does not do lvl 5. Then it goes back into lvl 6 or lvl 7. She already has every lvl 6 skill and some lvl 7 skills. But I might hold her back because of the jump in hours- she's 7yo. What holds her form back from the "stellar" scores of 9.75s? Flexibility. She cannot physically attain certain positions. Her hamstrings are like string- not rubber bands. So because she doesn't perform at the 9.75 or 9.8 "perfect form" that you think is the only definition of stellar, is that a good enough reason to hold her back in lvl 4? I don't think so. She'd be there the rest of her career and never do more than a rodbhs.
Overall, some of your comments were appalling, relentless, very off topic to my inquiry, highly critical, and very unkind just to prove a point that my daughter sucks and I'm a horrible person for possessing gym equipment in my house.... Cyber bullying at it's finest
Your posts reminded me of a quote from Stick It- "They don't call it gym-NICE-tics." Thank you, Unkind Posters, for being my first go around with the overzealousness that can come with the people of this sport in my 3 years of being involved. I'm glad to say you have been the minority in my experiences. I will not visit this account any longer. I will stick to conversing with real people who do not hide behind a computer to spew their nastiness towards other people's children in this sport
