Recreational Gymnastics

 

Recreational Gymnastics Classes

Building the Right Foundation

Metro’s Recreational Gymnastics Program is offered for children ages 5.5 - 9+ years old. Through Metro’s safe, fun and progressive gymnastics classes, gymnasts develop and continually improve their strength, flexibility, balance, coordination, and self-esteem. Gymnastics is a sport of dedication, athleticism and determination. Gymnasts train hard in order to maintain their strength, balance and flexibility.

Gymnastics instruction is provided by our trained teaching staff and focuses on teaching the basic body positions and foundation skills of the beginning levels, to the more challenging and difficult skills of the more advanced levels. Metro provides an exciting non-competitive gymnastics experience for your child.

Gymnasts are taught with the use of skill progressions appropriate to each child’s ability level. Our recreational gymnasts typically take one to three classes per week.

For more information regarding Girls Recreational Gymnastics Contact Autumn Stone.

For more information regarding Boys Recreational Gymnastics Contact Svetlo Stanchev.

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What to Expect

  • We have a dressing room and a cubby area to put your belongings into; shoes, socks, coat, backpack etc.

  • Have your child ready in their leotard (shorts and T-shirt for boys) and hair pulled up and away from the face and all jewelry removed.

  • All students sit at the edge of our floor and cubby area for the teachers to begin the classes.

  • All Recreational GIRLS warm-up together on the Main Floor. Recreational BOYS warm up with their individual teachers. Cardio, and stretching time is for 15 minutes.

  • Warm-ups begin with cardio movements such as jogging, jumping, and galloping. When finished with the cardio all students spread out and stretch out their major muscle groups with their Teacher.

  • The students will receive 15 minutes on 3 different events. The students will be introduced to the various apparatus. The GIRLS use uneven bars, balance beam, floor exercise, vault, single tramp, tumble tramp and our pits.

  • The BOYS use floor, vault, high bar, parallel bars, pommel horse, rings, single tramp, and tumble tramp. Basics gymnastics skills are taught first including 2 major components.

From the Director

First of all, thank you for letting our Metro Staff be a part of your child’s life. All of our teachers are trained in Safe Sport and Heads Up concussion training and all of our Managers are first aid and CPR certified to help keep your child safe, happy and healthy.

We offer classes for the very beginner (never had gymnastics) through our advanced levels. Once your child is proficient in a level, students are able to move to the next level; your teacher will notify you when he or she is ready to “move-up”. We also do progress reports every spring; so you can see what your child can do and what he or she still needs to work on.

Not sure what level your child would fit into? Please call or email so we can schedule an evaluation for proper placement. The evaluation only takes 5-10 minutes. For girls evaluation, Contact Autumn Stone , or boys evaluation call 503-620-8939.

Autumn Stone

Class Overview

In each class, no matter the level, the student is working on progressing from one skill to the next. Each skill’s progress is tracked and recorded using our progress report systems. Twice a year in January and May, we will take all of the progress reports and fill out evaluation cards that get sent home to the family. This is to show parents and students how much progress they are making in the class. In order for a student to move up to the next level, they must complete each skill per event with 75% proficiency. Once this happens, their teacher will then hand them a move up slip with a recommendation to the next level.

All Level 2, 3, 4+ classes do not allow online enrollment. Contact annettem@metrogymnastics.com with questions.

Level 1 (1 hr)

Level 1 is structured for beginners who are new to gymnastics or coming from our preschool Spinner class. In a level 1 class, students work on basic skills and the terminology that goes with each skill, along with the confidence needed to achieve those skills on each apparatus.

Ages 5.5–7.5, 7.5–9.5, 9.5+

Level 2 (1 hr)

All Ages

In our level 2 class, the gymnast will be progressing from their basic skill list in level 1 and begin the steps in achieving the next set of skills. These skills are similar to the ones in the previous level; however, we are now adding a slight challenge to them while also introducing some brand-new skills. The student should also now have mastery of the terminology for each event.

Level 3 (1 hr 15 min)

All Ages

In level 3, the gymnast is now not only adding to their progressions but is learning a multitude of new skills. In this class, there is more freedom to take the time to fine-tune each skill as we only work on two events each week instead of three (this also pertains to level 4+). The conditioning at this level begins to prepare them for our competitive program, if that is something they are interested in trying out for in the spring.

Level 4+ (1 hr 15 min)

All Ages

In this multi-level class, gymnasts have now reached a point where they have learned the proper progressions and can begin more challenging skills such as a back handspring. Once the student has passed all the necessary skills for level 4, they will then have the freedom to work on any skill the coach deems fit for the gymnast.