As a child, Terek Brown was constantly climbing and jumping off of things to burn his energy, he said, but it was not until he was encouraged by his family that he decided to start doing gymnastics, and he never stopped.
“[Gymnastics] just always challenged me,” Brown said. “I just really love that feeling of accomplishment. I’m kind of, like, a thrill-seeker, too, so to be able to do a backflip was eye-opening for me.”
Brown, who owns Journey Gymnastics, said it was his love for the sport and his belief that it provides a safe outlet for kids to release their energy that led him to take over the gym in 2014.
He said he most enjoys spending time with the kids and watching them improve their skills, but the job also provides him an outlet to continue to release his inner child—to let him hold onto his “Peter Pan syndrome," as he called it, and never really have to grow up.
