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A quick word to our AcroSports community on how to stay safe and healthy in the face of society’s pandemic fatigue, at the beginning of this new year.

The Acro Around Town Challenge is back! It’s time to get out and show your Acrobatic skills around your town.

SF City Mandate: Beginning Monday, August 20 all ADULT students, AND adults participating with children in Tiny Tots classes and Toddler Play Group, must show proof of COVID vaccination in order to participate in class. This does NOT apply to adults merely observing children in classes and birthday parties.

Dorrie Huntington, AcroSports Executive Director, provides important updates regarding Covid 19 protocol.

We’re thrilled to reintroduce our wildly popular Party program for kids ages 5+! Bookings are available NOW for Saturday parties.

AcroSports families will be no doubt pleased to learn that we’ll have both Youth and PreK classes back up and running in the Fall. Our Fall 2021 class session will run Tuesday, September 7th through Sunday, December 19th.

We are very excited to announce the creation of a new embellishment for our beloved gym. This new addition is a handwoven dynamic textile space created in the style of a classic Treenet.

Despite being closed for most programming over the past year, AcroSports has not been sitting idle! Much effort has gone into the preparations necessary to safely reinstitute group classes and camps, which we will implement in a phased and cautious manner in order to ensure maximum COVID safety.

While AcroSports is currently still closed for youth programming, we are excitedly gearing up to provide our popular day camps this coming summer!

The City of San Francisco has authorized the reopening of indoor fitness facilities as of this week, and a number of people have contacted us to see if AcroSports will be among those resuming programming.

AcroSports has always been a major advocate for safety in the programs we offer to the community, and we have chosen to use this down time to make upgrades to our facility that will further support that focus. All of the renovations we've completed in the gym during this closure are real "Wow Factor" items that you will certainly notice right away upon returning to AcroSports!

I hope all our Acro family and friends are doing as well as can be expected during this wildly unpredictable time! Here at AcroSports, we are continually wondering how it can be that Friday, March 13th - the day we officially closed programming - simultaneously seems like only yesterday, and also a vast eternity ago.

AcroSports was fortunate to receive a PPP (Paycheck Protection Program) loan in mid-April. A component of the CARES Act passed by Congress, the PPP loans are fully “forgivable,” as long as their expenditure falls within certain parameters, with the emphasis being to employ as many people as possible, thus lessening the burden of the growing rolls of people on Unemployment. Your tax dollars at work!

Since closing our doors on March 13th, we have received an unprecedented amount of support from the AcroSports community! Many thanks to all of you who have given donations of both cash and existing class credit; this has made a significant impact on our ability to reopen, as well as our continued viability as a business overall.

Many families currently have AcroSports class credit on file, both as a result of our COVID-related closure, as well as existing account credits from prior to the pandemic. Many thanks to all our students and families who were able to receive account credits instead of cash refunds due to the shutdown, as this has significantly helped to ensure our ability to reopen.

Dearest Patrons, you better believe that you are sorely missed! Every shining face, every new skill learned or attempted is the true joy to our lives as coaches… and we miss every one of you. We consider you all a part of our Acrosports family and truly care about how you are all doing during […]

I hope that you and your families are safe and well during one of the worst pandemics in history. Along with the rest of the AcroSports staff, I for one am eagerly looking forward to the day when our gym becomes alive again.

Since 1993 AcroSports has been committed to serving the community by way of physical expression and movement.

I almost forgot about these sweet letters. I was rummaging through one of my drawers at home and stumbled upon a pile of notes from some of my former AcroSports students. I reread them. And then, I smiled.

All AcroSports classes, camps and events have been canceled through the end of summer 2020. We are continually tracking news and information about the spread of COVID-19 in our region and adhering to recommended public safety guidelines. Please check this page regularly for updated information about the status of AcroSports programming.

Training and exercising during Shelter-in-Place (SIP) can look like a lot of different things for different people.

Join an amazing team of creative individuals. AcroSports has been servicing the greater San Francisco community for over 26 years in non-competitive Gymnastics, Urban Arts, Circus & Performing Arts.

Important dates for end of year activities.

Coach Caye & Dava have prepared a double lyra act with some surprising twists for our Séance Cabaret. We sat down with Coach Dava to learn more about her act.

We’ll be at the Cole Valley Fair this Sunday, September 29. Swing by and say hi to Coach Julz!

Over 200 youth circus performers from New York, Seattle, St. Louis, Chicago, Portland and everywhere in between met in San Diego for the 2019 AYCO (American Youth Circus Organization) Festival. And our very own Erin & Elijah joined the 70+ instructors to teach specialized workshops to kids ages 8-18!

At AcroSports, we want our students to develop a positive relationship with physical activity through personal accomplishments and cooperative group activity.

Autumn reminds us of our shifting forms. As the seasons change from blooming to bare, we change with the wind. Rising and falling, following the season... It's times like these we ask guidance from mystical powers. Where does your spirit take you? Join us fellow celestial beings for a celebration of our talents, an offering to the mystical powers that guide our light.

Coach Mick had the opportunity to take several workshops with the 7 Fingers, a contemporary circus company in Montreal this summer. He wanted to share with our community the inspiring performances, workshops and all the new things he learned to bring back to AcroSports!

Our summer camps are in full swing at AcroSports! From high-flying Harry Potter week to (of course) Circus week!

It can be difficult to remain motivated throughout the year, especially during summer when we’re all excited about taking much needed vacation time. Keep your goals on track during the summer by following these simple tips.

We’re inviting our entire Acro family including coaches, students, and families to march with us in the Pride Parade this weekend!

Don’t fall into the summer slump! Summer is the perfect time to maintain the skills you worked on during the school year, build strength, and even be challenged with new skill progressions. Check out our new youth classes and open training sessions.

Are you looking to perfect your back walkover? Do you want to transition to running tumbling? Want to add height to your back tuck? We hear you! We’ve added a new class so you can focus on gaining specific tumbling skills.

“I WANT PEOPLE TO WALK AWAY FROM THIS SHOW REALIZING THAT PERFORMERS OF ALL AGES CAN CREATE SOMETHING IMPRESSIVE - YOU CAN STILL MAKE SOMETHING ENJOYABLE EVEN AT A YOUNGER AGE.” - IZZY ABBOT, AGE 13

Ever scroll through Instagram and wish you could do this…

CircusLab at AcroSports means doing the impossible. Our CircusLab class of 15 students between the ages of 10-18 will be performing at the SOMArts Cultural Center on June 1! This is CircusLab’s first time performing at the SOMArts Cultural Center and we couldn’t be more proud.

“My name is Louka Peterson, I am 15 years old and I have been training at Acrosports for about three years.

Watch Coach Elijah as he tackles some impressive obstacles in his 2018 Parkour Compilation video! These are some of the very skills he coaches in both his Youth and Adult Parkour classes right here at AcroSports.

See what Coach Erin and Elijah were up to during intersession! They took a 2 week road trip from San Francisco around the western states. They travelled to Yellow Stone, The Grand Tetons, Colorado, Moab, and The Grand Canyon to name a few!

The Bay Area Parent "Best of the Best" issue is out! Find us on page 81. We received 2 golds, one for best Indoor Party Location and one for best Gymnastics Class, and a silver medal for best Fitness Center in San Francisco

“The point of CircusLab is really to make us stronger, to build our endurance to perform, to inspire and empower us in our performance abilities, and to teach us lots of new skills.”

Emilio Lehmer is aGymnast/Student at ASU and the 2016 U.S. tumbling bronze medalist. He worked at AcroSports coaching students for 3 years and attended gymnastics and tumbling classes for just under 10 years.

We at AcroSports are so immensely proud of coach Hannah! She will fly out to Lebanon in October and utilize her amazing talent in performance arts in order to spread love and compassion where it may be needed most.