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MaddieLynn

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Gymnast
Background: I'm currently 19 and in college. I started recreational T&T at 14 and did a year of competitive T&T at 17/18. I started coaching at the same gym at 16 and so now have 3 years experience coaching preschool through level 4 T&T.

Question: I am very interested in learning to coach WAG. I'd really like to find out if it's something I would like to do with my life (or at least part of it). I enjoy coaching T&T and love working with the kids, but it is nowhere near as complex as I know coaching WAG is. So my question is, how do I learn? My home gym offers only T&T and no one there has experience coaching artistic. I'm in a different state for school anyways. How should I go about this?
 
Find excellent coaches and watch them, ask to shadow them and learn from them. Don't learn from just one but as many as you can.
 
Any opinions on whether a minor in physical education would be worthwhile or useful if this is something I would possibly want to pursue in the future?
 

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