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Question: Why should I (my children) participate in Gymnastics?

Answer: Gymnastics provides an all around base for all other sports and activities. Tumbling builds leg strength and flexibility, Balance Beam builds foot-eye coordination, Bars build upper body strength, Vault builds speed and power, Rings and Pommel Horse also build strength and upper body coordination.
    Gymnastics also improves self-control, concentration, perseverance, self-discipline and courage.  Gymnastics has also been related to increased academic performance and cognitive reasoning.

Question: Gymnastics is just a sport like any other my child is already involved in, right?

Answer: No.  Gymnastics trains children in many ways that most other sports can't even begin to touch.  Because gymnastics is a step-by-step (part to whole) rather than gross (whole to part) learning process, children gain a greater sense of logic and problem solving abilities.  Preschool Gymnastics has even been directly linked to with increased ability to read*.  Gymnastics goes far beyond being just another sport in a child's life.

*Barrett, Does Gymnastics Enhance Reading? Yes!, Technique, June 2001, pp. 8 - 11

Question: Will gymnastics affect how tall my child will be?

Answer: No.  According to a research done by Rasmus Damsgaard at the University of Copenhagen (in Denmark), gymnastics has no negative effect on height.  Damsgaard stated that growth in infancy depends on nutrition and pregnancy factors, but from age 2 on, it is constant (excluding adverse events).  The size difference seen in the sport of gymnastics is by choice and not by affect.

Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, Vol. 32, No. 10, page 1698

Question: Isn't gymnastics hard on the bones?

Answer:  No.  In fact, gymnastics encourages healthy bone growth and increased bone density.  This increased bone density is suspected to help prevent osteoporosis.  There is no cure for osteoporosis and the only prevention is increasing bone density in adolescence or younger.