A few Reminders

Great attendance is very important for all competitive athletes at Oakville Gymnastics. For our younger athletes, the repetition and consistency is so important when trying to build strength, gain flexibility or in learning how a new skill should feel. For our more-seasoned athletes, maintaining skill combinations or the feeling of new skills and working for routine consistency is imperative. Please, try and make sure your son gets to every practice.

Arriving Late- We are having some difficulty with athletes arriving late for the start-time of their classes. Of course there will be times when people are held up at work or hit bad traffic- that we understand. But the problem arises when athletes are arriving for class late quite often.

This poses a few problems; The athlete will miss similar parts of the warm-up which may be something that is particularly important to them. Or, they may be missing conditioning which will eventually make them fall behind the others who are getting all their conditioning done daily. Please do everything you can to make sure your child arrives at the gym, on time and is ready to go when the class is scheduled to begin.

Thanks for your efforts.

Welcome Back!

To all of our returning athletes and our newest members of the Men's team at Oakville Gymnastics- welcome back!

I hope everyone has had a chance to settle into their school schedules as we get back into the swing of things this fall too. As you have likely noticed, there have been a few changes in groupings/ schedules etc from what was handed out at the end of June. I do know how tough it is to get your children's schedules figured out for the Fall and apologize for the late notice for some of the changes.

We are not trying to make your lives difficult- and the groups and schedules have always been tentative. The summer is the best time of year- especially with new athletes joining, to assess and re-evaluate the groups to make sure that each athlete is in the best possible group for THEM!

All athletes, we hope, should be in a group that challenges them to work hard, but we also need them to be able to see success in that group. From our experience, athletes who are in a group too far above their current level will become frustrated - so we'd rather see them do well and succeed and move up when it is in their best interest.

The boys are constantly tested and evaluated to make sure they are in the most-appropriate group for their current ability. IF we feel an athlete would be better off in either a higher group or would benefit from fewer hours, then we will make that change- even mid-season.