Seattle Gymnastics Academy - Burien

We have been thrilled with our daughter's experience at SGA Burien. She goes twice a week in the evening and both the coaches have been absolutely phenomenal. They learn her name quickly, pay close atention to each exercise and offer feedback and corrections gently and understandably so that the gymnasts improve every week. They keep the classes a very manageable size so that each athlete gets really good attention. Highly recommend!!

We stopped going to lessons for my 4 year old. Some of the teachers aren’t very patient for kids that are still learning and they are not able to redirect if your child has more trouble focusing. An instructor that is kind but also has the tools and knowledge to help get kids, especially young kids to focus & is able to reinforce those positive behaviors would be good. Maybe some more staff training on this. Gymnastics skills are good really all they focus on. I think maybe If your child already knows basic gymnastics it would be a better fit. We also came for a birthday party and I just felt like they had so many rules and the only time the staff interacted with any kids or parents was to repeat the rules. I imagine some of the other locations may have better staff, this one is not my fave tho. Photo of my son being carried off by a staff. Really didn’t care to try and help the focus it was just lots of no no no 🤷‍♀️

Claudia Cecil should be fired for the way she grabbed my daughter. This lady has no business being around people's kids. She has anger issues and is very judgemental. She has now made threats towards my wife and put her hands on her. This is completely unacceptable. My daughters go to the gym class regularly. We signed our oldest up for the gymnastics class on Saturday. We showed up to be told they over filled the class and wouldn't be able to start until July 1st. A phone call would've been nice.

We just don’t really like the way this place operates. The staff is cool and all and the venue is fine. We just didn’t feel like there is much value in going there if you are hoping for your child to get “coached”. Seems more like an expensive indoor play date. They’ve also had a couple times where they had to shut down for some unforeseen issues but still expected full payment for the month of classes. Zero flexibility to go to class on a different day when life comes up even when the class isn’t full. We’re pulling our child out.

Place is ok but not ideal policies. Often they are closed a week out of the month and you are forced to miss classes, and you still have to pay the full monthly fee even though they are closing. Definitely don’t feel like that’s right, and they don’t allow make-up classes which is another not so great policy. Their bottom line is definitely the dollar. My child enjoys classes so we will continue, and the instructor is great, wish they would adopt more family-friendly policies however. If I could find a smaller local gym with better rates and a more understanding policy I’d switch in a heartbeat.