Tips for Choosing a Gymnastics School for Your Child

The number of rhythmic gymnastics schools in Miami is constantly growing, which can make the choice of a gymnastics school for your child confusing and stressful. To help parents make choosing of a gymnastics school in Miami as comfortable as possible, we prepared a list of questions to ask the staff, while your daughter is taking her free trial class.

Is the gym a USA gymnastics member club? To acquire the membership in USA Gymnastics, clubs agree to observe certain rules and restrictions. For example, they are obliged to have liability insurance, and not to hire sex offenders or coaches who were banned from being a certified member of USA Gymnastics. Besides, only gymnastics schools that are members of USAG can participate in gymnastics competitions and events.

Are the coaches certified members of USA Gymnastics? To acquire the membership, coaches are safety certified and background checked with USA Gymnastics. Therefore, knowing your coach is a certified member of USA Gymnastics is an additional evidence of that you entrust your child to a professional concerned for the safety of young athletes.

What are the student to coach ratios? Low student to coach ratio is essential for an engaging learning environment as it allows the coaches to learn the needs of every child. Low student to coach ratio gives each child an opportunity for personal attention during the classes rather than just common group instruction.

How are the classes structured and organized? It’s argued that kids show best results when they are in a class with other children of their own age and skills level. When gymnastics classes are organized by age and ability level teachers can work more effectively as they can appropriately teach children, who are at the same level of skills development.

Do they have all necessary equipment for gymnastics? Make sure the gym is clean, free from the smell of stinky feet and the equipment is in good shape, looks safe and has flat floors covered with the carpet on at least 24x12m, a high ceiling for work with apparatus (10m), mirrors, ballet bars, gymnastics ladder built in the walls help to master the technique and take care of the right posture.

We invite you to visit our rhythmic gymnastics school facility in sunny and vibrant Miami! Our rhythmic gymnastics school is conveniently located in North Miami, a 10-minute drive from Aventura, Sunny Isles Beach, Bal Harbour.

To get more information about gymnastics in Miami, please, read our previous articles. If you have any other questions about rhythmic gymnastics in Miami, please, don’t hesitate to contact us. Call (786) 350-6655 and we’ll provide you all the information you need.
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More info:

Parent's Guide: Competitive Rhythmic Gymnastics in USA (Part 1)

Top 3 Reasons to Enroll Your Children in Rhythmic Gymnastics

A Rhythmic Gymnasts' Eating Plan: Maximizing Training Results

A Parent's Guide to Gymnastics Meets: Part 1What You Should Bring to a Rhythmic Gymnastics Meet

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How to Choose a Rhythmic Gymnastics School in Miami: 3 Step Guide

In our last post we discussed the benefits of doing gymnastics in Miami. The interest in rhythmic gymnastics in USA is constantly growing. Unlike several years ago, today there are a bunch of really great rhythmic gymnastics schools in Miami providing athletes with an opportunity to participate in rhythmic gymnastics competitions all over the USA. Each year new rhythmic gymnastics schools arise in Miami area. In these conditions choosing gymnastics school in Miami can be very confusing. 

To help parents of rhythmic gymnasts choose a rhythmic gymnastics school in Miami, we prepared this step-by-step guide, which indicates the main things you should consider when looking for the most suitable gymnastics school for your child. Hope it works!

3 Simple Steps to Choosing Rhythmic Gymnastics School for Your Child

Indicate the purpose of putting your child into a gymnastics class

If the primary goal of putting your child in gymnastics school is fun, it’s reasonable to find gymnastics classes nearby, with sweet teachers, who’ll be able to develop in your child interest in sports.

In case you are intended to raise a professional athlete from the very beginning, look for a rhythmic gymnastics school with the best gymnastics coaches in your area and proper training facilities, and be ready to invest time in bringing your athlete to that school if it is far from your place.

The good news is that among the 135 clubs, registered as members of USAG by October 2015, 14 are in Florida, and more than half of them are located in Miami area, which increases your chances to find a great rhythmic gymnastics school facility within easy reach.

Make a list of all rhythmic gymnastics schools in Miami within your reach, to choose from

Now, when you know your primary goal, it’ll be much easier to find the best rhythmic gymnastics school for your child. If your primary goal is raising a competitive gymnast, or if your daughter is already a highly skilled athlete, your second step is to choose the best rhythmic gymnastics school in Miami, you can afford. To identify the top gymnastics schools in Miami, follow these three steps:

• Find out how they are performing at regional and national gymnastics events. You can easily do that by analyzing competitions results for several past years, which are usually easy to find on the Web, as they are published by USA Gymnastics after each event on their Website and then are being copied to other resources.
• Check out the Rhythmic Gymnastics National Teams for the current year. If you manage to find one of your local rhythmic gymnastics school athlete’s name there, it means you are very lucky, because this means you have one of the elite rhythmic gymnastics schools in the USA nearby.
• Check the sports background of gymnastics coaches in selected schools. The top performing rhythmic gymnastics schools tend to recruit elite gymnastics coaches, who are recognized throughout the world. By the way, rhythmic gymnastics is traditionally a Russian sports and therefore the best rhythmic gymnastic coaches in the USA speak the Russian language. Miami has one of the largest Russian communities in the United States, and the best rhythmic gymnastic coaches from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Bulgaria move here to bring up the sports of Rhythmic Gymnastics in Miami.    

If your main purpose is fun, choose from the most conveniently located rhythmic gymnastics schools in your area, with bright, colorful interior and various programs. In case your child will someday realize she does not want to do rhythmic gymnastics anymore, she’ll be able to try some other sports in familiar environment.

Bring your child to a trial class to ALL selected schools. Yes, right, to all rhythmic gymnastics schools that you indicated as possibly suitable. No matter how perfect a rhythmic gymnastics school is, nothing works, if your child doesn’t like the atmosphere, or a coach. 

Most of rhythmic gymnastics schools in Miami area encourage walk-in visits and allow you to schedule a trial class. In the meantime, while your child is taking her first gymnastics class in a new school, make sure that the program is presented in an age-appropriate manner and the gym is clean and take your time to ask the staff the following questions:

• Is their gymnastics school a USA gymnastics member club?
• Are their coaches certified members of USA Gymnastics?
• What are their student to coach ratios?
• Do they have all necessary equipment for gymnastics?
• How the interaction between the school management and parents is carried out? (newsletters, website, etc.).
• What is drop off and pick up policy?

(More information on the proper questions, you should ask, and the proper answers, you should get – in our next blog post. Stay tuned!)

Following these three simple steps will help you easily choose a gymnastics school for your child. You might choose one that will develop your child’s maximum potential, or a gym that will require you to re-evaluate in a few years. Either way, what matters is that your child is having a positive gymnastics experience.

We invite you to visit our rhythmic gymnastics school facility in sunny and vibrant Miami! Our rhythmic gymnastics school is conveniently located in North Miami, a 10-minute drive from Aventura, Sunny Isles Beach, Bal Harbour. Visit www.ikgymnastics.com for schedule and details.

To get more information about rhythmic gymnastics in Miami, please, read our previous articles. If you have any other questions about rhythmic gymnastics in Miami, please, don’t hesitate to contact us. Call (786) 350-6655 and we’ll provide you all the information you need.

More info:

Parent's Guide: Competitive Rhythmic Gymnastics in USA (Part 1)

Top 3 Reasons to Enroll Your Children in Rhythmic Gymnastics

A Rhythmic Gymnasts' Eating Plan: Maximizing Training Results

A Parent's Guide to Gymnastics Meets: Part 1

What You Should Bring to a Rhythmic Gymnastics Meet

Gymnastics, Miami: The Top 4 Reasons to Start It Here

Miami is a very special place where the American Dream shines more brightly. It is a huge metropolis, with dozens of opportunities to participate in gymnastics. Raising a gymnast in Miami has a lot of advantages and parents of gymnast should know the most important of them. Below you’ll find the top four reasons why gymnastics in Miami is becoming more and more popular every year.

The weather is awesome. The climate of Miami is perfect for raising children, especially athletes.  It’s not even that your gymnast will be able to wear just her team leotard and flip-flops almost all the year round. If your gymnast lives in Miami, she’s probably stronger and healthier than her peers, who live in cooler places. All told, South Florida's warm climate promotes good health for children, as good weather allows them to spend more time outdoors. The sunshine, the ocean breeze and a lot of parks are perfect for children’s health. Kids are les likely to suffer from flu and cold, and their bodies do not have to waist energy adapting to the change of seasons. Besides, when you live in warm climate your metabolism is faster and your body does not accumulate fat because you don’t need as much insulation. This is especially important when you are doing such sports as gymnastics, which requires maintaining your body weight. There is one more reason to opt for gymnastics in Miami – unlike many other sports it’s indoor, which is important in Florida, where most of the days may seem to be pretty hot for outdoor workouts.

Living in Miami, you can select from the best gymnastics schools in the USA for your athlete. Today, rhythmic gymnastics is witnessing a spectacularly rapid development in the USA, getting an impressive echo from the media and the public. 5 years ago, when rhythmic gymnastics first started development in Florida there was not a lot of involvement from people. Now there are a bunch of really great rhythmic gymnastics schools in Miami providing  athletes with an opportunity ro participate in rhythmic gymnastics competitions all over the USA.  The number of rhythmic gymnastics schools in the USA is constantly growing and each year more and more rhythmic gymnastics events take place accross the country. Among the 135 clubs registered as members of USAG by October 2015, 14 are in Florida. More than half of them are located in Miami area, which increases your chances to find a great rhythmic gymnastics school facility within easy reach.

Doing gymnastics in Miami your athlete is likely to get the elite gymnastic coaches. Rhythmic gymnastics is traditionally a Russian sports. After the breakup of the Soviet Union, Russia has been the dominant country in rhythmic gymnastics. Russian gymnasts and athletes of the former Soviet Union are always on top of World rhythmic gymnastics competitions. That’s why the best rhythmic gymnastic coaches in the USA speak the Russian language. Miami has one of the largest Russian communities in the United States, and the best rhythmic gymnastic coaches from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Bulgaria move here to bring up the sports of Rhythmic Gymnastics in Miami.     

Rhythmic Gymnastics is one of the most affordable Olympic Sports in Miami. Here in Miami, we may be paying the price for that skyline for a while, but look at it: It's beautiful The truth is that living in Miami is quite expensive. Therefore choosing an affordable sport for your child is important. In this regard, we’d like to mention that doing rhythmic gymnastics is much cheaper in Miami than in, for example, Chicago, Los Angeles and New York. Besides, if you already live in Miami, keep in mind that rhythmic gymnastics is one of the most affordable options here, comparing to other sports for girls, popular in USA, like tennis, figure skating, and horseback riding. You can easily find rhythmic gymnastics classes in Miami starting at $165 per month. To estimate expenses when your child will demonstrate desire to take her rhythmic gymnastics classes lessons into serious long-term training, please read How Much Does It Cost to Raise a Competitive Gymnast.

IK School of Gymnastics in Miami has earned a distinguished reputation in developing top performing rhythmic gymnasts. Miami gymnasts from IK traditionally rank high at regional and national rhythmic gymnastics meets. A critical part of IK’s success in rhythmic gymnastics is recruitment of elite coaches from throughout the world. Our coaches are elite professionals, who create safe and nurturing environment for kids encouraging them to have fun while participating in our rhythmic gymnastics programs.

We invite you to join the beautiful world of rhythmic gymnastics in Miami. To check our rhythmic gymnastic school facility and programs please call 786-350-6655.