coaching

out of curiosity, does a competitive gymnastics coach have to have competitive gymnastics experience? i kinda know that not all of them must be required to since there are so many young assistants that i have seen, but does there have to be at least someone in a gym with some accomplished...

We have a little problem here and I hope to get your opinions! Older DD, 12, Level 6, but actually has most of her L7 skills, was training 18 hours in summer and is now expected to do 15. I love our gym a lot, but it is pretty small. We have not enough coaches, so the L6 and L7 girls are going...

http://swingbig.org/ Is this anybody here? Just recently stumbled across this blog, and it instantly became one of my favorite coaching blogs. Some absolutely fantastic drills.

We recently had our team banquet. The head coach had each girl say something about the season...and it was a very proud coaching moment for me when my team named a skill or performance they were proud of--but not a single one of mine mentioned scores or placements. Which, btw, was not the norm...

It's been a month since I got my hand pinched while lowering the vault. It is looking pretty good. It is still sensitive if I touch it or bang it on something, and yet it is also still numb. It is also sort of hard, so I guess there is a good deal of scar tissue. Speaking of scar, I think it...

What is involved in getting my credentials so I can get my girls competing Xcel this fall? Our gym has USAG membership already since we have a boys power tumbling team. I have been waiting for August because I know that's when the season starts. But what do I have to actually do? It is my...

Hi everyone - I am a new poster on this forum, but have already learned a lot as a lurker! I'm hoping to tap into the collective CB wisdom for help on a frustrating situation. First, the background (sorry if this is long): DD has been at her gym for ~3 years and competed for the first time in...

I was adjusting the vault and the darn thing wouldn't budge. I had one of my girls jump on it, I swore I had my hand out of the way as I pulled the pin out. Guess not.

I found the article below to be very interesting. It's a different perspective on the coaching dilemma that I've seen referenced a few times. What do others think? For parents who have had a bad or less than ideal coaching experience (I'm not talking about a general disagreement about level...

Hi coaches. I've been asked if I could come and teach kids and adults how to do handstands. I've been thinking of perhaps coming every two weeks for 15 min and teaching progressions. Has anyone ever done this? And how do I charge the school? I feel like I can't charge for an hour of gymnastics...

Just curious ... do u guys think its disrespectful when another coach tries to coach the kids you coach outside of practice ... I find it upseting when im busting my butt working with certain kids in my group and I see this one coach working with one of the kids in my group on their day off when...

What I discovered over the past two years coaching old level 4 was that scores were best with a high pre-flight and a tight body to fall. When we try to translate those vaults to the table it is resulting in vaults with no blocks. They are tight so they bounce off their hands a little but most...

Many of you may have read this already, but I wanted to share Rita Wieber's blog she recently wrote about tough vs. abusive coaching, what it looks like, and what to do about it. It seems to me that in gymnastics, there can be such a fine line between "tough" and "abusive", and it can be hard to...

Does anyone know if the "US Elite Coaches Association - Men's" or the "US Men's Gymnastics Coaches Association" are still around?

Hello, My name is Coach Mike. I'm going to warn you that this post is probably going to be long, and for that I apologize. I wanted to get some insight/advice from other coaches. This is my first post here on this site, but not the first time me looking around for advice/information on other...

I currently coach 2 separate rec classes on different days but one of my classes has a problem child in it... The little boy in question refuses to do what he is told is unsafe and mean. E.g yesterday we were on bars and one of the stations was to front support walk along the top of the bar that...

I was wondering, after talking to HC and reading a comment from Dunno about how spotting takes its toll on coaches, just how much hands on coaching and spotting is needed. How does it vary level to level and where can describing body position and providing drills take the place of spotting?

We're relatively new to gymnastics and have a couple of questions. My oldest daughter just finished her first year of competition at level 3 and it seems like the gym we are currently at is a 'money farm'. It feels like the approach is to have as many athletes as possible and through attrition...

One of my friends was looking at another gym, it's well known, nice facility and equipment. She has wanted to switch to the gym for a year now, and went for a day to try it out. I asked her how it was and she told me how one of the beam coaches started yelling at 10 year old, telling her that...

I have a question. My coach has everyone learn their back walkovers without training them on the low beam first. Some of us (like me) have done them on the low beam before, but not consistently. Some of the girls have never trained a back walkover on low beam ever. He reuses to spot us and tells...