THE ADAPTIVE ATHLETE
GYMNASTICS FOR EVERYONE
The Adaptive Athlete accepts athletes of all levels of independent functioning.
Please contact us if your athlete might need a little bit (or a lot) of functional or behavioral assistance.
Athletes with developmental disorders, physical impairments, and/or other adaptive needs must be assessed prior to being placed in Sweet Peas or Level 1 Gymnastics.
Please call us for assessments, class placement, or exclusively adaptive gymnastics classes.
We also offer Privates for all levels of gymnastics, in either 30 or 60 minute durations.
Please contact us to schedule.
WEE PEAS
Starting at 5 months old!
NO MONTHLY FEE!
$30 ANNUAL FEE
Carefully designed for babies learning to sit and crawl. Wee Peas provide our littlest scooters with active learning activities that focus on whole baby development. Wee Peas are given opportunities to move, reach, and grasp in a baby safe environment that is rich with color, sound, and tactile experiences. Wee Peas learn to recognize their name in class and react to identifying themselves to the teacher. Wee Peas enjoy activities that promote visual tracking, core strength, and balance needed for sitting and standing.
Movement primes Wee Peas for learning. The Sweet Peas Educational Gymnastics Program is designed to provide fun and delightful cognitive and developmental opportunities in an active learning environment.
Classes are for babies that are scooting and crawling, age 5 months and up! Parent participation is required.
ONE PEAS
Age 1 Year
$58 Monthly Fee
*tuition adjusted for months with 5 weeks
$30 ANNUAL FEE
One Peas are ready to move! With their newly developing upright mobility (and sometimes a mix of both eagerness and hesitation), One Peas love to explore! One Peas are beginning to understand words and ideas. The active learning goals of One Peas promote neural development in the amazing one-year old brain. The One Pea’s curriculum is designed to provide enriching activities in a safe and fun environment. One Peas learn self-awareness and physical adaptation through developmentally appropriate gymnastics activities such as stepping, rolling, balancing, sliding, and swinging.
One Peas learn baby rhythm and sequencing through physical activities coordinated with music and prompts. One Peas learn to clap, step, count, stop and start, and repeat. Creatures of repetition, One Peas begin to recognize and anticipate routines in the One Pea lesson plans. They are beginning to remember what they have learned and they are excited to participate.
One Peas Classes are for children that are walking and climbing, ages 12-24 months. Parent participation is required.
TWO PEAS
Age 2 Years
$58 Monthly Fee
*tuition adjusted for months with 5 weeks
$30 ANNUAL FEE
Two- year olds are AMAZING! Two Peas are gaining independence! The Two Peas program is designed to capitalize on the rapidly improving physical, cognitive, and language development of two-year olds. Two Peas provides large motor skill and gross motor skill development with whole body activities in developmentally appropriate circuits. Two Peas learn to run with developing synchronization; step, hold, and balance on alternate feet; roll forward, sideways and backwards on a wedge with a spot; transfer weight from feet to hands and back. Two Peas play (or observe play); interactively structured games with other low Two Peas classmates. They sing and perform physical motions to familiar songs.
Two Peas are introduced to concepts of recognition, compare and contrast, and distinction through use of basic shapes in equipment, and learning resources used in class. They begin to recognize colors through materials and activities in class; begin to recite numbers through counting or listening while performing physical motions; and increase language development through physical activities promoting word association. Two Peas curriculum is designed to provide a multi-sensory educational gymnastics experience that prepares the Two Pea to engage his or her occipital lobes through experience with shape patterns and colors. The Two Peas’ curriculum engages the Two Peas’ temporal and frontal lobes and promotes higher cognitive processing through language, words and tone. Children learn best when they are moving. We know that the more regions of the brain we can engage in the process of learning, the more significant the impact on learning will be.
Two Peas Classes are designed for children ages 2-3. Parent participation is required, but we work to fade parent assistance to promote independence for our Two Peas.
THREE PEAS
Age 3 Years
$88 Monthly Fee
*tuition adjusted for months with 5 weeks
$30 ANNUAL FEE
Three-year olds are ready to go! Three Peas are gaining increased motor development, eye hand coordination and fine motor skills! Three Peas are also quickly assimilating language and are able to understand and independently follow basic instructions in gymnastics class. The Three Pea curriculum is designed to provide skill development on floor, beam bars and vault. Three Peas work on forward rolls, straddle rolls and Three Pea cartwheels. They increase their balance with beam work that includes alternating forward kicks, squat holds, relevé walks and beam crawls.
Three Peas develop core strength by learning to draw to a tuck from a straight hang on the bars and execute forward rolls over the bar. Their vault skills include punching the board with both feet, a squat on to a block and donkey kicks. Three Peas are introduced to instructions that incorporate spatial, sequential and directional cues. They are continuing to develop an understanding of differences in color, shape, size and color. The developing independence of Three Peas helps them participate in structured circuit sequences as they prepare for more independent activities in the Four Pea program.
Three Peas Classes are for children ages 3-4. This is our first year without parent participation, and we love to see what our Three Peas can do on their own!
Athletes with a developmental disorder, physical impairment, and/or other adaptive needs must be assessed into Three Peas Classes. Please call to schedule an assessment.
FOUR PEAS
Age 4 Years
$88 Monthly Fee
*tuition adjusted for months with 5 weeks
$30 ANNUAL FEE
Four-year olds are on the go! Four Peas can run, hop, climb and throw a ball. Their increasing coordination makes them faster and more deliberate. Their increasing strength makes them able to perform many new gymnastics skills. Their cognitive development is growing by leaps and bounds and they are able to interpret and remember learning objectives. Four Peas are able to recognize and name many letters numbers. They can count in unison and repeat simple stories and sequences.
Four-year olds need a minimum of 60-90 minutes of active play a day! They need opportunities to run, build, swing and bounce. The Four Pea curriculum embraces the four-year old’s readiness for learning and provides a dynamic educational gymnastics environment. Four Peas work on forward rolls, straddle rolls, and backward rolls on both a wedge and on the floor. They are practicing straighter legs and longer holds in the execution of their skills. Four Peas are working on their balance with skills on beam such as straight jumps, alternating kick possé sequences and Four Pea arabeques. Four Peas are gaining speed and accuracy on the vault. They are mastering their squat on, donkey kicks with horizontal hips and jumping on and off a block.
Four Peas Classes are for children ages 4-5 years old. Four Peas must be able to participate in class independently. Classes are 45 minutes in duration.
Athletes with a developmental disorder, physical impairment and/or other adaptive needs MUST be assessed into Four Peas Classes. Please call to schedule an assessment.
FIVE PEAS
Age 5 Years
$102 Monthly Fee
*tuition adjusted for months with 5 weeks
$30 ANNUAL FEE
Five Peas are ready to test their skills! Five-year olds have reached physical and developmental milestones that allow them to progress rapidly. With longer limbs, more refined coordination and stronger language skills, the Five Pea can run faster, climb higher and hold longer!
Five Peas are refining their technique with focus on form and lines. The Five Pea curriculum includes bridges, handstands, L- handstands and stronger executions of rolls. The Five Pea cartwheel demonstrates proper sequencing and a more refined lunge finish. Five Peas can hold their relevés and arabesques on beam and are developing the core strength needed to hold tucks, straddles and pikes on the bars. Five Peas are mastering the vault runway with sequenced runs. They are punching the board with two feet and their vaults now include stretch jumps, squats onto the block and forward rolls.
Oh, to be five! What an important year this is! The Five Pea curriculum capitalizes on the amazing, compounding cognitive and social development of the Five Pea. Our educational gymnastics curriculum incorporates 20-25 gymnastics terms, independent counting, group presentation and recognition of the alphabet, interpretation of music, recognition of timing and counts in music, and increased awareness of spatial relationships.
Five Peas Classes are 60 minutes in duration, and designed for children ages 5-6. Five Peas must be able to participate in classes and remain at their given stations independently, and follow multiple step directions.
Athletes with developmental disorders, physical impairments, and/or other adaptive needs MUST be assessed into Five Peas Classes, and may require parent participation. Please call us to schedule an assessment.
SIX PEAS
Age 6 Years
$102 Monthly Fee
*tuition adjusted for months with 5 weeks
$30 ANNUAL FEE
Six Peas want to do it all! Six - year olds have the physical, cognitive and developmental abilities to do great things! They can gallop, skip, move to counts and run backwards. They can climb just about anything you don't want them to climb and they can jump from the table to the couch with hardly a blink. Most six - year olds understand about 5,000 words and are at various stages of learning to read. Six Peas are capable of listening and understanding more detailed instructions and are generally eager to please. We love working with Six Peas!
Six Peas are working on cartwheels, handstands and straight - legged tables -- all with increasing form and technique. Six Peas are gaining more advanced abilities with floor sequences that combine rolls, jumps, lunges, turns and finishes. The Six Pea curriculum also includes the added learning challenge of properly counting and executing skills to music beats and claps.
Six Peas are developing balance and strength enables them to work on a jump to front support on the beam, 3 second V - sit hold on beam, letter to a T - position and more. Six Peas train on windows on bars as well as L - hang and flexed arm hangs with a 5 second hold. Bars are becoming even more fun as Six Peas are able to work on window pikes and straddles, casts from front supports, forward rolls to flexed arm hangs, pullovers and back hip circles. the Six Peas' vault curriculum includes focus on hollow body shaping, handstands, tucks and straddles.
The early childhood years are incredibly important to a child's life - long ability and desire to learn. The Sweet Peas educational gymnastics program provides an amazing foundation for children and prepares them for physical, academic and social success in the years to come.
Six Peas classes are designed for children ages 6-7. Six Peas must be able to remain at their stations independently, and follow multiple-step directions. Classes are 60 minutes in duration, and help prep athletes for Level 1 classes.
Athletes with developmental disorders, physical impairments, and/or other adaptive needs MUST be assessed into Six Peas Classes, and may require parent participation. Please call us to schedule an assessment.
RECREATIONAL GYMNASTICS
The Adaptive Athlete offers group gymnastic classes for kids as young as 5 months old as well as private sessions of gymnastics for kids of all ages and skill levels. Our recreational gymnastics classes are designed to continue gymnastics skills in a non-competitive setting for individuals ages 6 and up.
Recreational Gymnasts work on strength, balance, coordination, conditioning, endurance, and various gymnastics events. Events include floor, bars, beam, and vault. Gymnastics skills are taught on a progressive basis with opportunities to level up through the recreational program.
Those with a developmental disorder, physical impairment, and/or other adaptive needs must be assessed into these classes. Please call to schedule an assessment.
Classes target strength, flexibility, endurance, confidence building and FUN!
Level 1 and Level 2* skilled and Private classes are available.
LEVEL 1 CLASSES (60 minutes): $102*
LEVEL 2 CLASSES (60 minutes): $102*
LEVEL 3 CLASSES (60 minutes): $102*
30-Minute Privates: $172* for 1xWeek
60-Minute Privates: $276* for 1xWeek
*Tuition is adjusted for months with 5 weeks
Level 2 classes and Gymnastics Privates are available based on demand and instructor availability.
ADAPTIVE GYMNASTICS
Adaptive Gymnastics is geared towards athletes 4 and up, with adaptive needs. Adaptive Gymnastics teaches fundamental gymnastics skills in an inclusive and adaptable environment. Class structure and circuit participation is semi-structured to allow for sensory breaks per individual needs.
Adaptive Gymnastics follows our developmental and educational curriculum. Classes are designed to habilitate and rehabilitate functional independence, social skills, parallel play, turn-taking, and following multiple step directions. “Gymnastics facilitates movement and sensory activities that strengthen and bond synapses - the essential connections between neurons. Participating in gymnastics helps forge the architecture of the brain that will serve an individual for their lifetime.” I wonder if this section needs to be with the main description for gymnastics? This is used for everyone.
Our adaptive gymnastic classes for kids foster coordination, balance, core strength, bilateral awareness, and flexibility. Taught is a social, collaborative environment, Adaptive Gymnastics provides important life lessons in self-awareness, courage, success and friendship. Curriculum is centered around gymnastics training which incorporates color recognition, language development, spatial relations, music awareness, measurements and counting skills.” this section as well?
Serving Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Santa Ana, Riverside, Anaheim, and the surrounding areas, The Adaptive Athlete is proud to offer adaptive gymnastics for kids of all ages and abilities. Contact us today to make a booking or learn more about the programs and classes we offer.
Classes require parent or care-taker participation.
Athletes must be assessed prior to enrollment.
Assessments are appointment-based; please call to schedule.
30-MINUTES (1xWeek): $85*
60-MINUTES (1xWeek): $128*
*Tuition is adjusted for months with 5 weeks of classes