ACADEMY GYMNASTICS

Our school age Academy classes allow your child to experience the wonderful world of physical development, fitness and self-discipline through the fun of gymnastics training.  We believe that achievement of specific coordinated skills can enhance a child’s self-concept and increase his/her self-confidence.  Knowing that a child’s psychological development may differ from their physical development, thus causing frustrations in other sports and encounters, we offer many levels of classes so the child always has a program with which they will feel comfortable and at which they can success for many years.

Classes are offered for girls and boys of all school ages and abilities.  Basic skills are taught through consistent, well-defined progressions to ensure that the child progresses to more difficult skills with self-confidence and safety awareness.  Skills are developed on all Olympic apparatus, plus our ground level trampolines, free foam pits, and other special equipment, all to enhance the learning process, to a competitive level if desired.

Blue Level:
This is our entry-level school age gymnastics class.  Students train on all Olympic apparatus, with an emphasis on learning terminology and safety.  Stretching and landing techniques are stressed to minimize any difficulties encountered in their training.  A variety of specialized equipment and spotting by the instructor is used at this level to bolster the student’s confidence while learning the many skills required of gymnastics.     

Red Level:
As our intermediate level, these classes are designed for students who have mastered the skills presented at Blue Level classes.  Students typically progress faster at this level, since they are already familiar with many of the terms and basic skills used in training.  While still training on all the Olympic events, higher difficulty skills are introduced.  The safety and landing techniques covered in Blue Level classes become even more important at this level as the students begin to go not only higher off the ground but also inverted.

White Level:
Our most advanced Academy class, White Level classes are for serious students who demand more from their gymnastics training than the average student.  While not all students at this level choose to go on to compete in gymnastics, their training is designed to prepare them for competition.  Classes are lengthened to one hour and thirty minutes to accommodate the increased number of repetitions required to master the higher-level skills taught at this level.