Summit Academy of Gymnastics — Local services in Fort Wayne

As a collegiate Track and Field Athlete who has been involved in athletics my whole life I DO NOT APPROVE OF THIS FACILITY BEING A SAFE PLACE FOR CHILDREN. The owner, Janet, looked as if she was going to smack a child who was horsing around in the hallway with a stuffed animal when she was taking me to her “office” to kick my child out of the TODDLER program. Janet didn’t handle a situation, she created a situation. The people running this gymnastics establishment are very rude and AGGRESSIVE. They don’t seem like they care to be there and play favorites of the athletes. I have been going here since the summer and my daughter has loved it… UNTIL we got an instructor this fall that had some weird aggression towards my daughter. AND GET THIS, she isn’t the main instructor. She is a sub. Yelling at my daughter on the mat during STRETCHING. She is 3 years old! As everyone knows every child is different and if someone yells at my daughter it causes for a downward spiral of bad behavior. I think any instructor with aggression issues shouldn’t be working with 3 year old children. And any business owner should know proper etiquette of how to handle a situation and Janet unfortunately did not handle it well. Saying how they are “recording” and could pull out the “footage” of why my child was getting kicked out of class and siding with the instructor when everyone sitting in bleachers could hear her aggressively yelling at my toddler. Mind you, this is only 1 class that I was aware of of my daughter not listening but they acted as if they wanted to remove her for WEEKS now. Maybe if they would have addressed this situation sooner and found a better instructor for my child it would have turned out. I am not new to coaching. This is not how you handle a situation like this whether it’s a 3 year old or a college athlete. DO NOT GO HERE. The only right thing they did was refund the gymnastics tuition.

On a side note the sitting area for the parents is a JOKE and during the summers it is literally 110 degrees in there! No AC or heat. Find a better...

The CHEER/TUMBLING program is a joke. My daughter has been going there for 3 years and has been stuck in ‘intermediate’ for over a year. Intermediate consisted of round-off and cartwheels because they kept letting girls into the class that couldn’t do them. My daughter has been able to do a back handspring since last summer but was rarely given the chance to do them in class because it was constantly round-offs. Not to mention that the tumbling class we never given the opportunity to work on the tumbling floor/mat.

She was recently given a ticket to move up to advanced by an instructor but then was told she would have to test again because the advanced instructor who hasn’t even worked with her didn’t think she would be ready because they were working on round-off back handspring tucks. If ‘intermediate’ class doesn’t teach tucks where is she supposed to learn it? Why would she need to test again? She performed what she needed to advance. It seems to me that there is a coach that doesn’t want to teach. I’m tired of different rules/expectations for different people. I guess my daughter is not one of the ‘chosen’ ones.

I promptly told them that my daughter would not be returning for the July session and would like my money back. I received a call that the coach (same one) that doesn’t want her class during the summer would love to have her in class during the fall. Why would I have her work with a coach that doesn’t want to work her? Nice try, not going to happen. You should never tell a child that she has the skills for advanced and then tell her she isn’t good enough.

She had already been enrolled at a different place and has been working on round-off double back hand spring and has only been there twice so I guess it...

I signed my 3 year old (rather uncoordinated) son up for the tumble tots class (4 weeks during summer), I will start by saying he had alot of fun and was much more comfortable by the last class. I am writing this review for other moms of high energy boys who may be looking for advice on signing their kid up. The gym itself was a little overstimulated for a 3 year old with multiple classes going on around you while doing your class. His teacher was nice but I wished she wouldve introduced herself to the parents & kids. The teacher did struggle to engage my son and keep him on track, which I know is a task. I would advise maybe 2 teachers to a class or even smaller class sizes because kids would separate from the group while the teacher would be helping someone else. Also a better spectator area for the little kids area, its very confined with other parents/kids and you cannot even watch your kid during class half of the time. Again, my kid had fun and thats what was important but these were just some of my observations where I think this gym could improve in order to be a bit...