11 Best Memphis Gymnastics Teachers

CK Dance Theatre is a Christian-based dance and tumbling studio in Olive Branch that offers gymnastics, cheer, and dance classes such as ballet, tap, jazz, hip-hop, contemporary, praise, and pointe as well as adult dance classes. The studio offers summer camps with fun themes like prince and princess camp, jungle camp, aloha camp, sports camp, superheroes camp, and more. CK Dance Theatre has a parent-toddler tumbling class to help improve kids’ motor schools. CK Dance Theatre also offers adult dance classes like tap and an urban fusion class that mixes cardio, hip-hop, and African dance moves to promote fitness.

ConXion Gym of Performing Arts in Hernando offers gymnastics, tumbling, cheer, and dance classes, as well as piano, voice, and violin lessons. The gym also offers camps, clinics, and open gym sessions. The facility offers dance classes in genres such as ballet, pointe, jazz, lyrical, and tap. Other classes include a cardio ballet class, a leaps-jumps-and-turns class, and a preschool dance class. The preschool dance class teaches little ones coordination and body awareness and even incorporates a short tap dance lesson into each class. ConXion Gym of Performing Arts has at least four different competitive gymnastics teams and a competitive cheer team.

Gymstars in Collierville has been in business for nearly 30 years and offers gymnastics classes starting at three years old. The gym has a preschool program that gives kids a solid foundation for fitness by increasing strength, flexibility, endurance, agility, and coordination. The preschool program teaches little ones how to roll and fall safely as well as how to listen and follow directions. The program also builds self-esteem and confidence and improves a child’s goal-setting and concentration skills. Gymstars also offers a recreational program. Children who do well in the preschool program move on to join the recreational program and those who excel at skills taught in the recreational program may be invited to join the gym’s competitive team. The recreational program teaches skills like handstands, round-offs, front rolls, back bend kick overs, proper vaulting technique, and more.

Intrepid Gymnastics of Horn Lake is a family-owned and –operated gym with a low student-to-teacher ratio. Intrepid Gymnastics offers preschool classes, girls and boys tumbling classes, and a competitive gymnastics team. A girl must pass the bronze, silver, and gold levels of gymnastics classes before she can progress to the pre-team program and then, the competitive gymnastics program. Intrepid Gymnastics offers USA Gymnastics competition teams for levels two through 10. There is a tumbling class for boys and a tumbling class for both genders. Intrepid Gymnastics also offers birthday parties. The gym offers discounts to first responders, military, police, and firefighters. Intrepid Gymnastics also offers multiple class and multiple child discounts.

Memphis Pride Allstars Cheer & Dance in Cordova teaches young athletes the skills needed to participate in cheer and dance competitions using different stunts, formations, and choreography. Each team generally enters three to four competitions per year, traveling to different cities throughout Tennessee and surrounding states. Memphis Pride Allstars Cheer & Dance helps children learn about commitment and teamwork and helps them to develop traits such as dedication and mental toughness. The gym offers tumbling classes, open gyms, and skills camps. The facility’s Pride Pro Shop carries items such as practice shirts, team uniforms, backpacks, apparel for parents of teammates, and even American Girl Doll outfits.

NVS Dance in Collierville offers dance classes such as jazz, tap, ballet, lyrical, hip-hop, and lyrical. The staff at NVS has over 100 years of combined dance experience. NVS Dance also offers pom, tumbling, yoga, and musical theater. NVS Dance has a preschool class that introduces children ages three to five to dance genres like tap, ballet, jazz, and tumbling. The studio has spring, summer, and fall camps, multiple performances every year, and regional and national competitive teams. Four of the studio’s instructors offer private lessons for students who want to spend extra time sharpening their skills.

ShowStars Dance Academy in Brighton opened in 1999 and has over 7,000 square feet dedicated to cheerleading and the performing arts. The facility offers competitive and preparatory dance and cheer teams and dance classes such as ballet, jazz, lyrical, and tap. Other classes ShowStars Dance Academy offers include gymnastics, cheer-and-gymnastics combination classes, and pageant classes that teach modeling and voice lessons. ShowStars Dance Academy also offers musical theater classes and classes that combine ballet, tap, and jazz. Every year, ShowStars awards a college scholarship to one of its senior dancers.

South East Gymnastics Academy in Collierville offers fitness classes, preschool gymnastics, gymnastics programs, competitive gymnastics teams, and cheer tumbling programs. The competitive girls gymnastics team has more than 60 girls from ages five to 18 that compete in events throughout the state and in neighboring states. Each year, multiple members of the gym's team qualify for regional and national competitions. The academy has a competitive gymnastics team for ages five and six and a competitive team for ages seven and up. South East Gymnastics Academy hosts summer camps, birthday parties, and private lessons for students looking to strengthen their skills.

Westpoint Martial Arts Academy in Memphis offers martial arts, tumbling, and cheer classes. Martial arts classes teach children a style of mixed martial arts called PasaRyu. Students learn techniques such as proper stance and how to kick and block. Students of martial arts classes also have the option to learn how to use a weapon such as a sword, sai, nunchaku, or bo staff. Westpoint Martial Arts Academy also offers an after-school program in which kids can receive help with their homework, go to the park, color, draw, or play sports games like bowling, football, basketball, tennis, and golf on Xbox 360 Kinect.

Wimbleton Gymnastics in Bartlett offers preschool and recreational gymnastics, cheer, and tumbling classes and private lessons. Preschool classes are for three- and four-year-olds and typically have a six-to-one student-to-teacher ratio. Wimbleton Gymnastics has girls-only classes, boys-only classes, and boys and girls classes that contain seven to eight students for every one teacher. The gym also hosts kids’ parties, during which children can use the gym’s party area to play with the facility’s trampoline and tumble track, hula hoops, parachutes, and other equipment. Other squads are welcome to rent out the gym’s floor for practices.

Wings Gymnastics in Memphis has power tumbling, gymnastics, and cheerleading programs. The gym’s cheerleading program is for girls grades first through sixth of beginning to intermediate skill levels and does not require tryouts. The program teaches them tumbling, building, jumps, dances, cheers, and chants. The cheerleading team cheers for Idlewild Presbyterian Church home basketball games and performs in other competitions throughout the season. Power tumbling classes teach children forward and backward tumbling, power hurdles, mini trampoline skills, and more. Skills learned in power tumbling are ideal for perfecting round-offs, walkovers, back handsprings, and tucks. Other services include private lessons.