Recent content by new.optionals.mom

That is the first thing I thought, that perhaps the gym is trying to save money. However, taking chalk from other gym is teaching your gymnasts to steal and that is illegal.

am at our 2nd gym. My daughter who is new to Optionals is very talented gymnast and dancer, very flexible, always wants to learn new skills, but the gyms we have been at and/or the coaches she has had seems to just ruin it for her. We are not well off financially, we both have to work and no one...

Thank you for all of your responses. I feel better a bit because other gyms do this and my knee jerk response is to be upset because it is new to us, but I still don't like that it was not officially communicated to the parents. I don't ask for a talk or a meeting, maybe an email or a note in...

I don't like hearing things from other people or my child because things can get lost in translation than I look fhte fool. I would not have a problem with some changes if I was told by the gym in a professional manner to disseminate the information to the parents.

I've emailed the gym owner 3x in the past 2 weeks with no response. I was nice. All my email said was that I heard about a new chalk policy in the lobby fromother parents and that I wanted to get the facts from the gym owner as to what my child is responsible for etc so I know as a parent...

Thank you, as I didn't know.

Again, the parents are told through the child that they have to purchase chalk from the gym, the gym will no longer supply it (no communication to the parents on this one either) I am also being told by other parents that this will be instituted EVERY practice on EVERY event that they use chalk...

Again, there was nothing from the gym owners telling us of a change. in addition, I hear from other parents that our girls have to end their events 10 minutes early EVERY practice to clean up behind themselves.

I'm not sure because again there was no communication from the gym owner!

I am a mom of a gymnasts that is new to optionals. As far as I know and have witnessed, all gyms and all gymnasts use chalk on bars and most on beam, and maybe some on vault on their feet. And we have been in gyms for 5 years now. This year, actually this past week, the gym owners told our...