- Jan 2, 2011
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Recently, a friend of mine joined allstar cheerleading and completely fell in love with it. She's always working out, stretching, conditioning, and basically doing everything she can to become a better cheerleading. Naturally, this involves tumbling.
There's three gyms about twenty minutes from our town, and though she competes for Gym A, she also takes tumbling lessons at Gym B with a bunch of cheerleaders from our school. One of the newer coaches (not her tumbling coach) at Gym B came up to her as she was warming up for her lesson and basically told her to get out, because it made no sense for Gym B to train an athlete from Gym A.
He has a point, though. It doesn't make much sense to basically help a rival gym, even if she is paying $20 a lesson to be there. At the same time, however, the owner of Gym B came up to her later and told her it was absolutely fine for her to continue taking lessons there, so in this particular situation I don't believe he did the right thing at all.
But what about you guys? Do your gyms have a policy on this?
There's three gyms about twenty minutes from our town, and though she competes for Gym A, she also takes tumbling lessons at Gym B with a bunch of cheerleaders from our school. One of the newer coaches (not her tumbling coach) at Gym B came up to her as she was warming up for her lesson and basically told her to get out, because it made no sense for Gym B to train an athlete from Gym A.
He has a point, though. It doesn't make much sense to basically help a rival gym, even if she is paying $20 a lesson to be there. At the same time, however, the owner of Gym B came up to her later and told her it was absolutely fine for her to continue taking lessons there, so in this particular situation I don't believe he did the right thing at all.
But what about you guys? Do your gyms have a policy on this?