Anon Saluting & thanking coaches?

[Anonymous (e848)]

Do your gyms require height order line up and saluting to your coaches before every event and then doing the same after the event but also thanking them in unison? Just curious because it’s always bern a thing at my gym but some new girls were confused.

 

[Anonymous (2c86)]

Yes. More formal at our last gym than this gym, but still very much a thing. My daughter has never done it after events and they don’t salute beforehand, only a lineup and thank you/clapout at the end of practice. Her gyms have had a lot of national team members and coaches over the years so I’m curious where this is a custom. I’ve never encountered the event thing or salutes during practice. Wouldn’t it eat up tons of practice time?

It’s always funny when a girl has a growth spurt and they eventually realize that they’re not in height order anymore.

 

[Anonymous (2ef4)]

Yes , my daughter’s gym does at the end of practice.

 

[Anonymous (00d1)]

Gosh, this was not a thing at my DDs gym or on her D3 team. I thought it was odd that the national training camps do this but I chocked it up to being a 'thing' when you are at that level. I have mixed feelings on it.

 

[Dahlialover]

I have a boy and I have never seen or heard of this. They line up by height at regional camps and when marching into meets but there is no saluting the coach or thanking them in unison. This was also not a thing I experienced as a gymnast in 1990s.

 

[Anonymous (9b52)]

Definitely not a thing at my daughter's gym.

 

[Anonymous (c012)]

Nope, they get out when they are done, and many don’t even want to get out.

 

[Anonymous (35fd)]

Yes they do this at the end of every practice at my daughter’s gym. Somehow the head coach always has a speech to give too. Seems like a lot of speeches to me. lol

 

[Anonymous (e0ff)]

Yes at my gym we do this at the end. We line up in height order, head coach will give a little speech about practice that day or upcoming meets, then we salute and thank our coaches then leave.

 

[Anonymous (3e5c)]

At both my gyms (USAIGC Copper 2, and later Xcel Gold) we did a variation of this. Not at every event but at the beginning of practice we would line up because we would get a quick briefing on what to focus on as well as get split into groups. We were expected to stand in height order and with pretty feet/legs/arms but not salutes. At the end of practice, same thing, we would line up in height order, stand pretty, listen to head coach's super short speech. The practice before a meet would usually come with directions, sometimes we would acknowledge a new skill/rip, and if it was someone's birthday, that was when we sang. We then salute but not thank and clap out. The number of claps usually signals something like the age someone turned for their birthday, number of people at practice, etc.