All-Star Restricting Tumbling To Your All Star Gym Only??

[DJ]

I completely disagree with this policy...I'll take my kids and my money wherever I gosh darned well please, thank you. Until my children are PAID athletes at your gym, as opposed to PAYING athletes at your gym, you have absolutely NO say whatsoever in what we do in their off time. I'd be so quick to reply to that with "OK. This will be the only warning given. You are absolutely NOT to ride in a car anywhere, ever. Riding in a car is dangerous - I have no idea what drivers you are with...or how they drive. This puts you in danger and you could MISS PRACTICE. Failure to comply with this will result in IMMEDIATE QUITTING by my child from your gym. Thank you."

On top of disagreeing with the policy, I wish a gym owner/director/coach would send me an email like that - EVER. Those of you that are employed (in ANY industry) imagine sending an email with that tone to a CLIENT! OMG...I would be fired so fast they might throw me out the window just to get me downstairs faster. I can't even imagine. Sorry, but someone might want to shoot her a quick reply reminding her that she is the business, they are the customers. Sounds like she might have that backwards.

Sorry is @yojaehs thinks it's inappropriate that it's posted here...but I agree with @Mamarazzi if you don't want it discussed, don't put it out there. Didn't her grandma ever tell her "Never do anything you wouldn't want to see on the front page of the newspaper"??? If having it posted here and discussed is inappropriate, then sending it was twice as inappropriate. If it's embarrassing to them to have their email blasted on Fierceboard, then perhaps they should have thought twice about sending it. They SHOULD be embarrassed - I'd want to die if I was a business owner and people saw something like that come from my business to customers.

WOOOOOOOP THERE IT IS!!!

 

[Mamarazzi]

"order"...or "ordered" HAHAHAHA!

Stop being attackatory. Totally inappropriate.

 

[ejcheer]

I completely disagree with this policy...I'll take my kids and my money wherever I gosh darned well please, thank you. Until my children are PAID athletes at your gym, as opposed to PAYING athletes at your gym, you have absolutely NO say whatsoever in what we do in their off time. I'd be so quick to reply to that with "OK. This will be the only warning given. You are absolutely NOT to ride in a car anywhere, ever. Riding in a car is dangerous - I have no idea what drivers you are with...or how they drive. This puts you in danger and you could MISS PRACTICE. Failure to comply with this will result in IMMEDIATE QUITTING by my child from your gym. Thank you."

On top of disagreeing with the policy, I wish a gym owner/director/coach would send me an email like that - EVER. Those of you that are employed (in ANY industry) imagine sending an email with that tone to a CLIENT! OMG...I would be fired so fast they might throw me out the window just to get me downstairs faster. I can't even imagine. Sorry, but someone might want to shoot her a quick reply reminding her that she is the business, they are the customers. Sounds like she might have that backwards.

Sorry is @yojaehs thinks it's inappropriate that it's posted here...but I agree with @Mamarazzi if you don't want it discussed, don't put it out there. Didn't her grandma ever tell her "Never do anything you wouldn't want to see on the front page of the newspaper"??? If having it posted here and discussed is inappropriate, then sending it was twice as inappropriate. If it's embarrassing to them to have their email blasted on Fierceboard, then perhaps they should have thought twice about sending it. They SHOULD be embarrassed - I'd want to die if I was a business owner and people saw something like that come from my business to customers.

 

[ejcheer]

Sounds very cult like at this ECN........ people stop.... DONT DRINK THAT KOOL AID!!!!!!!

 

[DJ]

Sounds very cult like at this ECN........ people stop.... DONT DRINK THAT KOOL AID!!!!!!!

I drank kookaid once, it was TEAL and I haven't been the same since.
@mstealtoyou

 

[ejcheer]

I drank kookaid once, it was TEAL and I haven't been the same since.
@mstealtoyou

 

[cheerinfo]

Ha @ "kookaid"...you can't win today meanj LOL. It's just too easy to NOT mention it now hahahaha!

 

[ejcheer]

Bahahaha...... that TEAL stuff is pretty good though... you must admit!

 

[DJ]

Ha @ "kookaid"...you can't win today meanj LOL. It's just too easy to NOT mention it now hahahaha!

Can you stop bullying me?

 

[DJ]

I'd love to hear what some of the more prominent gyms think about this issue?
@Ceacoach @kingston @BlueCat @echeercoach

 

[tucknduck]

Since this gym (Nitros) put their policy in writing, then you either abide by it or you go to another gym. Even if you live 200 miles from the cheer team, if that gym has a written policy and you don't agree with them, then you have the choice not to give them your business and look for another gym. These gyms are privately owned so they can set the policy. Why this particular situation is an issue is beyond me since they had it in writing. If a gym is willing to make exceptions in certain situations, that's up to them as well. Now if the gym never put it in writing and decides to pick and choose what athletes can or cannot train at another gym in fear of their active status on the team, then perhaps you got an issue. Whether it's about a question of money or safety is irrelevant because All-star cheer is big business and it's always about the money. If it were all about safety, gyms would be banning their girls from going to Woodward and other cheer camps.

 

[Mamarazzi]

Question- Do they allow their athletes to participate in school cheer?

 

[ryann3794]

some of my friends drive an hour or 2 to get to practice and I know that as long as they tell their coaches where they are going to be tumbling and the coach says yes then they are allowed to.

 

[NJ Coach]

To me, the email comes across as angry. The whole "this will be the only warning given" strikes a nerve with me that wants to retaliate. I'm not one for scare tactics.

I've never been apart of an organization that had a policy like this. While the preference was to tumble in house, sometimes that wasn't always feasible. I don't understand throwing a kid off the team because they tumbled elsewhere. In my mind, that's literally forcing kids out of your program.

 

[LittleMiss]

If I were a parent paying for services at this gym I would be leaving because of all of the shady things that happen there. So many things seem to have gone wrong there in the last year. Let's hope there is some positives for the members of this gym soon.