Southlake Gymnastics Academy

★★★★★w

Love it here. Owners are fantastic. This is the most top notch facility in North Texas

★Caryl Hugdahl

My five-year-old granddaughter was singled out in class simply because the other girls all attend the same school and are already friends. Those are the exact words of the coach. After class, her coach commented that my granddaughter was “acting up” and not paying attention. In reality, the difficulty was the frequent changes in teachers, which made it hard for her to adjust, as well as the coach favoring the group of friends and not properly engaging all the kids and coach them all, not just a select few. She basically stated the friendship of the others was more valuable than teaching all in the class. Despite her skills and practice at home, she was overlooked in favor of the clique. Gymnastics should focus on growth, confidence, and encouragement—not social connections. Unfortunately, we had to withdraw her, and I hope the facility takes steps to ensure all children feel included and valued. Gymnastics should be about skill, growth, and confidence—not cliques. Please train your staff and offer consistency in coaching to all, no matter who they know outside of gymnastics

★★★★★Ashley

My 5 (almost 6) year old daughter really enjoys her classes here. She graduated from the beginner class and is in the beginner-advanced classes now. She looks forward to her weekly classes and I think they do a great job at teaching the skills and encouraging proper form while still creating a fun and enjoyable atmosphere. Definitely recommend this location!

★★Madeline Galvin

Oh man… where to begin. I’ll start with the positives. One star for the AMAZING and beautiful facility, equipment, cleanliness, large space, and separate space for the preschool classes; the other star for the very friendly and nice staff. As for what my toddler actually got out of his trial mommy and me preschool class… 0/5 stars. And that is why I can only leave 2 stars. As a former gymnast and gymnastics coach, I put my child into gymnastics to learn life and development skills, as well as have fun and be able to grow into the sport and have an athletic future. Now, I understand not everyone will agree with me and some parents have their kids in these types of classes just to have fun and have an energy outlet. But I truly believe this facility was teaching my child BAD habits. In the class, the coach was a teenager. No problem there, but she had no gymnastics experience her self, still not a huge issue there either, but I basically coached and ran the class for my son the entire time. She let the kids run around and do whatever they wanted on each event. Never sat them down and showed them the circuits before hand, just let them do whatever they wanted. Not to mention they took an entire 12 minutes of the 45 minute class to “warm up”, which just consisted of the kids sitting in a circle doing different versions of “butterfly”, and “baking a cake” : activities where they just sit cross cross apple sauce and pretend to be butterflies etc. I was wrangling my toddler to sit down the entire time because they couldnt keep his attention span for more then 5 seconds before he lost interest and wanted to go start doing actual gymnastics! Even I was bored!! There was ZERO class structure. At the end, they let the toddlers put stamps on themselves and let them go crazy with the entire box of stamps. The gym has great potential. It is new, and the coaches have a long ways to go. I would personally start with a preschool director to train and show the coaches how the class should be run. Sad to say we’ll be going back to our old gym and biting the bullet with the 50 minutes drive so my kid can actually get something out of the class. Very sad about the whole experience, but wanted to share in case other parents out there have my similar goals for their child!

★★★★★Sarah

Both of our kids (age 3 and 7) attend the classes here and love them! We also had a birthday party there today and had a great experience! The kids had a blast, the coaches were super organized, and Jason and the team were so helpful! I truly felt they handled everything from passing out pizza, helping with the cake, cleaning up after presents, and so much more. We highly recommend!