Women Xcel platuium to Xcel Diamond

[Gymnastics15]

My daughter.just competed Xcel Platinum and is wanting to train for Xcel diamond. She was a regional champion with a 38 ALL AROUND, and if she gets the skills, she believes she needs to move up. No reason to repeat when she killed it at every meet. I'm just worried about the coaching, diamond is basically level 7. With giants and stuff, and I just don't know what to do. Gym closest to us is owned by powers gymnastics. I'm mean they just tell my daughter to get up there and do giants on strap, no spot or anything. She's terrified, she's only done them once with spot with another coach.

 

[raenndrops]

IF giants are her only fear, she does NOT need a giant in Diamond.
She could do a low bar clear hip circle and a high bar clear hip circle ... or a straddle cut ... or a HS 1/2 pirrouette (or any other B circling skill, turn or release).

 

[3rd_time_around]

My daughter.just competed Xcel Platinum and is wanting to train for Xcel diamond. She was a regional champion with a 38 ALL AROUND, and if she gets the skills, she believes she needs to move up. No reason to repeat when she killed it at every meet. I'm just worried about the coaching, diamond is basically level 7. With giants and stuff, and I just don't know what to do. Gym closest to us is owned by powers gymnastics. I'm mean they just tell my daughter to get up there and do giants on strap, no spot or anything. She's terrified, she's only done them once with spot with another coach.

actually, Diamond is like levels 7 or 8, with allowable Cs and 1 D allowed per routine. She will need a release, pirouette/turn, and/or minimum B circling skill (clear hips, stalders, toe-ons, or giants). She can continue training giants, but maybe they can take a less intense approach and let her do them as she feels comfortable. You and she may need to have a meeting with the coach or owner to talk about what's next in her training and to let them know about her fear. She may need to speak up for herself for this one.

 

[Dahlialover]

It’s pretty normal for giants to take a year or two from just starting to work them on strap to being ready to compete them on the competition set. The coaches should have started this process with her a year ago. It does not sound like they are invested in her moving up to Diamond. Perhaps giants are outside of the coaches coaching skill-set? Maybe look at another xcel program or switching to DP.

 

[Gymnastics15]

It’s pretty normal for giants to take a year or two from just starting to work them on strap to being ready to compete them on the competition set. The coaches should have started this process with her a year ago. It does not sound like they are invested in her moving up to Diamond. Perhaps giants are outside of the coaches coaching skill-set? Maybe look at another xcel program or switching to DP.

actually, Diamond is like levels 7 or 8, with allowable Cs and 1 D allowed per routine. She will need a release, pirouette/turn, and/or minimum B circling skill (clear hips, stalders, toe-ons, or giants). She can continue training giants, but maybe they can take a less intense approach and let her do them as she feels comfortable. You and she may need to have a meeting with the coach or owner to talk about what's next in her training and to let them know about her fear. She may need to speak up for herself for this one.

She would love to go giants, she just needs some help when she’s just learning them. I was just using that as an example, as their coaching. The other day one of her coaches was telling her platinum requirements, and she said I don’t want to do platinum, I want to do diamond! I just did awesome this season! She thinks she would be bored! A gym nearby has a great xcel diamond team, buts it owned by powers, just scares me! The last thing I want to do is be running back

 

[NutterButter]

Sounds like she had a great season! There's no need to repeat those same Platinum routines with her scores. As far as readiness for Diamond and learning those new skills, your best bet is to talk to her coaches and find out what they have in mind for her. Depending on what other skills she has and the requirements of her gym, there could be a gap in readiness with concessions needed until she learns all the Diamond skills. You'd need to find out if they will allow her to compete Diamond w/o some of the missing skills. Another option would be adding difficulty to her Platinum routines while working towards those Diamond skills. No matter what though you'll need to talk to the gym because each gym has a different approach.