Tumble Bear Classes: Fun Fitness

The Tumble Bear Gymnastics Program is the most popular program offered at Buckeye Gymnastics. For 25 years we have provided our preschool students with an active, safe, and fun approach to learning gymnastics. The goals of this program are simple yet profound.

We believe that physical activity should be fun. In order to get children up and moving in today’s world the action in the gym must be at least as fun as the action they see on TV, computer, and video screens. Trampolines, foam pits, climbing walls, cargo nets, tunnels, and soft mats to fall into are great fun. So fun that the children get hooked on physical activity.

We believe that gymnastics must provide a fitness opportunity for our students. Gymnastics is Fun Fitness. We organize our classes so that the children are constantly moving. We move up and down, over and under, and around and around; we roll, turn, twist, jump, climb, run, swing, and leap; and we use special sized preschool gymnastics equipment, trampolines, pits, climbing wall, and a zillion mats to do it all.

We also believe that gymnastics training should help build a strong foundation of basic skills that can lead to a lifetime of physical activity, sports, games, performing arts, and active play. We teach the basic gymnastics skills to our preschool students. But what those basic skills develop are balance, quickness, strength, agility, flexibility, coordination, and grace. And these basic skills form the building blocks for any and all sports and physical activities.

What Makes Tumble Bear Gymnastics So Special?

All of our Tumble Bear classes are held in special and separate areas of the gym that are filled with equipment and activities designed just for our youngest students. These preschool gyms are padded wall-to-wall; they are full of mats of every size and description; the cargo nets and climbing ropes rise out of lose foam pits; the climbing walls are kid sized; as are the bars, rings, and balance beams.

As part of the fun the activities each week are organized a kid theme.

Parents not only watch every class, they can hear every class as well because there are no high walls or windows separating the parents from the children. You see and hear everything.

Buckeye offers a free trial class and a 100% money back guarantee. While the vast majority of our students take to the gym immediately we know better than anyone that all children are different. Every child is unique and special and some are ready for this type of activity and some are not… at least not yet. We want our families to feel confident that they can try gymnastics without worrying about whether their children will like it or not. We are so confident that they will like it that we offer a two-week, 100% money-back guarantee. After two classes (three if you also take a free trial class) you can get all of your money back for any reason by asking for a refund in writing (a post-it note will do).

Finally, our teachers are really what make us so good. Great facilities and top-of-the-line equipment only provide the potential for a great learning experience. It is the teachers that actually provide that great experience. Our teaching staff have experience not only as gymnasts, some are quite accomplished gymnasts, but also as teachers. Almost everyone is Safety Certified by USA Gymnastics and all new hires go through a national background check through USA Gymnastics. They also go through an extensive training period with Buckeye. In fact, only about 10% of prospective teachers who contact us ever become employees of Buckeye Gymnastics. We are that picky.