The Infant Arc · Birth to 3
Before the skills, there is the foundation.
The most important years in a gymnast's development aren't spent learning skills — they're spent learning how to move, how to listen, and how to trust.
Play is the curriculum.
From birth to age three, children don't need structured skill training. What they need is the freedom to discover what their bodies can do — and the right environment to do it in. At Twisters, our Infant Arc classes are built entirely around that idea.
There are no skill checklists. No progressions to rush through. Just a thoughtfully designed space where toddlers explore movement, parents learn to coach their own children, and the social and physical foundations of a lifetime in gymnastics quietly take root.
What children are really learning
The skills come later. These are the things that make the skills possible.
Spatial Confidence
Before a child can learn a skill, they need to trust their own body. In these classes, every roll, crawl, and climb is a discovery — children learn what their bodies can do and build a deep, physical confidence that carries them through every band that follows.
Parent as Co-Coach
Parents aren't watching from the bleachers. They're on the floor, spotting, guiding, and moving alongside their child. Our coaches teach parents how to cue movement, how to spot safely, and how to continue the learning at home — making every parent a gymnastics teacher in their own right.
Listening and Following Direction
The ability to listen to an instructor, follow a sequence, and work within a group structure is the prerequisite for every skill in the arc. These classes build that capacity intentionally — through play, repetition, and the gentle authority of a trusted coach.
First Bonds Outside the Family
For many children, this is their first experience with a trusted adult outside their immediate family. The coach-child relationship formed here — warm, consistent, and encouraging — becomes the model for how children engage with instructors for years to come.
Parents are the first coaches.
In our Infant Arc classes, parents aren't observers — they're participants. Our coaches teach you how to spot your child safely, how to cue movement with your hands and voice, and how to create gymnastics moments at home between classes.
By the time your child moves into the Shapes band at age three, you'll have spent years learning alongside them. That shared experience — the trust, the vocabulary, the physical confidence — is something no class alone can give them.
See our programsWhere the arc begins
The Infant Arc sits outside the Fibonacci sequence — not because it's less important, but because it's the soil the sequence grows from. Every band that follows builds on what children learn here: how to move, how to listen, and how to trust the people guiding them.