Flippin' Gym Mom
Proud Parent
Hi everyone. DD is a level 6 and decided to leave gymnastics after falling on her head while doing a cast to flyaway. After a few weeks of her crying and regretting the decision to leave gymnastics, we are now in the process of finding a new gym. She doesn't want to go back to her old gym because she doesn't feel comfortable with her new optionals coach. He lacks patience and was trying to force her to do flyaways, which she has been too afraid to do since she fell. I think with patience and time, she can overcome this but I need to find a gym that understands that she needs time. Took her to a top notch gym to try out this week. I'm extremely impressed with the gym, the coaches, the whole team program but they are concerned about DD's fear on bars, understandably. They are offering her a chance to repeat Level 5, but she doesn't want to. Last year, she did pretty well scoring between 34.00 - 36.00 AA and she has been working level 6 and 7 skills since the season ended. She feels she can work through the issues and doesn't want to have to compete another whole season of Level 5. How do you convince a new gym to take her on with fear issues?