Youth Program
Beginning Youth
Ages 6+ | 60 Minutes/Week | $106/Month+tax | All Locations
Description:
Our Beginning Youth class level is a 60 minute/weekly class designed for kids ages 6 and up who are new to gymnastics and/or are developing foundational gymnastics skills. This longer introductory class focuses on the same core skills the Youth Foundations class, differing in that the longer Beginning Youth class time allows more opportunity to practice form, repetition, and skill progression—helping students gain confidence and learn skills at an accelerated pace. In our Beginning Youth class, your student will have opportunity to learn and practice skills within rotations on: Balance Beam, Bars, Floor, and "BLAST" (Building Leaders As a Strong Team) —a segment of class when students work together as a team to complete challenges. Each 60-minute weekly Beginning Youth class is designed to provide an accessible start to your student's youth gymnastics journey focusing on core gymnastics skill and development of lasting life skills that will benefit students in and out of the gym!
What your student will learn:
Life Skills highlighted in this class level:
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Expectation development - Positive cooperation with the structured setting, verbal direction, and routines within class
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Direction following capacity - Responding confidently to structured coaching throughout entirety of class
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Student interaction - Progression in comfortability/cooperation with turn-taking, using shared space, and cooperation
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Peer encouragement - Develop practice of cheering on and celebrating accomplishments of classmates
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Building friendship - Approach classmates with respect, build connection through shared experience, grow in social relationship
Gymnastics Skills taught in this class level:
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Forward and backward rolls on floor
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Beginning handstands and cartwheel stations on floor
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Beam balancing and walking
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Swinging and body support skills on bars
Register to join this class at anytime! Interested in getting started mid month? Great! Your first month of classes is prorated. Meaning, you only pay for the number of class weeks that remain in that month! Our classes use a rolling enrollment format, which means classes are billed for each month. For additional information on class transfers, dropping policies, and billing information, visit the "FAQs" page on our website!
Intermediate Youth
Ages 6+ | 60 Minutes/Week | $106/Month+tax | All Locations
Description:
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This class requires a coach referral to join.
Our Intermediate Youth classes are designed for kids ages 6 and up that have a coach recommendation to enter this class from a previous level; and who are ready to grow in skill development that progress from established core gymnastic skills. In Intermediate Youth classes, students have the opportunity to expand and build onto the skills they have gained in pervious class levels. Students recommended for Intermediate Youth demonstrate skill in following: cooperation with structured class format, positive response to coach direction/instruction, positive peer interaction, and progression towards mastery in foundational gymnastics skill (handstands, cartwheels, forward/backward rolls, and pullovers). Here at Minneapolis Gymnastics, our Intermediate Youth class level expands beyond the building blocks of gymnastics while continuing to promote an environment that fosters confidence, positive peer relationships, and tenacity. These 60-minute weekly sessions are filled with concentrated a skill building focus and opportunities for large and small achievements—all with Minneapolis Gymnastics' continued focus of curating class structures that allow gymnastics to be fun and center on our students' wholistic value.
Intermediate Youth class students gain opportunity to additionally enroll in a "Developmental Team: Intermediate Youth" class. Our Intermediate Youth Team classes allow gymnasts to take skills they are learning in their Intermediate Youth classes and put them into routines. When a student is registered for both "Intermediate Youth" and "Developmental Team: Intermediate Youth" they then have opportunity to participate in Minneapolis Gymnastics team program competitions!
What your student will learn:
Life Skills highlighted in this class level:
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Task solving - Develop processes to safely complete skills and navigate equipment
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Confidence development - Experience the achievement of small milestones to build self-belief
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Peer collaboration - Work with a partner to complete a station or activity
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Empathy development - Offering support and encouragement to classmates, growing in understanding of others' experiences
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Building friendship - Approach classmates with respect, build connection through shared experience, grow in social relationship
Gymnastics Skills taught in this class level:
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Back hip circles on bars
Front and back handspring training stations on floor
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Round off on floor
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A small handstand and 1/2 turn on beam
Contact us if you would like to join an Intermediate Youth class! Interested in getting started mid month? Great! Your first month of classes is prorated. Meaning, you only pay for the number of class weeks that remain in that month! Our classes use a rolling enrollment format, which means classes are billed for each month. For additional information on class transfers, dropping policies, and billing information, visit the "FAQs" page on our website!
Advanced Youth
Ages 6+ | 60 Minutes/Week | $106/Month+tax | All Locations
Description:
This class requires a coach referral to join.
Our Advanced Youth class is a coach recommended class that progresses from Intermediate Youth and continues to build and expand in gymnastics skill. From the warm-up through the completion of each class, our Advanced Youth class is intentionally designed to promote confidence, goal setting, perseverance, consistency, and peer encouragement. Students in Advanced Youth won’t just be mastering gymnastics skills—they’ll be discovering how to support others, make new friends, and follow through on a challenge. And we hope they’ll have a great time doing it! Minneapolis Gymnastics Advanced Youth is a class where fun meets purpose—where your student will build gymnastics skills, grow in confidence, and develop life lessons they’ll carry far beyond the gym. The 60-minute weekly sessions are filled with a concentrated skill building focus and opportunities for large and small achievements—all with Minneapolis Gymnastics' continued focus of curating class structures that allow gymnastics to be fun and center on our students' wholistic value.
Advanced Youth class students gain opportunity to additionally enroll in a "Developmental Team: Advanced Youth" class. Our Advanced Youth Team classes allow gymnasts to take skills they are learning in their Advanced Youth classes and put them into routines. When a student is registered for both "Advanced Youth" and "Developmental Team: Advanced Youth" they then have opportunity to participate in Minneapolis Gymnastics team program competitions!
What your student will learn:
Life Skills highlighted in this class level:
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Goal setting - Working toward skill progressions and mastery over time
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Perseverance - Demonstrating consistency, growth in tenacity, and committment to set goals
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Leadership development - Model appropriate behavior, participate in positive attitude, help foster an environment where success is available for all
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Identifying self worth - Growth in understanding that all students are inherently valuable and that they are capable, strong, important, and irreplaceable individuals
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Building friendship - Approach classmates with respect, build connection through shared experience, grow in lasting relationship
Gymnastics Skills taught in this class level:
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Roundoff back handspring and front handspring on floor
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Kip bars mount training stations
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Handstand and cartwheel on beam
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Front handspring vault off the Tumbl Trak
Contact us if you would like to join an Advanced Youth class! Interested in getting started mid month? Great! Your first month of classes is prorated. Meaning, you only pay for the number of class weeks that remain in that month! Our classes use a rolling enrollment format, which means classes are billed for each month. For additional information on class transfers, dropping policies, and billing information, visit the "FAQs" page on our website!
Youth Foundations
Ages 6+ | 30 Minutes/Week | $59/Month+tax | All Locations
Description:
The Minneapolis Gymnastics Youth Foundations class level is a 30-minute/weekly class designed for kids ages 6 and up who are new to gymnastics and/or are developing foundational gymnastics skills. In this introductory class, your student will have opportunity to learn and practice skills on: Balance Beam, Bars, and Floor. Our Youth Foundations class level brings a lot of fun into the fast paced and high energy nature of entering into the sport of gymnastics! Each 30-minute weekly Youth Foundations class is designed to provide an accessible start to your student's youth gymnastics journey focusing on core gymnastics skill and development of lasting life skills that will benefit students in and out of the gym!
What your student will learn:
Life Skills highlighted in this class level:
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Expectation development - Positive cooperation with the structured setting, verbal direction, and routines within class
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Student interaction - Progression in comfortability/cooperation with turn-taking, using shared space, and cooperation
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Peer encouragement - Develop practice of cheering on and celebrating accomplishments of classmates
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Building friendships - Approach classmates with respect, build connection through shared experience, grow in social relationship
Gymnastics Skills taught in this class level:
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Forward and backward rolls on floor
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Beginning handstands and cartwheels on floor
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Beam balancing and walking
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Swinging and body support skills on bars
Register to join this class at anytime! Interested in getting started mid month? Great! Your first month of classes is prorated. Meaning, you only pay for the number of class weeks that remain in that month! Our classes use a rolling enrollment format, which means classes are billed for each month. For additional information on class transfers, dropping policies, and billing information, visit the "FAQs" page on our website!
