Flip Into Summer with UNLIMITED Gymnastics Classes at Twisters!
Summer is a time for adventure, fun, and at Twisters, limitless movement! This summer, we’re thrilled to offer something truly special for our Twisters families: Unlimited Gymnastics Classes from June 10th through August 9th! Whether your child is a cartwheeling beginner or a seasoned tumbler, there’s no better place to stay active, build confidence, and learn new skills than Twisters. And this summer, the opportunities to learn and grow are endless. Why Choose Twisters for Summer Fun? At Twisters, we’ve built a reputation as South Florida’s premier gymnastics program for recreational classes. We proudly offer classes for girls, boys, and preschoolers, all taught by our highly trained, safety-certified staff. Our team is passionate about creating a positive and encouraging environment where kids [...]
USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame: Honoring Gary Anderson
After a lifetime of commitment to gymnastics as an athlete, coach, innovator, and leader, Gary Anderson has received the sport's highest honor, induction into the USA Gymnastics National Hall of Fame. His journey has touched nearly every level and aspect of the sport, leaving an enduring impact that will be felt for generations to come. A Journey Fueled by Passion and Perseverance Gary’s love for gymnastics began humbly. As a young athlete training alone in a corner of the local YMCA and sneaking into college gyms to practice, his path wasn’t paved with elite resources or top-tier coaching—it was built on passion and grit. His father, who pretended to be his coach just so [...]
American Twisters Summer Camp: Meet Camp Director Alyssa DeCarlo!
At American Twisters Summer Camp, we are dedicated to providing an organized, engaging, and exciting experience for every camper. Leading our summer program at our Coconut Creek location is the amazing Alyssa DeCarlo! With years of experience, a passion for child development, and a commitment to fun and safety, Alyssa ensures that every camper has the best summer ever. Get to know Alyssa and what makes American Twisters Summer Camp an unforgettable experience! Meet Alyssa DeCarlo! How long have you worked at Twisters? This is my 6th year working at Twisters, and I’m so thankful to be part of a team that treats each other like family! What inspired you to become a camp [...]
Why Parents and Gymnasts Love Gymnastics
Gymnastics isn’t just about flips and cartwheels—it’s about joy, confidence, and the thrill of trying something new. Whether you’re a gymnast feeling the excitement of learning a new skill or a parent watching your child grow stronger and more confident with each class, there’s so much to love about this incredible sport. At Twisters, we see firsthand how gymnastics brings families together, builds resilience, and creates unforgettable moments. Let’s celebrate the reasons why both gymnasts and parents fall in love with gymnastics! The Joy of Movement For gymnasts, gymnastics is pure fun. There’s nothing like the feeling of swinging on the bars, bouncing on the trampoline, or finally landing a cartwheel without wobbling. It’s [...]
Team Twisters – College Signing Day 2024
This year may be drawing to a close, but it’s one of the busiest and best times to be in the gym at Twisters. The gyms are busy and buzzing with classes and Team Twisters is gearing up for another successful meet season. Not only are we getting into the spirit with our super fun holiday camps and annual holiday show coming up, but one of the most important celebrations this time of year for Twisters is our annual College Signing Day. Year after year, Signing Day is a day of honor and pride where we celebrate and recognize the Twisters gymnasts who have achieved their dreams of earning athletic scholarships from some of [...]
Choosing the Perfect Party Venue: A Parent’s Guide
We've all been there. Every year, in fact! It's time to plan your child's birthday party and the options and details are overwhelming, especially for busy parents who are zooming from work, to appointments and from one after-school activity to the next. Planning a kids' party can be a daunting task for parents. The stress of planning every detail, from the guest list to the decorations and activities - is a lot! You want to find a balance between creating a fun and memorable experience for your child and their friends, and also keeping it manageable for yourself. There are so many options out there these days, so it can be difficult to choose! Here are some key factors [...]
Team Twisters Joins Forces After an Incredible Meet Season
Happy end-of-summer from your friends at Twisters! Camps are wrapping up soon, parents are checking off school supply lists and kids are getting ready to get back into the swing of fall classes, both at school and at the gym. That also means that competitive gymnastics season is around the corner! This past year has been a successful, exciting and transformative year for Team Twisters. We have so much to be proud of and so many gymnasts to celebrate. Their hard work day in and day out in the gym and the commitment of our coaches really shined bright this past competitive season, marking some major accomplishments that we would like to highlight. Take a look at Team Twisters’ [...]
Celebrating Twisters Moms
May is for Moms! Before this month comes to a close, we wanted to take a moment to recognize the special Moms and mom-like figures in our life. Twisters is super fortunate to have many moms who are a part of the Twisters family of coaches and staff. We say super fortunate, because we know that many of the strong qualities that make people great moms, also make them great employees who work with children. Some of these benefits of include: Experience and Patience: Moms often have a wealth of experience handling children of various ages. This translates well to understanding different needs, developmental stages, and how to manage challenging behaviors in a gymnastics setting. Nurturing and Encouraging: Moms [...]
Creating a Winning Mentality in Gymnastics and Beyond
Competition season is in full swing for our competitive team gymnasts. It’s when we see the culmination of all of the hard work of summer and fall training come to fruition. Now is the time to be in the zone, the time to put our skills to the test and show what we’re made of. Twisters has long been one of the top competitive gymnastics teams in the nation, especially at the highest levels. Twisters regularly produces state, regional and national champions at multiple levels, was twice named USA Gymnastics Florida Club of the Year, has produced multiple Nastia Liukin Cup qualifiers and boasts a Wall of Fame of decades of scholarship athletes. So how does Twisters stay on [...]
Twisters Gymnastics Traditions
The holiday season is in full swing both in the homes of our Twisters families and here at the gym. There’s something about this time of year that feels so special. A certain magic in the air and the excitement of continuing meaningful traditions makes the holiday season so enjoyable. Each family has their own special traditions around this time of year, and our Twisters family is no exception. We have some fun and special traditions that we follow each year and we love sharing them with each and every one of you. Read about our Twisters Traditions below! Twisters Thanksgiving - Each year, all of the staff from both Twisters locations gather at [...]
Featured Twister – Twisters President and COO – Clayton Kent
The leaves might not be changing here in South Florida, but we are well into the fall season and fall always brings change, breathing new life, new opportunities and new developments both inside and outside of the gym. There have been so many exciting developments at Twisters lately, it’s hard to name just a few. From welcoming back some favorite coaches we’ve missed while they’ve grown their families, sending our graduating seniors off to incredible universities on full athletic scholarships, watching our team gymnasts gearing up for the start of the competitive season and so much more. With change always comes growth, and one thing you can always count on at Twisters is growth. Of course [...]
Quality, Curriculum, Experience: Choosing the best gymnastics program for YOUR child
As a parent, you are probably looking for ways to keep your young child active and engaged. You’re doing the research and you find that gymnastics is one of the best options that can provide many benefits for your child, both physically and mentally - inside and outside of the gym. With so many options out there these days, how do you decide which gymnastics program is worth your precious time, hard-earned money and most of all, your child’s experience? To help make it easier to know what to look for when choosing an awesome gymnastics facility for your child to build their dreams in, we’ve put together this list of things to consider and questions to ask to [...]
Grit to Glory – Team Twisters Celebrates Hard-Earned Successes in 2023 Championship Season
Summer is in full-swing and can we just say that we’re so thankful for our fully air conditioned facilities?! This South Florida heat is no joke! Campers are staying cool and having a blast at Camp Twisters and our competitive teams at both locations are deep into their summer training programs. While we’re somewhere between the end of season and the start of a new one, we’d like to take a chance to reflect on the incredible successes and admirable hard work of our competitive teams and coaching staff this year. We’ve got some amazing highlights from the Twisters 2022-2023 Competitive Season to share with you. There were so many impressive performances... this is a brief summary: [...]
Featured Twisters: The Anderson Family
We can't believe summer is almost here! We're gearing up for an epic summer of camp fun at both locations and our team gymnasts and coaches are wrapping up an incredibly successful championship season. We can't wait to tell you all about it in our next post - stay tuned! Speaking of the incredible success of Team Twisters, we'd like to take a moment to share the story of a family that is a core pillar of our Twisters organization. Whose presence and support in the gyms, at the competitions and as part of the Twisters family for so many years has helped shaped Twisters into who we are today. You know this special family if you've been to [...]
FEATURED TWISTER: Dr. Christine – Sports Psychologist
It’s February at Twisters, and love for gymnastics is certainly in the air at the gyms. We’ve had some jam-packed party weekends lately, with both Twisters locations just brimming with fun, excitement and some of the most creative party themes we’ve seen in a hot minute! Classes are buzzing with life as usual, and believe it or not, we’re already booking up for SPRING and SUMMER CAMP! Don’t miss out on those early bird rates! In other exciting news, our competitive team is already off to an INCREDIBLE start this season, with the talented Jahzara Ranger earning a spot as a NASTIA LIUKIN CUP SENIOR QUALIFIER! Major congratulations to Jahzara and our American Twisters coaches and [...]
Twisters Attends USA National Congress in Tampa
Happy First Day of Fall! It’s hard to believe that summer breezed by so fast, fall is here and the school year is underway. Gymnastics classes and parties are rocking and rolling and our competitive teams are gearing up for an awesome 2022-23 season. The gymnasts aren’t the only ones training at Twisters... Our coaches and leadership team are training hard as well. Each year, American Twisters and Boca Twisters sends a group of representatives from our leadership team to USA Gymnastics National Congress. This year, Twisters was proud to send a group of over 20 staff members - our largest yet - to National Congress in Tampa, Florida in August. USA Gymnastics National Congress is an annual educational [...]
American Twisters Honored as USA Gymnastics Florida’s 2022 Club of the Year
Twisters celebrates an incredibly successful championship season and Club of the Year award Competitive season for Team Twisters has come to a close for 2022 and Twisters is beyond proud of all of our gymnasts, coaches, staff and families for our shared successes this year. We see the day-to-day grind in the gym. We see the blood, sweat and tears our team gymnasts put into their training. We see the long hours, late nights and meetings that our coaches put in each and every week. We see the sacrifices our Twisters parents make and the loving dedication they show for their gymnasts. For this, we celebrate this season’s wins, smiles, personal bests and [...]
Featured Twister – Coach Katie
Featured Twister - Coach Katie! Hey Twisters family! Can you believe April is already almost over? This year just seems to be flying by. We are already in full swing gearing up for summer camp at Twisters. Have you signed up yet? Don't forget, our special Early Bird pricing extends until May 22nd. You can visit our camps pages at American Twisters - Coconut Creek and Boca Twisters - Boca Raton for more information and to sign up online! We can't let April pass us by without recognizing our Featured Twister. This month, we are so proud and so excited to share with you a very special member of our Twisters family... Boca Twisters' very [...]
Like Nastya Visits Boca Twisters!
Boca Twisters, otherwise known as Twister Gymnastics of Boca Raton, was thrilled to welcome YouTube superstar Like Nastya and her dad to our gym in her recent YouTube episode "Dad helps Nastya become self-confident". Check out the video below! https://youtu.be/u_bW4B7PPSk Like Nastya finds her strength at Twisters! In the episode, Nastya's dad is working to help Nastya find her confidence in multiple ways. Nastya is worried about an upcoming sports competition at school, so her dad takes her to Twister Gymnastics of Boca Raton to help her find her strength and confidence through gymnastics. When Nastya arrives at Twisters, she's in awe of the colorful gym and excited to get started. She had fun learning handstands, doing straddle jumps on [...]
March 2022 – Featured Twister Mikaella V!
American Twisters is proud to recognize the Featured Twister for the month of March 2022 - Gymnast Mikaella V!
TWISTERS HAS RECORD-SETTING WEEKEND AT LEVEL 9/10 REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS!
Dedication. Perseverance. Strength. Hard Work. Team Work. Once again, Twisters is beyond proud to announce that our Level 9’s and 10’s had a record-setting weekend at the Region 8 Championships. The hard work and dedication of our athletes and coaching staff shined through as we qualified *9 Level 9’s* to Eastern's and *12 Level 10’s* to Nationals… the most in Twisters history! A huge congratulations goes out to... Level 9 Eastern Qualifiers Carolyn JacksonSydney CrouchEmily RiveraSophia LomaskyNina BallouJayla BookerNicole RengifoAllison KaempherHannah Kang Level 10 National QualifiersHanna CastilloAriana DelgadoHaylen ZambrowskiSamara BuchananAmanda PagacBaleigh GarciaMia BaltrunDani BommaritoAlex GreenwaldDaniella CastilloEmma GayleAbby Johnston Another congratulations goes out to our coaching staff, led by Head Coach Christy Ramirez and Team Coordinator Gary Anderson, who work tirelessly day [...]
Featured Twister – Coach Brittany
Twister Gymnastics - Featured Twister for January 2022: Twisters is proud to recognize Coach Brittany as this month's Featured Twister. In addition to her role as Operations Manager at American Twisters in Coconut Creek, Coach Brittany dedicates her free time to rescuing animals and volunteers with Good Karma Pet Rescue in Pompano Beach, Florida.
Featured Twister – Jayla Booker
Twister Gymnastics - Featured Twister for November 2021: Jayla Booker. "Jayla is a 14 year old high school freshman and optional team gymnast who has been a part of the Twisters family since she was five years old. She has been a gymnast for the past nine years, and in July of this year, Jayla was diagnosed with epilepsy."
A Message of Hope from Twisters
It's June 2020…I look up and glance across the gym until my eyes find yours…and there you are…I see you with a big smile on your face…since the moment you were born I knew that my heart would forever exist outside my body… you showed me love like I had never known before… the world is so magicalthrough your eyes… I feel what you feel, and that smile on your face says it all…you’re so happy to be back.You’ve been talking about this for weeks…while the world was on pause you’d ask every day…” is it time to go back to Twisters?” In the meantime you kept yourself busy, playing gymnastics with your younger sister, pretending to be a coach [...]
15 Reasons to Enroll Your Child in Gymnastics
Having been a staple in our community for over 25 years and working hard to become one of the best gymnastics organizations in the business, we at Twisters are familiar with the many benefits - both inside and out of the gym - that gymnastics can provide for children. It is our mission at Twisters to help develop happy, healthy, responsible kids. With that in mind, we want to share with you an article written by Miranda Martin with Flo Gymnastics called, "15 Reasons to Put Your Child in Gymnastics."You can read and view Miranda Martin's original article on Flo Gymnastics by clicking here. 15 Reasons To Put Your Child In Gymnastics Jun 27, 2019 - Miranda Martin"Parents often enroll their children [...]