August 22, 2019
Our New Gym!
Have you ever moved?
YES! I can remember 19 different homes in my early years. My husband and I have shifted houses 10 times in almost 17 years.
I am intimately aware of moving.
I know just how many boxes can fit in a 5×8 moving trailer. I can look at your furniture and see it morphing into place inside a moving van like blocks in Tetris – just with some blankets and pillows strategically placed here and there for padding.
WGV Gymnastics (which yes, I call “my gym” even though it’s not mine, I coach there… but I love it!) just moved from their old facility to the new one at 135 Center Place Way, Saint Augustine, in World Golf Village area. (They literally moved across the pond!)
We helped with loading a trailer and cleaning. Our monster was the pit – do you know how many giant trash bags are needed to clean out 15,000+ 6”x6”x6” foam pit blocks? We have no clue, but it’s upwards of 500. And that doesn’t count those wrapped up in the tarp!
Our new facility has amazing new equipment, huge cooling fans, the climbing rope (Kimberly’s favorite), and I can’t wait to teach classes in the new preschool area! Our after-school program is very nice. We have two vans that pick children up from area schools. (Mill Creek, Pacetti Bay, and Palencia Elementary, to name a few – check with the office if you want to find out if your school is covered!) In this program, you can pick which days you need pick up, and your students will have assistance with homework, crafts and games to entertain them, and snacks while they wait for you to pick them up! Since we are a gymnastics facility, the bonus to the program is access to specified gymnastics classes.
Dozens of people helped out in this massive move. Teamwork. That’s why I only know a small facet of the whole picture.
We finished by sorting all the blocks into good, bad, and ugly. Good went to the new pit, bad to be shredded to make new mats, and ugly to the trash bin. Our teamwork system was separated into groups of various sizes doing specific tasks: One pulled bags up out of the pit, one opened bags, one put good blocks neatly into uHaul boxes, one bagged up the bad & trashed the ugly, and one took “train cars” (aka uHaul boxes loaded with pit blocks) to the door to wait for the “engine” (aka the truck to the new gym).
Lucas and Jillian loaded the bags out with a rope (before it got reassigned to another task) while Kimberly tosses bags up to be sorted! This teamwork went on for hours.
While I only know the pit blocks intimately during this move, I am super excited for the new facility and our growth from here out. Come and see us at 135 Center Place Drive at WGV Gymnastics!
Type at you next time,
~Nancy Tart