08/27/2026
Last week, Emmett and Jason ventured down to Ninja Connect in Cincinnati. Ninja Connect is a ninja gym specific conference that brings together coaches and owners of ninja programs across the US and Canada. 🤸♀️
Ninja Connect was held at the Kids First Village. This place was amazing–they’ve been around 53 years! They started out with 17 kids in a church for a gymnastics program and have grown to a campus covering 15.4 acres, 183,000 sq ft across 3 buildings. Over 20,000 people walk through their doors each week. Their programs now cover gymnastics, ninja, swimming, dance, cheer, taekwondo, and aerials.
After attending Ninja Connect, we have no doubt that there’s much to look forward to with the future of ninja. Ninja league participation is increasing. There will be a ninja component in the 2028 Olympics as part of the Pentathlon. The groundwork is being laid to it becoming its own stand alone sport in the Olympics. We could be planting the seeds right now in the U.P. for our next Olympic athlete. 👀
We left the conference energized and inspired on how to continue to strengthen our curriculum, course design, and cultivating a culture within the gym that everyone will be proud of being a part of. 🌟