Why Do Kids Drop Out of Gymnastics?

British Gymnastics has just conducted a study to find the answer to this question. Overall the findings are what one would expect:

Found it ‘boring/repetitive’ – a lot of people said it became boring partly due to waiting around and partly due to repeating the same sort of warm-up or activities in each session. “More time doing actual gymnastics, less warm-up and standing around” “They just did the same thing every week and the classes were very big so it was on a sort of a circuit. So I could see they were getting a bit bored when it was the same thing each week”

http://gymnasticscoaching.com/new/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Website-dropout-research.pdf

Of course, this does provide the challenge to coaches to make classes more interesting for the gymnasts while still developing the required skill, which can be quite difficult.