Off Topic Halloween

[Katie]

Does your gym close on Halloween? How about other evening kids activities near you? Ours stayed open one year and not a single person showed up so now they close. I think that’s best. Kids should be trick or treating in Halloween!

 

[Aussie_coach]

Wow, really no one showed up? Our gym was open, Halloween is starting to become a thing in Australia. But most people do not participate.

Numbers were down a little in classes, but only a little.

 

[Coach Kate]

Both gyms I have worked at stayed open, but numbers were super low and we often combined classes, especially so the coaches who had kids could leave and be with their families.

 

[CuriousCate]

Historically, our gym canceled evening programming and let team practices out by 5:00pm but this year they closed the gym completely and I was super happy! Kids need to be kids without feeling like they will upset parents or coaches. It was such a kid friendly decision.

 

[GymnastPotterhead]

Our gym closed this year. (Not sure about previous years cuz its a new gym). If there was practice, I probably would've gone... maybeee leave by 7:40 or so. I am older than most kids though so thats why but it was probably a good decision for kids to go trick or treating

 

[GymmieMom2011]

Our gym has been closed the last few years on Halloween for both team and rec practices. Before COVID all activities ended at 6pm.

 

[GymnastPotterhead]

Not sure about previous years cuz its a new gym

Clarification: New gym for me...

 

[sun]

We have an early class and a later class for preteam - we canceled the later one for trick or treating but still ran the earlier one - 2/10 showed up. lots of tramp time

 

[Janneke]

Our gym stayed open, but halloween is not much of a thing in New Zealand anyway. I didn't see any noticeable reduction in numberss. The gym closes for public holidays and summer holidays only

 

[JessSyd]

Stays open, encourages kids to dress up safely for training. Some years they do trick-for-treat where the kids play training games to win lollies.

It wasn’t a training day for my daughter so I don’t know what numbers were like this year.

It is the middle of school exam season here, so lots of high schoolers - even 12-14 year olds who would otherwise trick or treat, weren’t out on Tuesday night anyway - my daughter had two yearly exams on Wednesday and wasn’t doing anything but hitting the books.

Halloween has gone from absolutely not a thing 20 years ago, to a niche thing 10 years ago, to absolutely huge here.

 

[GymnastPotterhead]

By the way, we did have a halloween themed practice before halloween - dressed up, tooks pics, had a catwalk. Changed back to training clothes (leos) and played some fun skill based games

 

[GymnastMomX2]

Ours closed for the the first time this year.

 

[mom2newgymnast]

My daughter's gym was closed for Halloween.

 

[Dahlialover]

Our gym was closed 10/31 and 11/1! It was nice break for my son.

 

[JBS]

Most of the trick or treating is on the weekend by us... so we stay open. About 75% of the kids are there.

 

[Coach Kate]

Most of the trick or treating is on the weekend by us... so we stay open. About 75% of the kids are there.

That's how it was for us. They would oublish the day and time in the newspaper, but it was always a weekend. When I moved to another state, people acted like I was very silly for asking when trick or treat happens here.

 

[raenndrops]

Our gym was open for Halloween 1 year since I have been involved. Some towns were doing trick-or-treat then, but others did it the Saturday or Sunday before.
My hometown (not where I live) did theirs on the Saturday from 4-6 pm and the other town I grew up in was doing it from 6-8 pm. We took the girls to both. They were dressed as gymnasts (wearing warm-ups). Both OG and YG were in old warm-ups I bought from the gym for $5 combined. They were both Child Mediums. The girls looked so cute in them. Since my hometown is small, we were done in less than 2 hours and had time to drive the 8 miles to the next town just in time for it to start there. We took the same route my siblings and I had taken as kids. They had enough candy to not care about going out again, so thy went to gym that Monday. They were 2 of 8 girls that came. We basically had open gym that day.
Haven't been open on Halloween since.