If you’re a St. Petersburg parent researching activities for a high-energy or easily-distracted kid, the short answer is: look for movement, immediate feedback, and short cycles of effort and reward, not activities that ask for long stretches of sitting still.
Locally, that points to swimming, martial arts and boxing/kickboxing, and individual track events over standard team sports, which often involve more standing around waiting for a turn than parents expect.
At 1MR Kid’s Martial Arts Academy’s Central Avenue location, near Historic Kenwood and the Grand Central District, classes are built in alternating 4-5 minute high- and low-energy blocks specifically so no child is asked to sustain one mode of attention too long. Coaches are trained to tell a “hyper” profile (impulsive, high-movement) apart from a “drifter” profile (unfocused, withdrawn), using a different in-class strategy for each rather than the same correction repeated louder.
If this sounds like your child, book a free trial class at the St. Petersburg location and watch how they respond to structure paired with movement.