DD has been splitting her time between her old club (1hr week senior rec) and her new club (3hrs week intermediate) since November. I spoke with both owners/HC and they were both more than happy to allow it since DD was training with her old club for a comp in March which she had already committed to.
Her main coaches at both gyms have been friends for a long time & they used to be teammates at DDs new club, but it seems there is definitely still a level of competition between them.
Unfortunately, DD has been caught in the middle of all this. She's made massive amounts of improvement with her new coach, far more than she did with her old coach, but DD still adores them both regardless.
Until last night that is. DD comes out of training at her old gym in floods of tears. When I finally get to the bottom of it, it turns out her coach has moved her to the next group down within her class, so now she has a different coach. Not a big deal you would think, until you find out most of her new group cannot do a straight line cartwheel, let alone being anywhere close to ROBHS! Being in this group also means she is not allowed to compete particular moves in the comp, ones she can already do really well. And to top it off, the girl who was moved into the top group can barely do a RO.
I've emailed the HC and owners to ask the reasoning for this placement as DD wasn't told why, but so far no response. To me, it seems DD is being punished for improving at the new club, but I don't know if that's just my mum genes clouding my judgement.
DD is utterly gutted by it all as she was really looking forward to the comp, and it's really knocked her confidence too as she told me she must be rubbish (even though she knows that her new gym is incredibly impressed with her)
Her main coaches at both gyms have been friends for a long time & they used to be teammates at DDs new club, but it seems there is definitely still a level of competition between them.
Unfortunately, DD has been caught in the middle of all this. She's made massive amounts of improvement with her new coach, far more than she did with her old coach, but DD still adores them both regardless.
Until last night that is. DD comes out of training at her old gym in floods of tears. When I finally get to the bottom of it, it turns out her coach has moved her to the next group down within her class, so now she has a different coach. Not a big deal you would think, until you find out most of her new group cannot do a straight line cartwheel, let alone being anywhere close to ROBHS! Being in this group also means she is not allowed to compete particular moves in the comp, ones she can already do really well. And to top it off, the girl who was moved into the top group can barely do a RO.
I've emailed the HC and owners to ask the reasoning for this placement as DD wasn't told why, but so far no response. To me, it seems DD is being punished for improving at the new club, but I don't know if that's just my mum genes clouding my judgement.
DD is utterly gutted by it all as she was really looking forward to the comp, and it's really knocked her confidence too as she told me she must be rubbish (even though she knows that her new gym is incredibly impressed with her)
