Mommatotwo
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- Apr 11, 2010
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I don't get the difference either. Why is it wrong saying 4.2?
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Do you actually have to try out for a specific level? The gyms we've been at...you go to tryout based on your age and throw your best skills. Coaches observe and then based on your skills and what they need, place you on the best fit team.
Explained very well! :) It's a totally different approach than what my CP has ever experienced.They have level tryouts. So if you have the minimum tumbling skills for L1 you try out for that level. The tryout packet lists the minimum tumbling required without a spot for each level. For L4 you need a running layout, two to layout, and standing tuck. For L5 you need a running full, two to full, and a quad jump to tuck.
So you go to a specific level tryout with all the athletes that can throw those skills. They evaluate your ability in those skills and they do some stunting and jumps (because it isn't all about tumbling and often the stunting skills can be a level behind the athlete's tumbling skills). They then tell the athlete what level they will practice at for the summer. All ages practice together at level, so this past summer my 10yo CP practiced L3 with girls from 6ish to 17ish with L3 skills.
They observe the athletes all summer and move them to different levels if they think they should.
In August they will name the team rosters.
So we came to our gym last June. They evaluated her skills and had her practice the rest of the summer on L3. Then last August she was rostered to their SL3 team. They begin team practices in August.
Did I explain it clearly or is it confusing?
most if not all gyms do it that way.Do you actually have to try out for a specific level? The gyms we've been at...you go to tryout based on your age and throw your best skills. Coaches observe and then based on your skills and what they need, place you on the best fit team.
The gyms we've been at have done tryouts like @MissCongeniality explained. The kids go to the time for their age group regardless of skill. They throw their hardest tumble pass, jumps, etc and the coaches place them on the team they feel best fits the kid & gym.most if not all gyms do it that way.
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That's how gyms around here do it, too.The gyms we've been at have done tryouts like @MissCongeniality explained. The kids go to the time for their age group regardless of skill. They throw their hardest tumble pass, jumps, etc and the coaches place them on the team they feel best fits the kid & gym.
I don't know your gym personally, but from what I can see they do a good job of placing their athletes. Since you didn't go to the actual tryouts last year, I would ask which tryout she should attend. It sounds like she has made great progression this year, so just because she doesn't have every single skill mastered yet doesn't mean they won't consider her for the higher level, particularly if she double rosters. And as I tell my kids, you are trying out for next year every day you are at practice and at competition this year - the coaches are already watching and making plans for the next season. Good luck!Maybe it would be better for her to try for the L4 and then also remain on the S3. I just don't know. I think asking her coaches is also a good way to know what they think.
I don't know your gym personally, but from what I can see they do a good job of placing their athletes. Since you didn't go to the actual tryouts last year, I would ask which tryout she should attend. It sounds like she has made great progression this year, so just because she doesn't have every single skill mastered yet doesn't mean they won't consider her for the higher level, particularly if she double rosters. And as I tell my kids, you are trying out for next year every day you are at practice and at competition this year - the coaches are already watching and making plans for the next season. Good luck!
Perfect timing for that comment - today during cp's private, her tumbling coach asked her who she was basing on each of her teams, wanted to see her jumps to tuck, and told her what tumbling skills he really wanted her to work on and master.I don't know your gym personally, but from what I can see they do a good job of placing their athletes. Since you didn't go to the actual tryouts last year, I would ask which tryout she should attend. It sounds like she has made great progression this year, so just because she doesn't have every single skill mastered yet doesn't mean they won't consider her for the higher level, particularly if she double rosters. And as I tell my kids, you are trying out for next year every day you are at practice and at competition this year - the coaches are already watching and making plans for the next season. Good luck!
And as I tell my kids, you are trying out for next year every day you are at practice and at competition this year - the coaches are already watching and making plans for the next season. Good luck!
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When you coach, you're seeing EVERYTHING. EVERY DAY.
There are kids RIGHT NOW whom coaches have their eye on to move up because they've been in tumbling working on skills for the next level since January.
I have always told parents about that when they wonder why their kid was not suggested for the next level. While yours were the ones talking in practice, always late, not fixing things when coaches point them out, skipping tumbling (ours is unlimited with tuition - no excuses) someone else was working
We tell our kids that all the time. They tryout for us all season long.And as I tell my kids, you are trying out for next year every day you are at practice and at competition this year - the coaches are already watching and making plans for the next season. Good luck!