juststartingout
Proud Parent
- Sep 9, 2011
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My daughter competed copper USAIGC this season. It's the only program offered in our gym. Lately I've been having some issues with coaching and safety at her gym. She has been struggling with learning the handspring vault and needs that for the next level. On all other equipment she is at bronze or silver but can't get this stinking vault. I have asked her coach multiple times if she could do a private as she was getting discouraged and was told "no she doesn't need it, it will come she just needs more power". Now I should mention we had always just had a high school gymnast as the vault coach, never an experienced coach. Well now this coach has disappeared and for the last several weeks we have had another teenager coaching vault but this one was a cheerleader and never even did gymnastics. They trained her for about a month with the rec classes and now she is teaching vault to team girls. Needless to say I'm getting even more frustrated that under these conditions dd will never learn to vault. S0 I made a call to another gym, a USAG gym and she went in and did a private for vault today for 1/2 an hour. I was surprised they let an outside gymnast but they were fine with it. Well let me tell you dd learned more in 30 minutes then she has in a year. By the end of the half hour she was going over the table with barely a tap. Now I'm so conflicted on what to do. This gym is twice the distance at about 50 minutes but there is only one USAG gym that is closer and I've heard bad things about that one. I'm so scared to move her and then the drive be too much or her not like it and we would not be welcome back. Plus she has all her friends. I could let her continue to do privates and stay at her current gym but then I feel like I would be doing her a disservice. Ahhh what to do. By the way the coach at this other gym says power is not the issue, it was an issue with the hurdle and arm action.