From Napoleon's great crab walk through Europe to J. Robert Oppenheimer's discovery of nuclear fission by kissing his own elbow, victory has always gone to the most flexible. Overpower enemies with today's Groupon to Payke Gymnastics Academy, with locations in South Pasadena and Alhambra. Choose between the following options:

• For $20, you get four weeks of beginner gymnastics classes (up to a $76 value). Payke offers classes for the following age groups:
  • Parent & Me (ages 2.5–3.5; only offered at the South Pasadena location)
  • KinderGym (ages 3–4)
  • Beginner (ages 5–8)

• For $25, you get four weeks of intermediate gymnastics classes (up to a $92 value). Payke offers classes for the following age groups:
  • Intermediate (ages 8 and up)
  • Tumbling (ages 8–17)

The highly trained staff at Payke Gymnastics Academy educates burgeoning benders ages 2.5 and up in a variety of fundamental gymnastic skills during weekly 1- to 1.5-hour lessons. Whippersnappers as young as 3 years old learn the basics of the vault, bars, beam, mini-trampoline, and gargantuan-trampoline during KinderGym classes. Pupils glean skills for developing flexibility and strength while building self-confidence, coordination, and the ability to balance a spinning plate on their chin. Older amateurs can enroll in the girls' beginner course, working on flexibility, headstands, handstands, and lemonade stands, as well as a light introduction to gymnastics apparatus. Ladies aged 8 and up can continue honing their skills on the trampoline, bars, beam, vault, and floor in the intermediate course, beginning to meld learned skills and routines into multifaceted gymnastic sequences as multifaceted as the Power Rangers Megazord. Finally, the all-levels ages 8 and up tumbling class teaches human tumbleweeds to vault, trampoline-tumble, and floor-tumble and is ideal for dancers and cheerleaders. Check the website for the South Pasadena and Alhambra schedules, in addition to rules, dress code, and etiquette guidelines for the gym.