At Arcadia, we have many coaches who make this their career, not just something fun to pass the time. Our students are successful because of the experience of the lead coaches who train the newer, secondary coaches. Safety is of the utmost concern, as is making certain that our students feel comfortable, treated with kindness, and able to grow in a safe, positive environment.
Our owners have Masters Degrees in Exercise Science and Public Health and lead the staff in making it a priority that our students are coached with an expertise that few gyms offer. Beyond the knowledge base is a genuine love for children and their success. What counts as success for one child isn't always the same as another child, and every student matters at Arcadia and is coached individually to bring out their best.
The curriculum in our gyms (Arcadia Main and Tumbleweeds) is established by coaches with over 30 years of coaching experience and is based on scientific data that keeps kids safe and ensures proper skill progression so they achieve their goals without unnecessary stresses on their body.
A gymnastics school built on science-based skill mastery teaches athletes to earn each skill through proven progressions, not guesswork. That approach builds stronger, cleaner movement patterns, improves performance and lowers the chance of sloppy habits and injury.
Science-based coaching treats strength and technique as connected, not separate. Research has shown that gymnasts who do specific strength training improved their skill quality with gains tied to better coordination and more efficient skill execution.
Coaches break skills into parts and train each part with clear body positions, tension, timing and alignment. They also train strength work the same way, watching how a gymnast does a push-up, hollow body hold, etc, correcting details until the movement is clean, repeatable and safe.
At Arcadia and Tumbleweeds, we coach the best way we know, a system obtained through decades of experience and coaches who understand what it takes. We are happy that you are here.