Introducing Gleason's Xtreme!
The Tumblemonster Stunt Team, in association with Gleason's Gymnastic School is proud to introduce a brand new program! Gleason's Xtreme is designed for extreme sports athletes, stunt men and women, and Superheroes!
The Classes:
Superheroes! - For 8-13 year olds, this class is your induction into the Superhero Hall of Fame! Students will learn all the skills required of a modern day superhero from skilled staff in a safe, positive environment, including:
-Flying Lessons: Students are introduced and trained in the wirework used to fly movie superheroes all over the world. Students will also learn tramopline, minitramp and eventually Russian Swing and Air Ram skills to fly through the air untethered!
-Taking a Tumble: Students will learn to fall off anything safely, including introductiory high falls, and stand right up to continue the battle! We'll work on rolling and falling onto, over, and off of any convievable surface an aspiring Superhero is likely to encounter, and some that they won't! The forces of evil must be stopped!
Our Superheroes class will eventually lead many of our students into our more advanced Movie Stunts classes!
Free-Running/Parkour - For ages 9 and up, Free-Running (also called Parkour) is the art of acrobatically moving through your enviroment. Popular in Europe for years, Free-Running is now exploding across the USA!
In Free-Running, students will learn the techniques of Free-Running in a safe environtment. Beginning students will learn the basics of landing, falling, rolling, vaulting, wall flipping and learn basic and advanced acrobatic flipping and twisting maneuvers.
Board Sports - For all snowboarders, skateboarders and wakeboarders ages 9 and up of all levels, this class is designed to teach the acrobatic tricks and air awareness skills to excel on the moutain, boost off the ramp and fly off the water!
Students utilize trampoline, mini and double-mini tramps, our tumbletrak, and our 20x16' foam pit to practice their board skills, witha a focus on off-axis flipping and twisting.
Movie Stunts: Stunt Falls - For ages 11 and up, students will learn skills for the most dramatic and prevalent movie stunt: The High Fall!
Students will learn landing techniques, safety techniques, and utilize trampolines, mini-tramps and springboards to learn air awareness and body control, ultimately learning to fall from heights in excess of 20 feet with confidence and safety! Advanced students will learn complex twisting and flipping skills to make their falls more dynamic. All levels of Stunt Falls class are conducted with the strictest safety stadards.
Movie Stunts: Wire Work - For ages 11 and up. Fly like Superman! Do Kung Fu like you're in the Matrix! Wire Work makes the most exciting movie stunts possible by launching a harnessed performer into the air!
Students in our Wire Work classes will learn all areeas of wire flying, including wire-fu, flipping and twisting, and learn how to work together as a team to fly their teammates. Advanced students will learn more complex wire movements, such as kung-fu spins (or wraps) wall walking and flipping, and wire assisted high falls!
Check out the demo reel below, which shows some of what you'll learn in our Xtreme program, and where it could take you. These clips are assembled from films, videos and TV spots the instructors and students in our program participated in. Enjoy!
Registration is now open for the fall session beginning September 3rd. You can visit our online schedule and register online, or come in the school and check out the action first hand! For further information, please contact our office at 651-454-6203!
