THE BEAMERS
Age: 6 years to 11 years
Price: £5.35 hr/ class - 8 weeks @ £42.80
Charity Membership: is £22.00 yearly( non refundable)
Days: Every evening at 4-15pm for one hour
Tel 01908 647060/271822
info@arabian.plus.com
The Beamers class is run every day alongside the High fives class 4-15 to 5-15 and is an hour of fun trying most pieces of equipment, but then to do all is nearly impossible.
The club has A Bars Balance beams, Climbing ropes, Vaulting table and vault set ups, a ten metre Fast track where upon they learn rebound like on a trampoline.
They also have a 6 metre airbed to try things like round off and Cartwheels on as well as the full Olympic gymnastic sprung carpeted floor area.
Like all classes they get the opportunity to do Certificates and badges as well as the very popular Arabian rosette scheme where each individual move is equalled with a colourful rosette which they may collect once earned.
Rope climbing and Peg board climbing are two favorites for the kids to also try out. The lads that also do gymnastics with us also walk on the beam, leap, jump and forward roll as its all part of co-ordination and understanding your balance point.
Pictured above watching the rope climb is Glenn Gamotis who has his own club in which he has regional level gymnasts and left is Sophie Peers who coaches the development squad at Arabian, but also teaches in these one hour recreational classes.
The coaching staff is a mixture of ex high level gymnasts who have turned their hands to coaching the sport they love to new and beginners. As well as this you see a mixture of older staff who will forgive me for saying, may come across as the adult in the gym and perceived as the master to watching parents.
Yet they will be the first to say that the younger coaches are the ones with most up to date knowledge of how it actually feels to do the very moves they are teaching. So do not under estimate younger looking coaches as most have a wealth of experience, some are present champions.
So if it's an hour of gymnastics experience you want your child to have with good structure of coaching and the possibility of at least one competition a year then Beamers is the class for your child.
