FlexyTumblerMom
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- Jun 22, 2014
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I've actually never noticed the other girls... I do know they all balance on left and do their flexibility with the right... I did the same when I coached Rec cause it what was the majority of girls could do... She's flexible on both...but has a needle on the right leg... like so...![]()
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Her bow and arrow is better on her left than on her right... IDK she's just confusing lmao... Her heel stretch is prettier on her left too but she's hasn't developed the back flexibility for the needle on the left and she never flies that way either... as for flexibility on her team... the most flexible girls I've noticed apart from my daughter (with the right or "bad" leg) is like 2 or 3 other girls... I don't know if this affects points during comp but I have seen other teams do it... very little but its been done.
ETA: the girls are flexible but clean flexibility of any skill is only seen in 2-4 girls at most 5 including my daughter, they're flexible per say but there's bent knee scorps instead of pretty tear drop scorps etc... and some heel stretches are a little bent or cat backs to reach for the heel stretch etc... no one's perfect but you know... My cp started as a dancer so she has "turn out" which apparently has helped with flexibility and coming from a double jointed family from both sides me and dh helped too (my son is diagnosed low muscle tone which is the correct term for double jointed-ness and he's extremely flexible for a child that has no actual "stretching" in his life lol)... (my cousin was a contortionist for a circus in her country too and I use to dance and was pretty flexible until childbirth lol) when CP was younger she was very much into bending "in odd places" i would call it or being a "pretzel" however she never balanced out the stretching so only got better with the opposite leg...
That 2014 pic of her needle depicts a kid who is more left side flexible to me - that is the opposite of my DD (and the majority of people). In a needle, the "good (or more flexible) leg" is the one that's supporting/on the ground, but when doing something like pulling a bow and arrow and doing a heel stretch the good leg is the one one in the air (which goes along w/ what you said about your CPs bow and arrow being better on her left). My CP has a dance background as well and has really good hip turnout - she tells me this actually works against her in heel stretchs cause when she pulls her bad (left) leg in the air her body wants to turn out and twist to the side making her stunt go to the side. She really had to train herself and stretch forward a lot on her left side to stop doing this but has got a lot better.
Your CP looks like a born flyer in those pics :) - so I think level 5 at a top gym could def be in her future if she keeps working :). Make sure she stretches her other side though - especially her back. How big is she height-wise?