I have been having some problems with my coach. It is a bit hard to explain, because it is hard to judge unless you are actually there. I will try my best to describe it though.
My coach is sometimes really nice. When she is in a good mood, she is very helpful, caring, and supportive. However, when she is in a bad mood, well, you don't want to be around her. She gets frustrated with us pretty easily. She will yell a lot and make fun of us, and be very sarcastic. I know this much doesn't sound too bad. Sometimes though, she will throw things at us. It sounds worse than it really is, though. It is usually just soft bouncy balls, and you can tell she is just joking and playing around. No one has gotten hurt; however, once I almost did, as she did it while I was doing a flip and it hit me in mid-air. I know she didn't mean to, though. One time, she got impatient with a girl who hadn't been paying attention to the instructions and threw a shoe at her. She dodged it and didn't get hit.
Another time, she had a french fry in her hand. (no, not the food) It is a skinny, really squishy mat about the width of a beam and about 1 and 1/2 feet long. We were doing a drill where she would stand on a really tall block next to a mat. We would punch off a springboard, smack the french fry, and land on the mat. It was to teach us to set really high for front tucks. We did that a few times, and then she started doing something else. When we would jump, instead of holding up the french fry for us to hit, she would hit us in the back with it. I don't know if this even counts though, because it was a really really soft hit (almost a tap) and it didn't hurt at all. It was really obvious she was just joking around, and nobody got hurt at all. Who knows, maybe it was just to make us jump farther.
I really don't know if this stuff is normal for a coach, or if this is unacceptable behavior. I know she is just joking around with all this, but maybe she doesn't know it's wrong... Please give me your opinions on this.
My coach is sometimes really nice. When she is in a good mood, she is very helpful, caring, and supportive. However, when she is in a bad mood, well, you don't want to be around her. She gets frustrated with us pretty easily. She will yell a lot and make fun of us, and be very sarcastic. I know this much doesn't sound too bad. Sometimes though, she will throw things at us. It sounds worse than it really is, though. It is usually just soft bouncy balls, and you can tell she is just joking and playing around. No one has gotten hurt; however, once I almost did, as she did it while I was doing a flip and it hit me in mid-air. I know she didn't mean to, though. One time, she got impatient with a girl who hadn't been paying attention to the instructions and threw a shoe at her. She dodged it and didn't get hit.
Another time, she had a french fry in her hand. (no, not the food) It is a skinny, really squishy mat about the width of a beam and about 1 and 1/2 feet long. We were doing a drill where she would stand on a really tall block next to a mat. We would punch off a springboard, smack the french fry, and land on the mat. It was to teach us to set really high for front tucks. We did that a few times, and then she started doing something else. When we would jump, instead of holding up the french fry for us to hit, she would hit us in the back with it. I don't know if this even counts though, because it was a really really soft hit (almost a tap) and it didn't hurt at all. It was really obvious she was just joking around, and nobody got hurt at all. Who knows, maybe it was just to make us jump farther.
I really don't know if this stuff is normal for a coach, or if this is unacceptable behavior. I know she is just joking around with all this, but maybe she doesn't know it's wrong... Please give me your opinions on this.