Welcome to Victory Gymnastics
Victory Gymnastics Academy is housed in a spacious 14,000 square-foot training facility that's conveniently located within easy access from all communities in Southern Ventura and Northern Los Angeles counties.
Victory uses American Athletic Inc. "Elite" equipment. AAI is the official supplier for the Olympic Games. Our children's gymnastics area includes kids rings, kids bars, kids beams, and kid-sized safety cushions and mats. Our 20' by 20' foam pit is one of the largest among gymnastics facilities in southern California and is positioned so that safe, soft, and comfortable landings can take place from a variety of gymnastics apparatus.
Floor Exercise
The floor event occurs on a carpeted 40 foot × 40 foot square, consisting of hard foam over a layer of fiberglass plywood, which is supported by springs called a "spring" floor. This provides a firm surface that will respond with force when compressed, allowing gymnasts to achieve extra height and a softer landing than would be possible on a regular floor. Our female gymnasts perform a choreographed routine up to 90 seconds long. They choose an accompanying music piece, which must be instrumental and cannot include vocals. The routine should consist of tumbling lines, series of jumps, dance elements, acrobatic skills, and turns on one foot. A gymnast can perform up to four tumbling lines that include at least one flight element without hand support. Male gymnasts also perform on the spring floor. A series of tumbling passes are performed to demonstrate flexibility, strength, and balance. The gymnast must also show strength skills, including circles, scales, and press handstands. Men's floor routines usually have four passes that will total between 60-70 seconds and are performed without music, unlike the women's event. Rules require that male gymnasts touch each corner of the floor at least once during their routine.
Trampoline
Our trampoline bed is rectangular, 14 feet by 7 feet in size, with 110 steel springs. Only one athlete is allowed to jump at a time to avoid collisions and people being catapulted in an unexpected direction or higher than they expect. Our athletes love jumping on the trampoline and landing in our foam pit.
Tumble Trak
Our 20 foot long Tumble Trak is a trampoline designed to allow for increased repetition of tumbling and gymnastic skills and to decrease stress on body parts. Athletes learn tumbling skills on the Tumble Trak, and then move to the floor exercise to show off their skills.
Foam Pit
Our foam pit is 20 feet by 20 feet, one of the largest among all gymnastics facilities in Southern California, and positioned so that safe and comfortable landings can take place from all gymnastics apparatus. Our athletes train their new landings into the pit before moving on to landing mats. Our little gymnasts run and jump into the pit and swim to the side. There are over 10,000 six inch by six inch foam cubes in our pit!
Uneven Bars
On the uneven bars the gymnast performs a routine on two horizontal bars set at different heights. Gymnasts perform swinging, circling, and release moves, that may pass over, under, and between the two bars.
Ropes
Our ropes hang from the ceiling, 25 feet off the ground! Kids are taught how to safely climb and descend, all under the watchful eye of our United States Gymnastics Safety Certified Coaching Staff. Ropes help our athletes develop strength, coordination, balance and agility. Rope climbing used to be an event in gymnastics.
Pommel Horse
A Pommel horse exercise involves both single leg and double leg work. Single leg skills are called scissors, often done on the pommels. Double leg work however, is the main part of this event. The gymnast swings both legs in a circular motion and performs skills on all parts of the horse. To make the exercise more challenging, gymnasts will often include variations on a typical circling skill by turning, called moores and spindles, or by straddling their legs called Flares. Routines end when the gymnast performs a dismount, either by swinging his body over the horse, or landing after a handstand.
Rings
Athletes must perform a routine demonstrating balance, strength, power, and motion while preventing the rings themselves from swinging. At least one strength move is required, but some gymnasts may include two or three. A routine should have a dismount equal in difficulty to the difficulty of the routine as a whole.
Observation Room
Sometimes our gym observation area gets a little noisy, so you can always go to our quiet observation room. You can watch behind windows as your child trains, read a magazine, or check your email on our wireless internet.
Vault
Gymnasts sprint down an 80 foot runway, jump onto a springboard, land momentarily vaulting table, and then fly off of this platform to a two footed landing. The flight may include one or more somersaults, and twisting movements.
High Bar
A one inch thick steel bar raised eight feet above the landing area is all the gymnast has to hold onto as he performs giants (revolutions around the bar), release skills, twists, and changes of direction. By using all of the momentum from giants and then releasing at the proper point, enough height can be achieved for spectacular dismounts.
Floor Exercise
The floor event occurs on a carpeted 40 foot × 40 foot square, consisting of hard foam over a layer of fiberglass plywood, which is supported by springs called a "spring" floor. This provides a firm surface that will respond with force when compressed, allowing gymnasts to achieve extra height and a softer landing than would be possible on a regular floor. Our female gymnasts perform a choreographed routine up to 90 seconds long. They choose an accompanying music piece, which must be instrumental and cannot include vocals. The routine should consist of tumbling lines, series of jumps, dance elements, acrobatic skills, and turns on one foot. A gymnast can perform up to four tumbling lines that include at least one flight element without hand support. Male gymnasts also perform on the spring floor. A series of tumbling passes are performed to demonstrate flexibility, strength, and balance. The gymnast must also show strength skills, including circles, scales, and press handstands. Men's floor routines usually have four passes that will total between 60-70 seconds and are performed without music, unlike the women's event. Rules require that male gymnasts touch each corner of the floor at least once during their routine.
Vault
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Balance Beam
The gymnast performs a choreographed routine up to 90 seconds in length consisting of leaps, acrobatic skills, somersaults, turns and dance elements on a padded beam. The beam is 4 feet from the ground, 16 feet in length, and 4 inches wide. The event requires in particular, balance, flexibility and strength.
Parallel Bars
Men perform on two bars slightly further than a shoulder's width apart and usually 6 feet high while executing a series of swings, hand stands, and releases that require great strength and coordination.
Kids Lounge
Our Kids Lounge is for siblings to have a place to hang out while waiting for brother or sister. Watch a kid friendly cartoon or movie, read a book or get your homework done.
Tumble Trak
Our 20 foot long Tumble Trak is a trampoline designed to allow for increased repetition of tumbling and gymnastic skills and to decrease stress on body parts. Athletes learn tumbling skills on the Tumble Trak, and then move to the floor exercise to show off their skills.
Fitness Room
Our athletes train with a certified personal trainer in a clean, safe environment. Our gymnasts are among the healthiest, strongest, best conditioned athletes in all of competitive gymnastics. But our trainers don't only train our competitive gymnasts, they also teach our youth fitness class and are available to train anyone one on one.
Observation Area
We took a portion of our gym and created an area for parents to sit and watch their kids train. Here you are in the gym where you can see and hear as our coaching staff teaches and trains our athletes.
Pro Shop
Visit our Pro Shop where you will find t-shirts, sweatshirts, leotards, gifts and everything else you need to train.
Front Office
Our office staff is always available to answer any question you may have.
Training Room
Our athletes train with a certified personal trainer in a clean, safe environment. Our gymnasts are among the healthiest, strongest, best conditioned athletes in all of competitive gymnastics. But our trainers don't only train our competitive gymnasts, they also teach our youth fitness class and are available to train anyone one on one.
Stretch Zone
We begin each class by stretching for 10 minutes. We always start at the top and work our way down by stretching the neck, shoulders, wrists, hips, legs, calves, and ankles. We end each class with a nice cool down. All of this takes place in our stretch and tumble zone.
Jr Bars
Don't worry about having to leap over Olympic-sized bars and vaults. Our Jr. Bars are scaled-down equipment to fit all of our athletes, and when you get a little bigger, you'll progress to our competition-sized equipment!
Tumble Zone
We begin each class by stretching for 10 minutes. We always start at the top and work our way down by stretching the neck, shoulders, wrists, hips, legs, calves, and ankles. We end each class with a nice cool down. All of this takes place in our stretch and tumble zone.
Rod Floor
This is where you will learn a forward roll, backward roll and how to flip and twist. This floor offers a great amount of spring while at the same time increasing safety and providing a nice, soft landing. Once you've mastered the Rod Floor, it's of the Floor Exercise!
