- Dec 14, 2009
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The gymnastics gym that i'm hoping to move to once i get over 20 kids has great tumbling coaches. i'm going to try to hire one or two.
It may be better not to hire them, but to arrange a work share agreement with the gymnastics gym for a tumbling coach. Otherwise it may feel to the gymnastics gym that you are poaching their instructors and it will not be a good foundation to build on. For example when I first came out to STL, one of our locations was at a gymnastics gym. In order to make sure I had my required hours, I also taught a day at the gymnastics gym with strictly the gymnasts. Just floor, but next thing you know I was coaching bars (my first love) and vault too. Of course they tried to hire me away from the cheer gym....thankfully I was too old to fall for that nonsense. But it did leave a bad taste in all of our mouths that they tried to pull that.
Another thing to consider. Those of us with a strong gymnastics background teach tumbling way differently than those with strictly a cheer background. We are less likely to rush progressions. Less likely to put an athlete in an higher class/team than they can already do. More likely to do more conditioning and body positioning work. Less likely to spot. A year to learn core skills in seen as normal progression and should not be interrupted. . This often clashes with the cheer mindset of tumbling which is get a skill, move up, perfect it later. After all, tryouts are coming! Parents accustomed to the cheer way may be in your email inbox with complaints about your gymnastics tumbling instructors ways, even if he/she is 100 percent correct.