Do you have a say in your daughters Floor Music?

[flippymonkeysmom]

Related to this topic - how many of the parents have a say in their dd's optional music? My dd's coaches are Russian and we really have no say in their music. They let us listen to it and if we absolutely hate it, they might consider changing it - but usually not. Of course my dd loves her music (me too) and her coach is doing an awesome job with the choreography, so I'm not complaining. Just wondering how the rest of you all do it.

[bogwoppit]

I chose my oldest DD's last piece of floor music, I found it online and it was all good from there. Usually our coach will have lots of ideas for each gymnast and lets them choose between two or three pieces. For the younger girls, 8-10 years, she usually has three routines that they have to choose from, so there may be 4 or 5 using the same music. The older girls definitely have their own. Only once did I hate a piece of music, but I ignored it as the routine was so cute and perfect, the coach was right, I just thought it was lame! Judges agreed with the coach too.

I imagine in power gyms the coaches are looking for certain things in the music and know how to package them for each gymnast.

[gymgymgymnast08]

Parents should not have a say in their daughters floor music. When my coach gave us or tapes with our selections on it( we tell her what kind of music we want and then we have a few choices on it but If we hate all of them she will give us more) she specifically said DONT LET YOUR PARENTS LISTEN TO THIS WITH YOU. YOU PICK YOUR MUSIC BY WHAT YOU WANT! You don't want your parents to be sitting in the stands at meets like jamming to your music because they love it and have you not into the floor routine because you hate it. Who cares if your parents don't like your music? You are the one dancing to it not them!
thats just my opinon, I don't want to offend anyone!

[gymnasticsbabie]

well me and my coaches really make the final decision, but i always go to my mom for her say in it. but she's always liked my routines.

[gymnastmom96]

I thinks it's usually the coaches call because they know the child's personality. However, having said that, my daughter heard a song during a commercial last year and decided then that it would be her floor music. We found the song and had her coach listen to it. She loved it as well. It did get expensive having it cut for floor music.

[bogwoppit]

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Originally Posted by gymgymgymnast08 Parents should not have a say in their daughters floor music. When my coach gave us or tapes with our selections on it( we tell her what kind of music we want and then we have a few choices on it but If we hate all of them she will give us more) she specifically said DONT LET YOUR PARENTS LISTEN TO THIS WITH YOU. YOU PICK YOUR MUSIC BY WHAT YOU WANT! You don't want your parents to be sitting in the stands at meets like jamming to your music because they love it and have you not into the floor routine because you hate it. Who cares if your parents don't like your music? You are the one dancing to it not them! thats just my opinon, I don't want to offend anyone!

That's too bad you think that way. 'cos we pay the bills. HAHAHAHAHA. Seriously though, the coach always has the final say anyway, so I don't think it hurts to have your parents like the music. I am the coolest Mom on the planet and would never inflict my favourite music on my kids, even though it's way cooler than theirs. Who can resist The Cure, Prefab Sprout, The Cocteau Twins with a bit of New Order thrown in.

If I hear any more Pirates music at meets, I will weep. I love origianlity and a good fit for the child. Nothing worse than a non perky child with upbeat funky music looking hopelessly "not with it". It should always be a good fit, no matter who chooses it!

This is also my opinion, and I would never want to offend, just amuse.

[a_gymnast_forever]

our coaches always lets us choose. my coach has never actually had a say. hahahha. my last lets see 4 routines my mom found some music and I really liked it. so we bought it and brought it in the gym and was like ok hopefully ya'll like it. hahhaa. but I have been a dancer for 13 years. so we know stuff about music. so they trust us not to pick something crappy.

[gymnastmom96]

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Originally Posted by bogwoppit If I hear any more Pirates music at meets, I will weep. I love origianlity and a good fit for the child. Nothing worse than a non perky child with upbeat funky music looking hopelessly "not with it". It should always be a good fit, no matter who chooses it! This is also my opinion, and I would never want to offend, just amuse.

That is too funny!!! We have a standing joke at our gym about "pirates".

[hunde2]

My DD's floor routine and music was picked by the coach when she was a Level 7.As a Level 8 we let her listen to floormusic and she picked it out.It is an upbeat piece and it fits her better then the last one.Our coach and a teammate did the choreography and we are very happy with it.I'm sure if the coach though the music would not fit my DD she would have mentioned it.Our coaches encourage the kids to develop their own styles.They also get to make up their beamroutines for the most part.

[Tuduri]

In our gym, there is a give and take process between the coach,gymnast and parent in choosing dd's floor music. Basically, the coach asked my daughter and I if we had a favorite piece of music or style. We were thinking of something flamenco like, as we hail from an Iberian/Carribean background(amongst other things). I found a piece of music on a french web site called the Bullfighter's Dream. It was close to what I wanted. I sent this music to our coach/director who also choreographs the routine. She worked with another one of our coaches who cuts the music(he is a well known coach,artist, musician-a real renaissance guy)and they came up with the final music. It incorporates flamenco with some modern music. It turned out very nice. Our coach/director then choreographed the routine around the theme of a bull fight. Nothing gory, of course. And I really like it.

Speaking of Pirates, one of our level eight girls has this music. But I must say it is great. Her routine is choreographed around the theme of a swashbuckling sword fight on a pirate ship. It works. It is very cool.


Tuduri