Angel Reyes
March 17, 2018 15:11
Our daughter (7 yr old) was enrolled in their program when we moved to Arizona. She was placed in Firecrackers group, with the next level being level 2. She was in the program for 3 months and when it came time to move the girls, she was moved down a level. Most of the other girls had been in Firecrackers for over 6 months and our daughter had to learn new methods of doing her gymnastics from the team she was member on in Illinois. which she did learn in such a short time.
We addressed the move vs. just leaving her in Firecrackers, especially since we were told she was doing good in Firecrackers and had only been in Firecrackers for 3 months. ,We were told it was a lateral move, but it was so obvious the new group was nowhere near advanced. We were approached by one of the coaches and told our daughter was too advanced for her group and they didn't know why her previous coach had a "beef" with our daughter. We never spoke to this coach before about our daughter's previous coach, so it must have been obvious to the coaches.
We addressed the issue with the previous coach and she told us that the coaches do not have any say in where a child moves, that it was the manager's decision, however in a response to a review on Facebook, Arizona Dynamics told us they meet with all the coaches to decide where a child moves. Interesting, who is lying.
We liked Arizona Dynamics and the coaches, unfortunately lack of communication and lies forced us to leave. It was obvious favoritism is big in some coach decisions. Because of this, it only hurt our daughter, who always remained positive about her gymnastics and the coaches. She works so hard to please the coaches. On a side note, we were not the only ones to leave because of the way they run their program.
We have always been open minded to our daughter's abilities and try not to be that parent, but when you are told your daughter is really good and then told by a coach that she is too advance to be in the lower level, you have to questions what is best for her and do what is best for your daughter. Hopefully Arizona Dynamics will not cry about this review and try to get it removed like they did on Facebook.