Our Programs
Parent and Toddler:
A Class specifically for toddlers and their caregiver. Class consists of gross motor movement, beginning tumbling, music, and singing. Special theme weeks designed especially for young children add to the fun and excitement of these classes.
Class length - 45 minutes
Pre-school & Kindergarten Gymnastics:
Boys and girls, ages 3-5. A fun based developmentally appropriate movement experienced to promote body awareness, coordination, balance, physical fitness and project reception and propulsion activities. An environmental approach is used, where children learn to explore movement in a manages gymnastic environment. Special theme weeks designed especially for young children add to the fun and excitement of these classes.
Class length - 45 minutes
Recreational:
Gymnastics training for boys and girls, where gymnastics is pursued with the purpose of skill mastery, fitness development, and multi-sport body control enhancement.
Class length - 1 hour
Boys Only: New this fall
4 & 5 years old Tuesdays 9:30-10:15 AM, 45 minute class, and school age on Wednesdays from 5 to 6PM, one hour. The focus is on multi-sport body control enhancement in a gymnastic environment, fitness development, object manipulative sport skill development, and gymnastic skill development with a less traditional, formal gymnastic approach.
Home School Class: New this fall
Tuesdays from 10:15 to 11:15 AM. The focus of the class will be on gymnastic skill mastery; fitness development; fundamental movement pattern development and refinement; object manipulative skill development and refinement, using a variety of objects, balls etc.; Instruction is aligned with the NJ Core curriculum standards for physical education. Selection of activities will be developmentally appropriate, based on the age and structure and abilities of the students. "A one room physical education schoolhouse."
class length - 1 hour
Competitive Team:
Training for girls on all 4 Women's Olympic Events. Competitions will follow the National Association of Girls High School Gymnastic Rules format.
Class length - 1 1/2 hours, 2 - 3 times week.
Pre-team Training:
Training for girls on all 4 Women's Olympic Events. Emphasis on developing grace, fitness and the skills necessary for competition.
Class length - 1 1/2 hours, plus additional class.
Special Needs Gymnastics – OTTERS, which stands for opportunity to tumble for everyone really special.
This class is for students ages 4 to 10. If your child has special needs, and would like to explore the possibilities of movement in a non stressful, more individualized gymnastic environment, taught by caring instructors with a low teacher to student ratio, this class is for your child.
The expectation we have for all the children is that they demonstrate a willingness to listen, follow directions and participate to extent that they contribute to non-stressful, enjoyable, self-assuring environment for all the children in the class.
Lessons will be adapted to the needs of each child. Taught by caring instructors, drawing on a wealth of backgrounds in education, special education, adapted physical education, pre-school education, dance, gymnastics, and psychology.
Children will have the opportunity to have fun, make friends, develop socialization skills, body and spatial awareness skills, balance, coordination, fitness, object manipulative skills, creative movement and a variety of gymnastic skills.
The class will have a 1:4 maximum teacher to student ratio.
Class will be held 4:30 to 5:15 PM Fridays.
Rope Gymnastics for balance and fitness.
Included as part of our recreational classes beginning in September will be rope gymnastics. Our version of Allunaariaqattaarneq - Inuit rope gymnastics . This program will incorporate low and high rope training patterned after exercises used by inuit people for hundreds of years. Kayakers use the training to develop strength and balance to enhance their ability to roll a kayak.
We will have some fun competitions throughout the year, where students will have an opportunity to measure their progress on a series of rope gymnastic skills competed in the annual Greenland Kayak championships.
Performance Enhancement and Injury Prevention Workshops. Implementation of ACL Injury Prevention Strategies.
These workshops will identify and analyze aspects of athletic performance that may predispose an athlete to injury and weaker performance. We will also instruct the student in specific skills that may help prevent those injuries and also enhance performance. The first series of workshops will identify some of the prominent factors in the cause of ACL injuries, and exercises that may be used to help change some of the dynamics involved. Many of the exercises selected are currently being used in professional, collegiate, and scholastic training programs. Current studies indicate that girls are 2 to 6 times more likely to sustain an ACL injury, than boys. A great majority occur non-contact,in soccer and sports that involve rapid changes in direction. We look at why and what might be done to enhance performance and hopefully reduce injuries.
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Private and Semi-private lessons available:
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