re: Recommendations for Girls Gymnastics in B R area

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Her friend, also a collegiate level gymnast really enjoyed Aim. Their daughter didn't like the pressure to move up in levels(much like Gymnasiana) so they quit. C.G.'s is highly recommended. Cypress Pointe in Ponchatoula is pretty solid and they have

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AIM seems to garner favorable commentary so must be doing some good thing.

Wife was told by a friend that Cypress Pointe has some terrific accomplishments despite being in a small market, may look at them if we settle east of BR. Hear they have placed several girls in SEC programs.

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LA Gold, new gym opening this week, off of Essen Started by a parent, and coaches from other gyms Focused on the athletes Lagoldgymnastics.com

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I know one of the Coaches/owners.

Which gyms have you looked at?

LA gold was opened by a mom with no gymnastics experience who was mad at Gymnasiana. It is a glorified rec gym. It’s a nice, clean facility, but they can’t coach above compulsory levels.

Gymnasiana. I could write a book. The owner is out of her mind crazy. The stories coming out of that place are so awful that I can’t believe it’s still open. She used to have a homeschool, but she threw a tantrum and ran off and abandoned all of her gymnasts. They all quit. It’s too bad because they were really good. The owner manipulated a bunch of new gym moms into their 7 year olds checking out of school for level 2. I can’t believe any school would let level 2 and 3 check out of school. That’s a racket. And she will let anyone who pays do it. She mostly only has compulsory kids left. They will all win every meet because they go a thousand hours more than any other gym in the state, and then all the kids will quit on level 7 just like every other kid that woman has coached. The cycle continues. So don’t waste your time there.

AIM is probably the best place. Really Louisiana doesn’t have any strong gymnastics programs. It’s too bad since they have such a great college team.

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level 2 and 3

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Can someone explain "levels" in gymnastics is this the equivalent to AAU basketball age groups and such like 17U or baseball travel team "levels".

Had sisters that did all that just supported at the meets but could not tell you anything whether one routine or whatever its called was better than the last just clapped regardless. What is the end goal for most of these girls? College schollies? Or just something to do competitively growing up that they love?

Not saying anything bad just honestly curious with the amount of money that goes into these "programs"

So a gymnastics place has their own home school? I’m okay with that if they are Olympic caliber athletes, but for the run of the mill good gymnast, that seems crazy.

With what is available in Louisiana, a college scholarship is pretty hard to come by. For the big college programs, most of those girls were at the elite level, and they drop back to level 10 to be eligible for a college team.

We don’t have AAU in Louisiana. Most of the gyms have xcel (not college track) or JO team. JO is compulsory levels 1-5 and then optional levels 6-10. Checking out of school to go 16 hours for compulsory levels is a joke and a racket. My daughter did compulsory levels going at night and half the hours did just fine. The optional levels are the levels that count. Most of the programs here can’t get gymnasts to level 10. Elite used to be the place to go, but that guy sold his gym and barely coaches now. I hear cypress pointe and north shore can do it, but those places aren’t in Baton Rouge. AIM has had some level 10s in the past. The coach at gymnasiana has never had any level 10s, and from the stories I have heard, I can’t imagine she will ever have a level 10. The parents at gymnasiana think because the kids win on level 3 that they have an Olympic gymnast, but pretty much any kid can be coached to do well on those low levels with enough hours and repetition.

I never heard about anyone getting raped ever, but physical and verbal abuse of the kids. Not a healthy place. They never did background checks, and they had a convicted felon bank robber working at the desk. I didn’t believe that myself, but I googled the woman’s name, and it was actually true.

Any info on Bengal Gymnastics? Apparently they’re affiliated in some way with the LSU gym program..?

That sounds about right. I hope nobody associates mr. Richard with the current gymnasiana because he has nothing to do with gymnasiana now.

The facility at LSU is beautiful. They have no experienced coaches and can’t get them past level 7. I wonder if they purposefully can’t do high levels since DD Breaux owns the gym program. Wouldn’t it be an NCAA violation to recruit from her own program? It just sucks that there isn’t very much here for girls who love gymnastics.