- Dec 14, 2009
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I'm incredibly sorry if I've caused a disagreement with what I said or was misinformed with my opinion in any way. I totally agree with what you are saying and in an ideal world they wouldn't have to create new divisions for shots to be fair in the first place. I guess coming from a very small gym that struggled in the success levels we had over the years, I was very excited to see something that could work in favour generating decent revenues for the smaller programmes again and would finally bring an end to the mass exodus of closures and mergers that have been happening over the last few years.
No disagreement at all. I completely understand. All I have worked in on the cheerleading side have been considered small gyms. Even the largest gym when compared to the so called large and mega gyms today was still on the small side. When I coached gymnastics full time I was for a few years on the mega/large gym side of things so I do see it from both points of view.
The issues that the things that would most likely fix the issue on both sides (more competition for large gyms and competing against like gyms on the small side) would be fixed in great deal by what I suggested. The reason it won't be I am afraid is because of money being made and need to be made to keep certain events going. Saying people (gyms) are afraid of competition or only want easy wins belittles them and the point that they are making. While I get gyms saying they want more competition it is like they have the Rock Dwayne Johnson fighting Napoleon Dynamite week after week, how is that even competition? Yes Napoleon will sneak a blow in every now and then maybe. But to expect him to be on par and equal footing is not realistic.