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We seem to get enough posts on here about it and it has to have happened at enough gyms where people were willing to sign off on something like that. I know you at one time could see what rule changes were submitted and could actually ready who signed off on them as well..it would be interesting to look at to see who finds it a problem.How much mid yea recruiting really goes on? Couldn't be enough to effect every athlete that leaves a gym.
I feel like it happens more at the small-gym level, and I was always in favor of it as a means of preventing gym-hopping. Since most teams don't compete until oct-dec, you've got quite a few months with which to decide whether or not you'll like your gym. I understand some things don't happen 'til competition season, at which time if you're dead-set miserable, you are at the mercy of your coaches. But I think it'll be like King said, people will be forced to think harder about their choices and will be quicker to respond if something isn't right, thereby giving the team they're leaving enough time to make adjustments. Yes, sometimes you'll be stuck either competing with a team you don't like or not competing at all, but I can't imagine complete and total horror came out of nowhere two days before competition.
There will be some surprises, but I think after the first year people will adjust quicker to what their needs are and to see if a gym meets them.