6 Reasons to Send Your Child to Gymnastics Summer Camp

While summer break is quickly approaching, parents start to look for the best option for their kids to spend it. Despite most of the parents in Miami area look towards school summer camps, there are plenty of reasons why gymnastics summer camp is a much better option for your child. Let’s take a look at the benefits that a gymnastics summer camp can offer!

1. To get active and develop healthy habits for the future. Don’t let your child’s summer break turn into a boring and unhealthy stay on the couch! Gymnastics sport camp is an ideal way to get your child moving. Children, who spend their summer in gymnastics camp, become stronger and healthier due to regular physical exercise, that make them improve their motor functions and develop flexibility, balance, coordination and correct posture.
2. To break free from technology addiction. Today’s children spend a lot of their time on computers, smartphones and game consoles. Even at schools they perform significant part of work using computers and they spend their time in after school care watching movies. Gymnastics summer camp is a place totally free from electronic devices and this is the right place for your child to get the needed break from technology, so they can change their focus and develop a passion for a new healthy activity.
3. To build confidence and high self-esteem. Gymnastics involves graceful body movements, agility, flexibility and balance making kids bring their body into a good shape, move confidently and gracefully. Gymnastics summer camp gives kids plenty of opportunities to express themselves through movements. By bringing children to gymnastics summer camp parents can help them to avoid teenage awkwardness, improve self-esteem and self-confidence.
4. To develop new skills. If your children don’t know anything about gymnastics, gymnastics summer camp is a perfect opportunity for them to try new activities and get experiences they are not familiar with, learning how to do amazing things with their bodies. Even a single week at a gymnastics camp gives a child the opportunity to explore and discover new sports and possibly fall in love with it. So, give it a chance!
5. To learn how to overcome challenges. Professional gymnastics coaches can create an incredibly encouraging atmosphere in the camp, so children are comfortable and safe setting personal goals and taking reasonable risks to realize their aspirations. Gymnastics summer camp is a perfect opportunity for children to learn that they need to work hard to reach their goals and never give up.
6. To make new friends in a safe and encouraging environment. Making friends outside of school can do wonders for your child’s social development. Gymnastics summer camp is a perfect way to expand horizons athletically. Bad companies and bad habits tend not to affect those, who are engaged in any kind of sports. Gymnasts, like other athletes, simply do not have time for alcohol and video games.

Gymnastics Summer Camp in Miami

Looking for quality gymnastics summer camp program in Miami area?

IK School of Rhythmic Gymnastics is proud to provide the opportunity for girls to participate and get involved in the sport of rhythmic gymnastics in Miami during summer break. Our gymnastics summer camp accepts children as young as 3 years old. IK is a place where elite gymnastics professionals make their best effort to provide the ideal camp environment both for beginners and for competitive gymnasts.

Our rhythmic gymnastics camp program for beginners allow setting up and developing great habits and active lifestyles for the future of your child. Our intensive gymnastics camp program for competitive gymnasts is designed so our gymnastics team members can reach their fullest potential, working hard and getting ready to the new competitive season.  

Give your active child the opportunity to develop into an active adult in summer camp with IK School of Rhythmic Gymnastics in Miami. Visit www.ikgymnastics.com for details.

Gymnastics is Fun!

Why choose IK School of Gymnastics in Miami? Because despite the fact that our gymnasts work hard all the year round  and traditionally rank high at state, regional and national rhythmic gymnastics meets, they still think that gymnastics is fun!

IK School of Gymnastics in Miami presents a completely gymnasts generated project titled "Why I Love Gymnastics". Many thanks to Mia and Irina for shooting this video and to all girls for participating in it!

http://www.ikgymnastics.com/gymnastics-is-fun/

Parenting a Gymnast: The Top 6 Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

We all know about “that” gymnastics moms and dads, and we all hope we aren’t and will never turn into one. IK School of Gymnastics in Miami prepared a list of common mistakes that parents of young gymnasts tend to make and useful tips that can help enhance your child’s experience of the sport of rhythmic gymnastics.

1. Comparing your gymnast’s results with that of other gymnasts – When you compare your child with others, no matter whether it is gymnastics results or academic achievements, it lowers your child’s self-esteem and self-confidence and makes him doubt in your love.

How to Avoid – The best way to avoid comparing gymnastics achievements with others is to concentrate on your gymnast’s individual progress, marking the progress every time.

2. Associating yourself with your gymnast’s success or lack of it – If you base your own own ego or self-esteem on the success of your gymnast’s, your unhappiness with the results makes your child feel guilty for not coming up to your expectations. This negative feeling affects your child’s both mental and physical health, causing neurological conditions, low immunity, psychogenic headache, stomach or back pain.  

How to Avoid – Allow yourself to get pleasure from your child’s gymnastics experience, but do not get overly emotionally involved. Stay calm, keeping in mind that your positive attitude is the best way to improve how well your child performs and feels about gymnastics.

3. Basing your love and positive attitude on your gymnast’s success – Conditional love and approval harm your child more than you can imagine. Being constantly approved or disapproved for gymnastics achievements, children get used to the idea that continued love and good attitude from parents depends on results in the gym – a thing they even are not able to fully control.

How to Avoid – Just keep in mind that your child's success should depend on your attitude and not vice versa. You both will enjoy it more that way.

4. Interfering with coaches and their coaching duties – When you interfere with coaching duties you undercut your gymnast’s confidence in their coaches and in this way make coaching your athlete more difficult for them.

How to Avoid – Leave the coaching to the gymnastics professionals.

5. Expecting a monetary return for the time and money you are spending – Thinking of time and money you spend on your child participation in gymnastics as an investment or a sacrifice in most of the times leads to you to frustration and can also make your child feeling guilty if failed to meet your expectations.  

How to Avoid – Don’t expect anything more from your gymnast except the best effort.

6. Competing with other parents – Competing with other parents you help create an unhealthy atmosphere in the gym and deprive yourself of communicating with people, who will understand what you and your gymnast go through.

How to Avoid – Use all opportunities to make new friends among gymnastics parents, and you’ll get additional benefits as, for example, shared pick-up responsibilities, while your child will easily make new friends in a safe environment.

Most of gymnastics parents want the very best for their child including the opportunity to be safe and learn new skills. It’s critically important for parents of gymnasts to remember that our job is support our children and give them our unconditional love. To achieve this goal, concentrate on helping your child set realistic goals, respect coaches, make friends with other athletes and have fun when doing gymnastics.

Rhythmic Gymnastics in USA: Everything You Want to Know

Dear parents! Please, be aware, that we added a Parent Info section to our website, which is designed to provide helpful information for parents of rhythmic gymnasts. Here you can find is a great deal of information to learn about rhythmic gymnastics in USA, gymnastic competitions,  gymnast's nutrition and more.