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Cost in the USA runs $100 → $350 for Floor.
Free → $150 for Beam.
If you want professional choreography, check out Precision in Los Angeles.
At my gym kids have paid as much as $450 for a Floor routine. Buying a “used” routine is normally 50% of the original cost.
Leave a comment if you can add to the discussion. Price for quality varies wildly, it seems to me.
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While still coaching and even now that I’m done, I choreographed. Floor mostly, not usually beam.
When I do it now, with my former club I just volunteer my experience. The main reason is because I like helping out and love still being involved with the girls, even if on a much smaller scale.
But, one of the other reasons is because, while I have tons of experience doing and teaching, I don’t consider myself a “professional” when it comes to choreography and therefore won’t/can’t guarantee that a routine will be successful.
I feel like if you pay for it, that’s the idea. I am always more than willing to be involved throughout, do tweaking when needed etc…but ultimately the routine is only as good as how the gymnast chooses to perform it so I don’t want disgruntled parents coming back at me saying “oh I payed good money for this why isn’t she winning?”.
And, once you’re a competitive gymnast having a routine is a necessity so why treat it as if it is a bonus that you get just because you can pay for it?
paid…I mean
I charge $250 for a routine for a P2+ routine and $125 for a P1 routine. Difference is in the length of the floor routine… P1 is about 45 second and P2+ is 90 second.
I consider that rather cheap compared to the number of hours it takes to teach the routine. Usually it works out to around $12.50 to $25 per hour depending on how quickly the athlete picks it up.
Around here people have actually paid Geza for a Level 7 routine.
People pay for a floor routine? The girls at our gym get their routines from their coaches.
Coach S… who pays the coaches? Or are these coaches volunteering their time?
I am completely AGAINST the girls learning their floor routine during training hours. Its takes me about 10-20 hours to make up, teach, and perfect an athlete’s floor routine. What are all of the other girls doing while you are teaching a floor routine to someone else?
10-20 hours x 20 gymnasts needing a new one per year = 200-400 hours of instruction
That’s alot of hours to be volunteering or ignoring the other athletes while you teach a routine.
I charge depending on the economics of the area. If I work at the gym I don’t charge more than 100-125 but if I am coming in freelance I charge 150+. I can’t see getting into the $250 range unless my reputation grew.
Teaching routines during training time is just a no-no. It takes so much time to perfect and detail out the nuances of a floor routine. There is so much of ME that goes into it and you have to get the kid to “get it” that it takes many hours and multiple visits (with some exceptions).
I charge $30 for floor. $15 for beam. The normal price around here is usual double what I charge.
Men seem to learn routines from coaches fine.
All that handwaving on beam is silly, too. Get rid of it.
Yeah well there are usually 10 optional boys with one floor routine and 40 optional girls with two routines each to put together.
As coach S, floor routines are free. Many clubs have one specific coach who does them. As all our levels have optional routines, yong gymnasts at low levels often all use the same routine from one club. Then all coaches tend to know it and it can be taught to many at once (I imagine like set routines).
For individual routines the coach will have the routine completely formed before the gymnast is there. It usually means the coach and the gymnast for 15 minutes 3/4 times on their own in the dance room to get most of it. Then in normal routine training the rest is sorted.
Our girl coaches teach the routines in class. If necessary, we’ll bring in an extra coach to work with the kids that are working on other things.
We have 30 boys in our club and each has 6 different routines. Gymnastics seems expensive enough as it is without asking parents to pay for routines.
I have been doing choreography for 8 years and charge $100 to $250 depending on the level of the athlete. $100 for a beginner routine 60secs or less, $175 for an intermediate or top prvincial or state level athlete, $250 for a national athlete.
I have done beam routine in the past and only charge if the club charges me to rent the space to work with the athlete (which is typically not the case).
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