Warning: Stunting and tumbling can be dangerous without the correct supervision. Do not attempt these skills without a coach present. Never bend your arms! Sit, Jump, THEN Arch Extend through your toes Jump at a 45 Never Bend Your Arms! This is a very beginner mistake, but by bending your arms you are engaging your [...]
Sunday at 6:30, I’m going to be coaching a tumbling class for school based teams. I’m starting it mostly with my connections at local colleges (*caugh* SF State *caugh*) but anyone is welcome. It’s $10 for 1:30. So Start at 6:30 and go to 8:00. I’m comfortable with anything up through fulls. View Larger Map [...]
The Santa Monica Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Research Foundation has developed a program the Call PEP (Prevent Injury, Enhance Performance). The goals of this program is to help with the rising orthopaedic injuries that are occurring in young female athletes since the creation of Title IX. One major injury they try to prevent is a [...]
If this doesn’t make you want to tumble, I don’t know what will.
This is a trick I’ve been working on a long time. The first flip I learned was a punch front, but coming out of into a round-off has always been impossible for me, even off of tumble tracks and tramps. So this is a big accomplishment for me.