General FAQs
Gemini bills Monthly. Charges are run on the first of the month and that will cover the classes for that month. For ex/ July 1st's payment will be for all of July.
Drop-off/Pick-up
- Twinklers, Mini-Ninjas, Rainbows, Unicorns, & Superstars will do BOTH Drop-off and Pick-up at the green door on the north side of the building off of parking lot. *Please do not block this doorway and please wear a mask if you cannot socially distance 6 ft from other parents, students, and teachers.
- All other classes will be dropped off at the white tent near the picnic tables in front of the building on Washington. It is best if you do not park in the spots out front. The first car pulls up to the picnic tables and all other cars pull behind that car. Please wait your turn and DO NOT get out of your cars. FIVE MINUTES before the start of your child's class, coaches will approach your cars to do a temperature scan and sanitize your child's hands. Keeping with the safety standards we are implementing here at Gemini, there are no early drop offs.
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We are choosing to use a different entrance and exit in order to maintain social distancing standards. We ask that you please refrain from standing or "hanging out" near these drop-off and pick-up spots.
At this point and time, we are not rescheduling missed classes. Per our Rules & Policies, we will credit up to one class missed per month after the second missed class.
No! Once you enroll your child, that is his/her spot until your schedule changes and you need to make adjustments. Please email the Front Desk with your class changes.
- Bare feet are best! If socks must be work for medical reasons, they must have grips on the bottom.
- No jewelry including watches, bracelets, necklaces. Only stud earrings allowed.
- All hair must be secured up & away from face (without hard headbands or barrettes.)
- Face masks are required for everyone in our facility. (Vented masks or gators are NOT acceptable masks). Check to ensure that your child’s mask fits over their nose & mouth and will stay in place without falling down exposing their or sliding up over their eyes.
Tiny Twistar Preschool Programs (Ages 2-5)
- Girls and Boys can wear any form of non-baggy clothing, leggings, athletic pants, shorts, tshirts. Please make sure the t-shirt is long enough to tuck in for those upside-down skills. Please no buttons, snaps, zippers, hoods, strings, or tights.
- Girls are welcome to wear a LEOTARD or UNITARD for class. Please be mindful of their independence when using the restroom. If they are not yet independent in dressing/un-dressing with a leotard, go ahead and send them in a t-shirt and shorts/leggings.
Ages 6+ Recreational Girls Gymnastics & Co-Ed Tumbling
Girls must wear a LEOTARD or UNITARD for class. Snug fitting athletic shorts or leggings worn over a leotard are allowed. NO BAGGY CLOTHING.
- T-shirts, crop tops, tank tops, jeans, baggy sweatpants or sweatshirts, footed tights, or anything with buttons, snaps, or zippers are NOT permitted in class.
- NO watches or jewelry are allowed except for stud earrings.
- Boy Tumblers should wear form fitting athletic wear without hoods, strings, skirts, zippers, snaps or buttons. No baggy or bare mid drift clothing.
Ninja Monkey Program
- Just like the martial arts, our program is woven through and around this unique ACHIEVE SLEEVE reward system and earning badges. The uniform is required for all students. The Ninja Monkey uniform is a Ninja Monkeys T-shirt and achieve sleeve. These can be ordered on the Online Proshop and will be ready for your child at their next class.
Xcel Team Gymnasts
- Must wear a LEOTARD to class. Snug fitting athletic shorts or leggings worn over a leotard are allowed (except for meet week). NO BAGGY CLOTHING.
- T-shirts, crop tops, tank tops, jeans, baggy sweatpants or sweatshirts, footed tights, or anything with buttons, snaps, or zippers are NOT permitted in class.
- NO watches or jewelry are allowed except for stud earrings.
- Cell Phones should be kept in your bag unless you check with a coach first.
- Remember to being your chalk and grips (as appropriate)
General Gym Reminders for All:
- We are not using our drinking fountain, so please send a labeled water bottle. Only water is allowed in the gym and it needs to be in a bottle with a lid.
- NO food, gum, or candy is allowed in the gym.
Thank you & Happy Handstands!
The Customer Portal https://app.iclasspro.com/parentportal/geminigym/ is where you will find the most updated schedule along with being able to view which classes have spaces available.
Gemini Gymnastics Academy accepts Visa/MC/Discover cards as well as checks (made out to Gemini) or cash.
All payments are due on the 1st of the month. After the 5th of the month, a payment will be considered late and a fee of $10 will be placed on your account. If we are unable to collect payment by the 15th of the month, your child will be dropped from his/her class.
*Please contact the Front Desk if you need to discuss any payment arrangements.
We do not offer "Free" trial classes, however if you are interested in trying the class before you sign up, you can call the Front Desk to sign up your child for a one day class.
Gemini has made the decision that we cannot hold camps in our facility alongside classes and follow all of the Safety First procedures we have put in place over the last 12 months. Therefore, we will not be holding summer camps.
Teaching while maintaining physical distancing does not allow us to be hands-on per IL Phase 3 Youth Sports.
Our outside classes will be different than what we can offer traditionally in the gym and geared towards activities that students can safely do on their own with teachers giving verbal cues & encouragement.
When we are able to resume teaching using hands-on methods, as IL moves through reopening phases, please know that our sport has also become more “hands-off” throughout the years. Gymnastics utilizes more drills for skills by deconstructing skills into smaller, attainable chunks for students to practice with high repetition. This method results in a much stronger finished product of the complete skill over time.
We are no strangers to kids’ cute, summertime feet. Those tootsies typically come into the gym rather dirty from going barefoot & in prior years we’ve regularly used baby wipes to clean the bottoms of kids’ dirty feet.
While we are able to clean vinyl mats very easily, it is not safe to be spraying our beams & bars as the drying time is too great to wait between turns/classes. As the equipment has been unused for months making it COVID-19 free, our solution is to have clean feet & hands always touching the equipment as a way to help everyone stay safe & preserve our equipment.
We understand this & we will need the help & cooperation of all Gemini families to keep everyone safe. If your child cannot use hand sanitizer, we can have them wash their hands with soap & water for 20 seconds before class outside & upon finishing class.
When we move to classes inside, we have limited sinks at Gemini making it unrealistic to allow everyone to wash their hands at Gemini before & after class. We will ask in your cooperation that only students that are unable to use hand sanitizer wash their hands before/after class.
If your child can use hand sanitizer throughout class, please be courteous to those that require only hand washing.
For the time being, the lobby will be closed. We ask that parents drop-off and pick-up their kids at the designated spots.
**NEW** Gemini has signed a contract with SPOT-TV. Over the next few weeks, cameras will be installed throughout the gym so parents can "stream" their child's class through a secured link.
Our traffic flow for students is to travel in one door, through the gym & out a separate exit to facilitate one direction movement eliminating congestion upon entry & exit. Rotation schedules have been made so groups are rotating safely around the gym.
Sneeze guards have been installed at the front desk to ease communication with clients. Additional preventative upgrades to our facility include touchless bathroom faucets, soap dispensers & hand dryers as well as touchless hand sanitizer dispensers throughout the lobby & gym.
New garage door screens are being installed and our exhaust fan will be uncovered allowing maximum fresh airflow throughout the gym.
Families that want to participate in classes will be required to sign a new COVID-19 specific waiver. We cannot be open to the public & prevent the spread of all illnesses.
Cooperation of all staff, students & families by maintaining good hand & environmental hygiene, maintaining physical distancing, and following policies and procedures is the best we can offer.
Families that have elderly members, &/or members, with underlying health issues need to make educated decisions regarding their student’s participation in activities as there may be asymptomatic individuals that do not know they are COVID-19 positive.
For 15 years we have taken great pride in the fact that our gym does not smell like a gym. Gemini does not have “magic mats” that smell good as some students have recounted. The reason our gym does not smell is simple, it is because we clean it all the time!
We will be maintaining the high Gemini standards that you know & love by cleaning using only CDC approved cleaning products that are on the EPA’s List of Disinfectants for Use Against SARS-CoV-2, the cause of COVID-19 and are proven to kill 99.9% of bacteria & viruses on all surfaces throughout our entire facility.
One product we use is Force of Nature which provides hospital-grade disinfecting & sanitizing while being non-toxic & hypoallergenic. Force of Nature has been given the highest rating by SkinSafe, the Mayo Clinic's rating system for product safety for skin allergies.
The other product Gemini uses is Ecolab’s peroxide multipurpose cleaner and disinfectant that has earned the Green Seal is an 82% plant-based, hospital-grade disinfectant.