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What happens after level 7 do you have to change gyms?

Yes, you have to move to another gym which can't be easy. When we get to that point we'll see.

This is a long thread and I haven't read near all of it.. but was wondering. Does anyone's daughter take rhythmic gymnastics?

No, none of the gymns in our area have it.

DD can add another new level 4 skill to her gotten list. She did her RO BHS on the floor last night at practice herself without spotting. She just needs to get consistency and clean up her mill circle, the cut back after and her vault then she has all the level 4 skills.

Also on Memorial Day she was doing back walk overs on the low beam with the fat pad on and the 8 inch mats on either side of the beam, but she did them with no spots and got both hand and feet on the beam.

Barb

Good for her!! Some things I can't watch them do, I involuntarily look away.

Anyone going to the Olympic Trials in Philadelphia the weekend of June 19-22?
 
how long did it take your daughters to get there clear hip...mine is struggling so hard to get it. She competed level 5 and has done a season of prep-optional silver, but still can't get the clear hip.

She has her back handspring on the beam, her layout, her 1/2 on 1/2 off vault, and her mini-giant, she just can't seam to get that clear hip. Any suggestions.
 
Have your daughter kick up into a handstand against a wall. Her hands should not be next to the wall, but the length of about two of her feet from the wall. She should put her shoulders flat against the wall, leaving her hands in front of the shoulders. Then have her "pop" her shoulders back in line with her hands to where she is in a handstand not touching the wall at all. This simulates the motion of popping out into a clearhip, although it worked for me more when I was working clear hip hands.

She should also make sure after her cast that she goes through the "table top" position under the bar---basically her whole body is not touching the bar, certainly not wrapping around the bar like a back hip, but in a straight line under the bar.

Hope this helps!
 
Anyone going to the Olympic Trials in Philadelphia the weekend of June 19-22?

The daughter of the owners of the gym my neice goes to is going to be a the Olympic Trials this weekend. Jana Beiger - She came in 6th at the US comp in Boston a few weeks ago. We are keeping our fingers crossed that she makes it to the Olympics!! :thumbsup2
 

I'm excited about Trials this weekend.

I think the girls team will be

1. Shawn
2. Nastia
3. Chellise Memmel
4. Alicia Sacramone

5 and 6 are a bit of a stretch, but it's going to come down to the two girls the team needs most in finals, and I think that will be:

5. Bridget Sloan
6. Sam Pesez/Mattie Larson/Shayla Worley

What do y'all think?

Jana seems like a nice girl.......but her gymnastics is lacking in her execution and I'm afraid it might hurt the team score. She did win second at Worlds a few years ago, though, so she's been pretty darn successful already.
 
I am really hoping that Chellsie makes the team. We are both from WI, and DD competed at a level 3 meet last year at her home gym and she signed DD's sweatshirt.

Now this week DD's love for Nastia grew even more when we found out that her dad who competed for the USSR is actually from Kazakhstan, the same country that she was born in and adopted from.

Barb
 
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Check out the video of my DD from her summer recital. She had to make up the beam and floor routine using level 4 skills, the bar and vault were USGA routines. Sorry for the sun messing up some of the pictures.

Barb

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhPSngDqf3Q


Cute video! I love how she keeps looking at you while she is doing her bar routine (the 2nd one). Will she be competing L4 this coming season or is she moving to L5?
 
She will compete level 4, she is one of the first to get all of her skills. They are not competing until December so she will have plenty of time to clean things up.

Barb
 
My DD went to IGC this week and loved it. SHe is already talking about going back next summer. I just wish they offered camp the week our gym was closed.
Anyone else go to camp? Any new skills going on?
 
DD went for her 3rd year at Auburn University. She loves it there, and there were only 80 campers, so lots of attention and coaching. She actually got 3 new skills right before leaving for camp, so she spent camp working on refining those skills.
 
My DD went to IGC this week and loved it. SHe is already talking about going back next summer. I just wish they offered camp the week our gym was closed.
Anyone else go to camp? Any new skills going on?

The heck with the skill's. My DD's love the leotards and assorted stuff they sell.:rotfl:

We go the end of this month. My DD9 and her best friend who is 8, I call the "Chalk People" I swear they only go to gymnastics to play in the chalk bowl. They loved it last year but only want to go one week. They sleep all the way home.
 
The heck with the skill's. My DD's love the leotards and assorted stuff they sell.:rotfl:

::yes:: DD attended gymnastics camp @ LSU this summer too. She had a blast and learned several new skills as well. The only thing she did not like were the dorm rooms. Of course she loved the leo's, t-shirts, shorts.....Whew! I spent way too much money. :rotfl2:
 
Hi and yes I know I dont belong on this thread but I'm a former Level 8 gymnast who must give you updates to anyone who is interested who will make the team... Information can be found on NbcOlympics.com.

Ok so here is some bad heart breaking news Shayla Worley fractured her leg and is out of the race also Chellsie hurt her back set out 2 of the 4 events at the AA competition today but went out on beam and nailed her routine. Ok so heres an article:
Shayla Worley seems unlikely for Olympic team
She suffers a broken bone in her leg during balance beam warmup. News is better for Chellsie Memmel.
By Diane Pucin, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
July 19, 2008
NEW WAVERLY, Texas -- Shayla Worley limped out of the gym at Bela and Martha Karolyi's ranch Friday afternoon.

Her face was pale; her right foot covered in a protective boot and a crutch was supporting her weight. Worley had heard a pop when she was warming up on the balance beam and after Thursday's Olympic trials-like competition, the bad news was confirmed.

Worley, runner-up a year ago at the national championships in the all-around, had a broken bone in her right leg and is probably out of the Olympics.

Dr. Scott Rand, who serves as the U.S. team physician when the girls are at the ranch, said Worley would not be able to compete today, which is the last chance for the gymnasts to impress the Olympic team selection committee and that it was "unlikely" Worley could be healthy enough to compete in the Olympics.

The medical news was brighter for 20-year-old Chellsie Memmel. Memmel, who missed much of the past two seasons while recovering from shoulder surgery, had roared through the first two parts of this year's Olympic selection process by finishing third overall at both U.S. nationals and the Olympic trials. More importantly she added a badly needed world-class uneven bars routine to the U.S. lineup.

But during Friday's mini-meet, conducted in front of a few dozen invited guests, a dozen media members and the selection committee, Memmel slipped out of bounds on her second floor routine pass. While trying to regain her footing Memmel's neck snapped back and forth. "Whiplash," her father and coach Andy called it.

Memmel sat out two rotations.

"It was being careful," Andy said. "She didn't need to prove anything."

But Memmel did come back and do the final apparatus, the balance beam, where she scored a good 15.900.

"She showed how tough she was," teammate Alicia Sacramone said. "It was like, 'I can do a beam routine whenever I want.' "

Twelve gymnasts have been at the ranch since Wednesday doing two-a-day practices and mock meets. The final meet will be today with most gymnasts competing on only two apparatus.

This evening the final six-woman team will be named along with up to three alternates. Shawn Johnson, 16, of West Des Moines, Iowa, and Nastia Liukin, 18, of Parker, Texas, are on the team as automatic qualifiers from the Olympic trials.

Before her injury Friday, Memmel was presumed to be safe on the basis of her performance at the trials and nationals. Samantha Peszek, 16, of Indianapolis (fourth at the trials) and 20-year-old vault and floor specialist Sacramone of Winchester, Mass., are being ceded the fourth and fifth spots.

Up for grabs is the sixth position. In contention are 15-year-old Ivana Hong, who was on last year's world championship team; 16-year-old Bridget Sloan of Pittsboro, Ind., who was an alternate on that team and who is rounding back into form after March knee surgery, and 18-year-old Jana Bieger of Coconut Creek, Fla. Bieger was a world all-around silver medalist in 2006.

diane.pucin@latimes.com




and I'm out of here unless you want me to come back tommorrow and tell you the Olympic team....
 
Thanks disneydance for the update! You are always welcome here! I knew about Shayla, but not about Chellsie. So glad she was able to come back for the last event.
 
Hi and yes I know I dont belong on this thread but I'm a former Level 8 gymnast who must give you updates to anyone who is interested who will make the team... Information can be found on NbcOlympics.com.

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Everyone is welcome here. Poor Shayla she had come so far too be out of the race. SHe must be devastated.
 
Wow Is everyone busy watching the Olympics. The Chinese are really catching some breaks...I really would love to see Shawn get the gold on beam..
 
Hey let's get this thread up and running again since some of us should be starting our seasons shortly.

Please tell me about the Sand Dollar meet, I think that we will be attending it. That means our April/May 2009 vacation will move up to Jan 2009. I better get planning.

Our coaches wanted to attend a meet in San Diego, but it moved from the weekend of Jan 23-25 to the following weekend, and we are doing the IGI Chicago Meet the next weekend, so they did not want to be traveling so close together. So now it is between the Sand Dollar or a meet in TX at Texas Dreams. They are leaning towards SD since the boys can also go.

Thanks,

Barb
 

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