Men When to move?

[Boymomx3]

Hi, my son is level 4 age 8. He is a natural at gymnastics and absolutely loves this sport. I am encouraging him to dream big and have ambitious goals. I told him we will fund his goals as long as he works hard and loves the sport.

With that I have had people from the gymnastics community tell me that he is very special and he could go far. But my question is when does potential become a reality? At what level would we need to look at making changes to better fit his goals? Like moving to a gym that has produced level 10 and collegiate athletes. Our gym hasn’t done that yet.

 

[Coach Kate]

For boys, it is a bit different because the goal is really to get them to college and then from college to elite, whereas with women they more often are elite and then college and then maybe elite again.

Your guy is still very young. Is his coach aware of his goals? What does he think about them? Do you have a good relationship? Would he know other gyms nearby?

 

[Boymomx3]

His coach is aware of his goals and the coach thinks he has what it takes to get there. My son has natural talent but he is also super motivated by people better than him. If he loses at a competition he sees that as a challenge to work harder and do better. We have an amazing relationship with the coach and gym and we really love it there. But it’s a small boys program and he only gets exposure to kids similar to his skills at one or two meets in a year.

The gym is helping us find good gymnastics summer camps to have him participate in. Unfortunately, where we live we don’t have much choice for gyms. Our state doesn’t have a big boys program, there are only 4 gyms that have competition teams for boys. I am just wondering at what point would we need to start having the serious talk about possibly moving. I hope we don’t but at what level would you go, ok we have to move on.