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The Difference Between Tumble Fit & Gymnastics?
Your child loves to roll around, jump and climb, and you are thinking of enrolling them in a gymnastics class. After a quick search online, you find gyms offer many different classes, and there are two words that keep coming up: gymnastics and tumbling.
Many people have heard both words used, but they don’t know the differences. That makes it difficult to determine which option is right for your child. Here’s a closer look at both options and a few tips to help you make the right decision.
What’s Tumbling?
Tumbling is one of the disciplines of gymnastics. It involves performing a series of acrobatic movements, which are done on a spring floor. The gymnast performs a variety of movements like whips, jumps, and flips.
One of the main features of tumbling is that no gymnastic equipment is used aside from mats and the spring floor. This makes it pretty easy for kids to practice at home. Tumbling also requires explosive strength when compared to some other forms of gymnastics.
Engaging in tumbling takes the skills developed in gymnastics training and then focuses more on developing explosive strength. It often requires more coordination than other types of gymnastic events. Since gymnastics training is often required, tumbling is usually started at older ages. While it’s more specific than a general gymnastics class, it does promote the development of most of the same skills, such as coordination, strength, and flexibility.
What’s Gymnastics?
Gymnastics is a broad discipline and is a sport involving movement that requires strength, flexibility, endurance, and coordination. Athletes perform maneuvers like handstands, turns, flips, and more on various types of equipment. Equipment can include rings, parallel bars, balance beams, high bars, uneven bars, and more.
Artistic gymnastics includes multiple events, including four for women and six for men.
Which Option is Right Your Child?
Now that you understand the differences between gymnastics and tumbling, and that tumbling is a discipline of gymnastics, you may be wondering what type of classes will be right for your child.
Here are a few things you should consider.
1 – The age of your child. Tumbling is usually best for kids who are at least 5 or 6. This can also vary from gym to gym because some gyms have minimum age requirements for specific classes.
2 Your child’s experience level. Both Gymnastics & Tumbling are usually suitable for beginners and most have intermediate and advanced levels as well/
3 – The goals and interests of your child. If your child is really interested in tumbling after getting some gymnastics experience, then tumbling classes could be a perfect choice.
Another good point to remember is that tumble fit can offer an excellent base of training for all kinds of sports. Because of its ability to develop flexibility, strength, coordination, and endurance, tumbling classes provide kids with core skills that they can use in nearly any sport they choose to practice in the future.
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