Strategic main sports taught at the institute include basketball, canoeing and kayaking, rowing, rhythmic gymnastics and aesthetic group gymnastics, acting as a nationwide coaching centre for the sports.

[2] A core part of the coaching centre is the thorough and diverse development of general motoric skills throughout the sports.

Kisakallio acts as a training and accommodation facility for canoeers and kayakers, rowers, artistic gymnasts, footballers, volleyballers, basketballers, floorballers, figure skaters, group skaters, curlers, shooters, orienteers, taekwondo practitioners, dancers, ice hockey players and ringette players.

Kisakallio has diverse premises and services for sport clubs, companies and schools.

The institute is located on the shore of the Lohjanjärvi lake, which allows it to offer canoeing and kayaking and rowing in summer as well as a skating track in winter.

The village of Karnainen in the Lohja rural municipality was chosen as the new location, and the institute moved there on 3 November 1966.

[1] In 1993 the institute received permission to provide professional training aiming at a basic degree in sports coaching.

[3] The institute premises and the sport arenas receive heating from the nearby Maikkalanselkä at the lake Lohjanjärvi.