- Dec 14, 2009
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The 2 posts above are why I feel some athletes leave their home gym. If you are willing to place athletes with all the skills and athletes with 1 or 2 skills on the same team, don't be surprised when the first one chooses to jump to a mega gym. I agree everyone deserves to be trained but everyone deserves to be on the best team for their skill set. Just my thoughts...
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we have NEVER had this happen in our gym. Not one athlete has left because there were a few kids on a team that didn't have all the skills for that level. we take our team placements very seriously and do everything we can to make sure that every single team in our gym has everything they need to be successful. i think that is the most important thing. If your gym is lucky enough to be able to have every single athlete on every single team be completely level appropriate, then good for you. but it doesn't happen like that all the time. We are not a "mega gym" but we are not a small gym either. We do sometimes put kids on a team without all the level appropriate skills but they still will do great.
i coached a small senior 2 team last year with half the team not even having a handspring & we ended up having a great year & never placed lower than second. and every single kid came back to our gym this year.