u/TraditionHumble96

hello! I haven’t had any major progress with my tumbling, but I’ve started doing round off back hand springs. Our tryout list consists of a jump to tumbling, 2 running tumbling passes, a jump combo, and a dance.

I’ll link my dance below, as I’m pretty sharp and my jumps are pretty decent. But I’m curious,

as coaches, would it be best for an athlete to say they don’t have specific tumbling skills if they can’t land any on the floor? Or would you rather an athlete throw it without saying anything, and atleast trying.

I’m not scared about hurting myself really, I just have a hard time blocking through my shoulders. I plan to do a running round off backhandspring, and a running front hand spring — with my ro bhs, I have trouble just blocking through my shoulders, I don’t land on my head but my arms aren’t pretty, and with my running front hand spring I typically just have trouble landing on my feet and I fall back. So it’s not like I’m throwing something that I have no idea what I’m doing. Just small technique errors. Just curious on your opinion.

Now for my jump to tumbling, what are some simple things I can do? I don’t want to throw a back hand spring simply cause I’ve never done a jump -> bhs, is there anything else I can alternate with? Maybe a jump, turn around, round off with a high rebound?

Just looking for advice :) thank you, feel free to ask clarifying questions, I feel like I may have not made total sense haha.

May 19th is my tryout day at my first allstar gym! Hella excited, and I’ve progressed so much these last few months while preparing. I have so many upcoming classes around every Tuesday and Thursday before tryouts. Hoping I get my backhand spring, but I know that I’ll kill it :)

Any tips that you guys have for when you did your first tryout? Coaches, what are you looking for in an athlete when they’re trying out?

no tumbling but I fear we are the blue print 😎

also to update, I’ve decided to continue my path and tryout on Idaho Cheer instead of another gym, they’ve been so supportive & helpful, I wouldn’t have gotten as far as I’m getting without them, even with knowing I was planning to tryout at the other gym. not that this matters to anyone, but all my progress is coming from them and I feel as if this is just a better opportunity!! so excited :)