Paradise
GYMNASTICS

and SPORTS

10 Merchants Drive, Walpole, MA 02081

Phone (508) 668-9688  Fax (508) 668-9925

E-mail  paradisegymnastics@verizon.net

 

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"The Fun Place to Keep Fit"

 SERVING THE COMMUNITY FOR 23 YEARS

Bonuses offered 

INTRODUCE AND ENROLL A NEW MEMBER AND RECEIVE 50% OFF THE ENROLLMENT FEE.

*For every 3 new friends you introduce and Enroll, you will receive an additional $25.00 off your next pay-period or receive a new Paradise leotard.

*Schedule a weekly or monthly activity with your pre-school, day care, troop, or other organization to do gymnastics, tumbling, Conditioning and Strength class or Playgroup activity and receive 50% off your first class. Satisfaction is guaranteed or the class is FREE.

Gyms Fun Facts: Paradise Gymnastics, formerly named Walpole Gymnastics, has been known as “The Fun Place to Keep Fit.”  Inez and Billy May, a husband and wife team, both raised in Walpole, were High School sweat hearts and have been married for 27 years with 2 children.  Walpole Gymnastics started in the Foundry building in Walpole in 3,200 sq. ft. as a home for gymnasts and dancers.  Before that time, the spot had been a dance school run by Connie Waldron for over 50 years.  Not long after the Mays took over the business, it became an establishment focused entirely on gymnastics.  We moved away from dance because our passion was gymnastics.  Since that time, the passion has shown through.  After 5 years, we had grown and moved to Norfolk St., which had 8,000 sq. ft.  In it’s 10th year, we built a gym specifically designed for gymnastics.  Walpole gymnastics has produced more than twenty gymnasts who won individual state championships titles, several team state championship titles and 2 individuals that have won regionally.  Regionally means that you are the best in 7 States.  As competition is important to some, it is not everything.  While the success of many schools is based on how many championships or high-level athletes it may have, the success of Walpole/Paradise Gymnastics is based upon how much fun gymnastics is while learning the basic precepts of doing the sport.  At the end of each year we put on a very elaborate recital.  All kids who wish to participate feel like a champion before it is all over.  Each child performs a group routine that is so much fun.  The gym was built specifically for this sport. For the recitals and also for the kid’s night, the gym has an array of colored overhead lighting and spotlights to make any athlete feel special. 

All gymnastics schools are different.  Some gyms are very recreational and some very competitive.  Some are very strict and some very lax.  We are somewhere right in the middle.  We provide a program that promotes quality for children, beginner through advanced, while at the same time has lots of fun.  We believe that the rewards of teaching gymnastics as seeing the kids each day and how happy they are and we enjoy seeing the confidence it builds in them all.  We are so proud that we are able to build such a successful business by doing what we love.  It pleases us that we can be such a big part of children’s lives. 

Paradise Gymnastics is also active in fundraising for children in need. The gym has been raising money for the St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital since the time it has opened the doors and the coaches and children of the gym have raised thousands of dollars annually.

Programs offered: Gymnastics for Parent and Me, Pre-school, Kindergarten, Elementary, Middle and High School Tumbling, Trampoline and Pit, Cheerleading and Cheernastics, Kid’s Night, and not to forget Birthday and Sports Parties.  We will also introduce our NEW Strength and Conditioning program for all youth sports for Girls and Boys.  Anyone interested in starting a group activity program for the special needs is something we would love to do.  Sign up on your own or arrange a class for your sports group whether it is a youth football team or a cheerleading team. 

Pre-School/Kindergarten Gymnastics Class for Boys and Girls 45 minutes: Build self-esteem while having fun.  This class will be set up into segments of stretching, musical warm-up, and beginner gymnastics.  Classes are structured and will consist of gymnastics circuits that will break down beginner skills.  The kids will use the smaller versions of the gymnastics equipment including, Vaults, Bars, Beam, Floor, Tumble-Trak the In-Ground Pits and Trampoline.  For fun, classes may include parachute games, the famous Moonwalk, Caterpillar and Super-Slide.  This program leads into the fun they will have in our beginner after school program for ages 6 and older.  You’ll see right before your eyes the excitement on your child’s face while they become more coordinated and confident. Parents are welcome to stay and view from the lobby or volunteer weekly to assist in the gym.  Volunteers are welcome on a first come first serve basis as space is limited.  (Moms are welcome to assist their own child on a short-term basis until kids become independent)

Gymnastics Classes for Boys and Girls 1 hour 15 minutes: Kids will begin with a warm up exercise to music as a large group which consists of motor skills, strength and flexibility exercises.  Kids will then be grouped by age and ability. Class is structured and consists of beginner skills up to the Back-Handspring. The kids will use all of the gymnastics equipment including, the Vault, Bars, Beam, Floor, Tumble-Trak and Trampoline.

 Hot Shot Beginner Team: Hot Shot Team members begin with a warm up exercise to music as a large group which consists of motor skills, strength and flexibility exercises.  Class is structured and consists of beginner skills up to the Back-Handspring. The kids will use all of the gymnastics equipment including, the Vault, Bars, Beam, Floor, Tumble-Trak and Trampoline.  In this class, gymnasts will also learn routines on Beam, Bars and Floor X.  These routines will be performed at our annual home meets.  Each gymnast will receive achievement awards as they do not compete against each other.  

How to enroll:You may enroll by going online at www.Paradisegymnasticswalpole.com  and click on the 2007/2008 enrollment form link.  Print the page and mail it in to Paradise Gymnastics, 10 Merchants Dr., Walpole, MA  02081 or call for a schedule to be mailed to you at (508) 668-9688.

Kids Learn gymnastics and tumbling safely by using proper technique.  We train drills, lead-up skills, strength and flexibility.  We have a game plan in mind with specific drills to achieve your child’s specific goals.  We don’t use terms such as, “Try it again, Go faster, Go harder, or the Suck it up, approach.”  We teach by knowledge and positive re-enforcement.   All kids learn Why and How skills work, because Knowledge is Key.  Has your child been exposed to seeing other kids getting injured, wearing wrist and ankle supports?  Just practicing the skills over and over pounds the body and that is not what makes you do a skill or get better at it.  Doing a skill over and over leads to frustration, fatigue and sometimes injuries.  We use a step-by-step positive method of teaching beginner through advance skills. Our techniques are used by nationally ranked gymnastics and tumbling champions and coaches.  We are CPR and Safety Certified and are governed by the United States Gymnastics Federation and the National training staff has visited and trained us right here in our own gym.  These techniques work and are most importantly SAFE. 

Equipment: Gymnastics skills and Tumbling is not meant to be performed on a wrestling mat.  We have all the equipment used for children from the beginner to an Olympic ranked athlete.  We have the best manufactured Spring Floor on the market, vault, bars, high and low beams, trampoline, tumble-trak, tumbling strip, resi and loose foam pits, overhead spotting belts, an array of shaped training mats and hundreds of drills and lead-up skills to assist in training a beginner to advanced athlete.  We also have party equipment such as the Parachute, the Super-slide, the Moon-walk and inflatable Caterpillar.

 

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