Lilou
Proud Parent
Interested in hearing how other gyms do it. Our new gym is very strict on being ready for meets. A week before a meet, the kids must be at all practices and make a certain number of full routines or they're not allowed to compete that event. For example, if they miss their 6 bar routines, they take the number of missed routines for that day and add them to the next practice. Let's say they miss a skill in 2 of the routines, the next practice they have to make 8 in order to compete. Essentially, they have to be 'on' at all practices up to the meet.
Our gym said they will scratch kids right up to the event time, bad meet practice on beam- scratch beam right then and there. They routinely scratch kids who they don't think are ready and tell them (and parents) the night before. I've heard similar things to this at other gyms but mostly at the optional levels where the skills are much harder and not safe if the gymnast doesn't do them consistently before a meet. In this case, we're talking Level 3.
I don't mind if my child doesn't compete an event because she's not ready, but their system is demeaning in my opinion and I feel like they should definitely know if a kid is ready or before the night before a meet.
How do your gyms do it? Readiness?
Our gym said they will scratch kids right up to the event time, bad meet practice on beam- scratch beam right then and there. They routinely scratch kids who they don't think are ready and tell them (and parents) the night before. I've heard similar things to this at other gyms but mostly at the optional levels where the skills are much harder and not safe if the gymnast doesn't do them consistently before a meet. In this case, we're talking Level 3.
I don't mind if my child doesn't compete an event because she's not ready, but their system is demeaning in my opinion and I feel like they should definitely know if a kid is ready or before the night before a meet.
How do your gyms do it? Readiness?