Grace Rhythmic Gymnastics Club

Grace Rhythmic Gymnastics Club is located the beautiful Vancouver British Columbia. It was set up in 2005 by Linda (Xiaowen) Wei,who was the famous first generation Chinese Rhythic Gymnasts

When she moved to Canada in 2001,she was hired by another famous olympic rhythmic gymnast Camille Martens in Vernon, BC. 2 years later, she moved to Vancovuer to develop herself. As she was wondering what to do in new city, many friends and gymnast students ask her why you don't have your rhythmic gymnastics club? As a 20 years professional rhythmic gymnast, coach and judge, she made a rigt decision and founded the Grace Rhythmic Gymnastics Club. As there very less people know this sport in Vancouver area, especial in the rare areas, there are only 5 students came to try in the first class. Later by Later, more than 1000 students join our team.

In the past 10 years, Grace develops from small to big, from recreation to competition and prefessional club. We have beginner, intermidea and advance classes except recreation program. there are about 100 students practice it from age 4 to 20 years old, from different ethnic to nationality,regilons. They are composed of our big family. We share our idea, communiate our culture, exchange our experience and make frinds. Kids love each other and live friendly and peaceful during practicing Rhythmic Gymnastics training. Until now, there is very less complains from students.

Grace coach team is a comprehensive team. Linda Wei, our head coach, is a professor, master degree of physical eduction. She has be engaged in rhythmic gymnastics for more than 30 years. When she was in China, she was not only Chinese National Team member, but also a National Coach team. She was also a team leader for researching, studying and chorgraphing rhythmic gymnastics new skills. She published about more than 20 research papers in different magazines. As the first generation rhythmic gymnast in China, her students are in all of world. Some of them are gymnasts, some of become very known coaches. Now, she is not only a NCCP licensed coach, but a Canada recongnized Judge. We have 3 coaches who are responsiable for routine training. They teach gymnsts rhthmic gymnstics skill, dancing, and so on. We also intvite some of the known professonal coaches form world to our club for short time training and guiding.

We have 2 gyms which are located in Port Moody Seaview school and Port Coquitlam Archbishop Carney School repectively. Most our students are from tri-city area. Some of them are from around the other area of Vancouver. There are several competitions hosted in BC and Canada. the most importanc one is Elit and West region and BC provincial Rhythmic Gymanstics Championship competitions. Our advance class students will partcipate all these competitions and some of them have won good results. Coaches will decide which competitions we will go based on the time, travel expenditure, students condition and so on.

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