Gymnastics no dating rule
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Well I am assuming your old enough to handle that relationship. Second I am assuming your parents also agree your old enough to handle the relationship. So with that said - who has time for a boy friend LOL. With school and gym practice and meets almost every weekend. I guess if you can juggle that around and still do well in school have other friends other than a "romantic boy friend" I don't see why not. My boyfriend and I didn't start dating until after I had already quit although we did start 'hanging out' well before.
Before that, there would be a dance to go to and then dinner or a movie, but it never lasted long enough for us to be a couple. CoachGoofy Guest Sep 4, Having a crush is a heck of a lot more fun then having a boyfriend IMO. You get the rush of being enamored without making any stupid commitments. Jul 23, 18 0 Michigan.
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Jul 5, 5, 3, It would have taken me a major stroke of luck to even get close enough to a boy in high school to start dating him. I just didn't do anything except go to classes really. Didn't go to parties, didn't really hang out - so it was just pretty unlikely. I used to feel self conscious about that to some extent, but at this point I'd tell you that saving it for later isn't always a bad thing.
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I was stretched near my breaking point around that time, and to be honest have probably gone just about off the edge since although once I quit gymnastics that whole boys thing happened. I don't even want to know what would have been going on if tenuous relationships were involved. But on the other hand, there was clearly more at play So, your mileage may vary. But don't feel bad about not dating or try to force a relationship. I feel like there's a lot of social pressure on young girls to do so and it's sometimes really painful to watch once you're out of those years.
Jun 24, Maybe going to the mall or a movie with parents dropping off and picking up and probably staying with them; I don't really know. I think that's pretty normal, although I admit that I roll my eyes every time I hear about their latest crushes. However, I really couldn't imagine myself being in a serious relationship and still having time to keep up with school, gymnastics, and violin-- I could barely manage to keep up with that.
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There's no way I would have had time to hang out outside of group study sessions Most of the older, higher-level optionals at my home gym have concluded that boyfriends are bad ideas, and I think only one of them has anything resembling a serious relationship. BlairBob Guest Sep 7, As a coach, I want to say no when regarding girls. I probably wouldn't mind it for the male gymnasts though so long as they didn't do anything stupid about it. If they started showing signs of decreased focus and work in practice and comps, there would have to be an ultimatum.
Given the right female I wouldn't be exactly opposed to it either. Given some of the girls, I am opposed to it. Some of them are drama queens enough as they are day to day not including any possibly relationship issues. If the SO of a gymnast would not want to put up with the gymnast being busy with gym it's probably not going to work out for the best. I have seen and heard of gymnasts lieing to their coach and skipping practice to go hang out with their SO. As far as I'm concerned, that would be means for immediate dismissal. To agree with what someone said earlier, banning relationships would probably have the opposite effect which generally means a negative effect because said gymnast and SO might have to resort to clandestine operations in their relationship which will probably mean said gymnast would get removed from team via their parents or coach.
Most gymnasts aren't headed for the Olympics and don't need to focus on gymnastics to the exclusion of everything else--including boys. That said--as many of the gymnasts have said--who has time?? And most boys don't understand the commitment to the sport either. I know many of the older girls on Beth's team have boyfriends and it does cause problems for somewhen they start skipping out on Friday practice to go watch their boyfriend play football, the coach is NOT a happy camper.
But that's up to the individual girl to work on--shouldn't be a blanket rule about no dating, imho.
Feb 8, 34 LO. I found that it was rather hard to get close to any boys at school because I was so busy with gymnastics, but also because many of them were scared of me since I could bench press their body weight back in 9th grade gym class. Most high school boys are too insecure to be with a girl that are stronger than them. I'd rather they just understand that it can not interfere with their gymnastics.
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Um that is totally uncalled for. With school and gym practice and meets almost every weekend. Routines can include up to four tumbling lines, and several dance elements, turns and leaps. US gymnast Jordyn Wieber performs on the uneven bars during the women's qualification of the artistic gymnastics event of the London Olympic Games on July 29, at the 02 North Greenwich Arena in London. Welcome to our Gymnastics Community. May 14, 2 Australia, Melbourne Alanna-Land.
I feel closer to them as people, and I'm glad they feel they can trust me enough to tell me things. Oct 3, Yeah I agree with others that is a family parent decision NOT a coach decision. I love our coaches but the bottom line is still I and my husband are the parents of our gymnast. Our team coaches would never step over this boundary with our kids and I would be overly concerned if they tried to. There are a lot of different coaches in the world and this i am glad for. Unfortuanltey there are some bad ones also and this would be a huge red flag to me that something is wrong.
CoachGoofy Guest Feb 4, If my gymnasts choose to date, and their parents are ok with it, and they can manage everything, more power to them. It's not my place to tell them they can't.
Now, my coaches have changed the rules to no dating AT ALL even for the non- competitive gymnasts (I'm competitive). A lot of parents are. I was wondering about your veiws on Gymnasts (girl gymnasts) and But if your my daughter my answer is no dating/boy friends until your at least G . girl to work on--shouldn't be a blanket rule about no dating, imho.
I'm their coach, and while I'm a trusted adult in their lives, that doesn't make me a controller. Their gymnastics is my job.
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Their personal lives are between them, their families, and whoever they're getting personal with. Obeg New Member Feb 4, Jan 26, 47 2 NC. Is this gym in China or Romania?
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Apr 28, 9, 9, Flippers Mom Member Feb 4, Jul 20, 30 Region 3. I am the mother of a gymnast. I would not be willing to let my daughter be at a gym that tries to control my her personal life. It is simply none of their business.
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That said, my DH has stated that he hopes gymnastics keeps Flipper so busy that she doesn't have time for dating and boys until she is at least in college he would really prefer her to be 32 and have a keeper, but he would settle for college age. Jul 5, 5, 3, This is over the top. I don't really see why or how it matters in many ways. Also who wants to sit around and keep track of that Enforcing excessive rules doesn't really help create a healthy environment and making irrelevant ones you can't monitor doesn't either. As long as the athletes are showing up as appropriate, what else can really be expected in terms of social sacrifice?
Gymnastics Member Feb 4, May 26, 4 Somewhere Over the Rainbow. Um that is totally uncalled for. Your parents should be the ones telling you dating or not dating. Yes myself and other girls on my team a guy friends that we dance with at dances. NYgymfan Guest Feb 4, And they plan on enforcing this ban, how??? I agree with just about everyone else who says its up to our parents, not our coach to make those kinds of decisions. I would have to seriously question if the coaches really had my best interests at heart or if they were just power-hungry control freaks.
I don't know that I would want to go to that gym Lets put it this way, if dating was getting in the way of gym, my parents would raise a stink about that, since its partially their money paying for gym. A coaches job is teaching a kid gymnastics, that's it. If it's causing an athlete to miss practices, arrive late frequently, have trouble living up to team commitments, whatever and the coach feels they need to step in, then I think they just need to tell the parents and athlete what the in-gym problem is, not speculate that a new found interest in dating or a social life is the likely cause.
I have overheard a few younger girls mention "boyfriends" to the head coach and her response is typically, "I don't want to hear about it. BlairBob Guest Feb 5,
