Tumbling (sport): Difference between revisions

|+Common Typestypes of Skillsskills in Tumblingtumbling

|End Skillskill

|The skill competed at the end of the run,; this is either a double/triple somersault, a twisting somersault or a combination somersault.

| Double Somersaultsomersault

|Triple Somersaultsomersault

|The gymnastsgymnast launches into the air and rotates three times vertically before landing on their feet. This skill is done in a tuck or pike position and has yet to be competed in the straight position.

| Twisting Somersaultsomersault

| A single somersault in which the tumbler rotates horizontally. This is can be done as a single 'full' twist, a double twist or a triple twist.

|Combination Somersaultsomersault

|A somersault that is a combination of double/triple and twisting skills. For example, in a double -twisting double straight, the gymnast will rotate twice vertically and twice horizontally before landing. The hardest combination somersaults performed would be either the full in triple pike in which a gymnasts rotates vertically three times in a pike position with a full twist in the first rotation or 'the miller' in which a gymnast rotates horizontally four times and vertically twice.

|Transition Skillskill

|This is where a gymnast performs either aA double somersault or a combination somersault in the middle of theira run as opposed to doing it as an end skill. No triple somersaults or combination somersaults involving a triple vertically rotation has yet to be competed.