The Jump! team has a wealth of knowledge, years of experience and a joy for working with children. Click below for contact information and to learn more about them.

Jennifer Hood, Owner and Director
Lindsay Little, General Manager
Sara G, Senior Coach
Hima, Coach
Johanna, Coach
Elena, Coach

Jennifer Hood

Jennifer Hood has over 15 years experience working in six different gymnastics organizations across Canada. She has developed recreational programming for young children, and is a certified teacher, specializing in primary education. She is also a mother of three daughters, 7, 5 and 1.

All of her experience has led her to one important conclusion: when it comes to our children’s physical fitness, we can do better.

Conventional approaches to children’s sports have a vocabulary that includes words like early specialization, burnout, boredom, over-scheduling, dropout, intimidating, overly competitive, stressful, too late, and unfortunately, too often, childhood obesity.

Children are more likely to remain active if they are involved in something they enjoy. The problem? We do not know what our children will be interested in as they grow, and we certainly can’t enroll them in everything to ensure they don’t “miss out” later.

Fortunately, this is a problem with an answer.

For many years Jennifer has had a vision for a program that gives our children the basic building blocks of physical movement. A program that would ensure that they have the necessary foundation to be active for life, no matter what sport they choose and no matter whether their goal is recreation or excellence.

Following the birth of her second child, she decided to make her vision a reality.

In the spring of 2007, Jennifer was accepted into Langara College’s Self-Employment Program, where she spent ten weeks developing her business plan. She then dedicated the next 14 months to creating the curriculum, training staff and designing her facility.

Jump! Gymnastics opened its doors on September 2nd, 2008 and quickly became a destination for parents from across Vancouver and classes are now running at near capacity each session.

Jennifer was recently one of only thirteen women accepted to BC's Forum for Women Entrepreneurs 2010 E-series. The FWE's highly competitive E-series is a six-month program for women entrepreneurs of early-stage high-growth leverageable businesses. Jennifer is honoured to have been selected in such great company and looking forward to exploring opportunities to bring Jump! Gymnastics to more children.

“This isn’t about training gymnasts,” says Jennifer, “this is about using developmental gymnastics - the sport that offers the best opportunities to develop foundational movement skills - as a starting point to help our children be active for life.”


Contact Jennifer: jen@jumpgymnastics.ca


Lindsay Little

Lindsay’s classes benefit from her calm, patient and kind approach, in addition to her abundance of creative ideas that make gymnastics fun and engaging for young children. She has her national coaching certification in gymnastics, and has coached children for sixteen years in BC and Ontario. Lindsay has a BSc with a major in development psychology as well as a degree in human development and counseling along with a degree in Therapeutic Recreation. Lindsay believes that every child is an individual, every individual has a special talent, and that by supporting a child’s physical, mental and social development a coach can find and nurture that talent.

Hometown: Caledonia, Ont
Personal Goal: To travel and experience as much as possible!
Professional Goal: To grow Jump so we can take over the physical literacy world!
Biggest personal achievement: Graduating from university and buying our first house !!!
What you love about Jump: Watching the kids learn and grow and the group of people I work with.

Contact Lindsay: lindsay@jumpgymnastics.ca

Coach: Sara G
Hometown: Richmond, BC
Education: Bachelor of Human Kinetics UBC (2009) and B.Ed. UBC Student (current)
Playtime Activities: Soccer, biking, hiking, movies and friends
Professional Goals: To be an elementary school teacher and travel the world
Favourite Place: Cambodia
Favourite Food: Pasta
Favourite Colour: Blue
Coaching Philosophy: To treat each child as an individual and focus on their strengths- making sure they achieve success, have fun and want to continue with sport.

Coach: Hima
Hometown: Burnaby, BC
Education: SFU Student (current )
Playtime Activities: Reading, running, playing tennis and snowboarding
Professional Goals: To be an elementary school teacher
Favourite Place: Paris, France
Favourite Food: Cold Pizza, Green Eggs and Ham
Favourite Colour: Purple
Coaching Philosophy: Positivity and enthusiasm are the keys to successful learning

Coach: Johanna
Hometown: Vancouver, BC
Education: University of BC Student (current)
Playtime Activities: Scrabble, Frisbee and Charades
Professional Goals: Graduate from UBC, learn Spanish and travel to Indonesia
Favourite Place: Italy
Favourite Food: Sushi and pasta
Favourite Colour: Green
Coaching Philosophy: To pass on life skills, new knowledge and fun!

Coach: Elena
Hometown: Vancouver, BC
Education: BA in Physical Education and Coaching, Douglas College (Present)
Playtime Activities: Anything outdoors, swimming and skiing, Shopping.
Professional Goals: Graduate from School and obtain a Teaching job.
Favourite Place: Banff, AB
Favourite Food: Sushi/Sashimi
Favourite Colour: Blue
Coaching Philosophy: As a coach you are developing children into who they will become. So having an open and friendly atmosphere for them to learn and feel safe in is essential for physical and emotional development.