Nice facility. European Fitness Center in Moscow offers recreational gymnastics in “in a popular format worldwide”.
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Here are some younger kids, age 4-6. Click PLAY or watch them on YouTube.
Note the Springfree trampolines.
Feel free to critique, in the comments. There are a number of things shown that would be coaching mistakes in my gym.
Club home page translated to English.
Jun Chen told me of big new American style for profit gyms opening in China, as well. There’s obviously a demand. A shrewd business person would invest in those growing markets.
Prediction … a new Recreation Gymnastics website will launch SOON.
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lots of waiting in line for sure! Unbelievable! And that front flip deal in the pit made me a little nervous :p
Looks like little boys are the same around the world.
I’m not a fan of the socks on the trampoline. There were a couple of times that they were close to each other while doing skills. But nothing too, too crazy. They looked like they were having fun!
Having fun and getting some bodily exercise is what it’s all about for boys this age. No need to be hard on them unless they show talent or genuine interest.
“There are a number of things shown that would be coaching mistakes in my gym. ”
There’s plenty of that in American for-profit gyms, I don’t see why these gyms would be different. They are selling fun, not perfect gymnastics. I think we might see some talent coming out of these gyms and making it to the national teams if they catch on. They will catch the talented kids that never would have been selected for training programs due to being too tall, too “old” or too whatever.
Those springfree trampolines look pretty neat.
I’m hit and miss about lines. While parents do love seeing their kids constantly active, are we missing the lesson learned by having to learn how to wait for a turn. It often makes sense in competitive gym, but many rec gyms hate the idea.
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