the Price of Gymnastics Classes

The price was for an evenings use of supervised adult open gym (adults can come in and use the gym without instruction). Supervised by gymnastics instructors who usually teach kids. The gym is usually used by school-aged students under instruction at the gym, though they have a number of full-size apparatuses.

They gym also offers gymnastics instruction for children, and with some effort the instructors can be talked into taking on adult students. Prices for instruction vary depending on the age and experience of the student as well as the frequency of instruction.

Learning rudimentary gymnastics is something I've been trying to do for a while. I've gotten alright at some of the floor stuff, but when I heard a local gym was going to offer one night a week open to adults, I jumped at the chance.

All the apparatus are clean and in good condition. They even have an enormous spring floor. The instruction, though, isn't what I'd have hoped for. I didn't get any myself, but at least one person (who was very much a beginner) was working on the still rings with an instructor. Maybe they were going through stuff too fast, maybe the student didn't know how or when he was supposed to tell the instructor to build up more slowly to more difficult stuff, or teach him how to fall first, but even with the mats he managed to land just wrong enough to dislocate his shoulder.

My fun time was pretty uneventful. I did get to watch a dislocated shoulder get reduced, though. I had fun.

If you're an adult and you want to learn some gymnastics stuff, expect to have to do it all on your own. Gymnastics instruction is geared toward kids and the instructors don't seem to have the experience with adult beginners who don't know how to fall, or who don't have the ability to learn that kids do.