coaches

Where are they? I run a year round wrestling school and every coach I have wrestled at the college level and all but one was an All-American. The one was still on scholarship as an athlete. Why do so many clubs in gymnastics seem to be so limited with coaches who have actually competed at the...

Hey guys! I just wanted to know if any other gym does this. My coach absolutely refuses to spot us on beam. I am not quite sure of their reasoning because they will spot every where else. JUST no beam. They will however let us get a big folding incline and some panel pats under the beam and try...

Hi everyone! I'm doing a course in ergonomy at university and we have to analyze the postures, repetitions and many other parameters of someone working. I decided to do it with a gymnastics coach. I need some statistics about injuries (of traumatic and repetitive origin) sustained by gymnastics...

We have a group of girls going down to the Cincinnati meet in January. I was wondering if anyone could suggest some fun things in the area. The meet is being held at the Northern Kentucky Convention Centre and the group will stay at one of the hotels in the area. Our club always does one or...

Our booster club hosts one or two meets each year and it is getting hard to come up with fresh, new ideas for coaches gifts. We don't have a budget yet, so at this point my committee is looking for any and all ideas. Coaches, do most meets that you attend give coaches gifts? Tell some of your...

How would you explain what coaches fees go towards? I'm trying to explain it to my husband but I don't have my team contract with me. Is it different for every gym? Thanks!

Hi! My DD got her kip in the Spring (used palm grips at the time). Her coach recommended that she get dowel grips so she started using those around the beginning of July, I think. She cannot seem to do her kip with them! She thought she "lost" it over the lil break they had because she's heard...

Saw this thread in the Parents forum and I wanted to bring it over here for general discussion. What kind of training, personnel development, or certification is required for coaches at your gym? What is offered? Is it too much, too little, or right? Related - what kind of gymnastics/acro...

How come they're not showing the other coaches?! Only the two on the floor. I think that's a rule only two on the floor? Where are the others?!

First post! I have nowhere to turn to get any answers to a lot of the questions I have that go beyond JO questions because I'm from Maine and as far as I know we have no gymnasts that have ever made it past the JO program. Last year my daughter made the TOPS B team as an 8 year old and we got...

*Brown's Gym Orbit is looking for the following:* 1. Recreational Gymnastics Instructor - This position includes working with our preschool and recreational students. Must be enthusiastic, energetic and able to work evening hours between 4-8 PM and possible Saturdays 9:30-12:00. Safety...

Hi there, Dd is on a compulsory team at an elite gym that's well-known for being aggressive and extremely competitive. Is it ok for a coach to pull / push the gymnasts' legs beyond normal splits, to the point the girls are crying and telling the coach to please stop, but the coach insists they...

Viking Gymnastics, located in Niles, IL, is looking for full and part-time gymnastics coaches. Our mission is to teach gymnastics in a safe and encouraging fashion. Our classes maintain a small student-teacher ratio to give the highest quality individualized instruction to every student. Job...

My DD is scared to talk to her coaches! My DD said she landed wrong the other night at practice and was afraid to talk to her coaches because she didn't want to "get in trouble". She also said she didn't want to cry because she would have gotten in trouble for that too! So now, she's babying...

I was watching the Nastia cup videos last night and noticed a lot of the girls doing jaegers on bars. It got me thinking. What goes into the decision to train one release over other ones? I have seen clubs and lower ranked college teams where almost all the girls have the same release. Usually...

This is a spinoff of thread about cancelled practices. I noticed on that thread, and others on here, that many gyms seem to have rather robust coaching numbers. I'm just wondering what the norm is. How many coaches would you say your gym has overall? By level? Or even by event? My ODDs gym has...

South Shore Gymnastics Academy is a newish (4 years) gym in the beautiful South Shore of Massachusetts! We are growing rapidly, and we are in a need of a coach who has experience coaching Level 9 and 10 skills-especially bars- and can confidently teach and spot releases and other high level...

As many of you know, poor Puma Jr is struggling big time this season. We changed gyms 7 months ago and she went from being the big trick/bad form darling of the gym who placed at almost every little meet last year to the back to the basics dead last of her teammates kid :( It had to be done, but...

Coaches, I'm embarrassed to admit that I am not your favorite parent. I am a worryer -worried about my daughter's safety (especially after an injury), and worried that my daughter will never learn a skill, and this has come out in my communication with the coaches when really, I should just...

I put this is WAG as it gets more traffic, but this question applies also to MAG, T&T or any other form... What do coaches feel at meets? (other than crazy tired of course as those are long days(!!) Do you get nervous when your gymnast is performing? Do you feel any 'pressure' for your...