Alright, first a little background.
I'm on a recreational gymnastics team (so we tend to not get the experienced 'team' coaches, which sometimes works out and sometimes doesn't)
we have levels 3-7 on the team right now. I myself and competing level 5 half the year and after Christmas I'm supposed to compete level 6 (on request of my coach, not exactly my choice haha, but oh well)
Here's the problem, we've had this new coach come in mid way through summer.
First of all she has this issue with being wrong, like she literally cannot take it. Example: At one point she was calling a plank a hollow hold, one of the girls on the team mentioned that it was called a hollow hold and this coach literally could not take it. She insisted she was right and finally the gymnast just said forget it. Then later on she started calling it a hollow hold after all.
Second she hasn't quite been trained much but assumes she knows things and has been actually given wrong corrections, to the point of possibly being dangerous.
Example: On vault one of the girls on the team has a vault that scored 9.7's all year last year, but she's always wanting to improve so after she went she asked what she could improve on and the coach told her that her vault wasn't really good overall, she really needed to go straight up onto the vault and her hands should land at the front of the vault (she pointed to the part near the springboard) so she could block better.
Not sure if this is just another method, but I've always heard your hands need to go towards the back of the vault for just a simple handspring, which is the only thing this gymnast is working on.
And third, I feel like I'm wasting my money. Like I said she hasn't been trained much so she honestly doesn't know how to spot the higher levels skills. I am in the highest level group which is girls level 6 and 7. We were put with this coach in 3 out of 4 of the rotations. The head coach wants me to compete level 6 but this coach cannot spot any level 6 skills. Not flyaways, tucks, back walkovers on beam. So I'm forced to only work the skills I have (Which I'm just working on cleaning up, this is fine for some practices but not all of them!!)
What would you do in this situation? The head coach seems to like this girl (mainly because we don't exactly have another option.....)
Should I go to the program director or gym owner about it?? Or should I just wait it out to see if it gets better?
I'm on a recreational gymnastics team (so we tend to not get the experienced 'team' coaches, which sometimes works out and sometimes doesn't)
we have levels 3-7 on the team right now. I myself and competing level 5 half the year and after Christmas I'm supposed to compete level 6 (on request of my coach, not exactly my choice haha, but oh well)
Here's the problem, we've had this new coach come in mid way through summer.
First of all she has this issue with being wrong, like she literally cannot take it. Example: At one point she was calling a plank a hollow hold, one of the girls on the team mentioned that it was called a hollow hold and this coach literally could not take it. She insisted she was right and finally the gymnast just said forget it. Then later on she started calling it a hollow hold after all.
Second she hasn't quite been trained much but assumes she knows things and has been actually given wrong corrections, to the point of possibly being dangerous.
Example: On vault one of the girls on the team has a vault that scored 9.7's all year last year, but she's always wanting to improve so after she went she asked what she could improve on and the coach told her that her vault wasn't really good overall, she really needed to go straight up onto the vault and her hands should land at the front of the vault (she pointed to the part near the springboard) so she could block better.
Not sure if this is just another method, but I've always heard your hands need to go towards the back of the vault for just a simple handspring, which is the only thing this gymnast is working on.
And third, I feel like I'm wasting my money. Like I said she hasn't been trained much so she honestly doesn't know how to spot the higher levels skills. I am in the highest level group which is girls level 6 and 7. We were put with this coach in 3 out of 4 of the rotations. The head coach wants me to compete level 6 but this coach cannot spot any level 6 skills. Not flyaways, tucks, back walkovers on beam. So I'm forced to only work the skills I have (Which I'm just working on cleaning up, this is fine for some practices but not all of them!!)
What would you do in this situation? The head coach seems to like this girl (mainly because we don't exactly have another option.....)
Should I go to the program director or gym owner about it?? Or should I just wait it out to see if it gets better?
