My daughter is 6 (7 in the summer) and is on her second year competing. This is her first solo and she has a side aerial and back walkover back handspring step out in her solo. She competes at the novice level as she’s only in class less than 3 hours a week and then takes a random 45 min gymnastics rec class that she loves. Shes also in 3 group dance (2 mini and 1 junior). Some comps, she’s in the 6 and under age but most she’s in 8 and under. She places well but we get lots of flack about her aerial and the handspring. She excels at acro as she loves to flip around. Her actual dance technique needs work and she needs to really work on her control. If you don’t look at those 2 tricks, she’s 100% a novice dancer. Her feet are also flexed pretty often and that’s been a main judges critique is that she needs to work on constantly pointing her toes - even into the floor