Countryside Gymnastics

"This place is amazing! Coach Melody is an angel. Very fair prices and have weekend availability! So patient and kind. We love it here!"

"Ugh. Where do I start? My daughter attended this gym for over a year and never made progress. My daughter has the potential to be taught, to learn and to make progress which made it frustrating that she never made progress. I had her in the recreational practices with the hope she would eventually move to teams. Many of the “coaches” used for the recreational practices have no gymnastics experience. Some days lessons were a joke. There’s lots of standing around, watching the instructor show a skill and more standing around because a child doesn’t know what or how to do a skills. The “coach” demonstrates a skill and expects the kids to do it, correct or incorrectly. They don’t provide direct guidance or teaching on how the child can individually correct or improve their skill. Practices we’re an hour long… here’s an example of their schedule for girls recreational. -start in line sitting next to mat -finally start class with ~15 minutes stretching/warm ups -1st water/potty break ~5 minutes (because stretching was so exhausting a break is immediately needed to allow the body time to “cool down” -Beam or Bars (they say they alternate beams and bars every other week, but they don’t and they don’t practice both skills every week ) ~10 minutes -2nd water/potty break ~5 minutes -Floor exercises (splits, cartwheels, some rolling etc.) ~10 minutes -3rd water/potty break ~5 minutes -Finish with jumping on trampoline ~5-10 minutes There are so many water/potty breaks for a 1 hour class. I’m all about staying hydrated but 3 water/potty breaks in an hour is just killing time. It would be nice to see coaches provide more guidance especially early on when the children are learning skills that they will use as they advance and grow. Properly teaching them the skills early on is vital in ensuring they are performing a skill safely and correctly, this step is completely missed for beginners at this gym. It would be nice to se the courses be structured a bit different where the students first learn skills and safety on the floor. Once a student has obtained the basic skills on the floor then they move to bars, again focusing on fundamentals skills and safety of the bars. Once bars are mastered then they go to the beam. And once a child has met all the basic fundamentals of all 3 skills individually then they move up to a class that combines all three. Now the teams, we didn’t make it that far, so I can’t speak about the teams but they seemed to be a bit more structured, we really wanted to get there but lost hope and faith in the gym as there wasn’t guidance and structure in the beginning to get us there, with a child who has potential. Lastly, they never could keep coaches. So a new coach would come in, they would seem lost and didn’t know what to do and for a few weeks the class would seem to be at a standstill. As things would pick up with the coach they would be rotated to another class or quit, and the class would yet again have another new coach. No consistency. Sad, my daughter wants to do gymnastics so bad, she has the drive, desire and ability to progress but it just wasn’t happening here. As with any business there are areas for improvement and I hope they can improve their classes for beginners. I would be curious to know how many students they loose early on, seems like a lot as my daughters class always had kids coming and going."

"My daughter has been coming here for five years now, and she loves it. She has had the opportunity to move through several different levels and compete. If you're looking for a gym to bring your daughter or son to, Countryside is a great choice. They offer a variety of levels, teams, camps, and parents' night out opportunities."

"This is our daughters (4yo) first experience in gymnastics and we started in Coach Amanda’s Tiny Tumblers class earlier this year 2021. She was not able to do any splits or any of the gymnastic moves when she began. By end of the year she was able to do all the splits and ready to move to the next level of class. Coach Amanda provided playful and creative ways to teach a toddler gymnastics that kept her attention and kept her engaged all the time. She learned how to do a proper cartwheel and continues to improve at every class. We absolutely recommend Coach Amanda for anyone looking for their first gymnastics experience and recommend Countryside Gymnastics as a place for a thriving gymnast."

"High recommend this facility!!! This is NOT a tumbling class (with only mat-play). Your kids will actually learn gymnastics with all the equipment—balance beams, bouncy floors, etc. Coach Karima was extraordinary with my 4 year old! For my daughter’s first-ever gymnastics class she was struggling to learn the moves, but Karima was so kind, patient, & great at finding a way for it to makes sense for my child to learn."