Coaches.

One thing that I have learned from gymnastics is that being around someone so much you really need to like them and get along with them because it is very hard to work well with them if you are annoyed or angered by them very quickly. Now throughout my days as a gymnast I have had many coaches and alot of them have moved away or have not gotten along well with me. I have been to four different gyms because of many various reasons and all of them seem to have some good things and bad. At my first gym I had an older coach who in his prime had been very good but he was just old and burnt out. At my second gym I had a guy named Barry and a girl named Karen. They were both good coaches, then Barry moved away and in the end Karen switched gyms. I followed Karen to her second gym, my third, where we worked well together for many years, then she found out her husband got a job in Florida and moved. By this time a nice lady named Jeri and her son, Josh had taken a job at Mega. But after the new owner bought the gym they ended up switching gyms as well. I then moved with Jeri and Josh to the gym that I am working at now, Todds. Through out all the years the coach that I think has best understood me is Josh. Now do not get me wrong we have had our little arguements, and big fights, that have escalated becoming bad at times or two, but most everytime we get through them and become even closer with a new way of looking at things. The biggest problems that we share is that we are so much alike. We both have to have that final word that sometimes makes the arguements worse then they should have been. Most always we get through a hard space and even now as we try to make things work I have faith that somehow he will find the way for me to make it to my dreams of collegiate gymnastics. I just hope that the coach I know that he has been and will continue to be can shine through. I just want to say thank you to all the coaches that I have ever had and learned from and continue to everyday.