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Catya
I've decided to quit gymnastics for a little while because of an irritating situation going on at my gym. The coaches and gym owners just won't organize class times so that everyone gets a fair share of time and space. They just open 4 hours a day and have people coming in to practice. And since mid-April - May, the place has been overcrowded. All of a sudden these two teams came and got the run of the place. They haven't even attended regularly until a few months ago. Now I understand that the team gets priority, especially when they have meets coming up and need to practice. But their attitudes suck. They actually tell off other kids for using apparatus during "their exclusive" practice time! And when the team gets the run of the small gym with not enough equipment, the rest of us who aren't on the team get no time or space to practice. We're left to find any empty corner we can find for stretching, conditioning, and wall handstands. I don't know why they can't just exercise common sense and taking turns. And I don't know why the gym owners and coaches are too stubborn to change the way they're running things.
I've been putting up with it as long as I can but I cracked and haven't gone to gym for the past 2 months or so (and I didn't feel like coming on here much being now uninvolved in the sport. It was kind of depressing you know). I don't want to pay for no coaching and a corner to stretch in. I stretch and condition at home, every day, no charge. No coaching worked in the beggining for us adults who had gymnastics previously. We just worked on what we remembered but now we want to learn new things that will require a spot. Total begginers get discouraged and quit. Even a whole bunch of kids quit because they're parents didn't want to pay for them getting sidelined by a team full of brats.
I think everyone paying for lessons or practice time and space should get the attention that's promised them. But since it's not worth going anymore, I'm back to training myself at home instead of at the gym again. But if I ever feel like working front and back tucks or using the stahl bars...grr! And that overcrowded gym is the only one in my area.
I've been putting up with it as long as I can but I cracked and haven't gone to gym for the past 2 months or so (and I didn't feel like coming on here much being now uninvolved in the sport. It was kind of depressing you know). I don't want to pay for no coaching and a corner to stretch in. I stretch and condition at home, every day, no charge. No coaching worked in the beggining for us adults who had gymnastics previously. We just worked on what we remembered but now we want to learn new things that will require a spot. Total begginers get discouraged and quit. Even a whole bunch of kids quit because they're parents didn't want to pay for them getting sidelined by a team full of brats.
I think everyone paying for lessons or practice time and space should get the attention that's promised them. But since it's not worth going anymore, I'm back to training myself at home instead of at the gym again. But if I ever feel like working front and back tucks or using the stahl bars...grr! And that overcrowded gym is the only one in my area.
