Amplitude Gymnastics Academy

We’ve had a couple of our children in Amplitude Gymnastics and while the facility is nice, and the owners seem knowledgeable, the inconsistency in the teaching and the lack of «moving forward» were frustrating.
Initially, a young teacher showed a lot of interest in our daughter competing in a couple of years, but that teacher suddenly disappeared and afterwards, there seemed no interest in helping my daughter move beyond some of the slower children in her class. We showed up and did the same things over and over and there was no communication about a «path.» My son is also a very active and athletically gifted boy and the experience was very similar.
In fact, we were back at the facility for another event a couple of months after stopping and one of the owners remarked how strong and athletic my daughter was and my wife and I were like, «Um yeah. Has been. Where were you? Why didn’t anyone care when she was enrolled here?»
I would also say that we aren’t the kind of parents pushing our children to become great athletes and maybe that’s part of the issue. We want our kids to be fit and have fun, and they just didn’t have «fun» here. At the «awards» ceremony, the session appeared to be any other daily routine and the «awards» at the end were paper certificates and almost no fan fare.
When their friends are doing sports and dance and getting trophies and dressing up onstage to a packed house of adoring parents and friends, you’ve got to make it more interesting than a smattering of parents sitting on the matt while you call out the child’s name.
I wish them the best, but I have to say that they lost a couple of really good athletes (and a wad of $$) due to a lack of perceived interest on the part of the facility.