Metropolitan Gymnastics

My son is 10. We have been with the gym for 1 and a ½ years. We started off slow but my son wanted more and turns out he’s good. The coaches at metropolitan have brought my son from knowing nothing, to surprising us every meet. These coaches are amazing. He feels so lucky to be a part of PJ’s level 5 team. The boys are building bond with each other they will remember for a lifetime. Thank you metropolitan!

We have been at Metropolitan gym for just under 6 months with my son and can honestly say thanks to a friends recommendation we have never felt justified in not only committing financially but mentally and socially to this institution who whole heartedly commit to the welfare, care and total being of children’s gymnastic talents.
Whether your child is good bad or indifferent the level of coaching bar any past disgruntled employees have been exemplary an I can only vouch for Coach Karen and Coach PJ who have shown nothing but utter professionalism and dedication to their lifelong career and their students who are acknowledged far and wide as representing the best of the best. I can honestly say we are very proud to be part of the Metropolitan Gym of Kent.

Best gym, coaches, parents & kids in THE NATION! Jelousy is ugly, but you can hardly blame anyone that isn’t a part of the sheer MAGIC at this gym & I’m not afraid to use my REAL name to brag about it!!!

While the instructors here are typically pretty good, the support staff and management is terrible! There is little to no communication with parents regarding things like meets, uniform orders, gym closure dates, etc. Updates and communications via their website or by email would be terrific but their standard method of (inconsistent) communication is via a tiny slip of paper handed to your child. The worst part, however, is billing. They are disorganized and penalized my 6 year old child, forcing her to sit out of class, because my payment was a few days late. They nickel and dime you with annual fees and family membership dues and their class fees are overpriced, particularly for the poor level of customer service they provide. Lastly, be prepared for the high pressure sales pitch to convince you that your young child’s talent warrants them spending 10+ hours/​week in their gym (translation: big bucks for parents.) I’d recommend elsewhere.

Great teachers, they know how to instruct. The younger kids classes are all about instruction no fun. So my son doesn’t want to go back. I think they should make it more enjoyable like giving some free time in the foam pit.

My children have never done gymnastic classes there. But we have hosted several birthday parties and gone to open gym many times!
For birthday parties it’s a great deal ($ 175 I think) for 15 kids. You get the whole gym! I always ask that they don’t play games with the kids. The kids only want to run around like crazy and do whatever they want!
Open gym is great on rainy days! Sometimes it can get crowded.
Definitely give it a try!

awesome coaching the xcel director is an awesome coach and so is donnie. i have seen major improvements in my daughter she came from annother gym. they are well organized and they gave my daughter her self confidence back that she was stripped of.

Metro is one of the best places I have trained at and I have had more great times here than I can count. The adult classes are amazing and this handsome devils, PJ and Peter are two of the most amazing coaches and guys I know. They know their stuff and helped me to train and learn any trick or technique I could ever want to learn. If I was having trouble with a trick they would talk to people, research, or come up with any way they could to help me get it. Their passion for the sport and to help people is second to none. The equipment and facilities are also great and always kept up.

My kids have been at metropolitan for about 5 years. I can’t say enough enough about this gym. The coaching has been outstanding and the owners of the gym truly care about you. My kids are ending their gymnastics career at this time but I know they are welcome back. We will truly miss this place we call our «family».

Great place for mid-​level plus gymnastics based on my experience with my two beginner girls. They do well pushing the kids with natural talent and drive to compete. My girls have been going here for almost a year and they do it mostly for fun and don’t have interest in competing. They are getting bored due to lack of motivational support from the teachers to help push them to get to the next level. I’m pulling my girls out for a few months to hopefully renew their interest while they do fall sports and then we’ll most likely be back to this gym. I do think it’s good instruction and they’ve been improving their facility and adding fun meets to the mix for the students.

I have my two boys 6 and 8 in one class and my 10 year old daughter in another. If your kids are not enrolled for the competition classes then it is pretty much a daycare. Other reviewers on other sites had said the same. My kids did get better motor skills but that’s about it. I have had them in for about a year and I am seriously considering taking them out as soon as I can find some place else. The class my two boys were in were o.k. because of the instructor but the instructor is teaching a competition class now and my boys got another instructor as a replacement. The problem is that the new instructor is trying to teach other classes at the same time and my boys are not getting the full attention.
My daughters class on the other hand is a nightmare. At the beginning there was a problem of not enough students enrolling in her time slot. The gym was ending her class like 15 to 20 minutes early. I asked why isn’t she being taught the full hour. They said because there isn’t enough students in the class and that she is getting the correct amount of time spent on her as if there were more students in the class it would come out the same. What the $@$#!?
Well that was the start of the nightmare. She is going on her 5^th new instructor, maybe more, lost count. Well anyways her first couple of instructors would tell her what to do but they weren’t really correcting her or paying attention. They would just say do this and they would just look around or talk to friends. Another replacement would only have them do cart wheels and spent half of the class time stretching or making them do push ups because they would ask a simple question like can they learn something new and they would be punished. The other replacements had their quirks too, but you get the general idea. On top of all this the gym has no curriculum to follow so that they know where the students in the class should be or learning. Each time a replacement comes in they would have free reign. So the students are learning something half ass or going over something they already know like cartwheels. I basically paid a lot of money for my daughter to do cartwheels. I have complained a couple of times about this and they are like uhhh.
I’ve had it. Oh yeah, right before I yanked my kids out, they had a fill in instructor again for my daughter and were trying to find another replacement again. What the @$%&@?. REALLY? So my daughter could learn cart wheels again? I might as well of enrolled her into little gym. Though she might look awkard towering over kids half her age.

Gymnastics Meets R Them.
Usually very tightly run with decent raffle baskets (you’d be surprised how important a decent raffle basket is!). Oh, and a giant human sized habitrail for board out of their little gourds brothers and sisters forced to attend yet another meet. So far, none of the children has actually turned into a giant gerbil, but I’ve heard stories of the little kiddos braining each other.
When I’m competing level 4 in the 16-​years and up age category, I know I’ll take first place at the Bunny Hop and celebrate with an arm’s length of tickets and a giant tube of sandy candy.
If this is all gibberish nonsense to you then count yourself among the lucky.

This gym is actually down in Tukwila. It’s a good full-​line children’s gymnastics program.