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    Women Benefits to competitions at lower levels?

    Other sports often offer kids the chance to compete every week in season. If they join the local basketball, netball, soccer, cricket, football team they may train once or twice a week and then compete every weekend. In gymnastics, the athletes spend many more hours training and do far fewer...
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    Parents Realistic expectations

    You don’t need to crush her dreams, having big goals will help to push her forward even if they are unrealistic, they will help her to get further in gymnastics that if she doesn’t have them. Eventually, she will figure out for herself what is realistic. She doesn’t have to see repeating as a...
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    Parents Daughter having a hard time with constructive feedback

    At 7, it’s very likely that she simply doesn’t understand about correction yet. You kids can panic when their muscles are sore because they can’t tell the difference between muscles soreness and genuine pain: They also may not understand about corrections and not see that their coach is trying...
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    Women Casting out of kip

    The most common issue we see with this is that gymnasts wait to late to initiate the cast. Think about the kip and cast as one skill. If you are doing a kip without a cast, your feet will start in front on the bar, and travel backward to finish in front support. In a Kip cast the feet...
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    Coaches Athletes who don’t seem to care

    A lot of the time, the fact that they are frustrated is accurate. The kids who work the hardest are usually the ones who feel like they are doing well. If a child thinks they are no good at something, or they are going to fail, their efforts tend to plummet. Choose the lazy students who never...
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    Coaches Injuries in practice - how do you handle?

    It’s going to depend on the injury. If it’s a serious injury, like a dislocation, severe muscle tear, badly broken bone we would always call the ambulance first and secure the help, before contacting parents. This is expected protocol and how all first aid courses teach, because you have a...
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    Gymnasts HS Senior - life after gymnastics

    Don’t stop. Here in Australia, gymnasts don’t tend to stop gymnastics when they finish high school. Many continue to train with a compete with their teams behind high school, especially while at University, You will generally find there is no age limit on competitions, it’s just the gym that...
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    Coaches Student refuses to do pullover, need advice

    It’s pretty common in 5 year olds. She may have fallen once, or seen someone else fall, or she may just be really uncomfortable being upside down. Encourage but don’t force it. With an older kids, you often find forcing it does help because they really want the long term rewards of getting...
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    Anon learning things correctly.

    It can work to have both. I agree that it’s essential to teach correct technique at all ages, and all levels regardless of whether they are coming once a week for fun or training for the Olympics. Without correct technique gymnastics is far more risky and progress will be significantly slower...
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    Parents Australia Futures league competitive stream

    At this post in time, I wouldn’t recommend Gold Coast Gymnastics, if you are looking for Elite, this may change but they haven’t been able to maintain things. A private gym is often a better option because things seem to be more consistently run. Brisbane is your closest capital and there are...
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    Gymnasts Best way to deal with fear and hesitation?

    The high 5 for fear. 1. Check your thinking, what is going through your head before yiu do the skill? If it’s “I hope I don’t fall.” It’s making things worse, thinking something like “I got this”, “fast feet” “power” etc will make all the difference. 2. visualise - picture yourself doing the...
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    Women Beam Progression

    You can create so many different progressions. Line on floor, foam beams, laser beam, low beam with mats stacked to the height of the beam, with a mat, without a mat, medium beam mats stacked to beam height, with and without mats, high beams mats stacked, with and without mats, beam wideners...
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    Anon What does it take to get a family kicked out of a gym?!

    I would absolutely remove them from my gym.
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    Parents Brisbane WAG Fees

    Average costs would be between $80-$120 per week.
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    Parents Brisbane WAG Fees

    How many hours per week?
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