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Hello
My daughter's gym is having her repeat Platinum instead of Diamond or level 6. It's a small gym so multiple levels practice together. Last year Platinum practiced with level 6s & 7.
They have moved my daughter from that group and placed her in a gold/Platinum group.
I have done some researched and from what I can tell plat. Is more like optionals.
If she is in a group with golds ( and being a repeat Platinum) will she be training down? I have a problem with this move it this is the case.
We learned that plat. Is scored very different from gold as far a fluidity and connections.
Should I object to this move?
She actually did very well this season. Brought home 5 medals in every meet. She did have issues with beam but nothing she couldn't get past. She could move to diamond if coaches would let her.
If I am going to object to this placement, I need some solid information to back it up
 
The coaches will have placed her where they feel is most appropriate. They have moved her out of her current group and left her at Platinum for a reason, whether this is because of age, maturity, skill level, confidence or something else. Pushing to have her placed in a group and a level they deem inappropriate is not going to earn you any fans, and probably won’t be successful anyway. If most others moved up, It sounds like the other group will probably be Level 7/8 and Diamond, with the new Diamonds being the bottom of the pack, so a gymnast that is borderline Diamond/Level 6 at best would really struggle and not be working the same skill progressions.
 
There is nothing inherently wrong with this placement. My son’s training group has one coach with 15 gymnasts ages 8-17 in levels 4-10 and it works great! An organized coach can easily provide individual stations and assignments and hold athletes to differing performance standards.

However, it is going to be important for your daughter to talk with the coach about her goals for the season and to follow up if she feels like she’s not progressing.
 
In my daughter's gym most practice groups are mixed levels, for example some golds practice with silvers. There are also two groups (divided mostly by age/size) that are mixed gold, platinum, and diamond, and each gymnast practices at her level. There is no reason to think that a platinum training with golds would be training down - as said by others above, the coach should be able to give each of them relevant assignments.
 
There are a lot of skills allowed in Platinum. So if your daughter is not competing the hardest skills, she can still work on getting and competing those. Then she could be set up for a better season of diamond the following year.
 
The coaches will have placed her where they feel is most appropriate. They have moved her out of her current group and left her at Platinum for a reason, whether this is because of age, maturity, skill level, confidence or something else. Pushing to have her placed in a group and a level they deem inappropriate is not going to earn you any fans, and probably won’t be successful anyway. If most others moved up, It sounds like the other group will probably be Level 7/8 and Diamond, with the new Diamonds being the bottom of the pack, so a gymnast that is borderline Diamond/Level 6 at best would really struggle and not be working the same skill progressions.
Hello
My daughter's gym is having her repeat Platinum instead of Diamond or level 6. It's a small gym so multiple levels practice together. Last year Platinum practiced with level 6s & 7.
They have moved my daughter from that group and placed her in a gold/Platinum group.
I have done some researched and from what I can tell plat. Is more like optionals.
If she is in a group with golds ( and being a repeat Platinum) will she be training down? I have a problem with this move it this is the case.
We learned that plat. Is scored very different from gold as far a fluidity and connections.
Should I object to this move?
She actually did very well this season. Brought home 5 medals in every meet. She did have issues with beam but nothing she couldn't get past. She could move to diamond if coaches would let her.
If I am going to object to this placement, I need some solid information to back it up
All Xcel levels are more like optionals, not just platinum. I actually had my daughter moved to platinum this season. She did level 6 twice, and level 7 last year. She was training 8, but was far from ready, and she was not even ready to repeat level 7 (from a judge's perspective, not mom's). She was with the 8/9/10 training group, but got moved to the 6/7/platinum group or the platinum-only group, depending on the night. Now and then she's with the 8/9/10 group.
I prefer her in the lower 2 groups, as they focus more on what she needs for the season, even though she has some higher skills that fit with the highest group. Gold and Platinum are not extremely different, except that Platinum needs a connected series on beam or a flight skill on beam, higher cast requirements, a B skill on 3 events, etc. But, gold gymnasts can also have most of those things without penalty, so it shouldn't be a problem training with golds as long as the coach is making sure she is doing the skills needed for her level. If you notice she is not getting trained in what she needs, only then would I speak to someone in charge about it.
 

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