The program combines parkour, ‘ninja warrior’ obstacles and tricking. For children we have bronze, silver and gold levels, each with three progressive stages. We also run adult ninja and obstacle ninja sessions. Our well trained coaches provide the expertise and environment to improve you or your child’s Ninja skills.

You can start Ninja at age 4, and continue through school age into adult sessions.

Which Ninja class should my child start in? 4 year olds can start in our Kindy Ninja program. 5-6 year olds should start in a 5-6 Bronze 1 class. 7-10 year olds should start in a 7-10 Bronze 1 class. 11 and overs should start in a 11 plus Bronze 1-3 combined class or our Obstacle Ninja class.

Gymnastics

At Balance we run a non competitive gymnastics program. You choose how many hours per week you wish to attend. Our program is designed to safely develop artistic gymnastics skills for all the apparatus. Our beginner stage 1 classes for 4-6 year olds are mixed gender and cover the fundamental movements for the beginning of Gymnastics. As the children move up from there the classes become more specific for boys and girls. At Balance you can make meaningful progress in gymnastics without the pressure of competing, or being pressured into a huge weekly commitment of hours.

Which Gymnastics class should my child start in? If your child is a beginner then they should start at the beginning level for their age group.

If they are aged 4-6 then a mixed gender stage 1 beginners class is the correct one. If they are aged 7 or 8 then one of our 7-8 stage 2 classes is the starting point. If your child is 9, 10 or 11 then a 9-11 stage 3 class is the one to start in. If your child is older than 11 get in touch with us for the best starting point.

If your child has done gymnastics before, the best thing is to talk to our friendly admin team and we will work out the correct stage to trial in, and ask the coach to assess to see if that skill level is correct.

How does my child progress to the next stage of Gymnastics class? Our stages program is skills based. We have stages 1 through to 12.

Each stage has specific skills which have to be achieved in order to progress. These are displayed on a giant certificate wall in the parents area, and the coaches continually assess and mark off skills. (You can see which skills your gymnast has passed, and what is still to go in your parent portal log in) When all the skills are achieved your child’s coach will give them a slip of paper to take to the desk and then we will present them with their certificate. (You can then choose to move to a higher level class)

We generally find more girls enroll in Gymnastics, and more boys enrol in Ninja.

Tumbling

Tumbling at Balance Brisbane utilises our tumble run, air track and sprung floor which allows our coaching team to teach a progressive program from beginner through intermediate to advanced. Beginners start with forwards and backward rolls, handstands and cartwheels. Intermediate skills include the limber, side aerial on the floor and front sault on the trampoline. Advanced skills include the layout twist on the trampoline, onodi and the front layout on the sprung floor.

Why might my child prefer tumbling to gymnastics? Some children love handstands, cartwheels and rolls but don’t enjoy working on bars and beam as much. Tumbling will allow them to focus on the skills they like and make quicker progress than doing all the apparatus.

Under 5's

Which Balance Brisbane class is right for my preschool child? Mini Monkeys is for children from 18 months to 3 years, a parent comes into the session with the participants for these sessions.

Juniors is from age 3-4, this is the transition from parents in the session, to parents usually outside watching. Each child is different and parent participation is guided by the needs of the child. The coach may also request parent participation for a particular part of the session.

Kindy and Kindy Ninja are for age 4-5. These programs are designed for the kindy year before school. Children are mainly able to participate without parent involvement. (Although you can of course watch)

What’s the difference between Kindy and Kindy Ninja? Both of these programs help your kindy age child develop their fundamental movement skills. They help improve balance, coordination, strength and visual spatial skills.

Our Kindy program is based on gymnastics, and uses the space set up for this. Sessions are one hour long and teach the beginnings of gymnastics and fundamental movement.

Our kindy ninja program is based on parkour, tricking and ninja style movements. They take place in our ninja gym. They are quite high intensity and reasonably physically demanding for that reason we keep the session to 45 minutes in length. There is lots of balancing, climbing over obstacles, rolling, hanging and swinging involved.

Please see our website for class times, availability and bookings.

https://www.balancebrisbane.com.au