My dd's gym appears to be grooming a diving coach to be our optionals bar and vault coach. Currently he is teaching compulsories. I am having serious reservations about his ability to coach my level eight daughter.
We have an excellent bars and vault coach two days a week. He has tremendous experience but has other artisitic and musical interests in life which occupy the rest of his time. We hire him to do privates so as to supplement what we are lacking in our regular classes. Our gym claims to be actively looking for another coach, but the scuttlebutt is that the diving coach will accompany the optionals in their upcoming season to gain experience. My guess is that he will be used as an optionals coach in the following season and maybe as a spotter in the present season. In the interim, we will enter the level 8 season without a fulltime top level bars and vault coach...unless we hire him privately, which gets expensive.
I've corresponded with one coach with 30 years experience who has no connection to my dd's gym or to any other gym in the area. He advises that a diving coach could not properly teach optional bars or vault without many years of experience coaching gymnastics. The diving coach I allude to, while having a great reputation as a diving coach, has only 6 months experience teaching compulsories.
Any thoughts, advice?
We have an excellent bars and vault coach two days a week. He has tremendous experience but has other artisitic and musical interests in life which occupy the rest of his time. We hire him to do privates so as to supplement what we are lacking in our regular classes. Our gym claims to be actively looking for another coach, but the scuttlebutt is that the diving coach will accompany the optionals in their upcoming season to gain experience. My guess is that he will be used as an optionals coach in the following season and maybe as a spotter in the present season. In the interim, we will enter the level 8 season without a fulltime top level bars and vault coach...unless we hire him privately, which gets expensive.
I've corresponded with one coach with 30 years experience who has no connection to my dd's gym or to any other gym in the area. He advises that a diving coach could not properly teach optional bars or vault without many years of experience coaching gymnastics. The diving coach I allude to, while having a great reputation as a diving coach, has only 6 months experience teaching compulsories.
Any thoughts, advice?