I recently quit my job at one gym due to my co-coach's behavior towards me. This was her first year coaching optionals - I've coached optionals for a few years now. Long story short, she gave people wrong info to make herself look better, constantly negatively criticized my coaching, went to...
We only have one judge or event as well, except at State when we have 2. Parents are required to volunteer for at least 1 session. At our new gym, if they don't volunteer at the meet, they are fined. This is only or second week there, so I'm not sure how it all goes. Our old gym usually had a...
We just switched gyms last week. Our last gym had 10 regular season meets on the schedule, plus state- No Nationals as they only allow optionals to go and my dd is a level 5. Our new gym has 8 regular season meets, plus state, and the possibility of Nationals- which is in our state this year so...
If a level 7 dismount does a RO back tuck as a dismount, does the RO still count as a flight skill for the special requirement? (We had an issue with a skill once that the judge deemed was part of the mount and not an acro, so I want to check on this before I give the go-ahead)
We are both equal coaches (though I did just have to bring in the director to talk to her and remind her of that). I do like the idea of sitting down and talking about all the girls' strengths and challenges--- that might be a good I've breaker into how we want to structure the practice. We've...
Any ideas/suggestions on how to help girls adjust to a new coach? I coaches 6s last year and this year I am coaching both 6 and 7 along with another coach. The other coach coaches 5s last year and all of her gymnasts have moved to either 6 or 7. (Now that I think about it, we're kind of like the...
I coach level 6. Today I had 2 girls competing and we were behind a team of 12 girls. Normally when we have small numbers, we join the other team and warm-up with them; however, we couldn't do that with a team of 12. My girls were literally waiting for 30 or more minutes between each event...
We have checklists of skills for each level. The girls carry these checklists around with them in December (mid-season) and after state in March. We do have two parent conferences - one in December that is not mandatory (and very few sign up) and one in May that is mandatory. Level changes are...
Have you tried a kickover on beam? I've had a few who wouldn't go for the backwalkover (even with spot) but after doing the kickover for a few months were willing to try...
I have an Xcel Gold who sits on the beam and moves into a chest handstand. She has been competing this all season with no problem and even had a judge tell her to take an extra acro out of her routine because she doesn't need it because she has the chest handstand in there. However, at our last...