Houston Gymnastics Academy

My son attends weekly classes. He also comes here for camps when school has vacation days. This is a real gym not a kiddie school. All of the equipment is 1^st class. The instructors work with small groups of kids and rotate them through out the gym. I see reviews about the condition of the gym but remember there are hundreds of kids every day coming in and out. The observation room might need a coat of paint but the actual gym area is first rate.

Well, we gave this place a legit shot. I have had two of my children enrolled in classes here for the past school year, as well as thrown a birthday party in one of their party rooms. So, we are experienced with this location.
This place is so, so poorly managed. For starters, as you can read in other reviews, it does have sort of a «smell» to it when you walk in the door. Like feet. So there’s that. The same girl seems to always be at the front desk. She is not friendly whatsoever and doesn’t greet a soul who walks in the door. If you ask her any questions, it definitely feels like she is doing you a favor by responding.
Whoever is doing the hiring here is TERRIBLE at it. My older daughter had 7 (that’s SEVEN) instructors in the past year because people would just flake and quit after a week or two. Or forget to show up for the class, and maybe show up the following week, maybe not. Or just be 20 minutes late. There are no makeups, by the way. And so many of the «coaches» have zero knowledge of how to interact with a small child, let alone have knowledge on how to teach a child gymnastics skills. They just mailed in their time and showed a clear lack of effort towards «teaching» the class.
Then the kids would do the exact same class every single week. Same warm up, same exercises on the different events. I’m pretty sure my older daughter learned nothing but the memorization of the warm up routine after ten months of weekly classes.
My daughter loves gymnastics, so this was where she wanted her party. The birthday party experience was mediocre. The staff act like all the birthday slots are all completely booked, and then give you only 30 minutes to decorate a dirty, cluttered dance room to try to look remotely festive. And then you are the only party booked that day. The kids had fun running around the gym though.
Only good thing I can think of: Coach Misty is very nice, and was the only reliable person I met there.
We’ve been doing gymnastics since both kids were babies so we know there are better options.
We are switching gyms.

My son is a competitive gymnast and we travel to this gym every year for meet season. It is a terrible venue. It smells. It is very small and uncomfortable. The risers are falling apart and seem treacherous. And they allow young children without parental supervision to record and post scores. Needless to say, the children make A LOT of mistakes! This should be an expected result and is the reason why well-​run gyms have people over the age of 14 performing these duties. Absolutely ridiculous. They charged each person a $ 12 entry fee… Let’s hope they put the money they earn from these overpriced tickets to good use and make some MUCH needed improvements.

We had our daughter enrolled in the Spring Camp they had in April. Our plan was to get her to join regular classes if we liked the place. But the camp experience wasn’t good at all. My 5 year old lost her gold earring on the last day of camp– on trying to inquire about it, the staff wasn’t helpful at all. There was this lady who looked at me like I was disturbing her o, when I stopped by their location on a Saturday late morning, close to closing. Guess she just wanted to go home! No «hi» or «how may I help you» — not even a smile. And not at all helpful when I told her how my 5 yr old had lost a rather expensive gold earring, just the day before. She couldn’t even tell me who the instructor was. Not a call from them even after I called multiple times to address this issue. Each time, they would ask for my phone # and tell me they would call me back. Never heard from them. Needless to say, we are not going there– either for summer camp– or regular classes.

I don’t actually have any children taking lessons here and it does look like a great place to take lessons. I just came by to see if i would want to hold my daughters birthday party here. But the place seems so old and run down. It seriously smells horrible. It seems like the owners could do some minor updating to make this place welcoming and inviting. Also the mirror in the dance room is broken???