GymNation — Attraction in Mason

We did competition gymnastics with them, and I had several conversations throughout the year with the coach about her methods because it was heavily affecting my daughter’s self-esteem and confidence. Her coach kept brushing it off, even suggesting once that my daughter was lying, and I decided to involve the owner of the gym. He was incredibly condescending, and when we said we wouldn’t be coming back next year, he said “In my experience, it’s the girls that aren’t any good that quit”, along with a couple more unkind generalizations about the young women that are supposed to be in his care. In short, the coaches are inflexible, apparently only know one coaching method, and are not willing to work with their athletes if their “tough love” (read: emotionally manipulative and borderline verbal abusive) tactics don’t work. Their athletes are simply paychecks to them. Now we’re at a new gym that invites conversation with their clients and seems to care about their athletes’ mental health as well as their...

Our 5 year old son went for the trial ninja class and was yelled at the whole time. They made it seem like he was a burden to the class but let all the other kids do whatever they wanted. The coach Oliver preceeded to pick up my son and move him from station to station without asking me. Overall experience was horrible I will not be enrolling my son in the class and wouldn't recommend this place or coach. I have been to other ninja places with my older son and they never yelled at the kids and were organized...

Signed our daughter up for the toddlers class “bears” and we pulled her out because the teachers/coach’s didn’t pay attention to the kids, our daughter got hurt while a coach was spotting her and they were constantly checking the time then cheering when class was over.

Very poor experience in the class that we spoke with management and they said they were kind enough to refund our money which is...