SCEGA Gymnastics

We had the best birthday party for our 8 year old daughter today! All we had to do was show up with a birthday cake and they took care of the rest. Coach Juan kept the kids organized and busy using all sorts of gymnastics equipment (the kids were excited to use the «real» gym pieces :) and then he did everything else, too — from serving the cake to helping our daughter open gifts, it was all covered. He cleaned up and we left, it was so simple for us and a fabulous experience for the kids. All of the parents commented on how great it was, too. We are SO glad we had the party here! Thank you SCEGA and Coach Juan for a memorable day!

Fun place to take the kids for gymnastics. Coaches for the kids are friendly, they have a great tree house that all the kids love, and opportunities to participate in shows and earn trophies/​medals are always great for everyone.

We had a great experience here today!
I emailed about a class for my 2 year old yesterday and got a response almost instantly to come try a free class today. So I went for it.
This gym is super kid friendly and the class was 30 min which is perfect for toddlers. It moved quickly enough to hold my toddlers attention and she loved the treehouse at the end. We signed up and I can see us going here for a long time. It’s not the closest place to our home but worth the drive.

Love love love this place. My kids have fallen in love with coach Mike. Great prices and excellent skill levels shown by the coaches.

The only reason I give 2 stars is because of my daughter’s old coach. She has been coming since she was 18 months old. Her last coach was Coach Mike and he was the greatest!!! She was recently moved up to the next level and her coach was horrible. I will not name her name because unlike her, I’m not in to shaming people. I could hear her through the glass complaining to her old coach that my daughter wasn’t old enough to be in that class yet (2 months before her birthday…) and then she would make the other little girl in class stop what she was doing to show my little one how to do things. Last time I checked that was the COACH’S job. For the 3 – 4 lessons I had her in that class, my daughter left crying every time. The coach even once told her that she could either try it again or go sit in the waiting room with me. She was rude, and she should not be working with children. I’m not asking someone to treat her like a baby but at 3 years old, I’m not sure what was expected of her. I have recommended this gym to a lot of people before now and I never will again. Unless you have a little one getting in with Coach Mike. Waste of time and money. There are plenty of other gyms in the area that would be happy to have us there and I intend to take my child and my money elsewhere.

What an awful experience. We just left our first class and I was incredibly disappointed. After having some great initial interactions with Mary, the actual instruction was overwhelmingly awful. Summary: one of our daughters left in tears.
The Details: We TOLD them at our initial assessment that our girls — 5 and 6 — are NOT competitive gymnasts and further, that they had only been doing this for a few months at our previous gym in Orange County. They went through the assessments and were each assigned a class to try today. Great. Our five-​year-​old had a decent class. The teacher was kind and attentive with a class size of about six or seven kids. Our six-​year-​old had a vastly different experience. Working in a class of only three girls, the instructor seemed at each step to be annoyed at how far behind she was compared to these other, more experienced girls. Admittedly, our daughter is prone to frustration but frustration gave way to embarrassment when the instructor began ignoring her entirely during the more complicated bar work. When my daughter finally suggested that maybe she shouldn’t be in this class, the instructor simply agreed and sent her off — no protest, no looping in another staff member to see if there was another group she could finish up with. There were only about 15 minutes left in class. So here comes my daughter, tears streaming down her face, distraught at her instructor’s complete lack of compassion.
Listen, I get it – SCEGA is «the» place for gymnastics out here. But it would seem from our interaction with this instructor that if you’re not club material, then you may as well go somewhere else. Fun is not the focus here, folks. I won’t go so far as to issue a blanket statement on the conduct of all of their instructors. But when a kid under your supervision is struggling with something, how about a pat on the back or a reassuring word instead of blatant neglect and eye-​rolling?
Total fail. Business going elsewhere. Thanks for discouraging our child in what has, up to this point, been a really fun learning experience.

My child has been at Scega for over four years and is on team. She loves her coaches and friends. They are like family for her. It feels like people float between gyms looking for the best experience or fit, but after researching gyms we feel that Scega is one of the best in our area. Every gym has their own style and way of training and moving the team forward. It’s a very busy place, parking can be tight, the waiting area is swamped and team parents may not view most days in order to help with parking. I’m ok with that. This year they gave us report cards for our child so we have a better idea on progress after they tested for skills. I liked this but I some parents get bent out of shape if they or their child disagrees with the assessment. I wish there was better communication earlier on when my daughter first got on team as we felt lost. Now my daughter seems to understand better where she is at and how well she is doing and can tell me herself plus we understand how everything works now so it’s easier.

My kids love going here and they learn a lot from their coaches. A few things that I would complain about is the Parking and the rude front office staff. Definately not enough parking not even enough chairs to sit on when you go inside. The front office needs a lot more training. No customer service what so ever!

We have been coming to SCEGA for a couple of years now and Juan is by far the best teacher here. The communication between Juan and the kids and Parents are great. We have had several teachers and Juan has been the only one that talks to us after class and gives us updates etc.
If you can request Juan, he is the BEST!

We’ve been coming to SCEGA for two years. My daughter requested to switch from soccer to gymnastics and since she was refusing to run on the field I decided it was probably a good idea. For me, these activities are about making exercise fun. What surprised me was when my son requested to do gymnastics too. I signed them both up. Initially we chose SCEGA because I wanted the kids to be in lessons at the same time and I wanted the most schedule flexibility to schedule around their swim lessons. SCEGA was the only gym in the area with enough classes that I could do that.
My initial reaction to SCEGA was amazement. The gym is absolutely full of kids at all different levels and ages. But they do an amazing job of rotating from event to event so there is never a backup on the aparatus. The coaches are great and do a really good job teaching the skills and keeping the kids safe. My son has Apsergers and ADHD and I was concerned his coach would have a difficult time keeping him focused and convince him to try new skills that might be «scary». He burst out of his first lesson with a huge smile on his face and said he wanted to keep coming. Gymnastics has really increased his strength (he’s very proud of his biceps — with good reason), has a lot of confidence on the bars at the playground now, is proud of what he accomplishes at his lessons and is about to move up a level. He’s had 3 or 4 coaches now in those two years, and they’ve all been great. My daughter enjoys it too. She stays active for the entire hour, loves the trampolines especially, and has a great time — moving the whole time. She’s not moving up a group and probably won’t for a while. But that’s a reflection of her, not her coaches. She’s getting great exercise and learning new skills, that’s what I care about for her.
One of my favorite things to do while the kids are in their classes is watch the team gymnasts practicing and learning new skills. I especially enjoy seeing the various techniques and safety equipment they use to keep the kids safe while trying out new things. It puts my mind at ease about my kids eventually moving up and learning new tricks. I know they’ll be safe while learning them.

After my daughters decided that they wanted to switch from dance to gymnastics, we decided to give scega a try. We have been very pleased with this facility. My girls love the place and we even had their birthday party there. They did an amazing job. The only downside is that I wish we had more of a relationship with instructors. I would love it if they would incorporate more time spent filling the parents in on how our children are doing in class.

Incredibly rude and I can’t believe they stay in business. I just went to get info about enrolling my kids and they were so ridiculous and pointed to a flyer, didn’t answer my questions and were not interested in my business. I took my business elsewhere. Sorry.