River City Gymnastics — Attraction in Converse

Bought a groupon for my two kiddos and they had their first session today. They loved it, and I loved it. My smaller one was really nervous and the coaches had to give her some extra needed attention. What impressed me was that even though they had to "baby" her a little they were firm enough with her to make her do everything the other girls did. This is important to me because I am paying them to teach my kids and I expect them to do exactly that. Props to them for nailing that perfect balance between being firm but compassionate, and going the extra mile to make sure she learned something that day. The owner happened to be out there with my kids' class and she came out into the parents room to tell me (I'm paraphrasing here) that 'my little one was nervous but don't worry with encouragement she'll get it.' My older one took to it like a fish to water, and had a great time! The first thing my kids asked me when they walked out of the gym was "can we come back!?!" We have three more sessions included in our groupon and I'm looking forward to them as much as my kiddos. I read the other reviews about the coaches being rude and the gym smelling bad. Like I said we have only been there once and so far the coaches were great, I hope I can still say the same later down the road.The parents room was a little warm but I thinks that's because so many people were in there. When I went earlier in the day to sign them up it was nice and cool in the front. The gym does smell like a gym. But I didn't think the smell was too out of the ordinary nor was it overpowering or unbearable. It just...

I put my daughter in the summer camp program a few years ago. While they did have plenty of activities to do it was a bad experience. The staff was very rude, I think they were all teenagers with a few adults and no one said hello, I would be the one making eye contact saying hello, introducing myself. My daughter would tell me how she was picked on by other kids there and the staff did nothing about it, she was even scratched by another kid much older than her, she told someone and they did nothing. Teachers would snack on her food i packed her without asking her permission. She said there was a male coach there who would come in and tell them to shut up etc. quite strict and rude. Which may be something you want for your children but I’ll pass. I was called one day while I was at work that my daughter was sick so I went as soon as I could to pick her up. When I arrived the building was locked and everyone left to a field trip. The owner came back from getting a lunch I suppose, saw me there, I asked her about it and she told me something like oh well too bad...I literally started crying. I think I told her she was rude and then they decided to try and help me. Overall bad experience for me and my child. They need to be more professional and polite with better customer service and much better discipline of the children to make sure bullying is taken care of...

I would highly suggest NOT going to the 3-4 preschool gymnastics class they offer with your little one. The coach that instructed my 3 year old on her "trial" day was so rude. My little one was extremely enthusiastic at the beginning of class when a different coach lead the warm up, she would wave to me while I watched her from the observation room, she'd skipped around and talked to the other kids and coach. But once the preschool coach took over she kept pulling my 3 year old by the arm making her stand wherever the coach wanted. I've been in cheerleading so it didn't bother me to bad seeing that my little one didn't react. But then she made my 3 year old cry several times trying to force her onto the bars or to do a handstand. Clearly on her trial day she wouldn't know how to do this and I am upset that a different staff member brought my crying little one to the lobby to me to say "she's in trouble, she didn't want to stand against the wall" WHAT?! She's 3 and it's her first day, gymnastics is supposed to be fun and energetic. That coach sucked and didn't even bother to talk to me about the situation. Maybe there could have been something my little one could have worked on at home or that the coach could have done to make the experience more inviting, but nah that would require her to be a good coach which she is...