A girl’s parent volunteer at a competition started an interesting thread on Chalk Bucket:
… I must comment on how amazing the atmosphere was on that side. Coaches dialoguing with the judges during the meet, getting opinions and looking at score sheets and everyone was okay with that.
All the teams seem like they are one big happy family and not that they are not serious about their gymnastics, but there was just such a light fun air about the whole thing it was contagious. …
Question why do you think it seems so much more fun for them and so serious on the women’s side?
I did scorekeeping on that side as well and the judges barely talked to each other and no way would a coach come over to look at the score sheets and get feedback on the athletes warm up where I was. …
see the commentary
Ya. … What is it with that? 🙂
At Canadian Nationals 2012 I was a WAG coach. In 2013 I’m a MAG coach.
I’ll report on the differences once the chalk dust has settled.
Gymnastics Coaching.com 