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I think that is a very good questions. I would love to hear parents and coaches responses. I have a similar question. My daughter is in a tumbling class were she should be learning her full. Which for the last year or so she has been working on. However her coach has now left and they have replaced him/her with another coach and one of the owners. Mind you the owner is not a tumbling coach and the new coach can only spot/coach up to a layout. I have been waiting it out to see how it turns out but I think I am going to have to go outside our gym for tumbling. Which I don't want to do. Don't you think a gym that has hopes of having a level 5 team and has a level 4 now would atleast have someone to coach these girls through fulls? Even if its just during team practice. What are they going to do when these girls learn it somewhere else and come back and try it at practice? I think that will be a safety issue.

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I think you should be grateful that your gym is not trying to proceed teaching skills they can not spot.  Losing the tumbling coach may have not been expected and it is great that they have the professionalism to put the child's safety first.  If you pay for tumbling with your yearly fees you have every right to ask for a credit for that. 

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Here is the question you need to ask yourself
are you getting the instruction you need for the level you are competing at?

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Is it ok to be only working on skills that are at the level you're competing? Don't you want to continue the progress and work on the next level. Just because you are on a level 4 team, why would you just want to be working level 4 skills? If you're ready for the next level I feel that you should be working those skills. How is she going to make the level 5 team if she doesn't have the level 5 skills and she has not been working on them. Just my thoughts. Thank you for all your input.

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You are backtracking on your comment now. You stated that the other coach quit and they replaced your old coach with a coach who can only spot up to a layout... your concern was that they want to compete level 5 next season and they wont getto work on those skills and may go outside of the tumbling at your gym and them come back and throw these skills and it will be unsafe! 
First you are jumping the stinking gun to even know if your gym will be ready for level 5 next season also your gym did the right thing by getting someone in there to at least still teach the level 4 skill so that you can still have tumbling classes. you have no idea what they have planned for the ret of the season and it is bery hard to find coaches and to find tumbling coaches.  I say be grateful that you have a tumbling instructor who is able to meet your needs for the time being.  Nowe if your gym was a level 5 team now and they didnt have someone there who could spot and teach levle 5 well then that would be a reason to be upset and worried.

And the saftey issue of throwing something they learned some place else is not as safety problem for your gym,. it is a safety problem for you and your family, because your gym is not responsible if your child throws something they are not instructed to so. I am sure that is in your contract

you are putting a ton of pressure and unnecessary worry and concern for a gym that is in mid competition season competing already whe the coach who left and didnt fulfill their agreement to stay for the season for what ever the reasons may be left them.

have a heart and some patience and se how things go

when bad things happen or changes you roll with the punches and regroup the best you can

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I'd ask the owners if they have a time frame for getting a tumbling capable of teaching more skills.  If there timeframe is lengthy, are they people with the maturity to discuss you taking your child somewhere else for tumbling lessons?  Personally, I would not be willing to deep-six my kid's ability to proceed more than a month or so because of gym administrative problems.  I'd keep taking tumbling elsewhere and tell your kid not to throw above the level 4 'requested' skills at the gym because it sounds like it would be unsafe. 

Support your team for the season, be positive and then find a new gym next year.  This, of course, if your kid is unhappy also.  If your kid is happy, then suck it up because it is about them and not you (unless of course if they are in an unsafe situation.)  I am not trying to sound harsh because I have been where you are and so not happy, but the kid was and I needed to get over it myself.   But don't make it miserable for the other parents or even your child with your talk about the gym.  AGAIN, not saying you do that...also an example from my life.  Had a close friend SUCK the life from the most exciting victory we ever had because she was unhappy. 

We have more kids tumbing in OUR gym from other gyms in our city.  For whatever reason, they need to be at our gym and I know it is NOT because they don't have good tumbling coaches because these other teams ROCK.  No one tries to recruit them.  Sometimes a kid just works better with a different personality type and I don't think it is disloyal.  Disloyal would be dissing your gym in the other gym's waiting room. 

THis "advice" is all contingent on your gym owners having a certain level of maturity!  If they are loons who would boot you to the curb because they are emotional, well all bets are off! 

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