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[quote=Anonymous]I think it will be clear which she likes better if you let her try both - ballet and gymnastics favor very different body types. Perhaps ballet has changed some, but when I was a child, they looked for kids with long legs relative to the rest of their body and definitely lean. This was my body type and I moved through the levels pretty quickly. For gymnastics, you need an athletic body with good leg and arm strength plus flexibility. I lacked the upper body strength for gymnastics though I thought it was fun. Gymnastics seems to be much more time consuming. I have two friends whose daughters are involved in the same competitive program in our area. They do about 9 to 12 hours a week during the school year, and 20 hours a week during the summer. They are good but not olympic caliber 8 and 9 year olds.[/quote]
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