Fallbrook Gymnastic Club. FGC is a local gymnastics club in small town Fallbrook. It's disciplines are trampolene and tumbling, artistic, and team gym and is avalible from 18 months to 14 years old. Current coaches grew up at that gym so they're all impartial to any reviews.
Having been a part of the gym for the last three years with our kiddo, it appeared to be a family friendly setting business. During the course of the years, we've witnessed double standards in regards to bullying. It was brought up to the owners attention for action. Their response was moving a set of girls to different days that bullied our kid (right in front of us), while they kicked out a boy from the gym completely for apparently bullying an employees kid. Weve known the "kicked out" kid for years and he's never shown that in other activities we've seen him in.
As time progressed, like any place you get to know the staff and families. As far as staff, trampolene and tumble we had no issues with. Pre-team/Team gym portion on the other hand, lackadaisical situational awareness to safety in teaching the kids properly and safely to execute manuevers and doesn't really give the kids a solid foudation to work on. We have brought up on occasion, what does our kid need to do to succeed? The coaches reply was, "your kiddo doesn't take correction and her skill set wasn't good enough to be on the team", due to not being a gym "favorite", as favortism as very apparent.
Meanwhile, we did private lesson with a seasoned/mature coach and her approach was stern, yet productive. Her overall assesment of my kiddos skill was very contradictory to that of the young coaches.
Back to Pre-team/Team gym, is like watching the reality show, Dance Moms to include behind the scenes drama, bullying, and favoritism. If your not the creme de la creme, your thoughts, opinions, and concerns don't matter. If your not part of the elite group, your concerns are reversed and you are now culprit
Overall, go for tamp and tumble. I highly suggest, stay away from Artistic, Pre-team and Team, unless you like drama and attitudes. Owners are willing to listen, but not act accordingly to resovle any issues.
Lastly, their Facebook page has not been updated in 2 years. Also, no consent was given to use our kiddos picture on any advertisement, promotions, social media, fliers and still awaiting action for immediate removal. read more