NEMAC for Gymnastics & Cheer
Gymnastics requires real physical contact — which is exactly why it must be disciplined. NEMAC protocols make every spot announced, standard, and in open view, protecting your athletes and your coaches alike.
Get certifiedOur sport has learned its lessons the hardest way possible. Parents now arrive at your gym asking questions they didn't ask a decade ago — and a gym that can answer them with posted protocols, screened staff, and a public directory listing wins the enrollment.
NEMAC doesn't ask you to coach differently. It asks you to coach visibly: the same spots, the same corrections, the same stretching assistance — announced first, performed in open view, and explained to parents at enrollment so nothing they see from the viewing area is ever a surprise.
Every spot is announced before contact (“I'm going to support your hips through the back handspring”), technically standard, minimal, and performed in the open — never in a closed or curtained area. Demonstrate your spotting technique to parents at enrollment.
Follows the same announced-and-in-view rule — and a child's “stop” always means stop, immediately, every time.
No adults inside with children, no phones or cameras for anyone, supervision by two screened adults from the doorway when genuinely required.
No adult ever shares a hotel room with an unrelated minor. Room checks are done by two adults together at the doorway. No coach transports an athlete alone.
One named, trusted person any athlete or parent can approach directly and quietly. Young athletes rarely report — they just quietly quit. Give them a person before that happens.
A coach spots a ten-year-old through a back walkover, placing his hands on her lower back and thigh without saying anything first. Her mother, new to the sport and watching from the viewing area, has never seen a spot before. She films it and shows other parents in the lobby, asking whether that looked right to them.
Consider: What spreads through the parent group by evening? How does announcing the spot — and demonstrating technique at enrollment — change what that mother saw?
One viewing-area misunderstanding can cost a gym a season of enrollments. Certification costs less than one lost athlete.
The NEMAC Youth Organizations Workbook contains your sector's full protocols, scenarios, and the open-book certification test for every staff member and volunteer. Membership keeps your accreditation, directory listing, and decal active — and ships your window decal automatically on completion.
Buy the workbook · $49 Team training tiers Membership · $24/mo