DD is interested in gymnastics but I’m hesitant…

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Anonymous wrote:My daughter is 6 and we've just done two rounds with Silver Stars, the closest option for us. She has always been a tumbler and a climber (furniture, playground, crawled out of her crib at 18 mos.) and it just seemed to be a natural fit. She is tall and muscular. We outgrew Power Tots and wanted to try this as a way to get back in this fall. It is OK. She gets to experiment with all the equipment, and it's physical activity, but she doesn't seem to love it and the instruction and groups don't seem conducive to bonding or friendship, so she doesn't feel the need to continue (I have no clue who the teachers are, or their names, so just a disconnect all-around). She is most excited about learning handstands and cartwheeels... It's so basic at this age, I would give it a shot just to let her get her toes wet? As for us, we're moving on to soccer for spring with a few friends and my plan is to offer up gymnastics once a year if she wants it.

Silver Stars is a great place to send your kids for gymnastics if you don't want them to stick with it.

Really? Because my daughter has been there for 8 years. Anyway, I didn't want a daughter who was a gymnast either but it is all about strength these days. It's made her strong and confident and she always gets the most pushups in the Presidential fit test.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not pp but find gymnastics fascinating, so thanks for weighing in, pp. 20 hours a week in elementary school is a lot! Did you show a lot of natural talent early to get so intense? Or are you from a gymnastics family?

Just curious, did you ever watch that show "Make it or Break it"? My older dd liked it and was curious how realistic it was. I got sucked in a little bit, too.

Younger dd's best friend is in gymnastics and travels a couple weekends a month to meets out of state. But her family had to choose that track. It's not like she went straight from a six years old tumbling class on to an elite track.

Elite back.

I did not have a gymnastics family. In fact, my mom put me in a rec class so she could take Jazzercise at the same time in the studio next door. I am told that at a young age I had a lot of natural talent. For instance, air awareness - or being able to know exactly where you are when flipping - is not easily taught. I never learned it, it just came naturally to me. I actually tumble with my eyes closed which my coach hated, but it helped me “feel” where I was in the air.

As a parent now, 20 hours in elementary school does seem like a ton! I had 5 hour practices on T/Th from 4-9 and then 2 hour practices M/F/S. We got Sunday and Wednesday off when we were young. The long practices had more repetition and drills and conditioning.

I never saw the show, I’ll have to take a look though!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not pp but find gymnastics fascinating, so thanks for weighing in, pp. 20 hours a week in elementary school is a lot! Did you show a lot of natural talent early to get so intense? Or are you from a gymnastics family?

Just curious, did you ever watch that show "Make it or Break it"? My older dd liked it and was curious how realistic it was. I got sucked in a little bit, too.

Younger dd's best friend is in gymnastics and travels a couple weekends a month to meets out of state. But her family had to choose that track. It's not like she went straight from a six years old tumbling class on to an elite track.

Not the former elite, but former college gymnast. Lol, no, MIOBI is not anywhere near realistic 😂