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[quote=Anonymous]We had pretty bad experiences at Dynamite. Not that we thought any of our three kids were Olympic material -- far from it -- the kids have a cousin who is very competitive at the regional level and specifically declined an Olympic training track, so she *only* practices 4-5 hours a day. Not for us!

But even with just wanting fun classes to build fitness, coordination, etc. -- Dynamite seemed not to care about our kids given that they were not team track. Non-team-track kids are there to pay the bills, and there was so little attention to safety it was scary. We finally quit after one child had multiple injuries that Dynamite didn't even call us about when they happened -- sprained both wrists and both ankles at different times, necessitating orthopedic surgeon visits, x-rays, and time-consuming physical therapy.

The real icing on the cake though was finding out from the same child that she had experienced what in all likelihood was a concussion -- she fell off the beam, hitting her head on something on the way down, and experiencing loss of memory. A clear indicator for a concussion. The instructor was not trained to ask the right questions that would have indicated the need for follow-up monitoring for concussion, and nobody called us to even let us know it had happened.

Neither concussions nor sprains are minor injuries or any kind of joke. I would never, ever go to Dynamite again because I think there's not nearly enough attention to safety, particularly in an extremely overcrowded and chaotic setting.[/quote]

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