Precision Elite Gymnastics

I went to a friends birthday party here and they had a great time, the employees were excellent! The party ended at 5:15 and we were cleaning up when the owner came over and was extremely rude and abusive towards us for still being there at 5:20. I will never go there again and I will advise all of my friends and family to do the same.

We put our children in the summer camp and wanted the extended day option, which they advertise as an extra $ 7, but it’s $ 7 per hour per day (3 hrs per day), so if you take the extended day option, it’s an extra $ 105 per week, on top of the $ 200 per week camp which goes from 9 – 2, not very convenient hours for a working person. No sibling discount either. I thought it would be worth it since they get 2 separate gymnastics classes, it’s a JOKE! Basically this is NOT much better than babysitting. Unless you are paying ALOT of money on private lessons and are part of their gymnastics team you will be treated like the pathetic pain in their ass that you are. They are ONLY after your money — they could care less about children development or parental concerns, the front staff is clueless and rude and their go-​to excuse is to blame the children. They have bullies in their summer program and don’t seem to mind, their staff is seriously lacking in any type of professional etiquette, communication or business transactions. I’m actually flabbergasted that they are still in business with these types of practices.
This gym has a parent portal to use on-​line pay and it would be great if it worked, but it never works properly! I think this is so they don’t have to interface with parents, because they do not have the ability. They never answer emails, they rarely make phone calls and talking to someone at the front desk is fruitless.

This place is absolutely huge and always have tons of different classes going on. I can see how they’re one of the biggest gyms in Portland. But this place may be just way too big for toddlers because I am not impressed with the toddler class we placed my 3 1/​5-​year old son in.
The class ranges in ages of 3 – 5 which is a HUGE gap for children that age. Any parent knows how big just a 6-​month gap is between kids that age, but a 2-​year gap in a gymnastics class is huge. My son being one of the younger ones and having never been a part of a class-​type setting before (gymnastics is our first go-​around) of course he was extremely excited and had issues following all the directions… as should be expected. But instead of the coach using positive redirection they just threatened to «take his star away». NOT appropriate teaching behavior for toddlers! (So I decreased their review by 1 star already.)
There is only one class per week which seems like too little, especially for toddlers who are trying to take it all in and remember it all — twice a week would be better. My son has only been to two classes so far and at the 2^nd class there was a completely different coach than who was at his 1^st class even though it was the same exact class (lost another whole star in the review for that one). Both the coaches seemed like they were about high school aged or early college with no formal training on how to communicate and coach toddler-​aged children. It really seems like they just have their own older students go and teach the toddler class instead of a real coach who is trained in early child development — which, for a gym this big and this busy, they should have the money to pay for.
At one point during the toddler class, the coach had all the kids go through an obstacle course that had about 10 different stations. Anyone who has actually done research on children that age would know that a child between the ages of 3 – 4 can generally only follow a 3-​part task, yet they are on the edge of frustration when a 3-​year old can’t follow their 10-​part task???
And lastly, not one time has the coach (for either week) even came up to us as parents to talk with us. Not one of them introduced themselves, asked us about our son or what his name was, or even discussed anything with us as far as what progress he should be making or if maybe he should be in a younger class to start out or anything! At one point, during the 2^nd week class, the coach forgot my son’s name and started calling him by a different name (and she was wondering why he wasn’t listening to her… well, duh). Maybe I could’ve had the opportunity to correct her, but they have the parents sit on a set of bleachers that sit so far off the sidelines that you have to yell to even be heard.
This may be a great gym for our son to attend when he is older, but for toddler classes I just cannot recommend this place based on our experience. We will finish out the classes we paid for ($ 65 a month for only one class per week; $ 40 non-​refundable annual fee) but after our son is finished we will be moving him into swimming class instead until we can find a gym that is more suitable for teaching small children.

We have two girls (ages 4 & 13) who take classes at Precision Elite Gymnastics and both really enjoy their classes and coaches. We had to switch class dates a couple times recently and found the staff at the gym to be friendly and accomodating. Our family gives this gym a 5 out of 5!

Continue to be frustrated and disappointed here. Service and communication are seriously lacking. No need to be condescending when explaining the POLICY, the really really really strict POLICY. I got the message, it was the messenger. She went on and on and on about THE POLICY (making emphatic hand gestures to stress THE POLICY) and that if they make exceptions, they will be «compromising the integrity of their program» — we are talking about 4-​year olds here people. We will go back to our other center as soon as their summer session begins.
To add insult to injury, when I called about the ballet class, I was very specific that we were looking for a class for fun and not necessarily for the recital because we would not be around a lot over the summer. The person I talked with said that the storybook class would be perfect for my daughter and NEVER mentioned that this is «recital season» — so when the teacher (who was late to class) handed me the sheet with the fees (nice welcome on our first day) and told me that they’re getting ready for the recital, I was blown away. She seemed shocked that no one had told me.
Totally ridiculous.

Huge gym, biggest in Oregon. Our family has been going there for over 4 years now. We love it, the coaches are fun and professional.

Great gym for kids! The coaches are awesome! The only reason not five stars is because the communication is lacking on development. Keep up the great training and please communicate with parents more often.