Would your gym make a good reality TV show?
MTV is …
looking for a gymnastics club that has a team with mostly girls ages 13-18 with at least some level 9 an 10 girls and ideally some elite girls to feature in a show documenting the training process and it’s rewards. …
Contact Cassidy.Look AT mtvnmix.com if you want to recommend a gymnastics club.
Before you do, be sure to check out the CNN documentary The Perfect 10.
Parkettes in Pennsylvania regrets inviting CNN into their gym. That’s for sure.
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For the record:
Cassidy Look was recently banned from the Chalkbucket for spamming and being rude and disrespectful to the moderators.
I’m presuming that this will be aired in an Olympic year.
I think All Olympia would be good, if they want cameras in their gym all the time.
Rick while i agree on clubs being cautious about letting the cameras in; Im glad Parketts was exposed, the docu made me sick
I wonder how much MTV will be paying? Anyone need some new equipment in exchange for having their faces splashed across the tv.
As a gym parent I would not be impressed with cameras in the gym for fluff like MTV. My girls need to be able to train without a camera in their faces when stuff goes wrong.
What coach would allow it anyway? Would you Rick?
I would advise my club not to let in an MTV film crew.
Altadore was a media circus in the year leading up to the 2004 Olympics when Kyle Shewfelt won a medal. We really saw the downside of publicity.
This is what I imagine:
MTV staff: We’re going to need to take down the men’s equiptment.
Gym Owner: You can’t. We actually have male gymnasts here.
MTV staff: About that…
I actually think its a really cool idea. A lot of kids dont understand really how challenging and hard gymnastics is. It’ll show kids what hard work really is and prove that gymnastics is the hardest sport.
MTV getting hold of a gymnastics team could be really dangerous to our sport. You see what they did on the Real World
Yeah, there could be positive and negative things about it. I’d love to see an expose on it on MTV ( about the only reason I’d watch it ) but I think it would be a complete pain to host.
Not exactly sure I’d want it done in my gym currently anyways.
The parkettes doku makes me sick. There is stuff said in there that is just insane (“quitter’s try…”). Nobody saying stuff like this to KIDS should be coaching anymore. It is a very good thing that they got exposed. There is just no explanation or excuse for this behaviour from a coach.
These people are really bad. Don’t let them NEAR your kids for any reason.
Rick,
How do you think coaching girls and boys is different? I have heard that with girls, they are way more trainable in terms of listening and doing what told, etc. But that boys respond much better to a harsh football/boxing coach type of mentality. But I have actually not seen that in gym. Like in basketball, coaches are more harsh with males, but more coaxing with females…so they don’t shut down. But it almost seems the reverse with gym…where coaches are more dictatorial with girls…and boys just play and train themselves.
Thoughts?
Second meta question:
FROM THE MTV POINT OF VIEW (NOT FROM GYM…but from MTV) which gym would be ideal? which second choice? Etc?
apolytongp, that would be a great post.
I coached both boys and girls today in the same gym, completely differently.
For girls, I only consider the “psychology” of training. If they are happy, the gymnastics will progress.
With boys there is no psychology at all. I am demanding. More insistent. Tougher. And only give them “fun” if they do well in training.
Two different animals, male and female gymnasts.
Continuing the boys vs girls tangent:
My experience is that it’s all about the amount of pressure.
Boys do much better in high-pressure situations. If they’re at a meet, or working a new skill, or anything like that, the adrenaline kicks in and suddenly they’re at their best.
Girls work best in low-pressure situations; when they’re within their comfort zone, they work hard to be the best they can be. But when they’re afraid, they’re more likely to shut down.
Another big difference (or perhaps a corrolary to that first difference) is how they handle crashes. When a boy crashes but is uninjured, he will often get up and say “THAT WAS COOL! Can I do it again?” When a girl crashes but is uninjured, she will often be afraid to try the skill again.
Boys practice just seems like one big party. Girls not so much.
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