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Metro Stars Gymnastics in Omaha, NE is currently seeking qualified individuals for a full time position working with our growing mens team. The applicant should be be comfortable developing young athletes in the USAG system, have strong spotting skills, and be willing to work with our...

Metro Stars Gymnastics in Omaha, NE is currently seeking qualified individuals for a full time position working with our burgeoning mens team. The applicant should be be comfortable developing young athletes in the USAG system, have strong spotting skills, and be willing to work with our...

I believe they will be teaching the routines at the Region IV Congress as well. Just FYI

Metro Stars Gymnastics in Omaha, NE is currently seeking a full-time Trampoline and Tumbling Director. This is a salaried position with health care benefits, 401k, and paid time off (PTO). We are currently in a 19,000 sf facility with state of the art equipment including Euro trampolines (4x4...

The official book will be available for purchase by April 1, 2013. This information was from the technical committee meeting minutes. They did used to have a list of skills to be in the routines. It was on their website but I am not sure what happened to the link. I have also heard it mentioned...

This is a great question! We run both the Xcel program and JO program at our gym. At this time we have had more kids move from the Xcel program to JO rather than the other way around. The only ones who have moved from JO to Xcel were families that did not want to commit to the number of...

Congrats! We got our double mini about 2 years ago. We use it all the time and the kids love it! It's great to hear of another T&T program growing!

We are currently seeking full time coaches for several open positions. The girl's gymnastics program is seeking an Assistant Team Director for our compulsory and optional teams. The Assistant Team Director would coach levels 4-10 as well as participate in staff coaching, gym management, and...

A couple of ideas: First, we have automatic re-enrollment. The kids are automatically enrolled from month to month unless the parent completes a cancellation form. This way families can not just "disappear." Also, we vary our tuition based on the number of classes each month. Some months cost...

Thank you all for your insight. We have decided to stick with our plan and offer the days and hours to our competitive team. There are few families who are opting to not continue with the competitive program due to the increased hours. For those families we do have a "recreational" competitive...

There is a great video on youtube for glide kips: YouTube - The Kipping Process Part I If that link doesn't work search for : kipping process. It's great!

Does anyone have any advice on getting parents to commit to having their girls on team? We are struggling with families complaining about costs and amount of time the girls must commit to. For example our level 4s are supposed to go 3 days a week for 2.5 hours each workout for the summer. Does...

I coached until the day I had both girls! I had one parent come to me after class and ask "Does your Dr. know you are doing all this activity?" I laughed and pointed to my Dr. who was standing in the hallway at the time!! I said "Why don't you ask her?" It is perfectly safe to continue doing the...

At Region 4 Congress this year Tom Forster gave some great drills for pullovers. One thing he talked about was having kids "race" into pullovers. Set up 2 girls in front of a low bar. Let the kids run into their pullover and see who can get to a nice hollow body shape on the bar first. Worked...

Do you have any specific themes that you would like skills for? We use a theme every week in our preschool classes so if you are looking for something in particular let me know! For example this last week our theme was "rainbow and colors." We did "rainbow rolls" over the octagon, walked over...