I love Compass Gymnastics and I am so happy I found this place. My son has been doing preschool…read moregymnastics here for over a year now, and my daughter and I have both been going here for about 8 months as well.
First, the coaches are really wonderful. Coach Charlie does an amazing job with the little kids especially, with so much enthusiasm. He makes it really fun for the little ones. The little kids gymnastics area is open to easily view in the lobby area, and the kids start learning the basics of gymnastics skills (walking on beam, using their arms on bar, jumping on the springboard, floor skills like forward roll, backward roll, cartwheel, and everyone's favorite - trampoline!). The way the rotations are set up means that the 3 and 4 year olds are not stuck waiting around for their turn. The skills are repeated frequently, but the rotations are changed up weekly so that the kids have something fresh to try out each time.
My daughter has been doing Navigators in the big gym with a few different coaches, all of whom are excellent. The kids do floor and beam one week, and then bars and vault the next week. That way they get lots of time to practice the skills with hands-on guidance from the coaches, and still get exposed to all four events.
Since I take adult gymnastics here also, I get to see what the other classes are doing as well (level 1, tumbling, team, etc) and I am always impressed. The coaches do a great job guiding students to do some really cool things. The culture inside the big gym is amazing to see too, with students of all levels supporting one another. My favorite thing is seeing a kid "ring the bell" for mastering a new skill. No matter how "simple" the skill might be, the whole gym stops, watches, and cheers on the student on their new skill. It gives me goosebumps!
The adult gymnastics class is great! We've had the chance to work with a number of coaches, who are all fantastic. Just like the kids, we rotate between floor and beam one week, and vault and bar the next week. The coaches work with you whether you're a complete gymnastics newbie like me, or if you're more experienced and have done gymnastics at a higher level in the past. I was nervous going in because I had never taken a gymnastics class, but everyone there made me feel so comfortable. After 8 months of weekly class, I have some new skills under my belt, like a nice clean roundoff, vault to handstand-fall flat, I can nearly do a cartwheel on the beam, and I'm most excited that I can do a backbend! I couldn't even do that as a kid!
Overall, I have had an excellent experience with Compass. The classes are great and the staff is fantastic. I would highly recommend Compass to anyone - especially if you're thinking of adult gymnastics! It's such a welcoming environment, and my kids and I have all grown so much as gymnasts since we began.