So as I posted before DD is new to gymnastics (4 classes of 1 hour each now) but was placed in an experienced class and they've "tested" her and in fall she will go to their most advanced rec class. I'm happy for her but I feel like the coaches keep forgetting that she's brand new to the sport and they are teaching her the same way they teach the other girls in the class, who have been doing gym for up to 5 years. Quick example (and forgive me if I use the wrong terms, I'm gym clueless): they were working on casts and had to do 10 good ones. She watched the girls before her enough to know the arm motions (she had only been on a bar once before ever so didn't know what a cast even was), but she couldn't get her belly off the bar. I quickly noticed from watching the others that DD wasn't keeping her feet together and squeezing her butt. I was sitting literally 5 feet from the two sets of bars they were using (no parent viewing room, the chairs are RIGHT there) but I did keep my big mouth shut although I just wanted to say "keep your legs together!"
I have told the coaches that she hasn't done any of this stuff before but her progression is so fast and her tumbling is better than the rest of the class so I think they "forget" and don't watch to be sure she's doing the basics that the other girls know. I don't want to be a pushy parent and keep reminding them of her inexperience but I also don't want her learning something incorrectly. I had planned to do at least 1-2 privates to 'catch her up' to the girls she will be with in fall. Would it be totally CGM to make some notes as to what I think she may be doing incorrectly or may not know how to do? I don't want to become known as some overbearing obnoxious mom 3 months into this new sport.
Full disclosure: DD is a dancer and has a bad habit of not "noticing" the little things in a skill like maybe arm position or something. I was a dancer and can point that kind of stuff out to her (hold your hands like this when you do X step) but gym= clueless mom and I wouldn't try to correct her in gym anyway.
I have told the coaches that she hasn't done any of this stuff before but her progression is so fast and her tumbling is better than the rest of the class so I think they "forget" and don't watch to be sure she's doing the basics that the other girls know. I don't want to be a pushy parent and keep reminding them of her inexperience but I also don't want her learning something incorrectly. I had planned to do at least 1-2 privates to 'catch her up' to the girls she will be with in fall. Would it be totally CGM to make some notes as to what I think she may be doing incorrectly or may not know how to do? I don't want to become known as some overbearing obnoxious mom 3 months into this new sport.
Full disclosure: DD is a dancer and has a bad habit of not "noticing" the little things in a skill like maybe arm position or something. I was a dancer and can point that kind of stuff out to her (hold your hands like this when you do X step) but gym= clueless mom and I wouldn't try to correct her in gym anyway.