Trial Lessons
Preparing for your trial gymnastics class
Our physical education classes are designed to provide fun, safe, effective, and efficient instruction that promotes self-esteem for students of all ages. The classes are categorized according to ability level (Adult-Child as a pair, Preschoolers, Beginners, Intermediates, Advanced, etc.) and content (Mixed Gymnastics, Tumbling, Trampoline, Ninja, Apparatus, Fitness, Rhythmic, etc.).
Each class within a category further varies according to the teaching styles of the many instructors. Most of the one-hour classes train essential (fundamental) movement skills including running, jumping, landing, rolling, cartwheeling, climbing, dropping, twisting, and maneuvers in different body positions (e.g., tuck, pike, straight/layout, arched, with legs together or separated). Intermediate classes involve handspringing and somersaulting (flipping) maneuvers. Advanced classes are for those capable of double flipping, double twisting, are or have been on a gymnastics team, or show outstanding potential to achieve the advanced levels.. (Usually the training of twisting double and triple somersaults is done by our most skilled instructors, most often past gymnastics team coaches/judges, with professional credentials.)
- Browse our website.
- Select the gym closest to you: Honolulu (Kalihi) or Waipahu.
- Look at our class schedules. Download and print a Registration Form.
- Phone or email the gym in which you would like to do a trial lesson. Ask for a least populated class to receive the most attention. If no answer, please leave a voice message (24/7): Honolulu Gym: Phone 842.5642 (email info@hawaiiacademy.com) to schedule a trial lesson.
- Waipahu Gym: Phone 676.2222 (email waipahu@hawaiiacademy.com) to schedule a trial lesson.
- Register online if possible through our customer portal: https://app.iclasspro.com/portal/hawaiiacademy
- Submit, or print out and bring with you, our registration form OR plan to arrive a few minutes early to complete this form before the student receives the trial lesson. (An ink signature is required from adult clients, parents, guardians, etc. for each student.)
- Trial lessons are only available in classes with seven or less students.
- Trial lessons are no longer “free”. The cost is $15 for a 1hr class and $25 for a 2hr class. The fee is non-refundable (please refer to your email for more information).
- Remember to bring: water/water bottle and socks or trampoline/gymnastics shoes.
- If you/the student becomes ill on the day of your trial, do not come to the gym. Simply phone the gym and reschedule your trial.
- Parking: At the Honolulu Gym, park in front of our building or on the street. There are additional spaces available in our neighbors’ parking lots on weekday evenings, Saturday afternoons, and all day Sunday. At the Waipahu Gym you are welcome to park on the street, in the entry drive way, or inside the large (aircraft hangar-looking) building.
- Check-in at the office and complete the registration form if you have not already done so. An adult signature is required before the student (child or adult) participates. Completion of the form is simply part of our liability protocol and does not obligate you to any sort of membership or payment.
- Listen for the start of your (or your child’s) class at the scheduled time and begin warming up. If you cannot locate the instructor for your class ask the receptionist/gym manager or one of the instructors for assistance.
- Peruse the program brochures (located in the Honolulu Gym on wall near reception office door and at the Waipahu Gym near the manager’s work area) and ask questions about the program and classes.
- Get acquainted with others doing the same class and ask them about the classes you are taking. These members are potential car pool candidates and additional eyes and ears in the gym for you.
- Follow up with the receptionist/manager before you leave to let her/him know whether you (a) want a spot in the class you tried (or a different one) thereby securing the enrollment, (b) require more time to decide, (c) are not interested in the class (releasing the spot for someone else), or (d) whatever else you wish to communicate.
- If the class you tried did not suit your needs, please work with the manager to address your concerns and find a different class, instructor, or gym to try.
- Thank you for doing a trial lesson with us.
