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About Our Trampoline and Tumbling Program

Students in the program utilize the trampoline, the super springy rod tumbling floor, the tumble trak (long trampoline), the double mini-tramp and the foam pit. Eligible students may try out for the Gypsy Flyers, our school's competitive trampoline and tumbling team. Over the past forty years, many of the Gypsy Flyers have traveled all over the world, competing as members of the USA Trampoline and Tumbling National Team.

In the year 2000, Trampoline became an Olympic event.

The three disciplines of Trampoline &Tumbling are as follows:
Trampoline
Trampoline is a discipline symbolizing freedom, and flying in vertical space. At the Olympic level, multiple somersaults with twists are executed requiring proper technique and perfect body control, often at heights exceeding twenty-five feet.
Initially, an array of individual skills are aquired. Skills are then composed into a ten skill routine to be diplayed by the athlete with grace and control at a height comensurate with the athletes ability.
Power Tumbling
Tumbling is characterized by continuous speedy, complex, rhythmic hands to feet, feet to hands, and feet to feet acrobatics within 6 seconds on a 25 meter long dynamic track. Power Tumbling is a highly spectacular sport in which a perfect combination of speed, rhythm, somersaulting and twisting movements are required.
Double Mini Trampoline
Following a run, the athlete excecutes a mounting skill on the apparatus followed by a second skill, the dismount, onto a landing mat.
High level performers have executed double and triple saltos with twisting! In 1994 and 1996, Gleason's Gymnastic School  athletes Kim Sans and Jennifer Sans competed with the World Champion USA Double Mini Tramp Team coached by Mr. Larry Gleason himself. As recent as the summer of 2009, Gleason's Sarah Prosen competed for the US in the World Games and won the Silver Medal.

 
Beginning Trampoline and Tumbling
Students learn the basics of power tumbling and trampolining skills. They are taught proper technique for handstands, cartwheels, rolling, body bouncing and are introduced to the front flip and the back handspring.
 
Intermediate Trampoline and Tumbling
Students progress toward faster tumbling skills such as round-off, head-springs and front hand springs, more advanced body skills on trampoline, and continue to develop front saltos and back handsprings on the trampoline. Students are also introduced to the whip-back sommersault and back layout on trampoline.
 
Advanced Trampoline and Tumbling
Students  learn more advanced tumbling and trampoline skills, including  porpoises, and twisting front and back somersaults. Many students at this level join our competitive Trampoline and Tumbling Team.
 


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