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00:00I'm Hannah, it means a lot to me because I was a gymnast here initially and I never actually
00:06envisioned myself becoming a coach. I actually got injured as a gymnast and then so I started
00:11volunteering because our former head coach, Sonny Rounds, he asked if I'd come in and
00:17help out and so that's literally just how I started and I ended up really enjoying it
00:21and then I just started going through my qualifications and well now I work here all
00:26the time so yeah no I really enjoy it and for the gymnasts yeah it's a big part of their like
00:31some of them are here probably five times a week like I think sometimes we see them more than their
00:36parents do so yeah they really enjoy it it's also why you get to know the kids like sometimes I feel
00:42like they're literally our own kids if you know what I mean like we see them after school we see
00:47them on the weekends when we're going to comps like we're all in the hotels and we have dinner
00:52together and we do things outside of the gym so yeah no it means a lot like they do mean a lot to
00:58us and yeah and they'll probably say the same it's literally their life they all say gymnastics is life
01:04that's good it's a big shock actually and I was quite disappointed that it would come about
01:09um but no and have you have you been involved here for a long time as well yeah so I was also
01:17a gymnast I started when I was like three like kindergarten to like your preschool
01:24ages um and then I was in what the girls are now so squads from then up until I was about 13 14 I
01:32think stopped for a couple years and I was like I don't know what to do after school and I was like
01:37well I like gymnastics let's give it a go coaching and that's it I can't get enough
01:42we are actually open seven days a week we have actual scheduled training six days a week but
01:46we also host like birthday parties and we get hired out for like private events so they tend
01:51to run on like the Sundays or when the gym is shut there may be like there's no scheduled training
01:56the gym will be hired out yeah a good thing to have in the community there isn't a place like
02:00us like other gymnastics club uh gymnastics clubs they come here and because obviously we have the
02:06full size floor like in the highlands we're the only dedicated facility to gymnastics
02:11and everyone else the other clubs they have to hire out halls like what we did previously in
02:15the Avron before we were lucky enough to get this building and but so yeah it's used for everything
02:21it's not just used for gymnastics you know it's used for birthday parties it's used for the youth
02:25club up in Alness so the kids come down here to have like a safe place after school and in
02:30nighttime so that try and keep them off the streets yeah and so yeah it's not just used for gymnastics