2024-2025 Team athletes Levels 6+

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Recreational tumbling teaches basic skills through games and direct instruction. These classes normally meet for one hour per week and may be dropped and picked back up at a later date with little impact on skill loss. Athletes may move up through levels as their skills improve.

Competitive power tumbling teaches skills as well, but also focuses on strength training and integrating tumbling and trampoline skills to perform routines. Practice is typically a minimum of three hours per week and runs continuously year round. Competitive athletes compete in competitions against other gyms and grow skills far beyond what is offered in recreational classes. The competitive season begins and ends in summer.

The main season runs January through May. There are additional pre-season clinics. Despite competition season only running half the year, power tumbling is a year round sport. Summer training in crucial to being prepared for the following season.

Power Tumbling athletes compete in 3 events (floor, double mini, and trampoline). Levels are broken into age groups, and your athlete will be scored only against those in their level, age group, and gender. Athletes may win medals in each individual event. Competitions can be multiple days and athletes may compete in one event on Saturday and the other on Sunday. We will go over schedules as soon as they are made available to me. 

Men and women both compete and train the same skills/levels. 

TOPGUN Tumbling plans to compete in four competitions plus state clinic to prepare for the upcoming season. Competitions will be in Reno, Northern California, Las Vegas, or Salt Lake City and participation is expected.

Athletes who choose may compete in Regionals- all levels (no qualifications) and Nationals: Stars and Stripes-levels 5-7 or USAG Nationals- levels 8+. Location and pricing for these events will be determined the year prior. Nationals must be qualified for at state and/or regionals.

Most athletes compete in one level per year. It is possible to move up levels midseason, however moving up midseason can be difficult. Summer is the biggest time for skill progress. Athletes may jump levels but may be required to do a mobility competition to hit mobility scores. Once an athlete competes at a level, they may not drop back down to a lower level except in special circumstances. 

TOPGUN Tumbling competes in USAG T&T program. T&T stands for trampoline and tumbling. In the T&T program, athletes do not have to compete at the same level in floor as double mini. An athlete could be a level 6 on floor and level 5 on double mini.