My daughter has experienced nearly every Harford Gymnastics class over the last close to a decade,…read moreand our high-level thoughts are: this is a great gym, filled with great people, who are genuinely kind. Lots of specifics below on our experience for anyone interested: Youngest classes: (tumble bees, junior bees, etc.): These are more or less what they are - it's a bunch of preschoolers. Sometimes they focus, sometimes they don't. You don't always get the very best instructor because frankly, they need to staff an entire gym and a competition team. The parent-and-me classes are really on you to make the experience the best thing for your kid. There will be a plan and a circuit, and there will be parents who have their kids follow it, and instructors working with them, and parents who let their kids run wild. Each day and time is a different group - try a few and find one that works for your kid and their energy level. (of note here, Miss Bree's youtube TumbleBee classes during Covid were AMAZING!!!! You will never understand how many days of our lives those videos saved.) Parent free classes (Rec): We moved on to drop-off classes in the last months of Covid, so drop off was really DROP OFF, lol. No parents allowed in the building. This was actually great, and I loved getting to watch on the livestream. I can say less about the dynamics of those classes because I wasn't there, but my daughter always enjoyed them and seemed to be progressing in skills. I did like them being in the big gym and watching the circuits. At around age 5, they invited her to be evaluated for invitation-only classes, which included having another instructor come and take her to the big gym to assess her skills. The only tiny note I'd have about this experience was that she was currently taking classes with a friend of hers, and the instructor approached both of us parents together, saying that she wanted to evaluate my daughter for invitation classes, but wasn't sure she'd want to leave her friend behind if they moved her to the invitation classes, so wanted to ask first. (In effect, what it did was to imply to the other parent that her daughter wasn't as good and there was no opportunity for her to be evaluated, which felt awkward). Invitation classes: (mini select, etc,.): We did end up doing the evaluation, and my daughter was invited to join mini select classes. Honestly, the difference between even this level (remember she's still 4/5 at this point) and the rec level was significant! The training was instantly of higher caliber, the instructors more skilled, and the classes far more structured. We LOVED it. Pre-Team: (Mini D, SuperStar): After a year of mini select, she was invited to join pre-team, which increased to 2 practices a week, and even more high caliber training. At this same time, she'd received an invitation to pursue pre-professional dance training, and when we asked her which one she wanted to do more, she chose dance. I will say, I had the MOST pleasant experience in discussing this with Harford. There can be a lot of understandable tension between dance and gymnastics teams and people choosing one or the other, and Harford brought none of that. I explained that she was going to be doing pre-professional dance, and that was 3 nights a week, with one night overlapping with Mini D. Harford not only supported her choice, they offered to charge us only half the price for Mini D, and still have her come 1 day a week to train. They absolutely did NOT have to do this! They could have easily said that this was an invitational commitment and if she wasn't ready or able to commit then she could go back to the rec classes. Instead, they made room for her and continued to make her feel welcome, while also discounting my tuition! She continued on pre-team there one day a week for 2 seasons until her dance training became too intense to allow it, and Harford has continued to welcome her back at every opportunity despite no longer being a regularly enrolled gymnast! Summer Camp: Due to how amazing they've been and how they've made space for her, and also because their summer camps are awesome, we've continued to come back every summer for camp (she's going on 10 now). The coaches and staff all still know her by name, welcome her like family, and are continually willing to let her register for camps based on her skills, despite not being on pre-team or select at this point (since it's been a while since she was enrolled). Just this past summer, they offered to enroll her in the invitational and select camps for whatever weeks we registered, just so that she'd be with gymnasts closer to her skill level. She was training again with kids she used to be on pre-team with (they're all on team now), and the kids, coaches, and staff were nothing but welcoming and thrilled to have her! This is a fairly obnoxiously long review at this point, but this is a gym that has proved itself to us over YEARS by showing up as family.

My niece attended this facility for a semester. She was happy with the classes and instructors were…read morestrict, yet friendly. She loved learning something every week. We wanted to sign her up again, but prices are crazy expensive and the place could use some TLC. The facilities are huge, but for the type of money you have to pay... you would think they would work on getting newer equipment, more space for parents to wait (like bigger waiting area), cleaner and well maintained restrooms and working on getting rid of the BO that you smell from the entrance of the facility All in all, great instructions, great classes but the facilities are not worth the money that you have to pay.