Our Facility- We have a 54 x 42 spring competition floor and 3 tumbling floors, we have many spring board cheeses, a 30ft long tumble track, and above ground pits. We offer the best in a training facility with coaches that are trained and have years of training. If you have not tried our classes you are missing out of the best run classes anywhere. Just ask anyone who takes from us, they will tell you we work harder and have more fun than anyone. The classes are high energy and very positive. Be sure to tell your friends about our classes.
What do I want to Do at Tumble Cheer?
Tumbling Classes
Our Classes are designed to teach you how to tumble through progression. Our instructors love to teach and we make the class fun. I know these classes are hard work but we love to work hard and have fun working hard. We feel that if you don’t work the kids hard the kids will not get better. We believe that learning new skills is fun. We want you to come have a blast learning to tumble in our classes.
School Cheerleader
To be a school cheerleader in this area what do I need to do. You need to tumble, at least back hand springs, but tucks and layouts would be much better. You also need to jump level or better toe touches. We at Tumble Cheer have classes designed to help with these goals. You will also need cheer tech classes. One class a week in cheer tech will teach you motions and how to cheer and will also fine tune your jumps. To make cheerleader you need to tumble two times a week and one Cheer Tech class a week. It usually takes around 6-9 months to learn to tumble if you are coming two times a week. I know we usually don’t take as long and sometimes it only takes a couple of months for some kids, but some kids need time to get over fear or strength or flexibility problems. You will be competing against many other girls that are coming two or three times a week so the better you are prepared the better chances you have to make cheerleader at your school. We suggest two tumbling classes a week and one cheer tech class a week. We will also have Try Out clinics that we will have in Dec – March these will teach you how to show spirit and how to try out. You will be judged on a cheer and a dance and given a score sheet to show you what you need to work on. These are very helpful because it makes you get in front of someone to perform.
The good thing is that if you don’t make it the first year you can continue to train and stand a good chance to make it the next year. Many of the girls that make it the first year stop training and if you train you can take their spot the next year. School squads still will take the best trained kids.
All Star Cheerleader
I want to train to be the best of the best. Our All Star training will be the best training in the state. We are going to provide an atmosphere and structure to have the best kids in the state. Take a look at the Champs Training Program and decide if you want to train to be the best you can be.
Do I want to be a School Cheerleader or be on another All Star Team or do I want to be a “Champ”.
I realize that many teams in the area are going to many competitions and doing things much different than I am doing. My goal is to train kids to a high level. My goal is not to go make a lot of money taking kids to competitions before they are ready. This gets very frustrating for teams, and parents. The Champs program is designed to get the best results from your kids. We have a common sense approach about training and competitions.
School Squads and All Star Squads are different
If your goal is to train to be a cheerleader at school you need to take two tumbling classes a week and a cheer tech class a week. A girl can make cheerleader in this area with backhand springs, and tucks are a bonus. This will get you ready for school squads. All Star Squads train to compete with fulls, double fulls, whip to fulls, crazy tumbling with crazy stunts. They train to be the best. This takes much more training than training for local school squads.
School squads have different goals than Competitive All Star Squads therefore will never be as good as All Star Squads! All Star Squads train much more than School squads therefore they will be much better. Usually school squads don’t compete and don’t train to compete, Madison Schools do not compete, therefore will never be as good as a level 4 or level 5 All Star Squad. You can be a great school cheerleader and only make a good level 2 or level 3 All Star Team. The Champs Program is designed to get to level 4 and 5 and compete at a national level. Although we are a new program only a few months old we are planning for having the best kids in the state. I realize it will take a couple of years to find and train committed kids but we will put the time and effort into our All Star Teams to be the best. Come be a part of something that will be the best experience of their youth “Champs.”
I am so excited to see what is going on in the gym. Thanks for all the Emails and kind words. Doug 601-540-2250
Learning to tumble is done by progression. You must learn and perfect the basic before you can perform the harder skills. Most people don’t learn a back handspring in a lesson. Some do but most don’t. I am asked all the time what does it take for my child to learn to tumble, so I am going to attempt to give you some to the things that will help you learn to tumble as soon as possible.
1. Learn a handstand. You can practice against a wall or a door. Make sure you are always watching your hands. The handstand is the basics for all tumbling. If you can do a good handstand you can do straight cartwheels and round offs.
2. Learn a good bridge up. The bridge up is the basic position in a back handspring. You need to learn a bridge up with your arms straight and your legs straight and together.
3. Learn a back bend kick over, tick tocks and back walkovers. We practice these at the gym in every class. A good place for your child to practice them at home is the couch or a bed. They can lay down bridge up and kick over (watching their hands) off the couch (Move the coffee tables!!! ) . Once they can kick over start tick tocks and back bend kick overs. Our goal is for them to be able to do a back walkover on the ground. (We teach them to do a kick over on a mat with their feet elevated, it is easier to kick over with their feet elevated.) Your child needs to gradually work their way down from the couch to some pillows to be on the floor as soon as possible.
4. Learn a round off with your arms up and landing in a up right position. We will teach them to round off shoot back on a mat while we are teaching them to round off back handspring. The perfect round off actually lands in a leaning back position so you can go straight back into your back handspring. We also want you to land your round off with as little bend in the knees as possible. This will help you develop power when you tumble. (The bigger you sit the slower you will tumble)
5. It is safe for your child to work round offs, bridge ups and kick overs at home this will greatly increase their learning time. Please do not let them work back handsprings and round off back handsprings at home until they work them by themselves at least 4 days in a row at the gym.
Your child’s safety is our greatest concern. I have 30 years of expertise of knowing when your child is ready to do things by themselves. Please help me keep them as safe as possible, by letting me tell them when they can perform the skill by themselves at home or somewhere else.
I am going to answer some questions that I am asked all the time.
1. Do I need one, two, or three days a week to get my back hand spring?
Answer: One time a week is just four times a month. It is very hard for anyone to learn a back handspring very fast coming one time a week. Some kids can learn coming one time a week but many can’t. I suggest at least 2 times a week. Learn what you want to get and then you can step down to one time a week to maintain your skills.
2. Do I need private lessons?
Answer: It is good to have a coach all to yourselves to correct some technique that you are doing wrong. It is also good to help some children who don’t work well in a class environment. I suggest private lessons to some kids who can not break a bad habit or who want to work on a specific skill, but learning is repetition. You must spend the time in the gym to get better. If you think just a private once a week without any other practice will get you better it usually will not. I suggest classes and privates. Privates are to fix any problems and classes are to work on the repetition it takes to perfect the skill.
3. Strength work? What do I need to do?
Answer: Being strong helps you from being injured. You need to do 3 sets of 30 push ups, and 3 sets of 30 jackknives every day. You also need to do 20 toe touches and 3 sets of 10 popcorn toe touches ever day. Ten back bend kick overs and ten tick tocks are also something you can do to get you strong enough to get your back handsprings. I get my kids to do strength work for Popsicle. I have a 6 year old that will do 100 pushups for a popsicle.
4. How do I make my jumps better?
Answer: See strength work above(#3) because this will help you get strong enough to make your jumps good. We will correct anything they are doing technically in practice. Most people need more flexibility and strength work. Make sure they work on their splits holding them for 90 seconds each (right, left, and middle). They also need to sit in a straddle and put their head on the ground. These and other stretches we do in class will help them get the flexibility it takes to get better on their jumps. I tell kids to stretch while doing homework. Sometimes you need to be creative when trying to find the time to stretch and do strength work.
Learning to tumble is done by progression. You must learn and perfect the basic before you can perform the harder skills. Most people don’t learn a back handspring in a lesson. Some do but most don’t. I am asked all the time what does it take for my child to learn to tumble, so I am going to attempt to give you some to the things that will help you learn to tumble as soon as possible.
