Hello to all you wonderful Gymnastics parents!
I was a gymnast growing up and love the sport. I took my soon to be 4yo DD to the gym near our home for open gym the other day and I left feeling very confused and of course so excited. We were there for 5 minutes when the coach came up to me and said "has she taken gymnastics at all before?" I said no and she said " she has the exact body of a gymnast". I found that very odd. She is only 4 and how can a coach really foresee what a child will end up looking like physically? Weird. Anyways, so since I used to coach 3/4 year old gymnasts through the rec dept, I started going through the normal things I would teach them. We went through each event and she was just so good. The coach just kept watching us and following us around. Then she came up to me while my daughter was on the high beam and said she wants her to move up a level. She isn't even in a class. Lol! I reminded her of this fact and she said oh and walk away. As we were walking away she took me aside and said please put her in a class. If you do, I can assure you she will be very, very good. WOW! So cool!
Now the bad news, I was hoping to get her in asap so the coach would remember her. We just found out she needs her tonsils out on Thursday. Now she won't be able to be in a class for 3 weeks. She probably will forget all about it by the time we get back in there.
Do you think that this is common? Being picked out like that. She zeroed in on Josie within minutes. My parents were never able to afford all that comes with competitive gymnastics so I did rec. I am hoping to be able to do more for Josie, if she ends up loving it like I did. Anybody have this happen? Guess I need to get her in a class
Sara
I was a gymnast growing up and love the sport. I took my soon to be 4yo DD to the gym near our home for open gym the other day and I left feeling very confused and of course so excited. We were there for 5 minutes when the coach came up to me and said "has she taken gymnastics at all before?" I said no and she said " she has the exact body of a gymnast". I found that very odd. She is only 4 and how can a coach really foresee what a child will end up looking like physically? Weird. Anyways, so since I used to coach 3/4 year old gymnasts through the rec dept, I started going through the normal things I would teach them. We went through each event and she was just so good. The coach just kept watching us and following us around. Then she came up to me while my daughter was on the high beam and said she wants her to move up a level. She isn't even in a class. Lol! I reminded her of this fact and she said oh and walk away. As we were walking away she took me aside and said please put her in a class. If you do, I can assure you she will be very, very good. WOW! So cool!
Now the bad news, I was hoping to get her in asap so the coach would remember her. We just found out she needs her tonsils out on Thursday. Now she won't be able to be in a class for 3 weeks. She probably will forget all about it by the time we get back in there.
Do you think that this is common? Being picked out like that. She zeroed in on Josie within minutes. My parents were never able to afford all that comes with competitive gymnastics so I did rec. I am hoping to be able to do more for Josie, if she ends up loving it like I did. Anybody have this happen? Guess I need to get her in a class
Sara