Subject: Training a young talented gymnast Dear Coach, We want to know if our daughter should move up to Level 5 or stay another year in Level 4 to better learn the skills and have more competitive success. I am the parent of a young gymnast (6) who is training to compete in a group […]
Subject: Daughter is nervous about crowded class Hi, I have a 5 1/2-year-old daughter who just recently joined a new gym, and is now on the pre-competition team for acrobatics. The practices are two days a week, 2 hours at a pop. She has expressed some anxiety of the gym floor because there are what […]
Subject: Don’t Want to Go. Dear Coach, I am 9 years old and I am in level 5 gymnastics. I have a question: On some days I don’t want to go to gymnastics. Do you know what I should do when I don’t want to go? Thanks! Wow, this seems at first like such an […]
Subject: Competition vs. Non-Competition Programs My daughter is 5 (6 in October) and seems to have a lot of potential. I’m not looking to make her an elite gymnast at this point. I just to see where she goes with it because she enjoys it. She’s going to (a franchised national non-competitive program – name […]
Is concentrating on winning at the compulsory gymnastics levels the best gymnastics career strategy? Do you really want compulsory winners and do you really want to judge your gymnasts and base your team’s future on compulsory results? There are real reasons why you should not want to do any of these. There is nothing wrong […]
Compulsory gymnastics competition, sometimes called outside of the United States – mandatory competition, is a set of defined event routines that all gymnasts at that particular level are required to perform. The routines are the same for everyone at that level on every event. Worse, the music for the floor routine is also the same. […]
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