Jump-A-Rama Fun Team

Talking Points, Feedback Needed.

When to start going to meets. With gymnastics teams, there is a fall meet season and a spring meet season. I looked up when the fun meets are and these are the fun meet options left for this Spring season.

April 1 Battle Creek MI Fee $75 per gymnast
April 2 Ann Arbor MI Fee $60 per gymnast
April 24th Saginaw MI Fee TBA

There were more meets all through Jan, Feb, and March, but we are just starting this team, so obviously we couldn't attend. So those meets I listed will be the last meets of the Spring season. If you all are gung ho about making it to a Spring meet, I think we can make it happen... But honestly, it will be throwing a lot together in a very little amount of time. But we could do it. If it were up to me, I would take more time to learn our routines and skills, do an exhibition meet just for our team in the summer, then attend meets through the fall. We would have lots more options for meets and the girls would be very ready to perform at the fun meet. Eventually, I am hoping to form an actual XCEL team, which is sanctioned and they actually compete and podium, but that's down the road a bit. Please comment and let us know how you feel about this and we can talk it out :)

ROUTINE PRACTICE this Saturday the 26th from 11-1. This is mandatory for those who are coming once a week and optional for those who are coming 2x a week. It is $20 for the 2 hour practice and is paid through cash or venmo. Until we get the new floor mats we ordered (which were supposed to be here at the end of January but the materials got stuck on a shipping container, then were delayed in production blah blah me annoyed blah) I am going to move everything over and lay more mats on floor during our practices to make more room for our routine work.

As far as music goes, there are tons of options on Youtube! Look up gymnastics floor music. The routines are supposed to be around 90 seconds long. Gymfloormusix does some awesome ones! I will leave the link below for you to check it out and have the girls find something they like. Please have some ideas picked out by Saturday if you are coming to routine practice or Monday for class.

Please let me know if you are sending your gymnast to Saturday's routine practice so I can plan accordingly.

Last, Michigan University Womens Gymastics has their last meet of the regular season on March 12th at 4pm. I was going to take Robyn (my daughter) and thought it would be fun to invite any of the team girls to come. The tickets are 8-10 dollars and aren't amazing seats, but it is so fun. They are ranked 1st in the nation and are SO. GOOD. So let me know if you are interested in tickets and I can buy them all together. You can pay me cash or venmo me.

Okay, I know that was a lot! Thanks for being awesome parents :)

Shannon

Gymfloormusix - YouTube My channel is full of gymnastic floor music I make myself :)Any wishes for a floor music? Tell me!If you want, subscribe ;)

Hey Parents,

I have some videos for the girls to watch. These are some actual USAG routines for their level. I want them to be familiar with the elements that are involved just to get them thinking about what they want to put into their routine and what they look like. These are more advanced, but it will give them an idea of what we are going to be working towards but with their own flair and skill choice. This will also give them some good visualization of how these skills can and eventually (hopefully ;) should look.

Level 3 Uneven Bar USAG OFFICIAL LEVEL 3 UNEVEN BARS ROUTINE ...