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As gymnasts – we love getting new leotards. Often, as kids you don’t realise that the more sparkly and extravagant the leotards, the more Mums and Dads have to live in fear of washing them incorrectly!
Dance Mania has posted these great tips on how to look after your leotard. There’s great tips on how to wash your leotard, and how to dry it. Read more on Dance Mania

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I’ve begun doing “star charts” with my group again, whereby they have a list of moves on each piece that they are to work to achieve.  Some are long term and some are short term goals. For each move that they achieve by themselves and can continue performing, they earn a star. Stars are also earned for hard work and effort in class and also when for working hard at their flexibility and conditioning. We have agreed on the end of the summer when we take a months break …

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New Shawn Johnson leotards for spring – opinions?
Sports MD has an article on ”Healing after a Traumatic Event”
Blythe is running a poll – Which US gymnast do you want added to the American Cup line up?
The TV Chick has a review of the latest episode of Make It Or Break It – what do you think?

Tweet I often find it hard to recall moments from my childhood; the first time I rode a bike, the first time I went on holidays, but I can always remember my first day at gymnastics.
I had spent the summer in between school term telling my parents that I wanted to take up football, tennis, camogie (an Irish womens sport) and all kinds of other different sports. At this stage, I had been in swimming classes for quite some time and was doing very well. In July, I attended my …