We stayed at our first gym for nine months because the owner said he was "building" a boys team. Even though he didnt have all of the equipment needed for boys when DS first started, I decided to give the owner the benefit of the doubt. He never got all of the equipment, and with the exception of perhaps the first couple of months we were at the gym, the boys never really had a coach dedicated soley to the boys. The boys were an afterthought. The last straw for me was when the owner actually told me that he wasn't going to pay $10,000 for parallel bars and that the girls at the gym are his bread and butter! I don't know anything about the cost of gym equipment, but no matter how much it costs, if you advertise that you have boys program and that boys can work up to the competitive level in your program, then you should have a coach as well as all of the equipment necessary to run such a program. The sad thing is that gym is still adversting that boys in their program can work up to the competitive level! How misleading!! It's really not my problem anymore, but I hate to see other people wasting their money there if their sons want to do competitive gymnastics. My point in telling you all this is that maybe its a good thing that you are being forced to look elsewhere. I hope you find a place where you son can learn and have fun!
