There are many components of Champion Cheerleading and Tumbling. This review is specifically related to recent changes regarding the Little Explorers Academy.
When we joined Champions Cheer and Tumbling over 9 months ago we were incredibly pleased with the Little Explorers Academy. The coach was organized, bubbly and engaging with the children. As a mom, she knew how to interact and redirect littles to try and complete the tasks at hand. As little explorers, demonstration of each task, correct names of bars, beams, jumps, tumbles were given. She was incredibly fit and eager to encourage them to try new things and cheer them on. Recently there was a change in management and disappointedly, we have unenrolled due to a drastic change in the quality of service provided. The new coach would start class late, stop class in the middle of instruction to wait for a latecomer and sometimes end class early. She would not demonstrate jumps, rolls or certain positions properly if at all and often would not call things by their proper names. (For example: a straddle jump would be referred to as pizza legs.) Young children were expected to know what to do, and modifications were not offered or built upon to help children gain understanding or knowledge- instead kids were given a snarky tone and irritated helping hand. When asked how she was liking her new job as coach her response was "Ehh. Not really." We were beyond blessed with the previous instructor and would recommend steering clear of this program until change comes to play. read more