I love our set-up for tumbling at Altadore Gymnastics Club.
Best of all is the Powertrack.
This is the world’s best (and most expensive) TumblTrak. The same one used by Cirque du Soleil. Custom built for our club by Dave Ross.
It’s very tight. Almost like floor. And we have good matting for learning new tricks on to a resi-mat pit.
From there gymnasts move to our competition rod floor.
It’s not quite regulation length. But including the pit landing zone, it’s close. The #2 men’s tumbler in Canada, Andrew Egyed, trains at Altadore on this floor.
Very popular with artistic gymnasts is training advanced skills from rod floor on to the “woofie” mat. (Another resi-pit)
This is stiff enough to land — or even punch front — but still very forgiving on bad landings.
Finally we take the skills to our competition floor. Often we tumble from the hard floor into the pit.
Olympic Floor Champion 2004 Kyle Shewfelt trained at this gym. Though over the years he rarely ever did full difficulty tumbling on competition floor. Instead, to avoid overuse syndrome injury, Kyle used the many alternate tumbling set-ups.
We have two in-ground competitive trampolines, as well. Ideal for introducing new elements.
Altadore is still searching for our next Women’s Head Coach. Great facility. Great salary. Check out the details on this job on a related post: Gymnastics Coaching job in Calgary, Canada
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