Give a Helping Hand
Providing help and guidance, by offering positive suggestions and assistance when asked to, is both a sign of a good teammate and a good friend.  Passing on tips that the coach has given you that may apply to your friend(s) improves their gymnastics training and makes for a good friend.

Spend Time Together Outside the Gym
Pro-social behavior refers to attempts to participate in non-gymnastics activities together outside of the gym.  Actively working to spend time together outside of the gym shows your interest and commitment to friendship and further increases the amount of time you spend with your chosen friend(s) from the gym.

Share and Learn to Keep a Secret
Intimacy is the extent to which you share in, and keep confidential, personal matters with your friends and teammates.  As we mentioned, other gymnasts are often the only ones who truly understand what gymnasts are going through and can and do serve as confidantes to their friends and teammates.  As always, do not keep secret from coaches or parents behaviors which ar dangerous to other gymnasts.

Be a Friend All the Time and Everywhere and With Anybody
Team and gym loyalty is the extent to which gymnasts support each other at all times.  One of the conflict situations that can occur which demonstrates this character trait best is when gymnasts are in a social situation with both their friends form the gym and with schoolmates or friends from outside the gym. True friends maintain loyalty to their teammates and friends outside of their exclusive group.

Share Your Gymnastics
A built in characteristic of gym friends and friendships is having things in common and associating with friends who have similar likes and dislikes.  Gymnasts have their sport in common and their team and gym in common which is a built-in commonality.

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