Can I teach recreational gymnastics on GTV?

[gessford]

I'm in the UK on a global talent visa for exception promise. I know there are restrictions to working as a sportsperson. Does this include teaching recreational/non-competitive gymnastics? These aren't professional classes by any means.

Would this also include competitive cheerleading? Is cheerleading considered a sport in the first place?

[MylaHughes]

Teaching in recreational or non-competitive gymnastics, as well as participating in a competitive cheerleading team, is likely not considered an athlete's job. Cheerleading can be considered a sport, but if your participation in it is not professional and does not generate income, then it probably does not fall under the restrictions for working as an athlete.

[Frontier Mole]

If you are solely a volunteer coach at a local non competing club and you are not in receipt of any payments or benefits then you are in a reasonable safe zone. Soon as there is a reward, financial or otherwise, of any shape or form then it gets messy and you fall foul of the sports body and the Home Office.

The cheerleading side - not a clue - it is more performance art than sport. So that would suggest coaching is not in fact coaching in a sports sense.