Sports Acrobatic Gymnastics

Aberdeen Acrobatic Gymnastics Club is the North East's newest Gymnastics Club. We are the only Sports Acrobatic Club in the North of Scotland. We train in Sports Acrobatic Gymnastics which is a fascinating combination of dance, floor work, tumbling and balances. Gymnasts work in pairs or as part of a trio. Routines are constructed involving various individual tumbles, dance steps and balances. The sport is open to boys and girls and Acrobatic Gymnasts work very hard needing equal amounts of strength, stamina and flexibility to enable them to technically perform all the set requirements laid down by British Gymnastics in routines. Alongside our gymnasts learning individual tumbles and pairs/trio balances we place a strong emphasis on Body Conditioning and the constant mental sporting attitude to constantly practise to master current skills before advancing and learning new skills.

Our club is open to all abilities and we don't hold trials for children to gain a place in our classes. For those gymnasts that wish to develop their skills further and commit to more than one training session a week and enter competitions we have an advanced session. We have developed our own internal assessment programme and reward system to help ensure that children have every possible opportunity to excel and become the best gymnast that they can.

We are a Scottish Gymnastics club and all members of the club are required to purchase Scottish Gymnastics membership (our office staff can do this on your behalf).

We start our Acrobatic Training from 4 years old but for children from 18 months-5 years we run 'Mac the Monkey'™ Pre-School Gymnastics Classes which are an idea starting point in life for any child. From this age we start to develop the core strength and discipline needed for advancing onto Sports-Acro (or indeed any other sports) at the age of 4 years old. The Mac the Monkey classes are a great parent and child class where the aim is fun in the gym! From August 2012 we will be developing our Mac the Monkey Gymnastics classes for ages 5-8 years as well so they can continue the Monkey fun !