Our Story

Every gym has a story about how it started. Ours started with an off-the-cuff comment over dinner. We asked our founder, Mary-Lou Labruna, to share how one dinner conversation turned into a gymnastics club in Strathfield. This is her story, in her own words.

Every gym has a first day. Ours was the first week of January 2026. There was no grand opening. No ribbon cutting. Just a group of people who believed that the inner west deserved a gymnastics centre built around athletes, and a lot of work to do. Inner West Gymnastics Centre (IWG) is a Women's Artistic Gymnastics (WAG) club in Strathfield South, Sydney. We offer gymnastics classes for children from age 2 through to high-performance competitive WAG. If you've been searching f