Advanced Placement Classes
These classes are for exceptional students of the
highest fitness levels who are motivated to do accelerated training, advanced skills, and public performances. They are required to do homework and attend extra classes during the week. Combining
sports science fundamentals and essential habits for
success in sports and life, these classes are the
Academy’s most intense and comprehensive. Students are promoted upon achievement of skills progressions ultimately to public performances, sport
teams, and other activities often in leadership roles.
Student Eligibility
Students from 4-12 years of age are selected from
fitness test rankings and auditions. (Criteria: high
level of physical fitness, motivation, attentiveness,
perseverance, and parental support plus willingness
to do homework assignments and do extra classes
each week). Instructor referrals are welcome but
candidate must complete fitness testing and auditions to be considered for selection.
Training at Hawaii Academy
Hawai’i Academy has training facilities designed
for research, education, and activities. We have a
full range of state-of-the-art competitive and
recreational equipment for gymnastics, power
tumbling and trampoline, cirque, and fitness
training, including a power tumbling rod floors,
eight overhead bungee systems, and two overhead
traveling spotting systems. Basic research focuses
on changes in central nervous systems functioning
and physical fitness across the life span. Applied
research involves topics in such multidisciplinary
fields as developmental ergonomics,
transgenerational design, gerontechnology, public
health, educational psychology, and physical fitness.
We have world-level athletes training for international competition, cirque performers, and graduate
students conducting their theses and dissertations
using data from the Hawaii Longitudinal Study of
Fitness.
Curricula
Class Times
Beginner Classes (1hr)
Beginner AP Class:
Human Sciences: Abbreviated Muscles & Bones
Judging: Double Mini Trampolining (3 Skills)
Teaching: Essential Rules
Habits: Hello/Good Bye, Please/Thank you, I’m
sorry/I’ll try harder, GPSB
Safe Falling: Fundamentals
Flexibility & Strength: Top Fitness Rankings
Skills: Rolls, CW, FHS, BHS, Drops, Turns, TR,
Headstand, Jump, DM, Bar, Rope, Rings, Ninja
Course/Routines
Wednesday 4-5p
Sunday 3-4p
(Thursday 4-5p in 2015)
Intermediate AP Class:
Wednesday 5-7p
(Thursday 5-7p in 2015)
Intermediate Classes (2hrs)
Human Sciences: Major Systems, Fitness Principle, & Sport Nutrition
Judging: Trampoline (11Skills)
Teaching: Experience Teaching/Leadership
Habits: Discipline, Respect, Appreciation, Accountability, GPSB
Safe Falling: Advanced Falling/Crashing
Flexibility & Strength: Top rankings
Skills: Handstand, Flips, Ninja Course/Routines
Show Team Classes (2hrs)
Human Sciences: Biomechanics, Exercise Physiology, Sport Ergonomics
Judging: Skill, Difficulty
Teaching: Shadowing to become an HA employee
Habits: Work Ethics, Social Support, Goal-PlanSchedule-Budget
Safe Falling: Extreme Fall Training
Flexibility & Strength: Top Rankings
Skills: Kip, Circles, Ninja Course/Routines
WARNING
These are the most intense classes at the Academy. They require a lot of homework and the
most discipline. Only the top students that are
highly motivated are admitted and then must
work very hard to stay in the classes.
Show Team Practice:
Sunday 2-4p
* In 2015 Dr Max will open Thursday classes and
someone else will teach the Wednesday classes.
Prices & Information
Beginner Classes (1hr/class; 2 classes/wk required, 3-4
recommended):
2 classes /week
$108/month
3 classes /week
$153/month
4 classes /week
$192/month
Intermediate & Show Team Classes (2hrs/class; 2
classes/wk required, 3-4 recommended):
2 classes /week
$162/month
3 classes /week
$229/month
4 classes /week
$288/month
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Tuition each month is due BEFORE the first day of the
month
$25 late fee if tuition is paid on the 2nd or later
Family discounts available; 20% off tuition for military
Make-ups are scheduled in other classes, none of
which are Advanced Placement
$60 Annual Fee due 1st class of January (fee is prorated
for students joining later in the year).
$25.00 Returned Check Fee
2 weeks written notice of withdrawal
Last Revised: 2014-10-07
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Max Vercruyssen PhD
Academy President
Dr Mah was a Hawai’i state champion gymnast
who became a high school (Punahou) and
college (University of Denver) All-American.
She was voted the team captain at each
school she attended and received outstanding
scholar-athlete and most inspirational gymnast
awards. She started coaching in 1978 and
loves working with gymnasts of all levels and ages. She is a board
certified Pediatrician (with special interests in pediatric sports
medicine) in private practice; Clinical Assistant Professor of
Pediatrics at the University of Hawai’i, John A. Burns School of
Medicine; small business owner; mother of four girls ( all of whom
competed for the Academy); and the Academy Vice President,
Adult Program Head, President of a Large 800 member physician
organization, and Team Physician, and Medical Director. She has
been an elite coach for 10 years and an international judge.
Future Instructors
To be named
1314 Moonui Street
Honolulu, HI 96817 USA
Donna Mah MD
Academy Vice President & Medical Director
Hawai’i Academy - Kalihi
Dr Max was a gymnast, head coach (club, high
school, and college at all levels), club owner/
director in Montana and Colorado, national
women’s judge (beginning-elite), exercise
physiology and biomechanics researcher
(collegiate female gymnasts in Colorado and
Pennsylvania), national collegiate statistician,
international clinician, and equipment design consultant. He has
Post-Doctoral training in Ergonomics and Applied Physiology; Advanced Credentials in Gerontology; a PhD in Neuromuscular Control
and Human Performance; Masters degrees in Exercise Science,
Physiological Psychology, and Public Health; and a Bachelor degree
in Experimental Psychology. He started coaching in 1970.
Presently, he is President of the Academy and Chair of the
Research Department; Principle Investigator of the Hawaii Longitudinal Study of Fitness; a Master’s student in Educational Psychology
(statistical modeling) at the University of Hawaii; a father of four
daughters that he coached at the international level (who are now
employees/directors at the Academy); and a retired elite gymnastics coach. In 2013 he was awarded Master of Sport by USA Gymnastics (one of only two in Hawaii). Each time he has selected a
group of young students for advanced placement, they have gone
on to nationals and international championships.
Hawai’i Academy — a private school for the advancement of lifetime fitness, gymnastics and human sciences for students of all ages and
Advanced Placement Program Instructors
Directions to the Academy’s Kalihi Gym
Diamond Head Bound—– Take the Moanalua Freeway eastbound and take
the King Street exit just after Moanalua Gardens. Continue across Middle
Street, and thru downtown Kalihi until Kalihi Street. Get into the right lane and
turn right onto Waiakamilo (after passing Farrington High School on the left).
Go two short blocks and turn left on Mo’onui Street (Chevron Station on the
corner). Hawaii Academy’s gym is half way down Mo’onui on the left side.
Ewa Bound—– Take the H-1 freeway westbound and take the Houghtailing
exit. Turn left at the traffic signal and proceed down Waiakamilo (Farrington
High School will be on the right), across the King Street intersection. Moonui
Street will be the second street on the left (there is a Chevron station on the
corner); our gym is half way down Mo’onui on the left side.
ADVANCED
PLACEMENT
CLASSES
Accelerated training for select students...
Teaching laboratory for aspiring instructors
Advancing Exceptional Students To Higher Levels
Hawai’i Academy
1314 Moonui Street
Honolulu, HI 96817 USA
Phone: +1 (808) 842.5642
Fax: +1 (808) 841.2564
[email protected]
Last Revised: 2014-10-07
APBrochure.pub