DGF’s “Kraftcenter” for tumbling is without a doubt DGF’s biggest flop. The Kraftcenter was designed to help gymnasts work towards coming onto the National Tumbling Team. Sounds good, but it has it’s dark side… a very dark side.
When DGF designed the concept they never considered where or when these gymnasts should practice. DGF isn’t going to pay to rent a gym, instead they are going to push clubs out of the gym, so they can take their time slots…. and this is exactly what they are doing.
My team have the worst possible time slots at the Odense Idrætspark Gymnastic-center, but we use the time we got optimal. The time slots we have are Friday, Sunday and Monday and these time slots are taken away from us every time Kraftcenter wants to practice at the Odense Idrætspark Gymnastic-center. Last week we lost 4 days in a row, because they wanted to practice at our time slot. Friday the 23rd of April we again have lost our time slot and this is one week before a competition. Soon it is Easter and we normally get to train in our time slots at this time… but again “Kraftcenter” has taken our time and kicked us out (April 5th-8th).
I have actually had a meeting with Jan Donde (Managing Director at DGF) and Henrik Bertelsen (member of the Executive at DGF) about the problems that the “Kraftcenter” inflicts on our club. This meeting turned out to be a big waste of time (I took free from work, costing me a days salary) to hear both Mr. Donde and Mr. Bertelsen. The end result is that they try to push the problem over to the Odense Idrætspark cancelling our time and not them… which is just a typical political deflection tactic used by people in high positions that can not resolve a problem.
The DGF Kraftcenter should have a motto that says “Me not We”… since they don’t care about anybody else but themselves and take the time slots from other clubs that actually try help gymnasts to become elite.
more to come….