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Two kids in competitive gymnastics, easily spent 25k on it this year. Almost all of the expense is coaching, gym time, and travel for meets. Leotards and their personal equipment isn't terrible. They love it and it's been great for their physical and mental health. No expectation of any kind of return on investment beyond that but the one is on pace to be able to compete in college if she wants to. Used to kind of hate it and the time and money we spent on it but the older they get and the more I see the ways it's matured them beyond their peers that don't have something similar in their life the more I'm OK with it. Definitely less drama and politics than a lot of the club team sports. Kind of like racing, when it's time to perform, they're out there all alone and you either put up or shut up.
Yeah your way above the stated 1,000.00 year, hell it costs 1k a year to drive to events
Then theres the ICE rental or Ice Time
Well, we're not winning races with 999.00 exausts either
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My high school stadium and field was built during the Depression by the Civilian Conservation Corps. Sometime in the early 1930's. Grass still grows on it and the concrete amphitheater seating is still in place. It's coming up on 100 years of continuous use and it works just fine for it's intended use. I have great memories of lining that field before every home game in the mid-70's. Some kid is still making those memories today.
Our local county government is forced to stay within it's budget and the locals won't fall for bond issues because "it's for the kids" anymore. Sometimes it just requires the gumption to say "that's a want, not a need"
At what age did your kids go all-in on gymnastics? Were they really into it from a young age or did they turn a corner somewhere? My wife was on a highschool team with a girl that went to UK on a gymnastics scholarship, it's very very competitive, congrats on having some very talented and hardworking kids.
How the knee feeling? You mobile? Physio?
They built a new HS in the district here a little over a decade ago. There is an architectural wood beam in the cafeteria that cost over $200,000 (then, so probably double that or more now). Not structural, simply decorative... and yet the cry of "we need more money for education - teachers are buying supplies out of their own pockets", never ends.
You know someone is getting greased when that kind of crap is going on.
Around 2nd or 3rd grade. Prior to that they also did basketball, soccer, baseball, whatever else they wanted to do. They still take piano lessons as well but that's the only other extracurricular activity these days. At some point I told them you can do whatever you want to do but you can't do it all, not enough hours in the day. They do about 15-18 hours of structured practice per week and couple hours of open gym, about 10 meets per year in the winter, 2 or 3 camps in the summer. When they went all in I thought they'd miss the other stuff and that would be the end of competitive route but the exact opposite happened. They'd be at the gym 7 days a week if we let them, they hide injuries so we don't make them take time off. It really is similar to riding for us. They feel free and at peace in the gym just working on skills where nobody bothers them and they've gotten incredibly close doing it all together. Definitely not for everyone but the kid will let you know in a hurry if it's their thing. Wife and I have no history with the sport and we totally stumbled into it as a family.
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