yes, but of course it's easier when you dont have to.Moving is the biggest reason,and gyms that dont train level 10/elte.Its certainly a personal choice,and not always the same for every gymnast.
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Unlike many other sports out there, gymnastics often leads to families making sacrifices and moving away to a new city for better training. Daniel Potemski recently went through this because he felt it was what he needed to get ready for the upcoming USA National Championships and prepare for his senior year.
Changing gyms.... boy that's a hard one. I usually don't encourage it. Notice said "usually". At times though it can be good for an older gymnast. You see you mature, your maturity brings some introspect, you recognize the need to change "yourself" yet that is so hard to do when your surrounds are all still the same. Steping out of your surrounds allows you to take the neccissary steps of "changing" yourself.Don't know Daniel and have no clue if this was part of his move or not. Also do not know if it was intentional for reasons I wrote or for those same reasons but not neccissarily recognized by him in any other way than the gut feeling he needed to move on.Now the other side of the coin. Being able to make that maturity change WITHIN your normal surrounds is much harder and takes a very mature and strong will. Hats off to the many who have done that just successfully.
I wasn't referring to you or him,just advice to people who have good gyms that train at there level.Its very hard to get good if you go to 10 gyms in the course of a career that most likely ends nowhere.Its also hard to stay motivated as I'm sure anyone who's had to move and change gyms would assume.
I haven't made a desicion on which college I want to go to but i've sent out letters and videos and I'm gathering interest. I was a bit late with all of that since I didn't know exactly how to go about it until I moved down here and got advice from Tom. But things are starting to fall into place and I'm deciding what sort of places would fit my interests and everything. After USA championships I'll work on setting up visits to my main interests and we'll go from there!
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