Taiso is a padded playground in a giant warehouse. Taiso provides a FUN environment where kids can get FIT. We are one of only 6 men's National Training Centres in Canada, a unique gymnastics facility with many trampolines, ropes, rings and specialized apparatus for climbing, swinging, and hanging. Taiso is a safe facility, with a state-of-the-art foam pit where kids can learn to flip and twist with minimal risk of injury.
"Fun, Fitness and Fundamentals", it's more than just a slogan at Taiso!
Fun. If the program is Fun, kids will look forward to arriving at the gym. Those who want to get to gym will have good attendance.
Fitness. Taiso gymnasts are amongst the most fit children in the city. Fitness benefits can be life long. But to make fitness gains, regular attendance is essential. High repetitions of activities like swinging, springing and climbing are needed to improve physical, motor and psychological attributes:
- Physical attributes
- flexibility
- strength
- power
- Motor attributes
- balance
- spatial awareness
- coordination
- agility
- Psychological attributes
- confidence
- enthusiasm
Fundamentals. Gymnastics is elemental to all other sports and physical activities. But Fitness is pre-requisite to learning many of the skills we do in the gym.