Compass Gymnastics

Rose Saldana
5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
I love Compass Gymnastics and I am so happy I found this place. My son has been doing preschool gymnastics here for over a year now (he is currently 4, started right after he turned 3) and my daughter (age 6) and I have both been going here for about 8 months as well.

First, the coaches are amazing. 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.

Additionally, my daughter has done several of the spring break/summer break day camps. She loves it and always asks me when we can do it again. The coaches take great care of the kids and make sure they have lots of fun. My daughter also did girl scout day camp this summer, which she enjoyed, but every time I told her “we´re not going to gymnastics camp this week, we´re doing girl scout camp,” she was disappointed! My only ´complaint´ is that I wish there was a full day option, but I understand how that could be a logistical challenge for a number of reasons.

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. Coach Alyssa, Coach Nicole, and Coach Stephanie are all wonderful. 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.

Mikaila Weiss
1 ⭐
Yesterday was my daughters first time at this place. My impressions of Compass were a bit misled by the information (or lack thereof) online. I signed my daughter up for the “Adventurers” program, as she is almost 4 and is a very physically active kid and a toe walker, this is important. Based on the description, “teaching balance and coordination”, I thought this would be very helpful for her to help her and also get her tumbling around for some added physical element. I was also under the impression the classes capped the amount of kids per teacher, in my previous experience (i.e swim classes and preschool) they cap the kids from ages 3-4 at 4 kids MAX per teacher. NOPE! there were about 7-8 kids for one teacher to wrangle. My daughter got lost in the crowd and didn´t pay attention to majority of the class because the teacher was distracted keeping all the kids together as if she was herding cats. There was also no clear area when we walked in where the different groups go. I had to ask the red-head front desk lady what we were supposed to do since it was our first time. She informed me the kids would be brought into the big padded area in the main area. This area was only barricaded off with 3ft tall padding and in full view for the parents. No glass or one way mirror to separate the parents or anything to prevent distraction. It was EXTREMELY distracting, between people walking in and out from the front door just 5 ft away from the area. Loud kids sitting with their parents, loud parents talking at FULL volume, little ones running around and even hopping over the padded walls into my daughters class. It was the worst expectation I had for this place. I was overwhelmed just sitting in the crowd.

The class was also a huge disappointment as well. I expected a bit of light stretching in the beginning. The teacher followed it up with a light obstacle course which was just the kids climbing a padded triangle and sliding down and hopping back around to get back in line. Still no element of gymnastics or balance or coordination. Then the kids were taken to the back of the padded area for the ball pit. Which was the same concept as the exercise before except they were jumping into the ball pit. Followed up by the kids having free play to hang on what looked like ballerina bars. During all of these exercises, the teacher was either on their iPad, keeping OTHER KIDS out of the class area, or wrangling the kids in the class back into the area they were meant to be in. The class finished with about 10 minutes of freeze dance songs. Overall the activities that made up the class were far from what I expected for what is advertised.

I would recommend taking your children when they are older, I looked in on the older kids classes and they looked to be doing ACTUAL gymnastics. Not this freeplay babysitting we got. My hopes for Compass is to get the parents in check to be respectful to the kids and their class time and to require the parents to have a handle on the siblings in the crowd. As well as being honest about the class activities and size ONLINE!!! Because when I call and from what I saw in person, NOONE IS EVER AT THE FRONT DESK.

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