USA Gymnastics: Developmental Program (by invitation only)

The goal of this program is to take talented young athletes and prepare them to be successful as advanced competitive gymnasts. This developmental program will focus on two aspects of gymnastics. The first aspect is basic gymnastics skills. As we do in all of our classes, we will teach and refine the required USA gymnastics basic skills. In addition, this program will teach developmental drills to ease in the learning of advanced skills in the gymnasts' future. These important developmental drills are parts of difficult skills that are broken down to make them easier to learn on their own later. Children who are introduced to advanced skills at an early age are more likely to progress to their full potential as competitive gymnasts.

This program will combine the USA Gymnastics skills progression levels and add to it the USA Gymnastics Talent Opportunity Program (TOPs) for girls, and the Future Stars Program for boys. TOPs and Future Stars are programs that have been developed as guidelines to help teach talented children who may be capable of more challenging skills.

GIRLS:

Hot Tots (Girls 3-4 years)

1 - 2 days per week

Firecrackers (Girls 5-7 years)

2 days per week

Hot Shots (Girls 7-8 years)

2 days per week

Tops (5+)

1 day per week

BOYS:

Mighty Mites (4-5 years)

1-2 days per week

Dynamites (5-6 years)

2 days per week

Dynamos (6-8 years)

2 days per week

Future Stars (6-12 years)

1 day per week