General Information

By Program Director/ Head Team Coach - Douglas Pershun

     Thank you for taking an interest in our 18th Annual Team Clinic.  We welcome you to take part in our funtastic clinic.  Each year, we take pride in providing a really positive & exciting camp experience for athletes in a 200 mile radius of Erie. 

     We are NOT one of the giant Gymnastics Summer Glamour Camps that you send your kids away to.  We don't even try to compete with the Multi-Million Dollar Summer Camps and all of the toys they can provide.  We do not have nor offer Horse Back Riding, Face Painting, Bungee Tramps, nor Rock Climbing.  We will not bring celebrity athletes and coaches in to get your pictures taken with either.

     What we have to offer is a real gymnastics working clinic.  Our Team Coaches & Camp Staff are full time gymnastics professionals,  not college kids trying to pay for camp tuition.  Their lives and livelihoods revolve around the sport of gymnastics.  We are truly seeking to improve gymnasts and gymnastics in our area.

   Our camp is about instilling good work habits and developing new skills.  Sharing ideas and experiences with like-minded athletes and coaches.  We are a Work Horse Camp!

     As a work horse camp, we are interested in providing a fun, positive, educationally valuable experience.  We will send the gymnasts home tired & sore each day, but happy that they moved closer to their goals.  At camp, they will work hard and they will develop their skill.  They will make new friends, share ideas, and generally come back with renewed motivation and learning tools.  We know this from the area gymnasts and parents that return year after year.

     One of the most rewarding and interesting phenomena about the camp is the last 2 hours of the week.  The last 2 hours of the Team Clinic, we have a little gymnastics version of Show & Tell.  We invite all of the parents in and each of the gymnasts show off their newly acquired skills.  Even after coaching 25+ years, I still get a thrill by watching the upcoming athletes perform their new skills.  The greatest coaching satisfaction lies in this area.

     We hope you will make plans to attend our clinic this year &  hope to see you soon!

Housing Available:  Our Team Parents typically adopt a gymnast or 2 during our camps.  We try to pair up athletes by age & level.  Although there is no charge for this, we ask that you donate $50 or so per week to the family for the extra expenses they incur (Showers/ Laundry/ Food/...)

Camp Price Includes:   

     *  Professional Coaching Instruction

     *  Beverages / Fruits & Treats

     *  Guest Speakers & Clinicians

Not Included:

     * Lunch (BYO refrigeration available)

     * Personal Supplies grips/ tape / hygiene ...

     * Any entry fee to nightly activities

     * Housing expenses