SUGGESTIONS FOR TEACHING TUMBLING : Page 8
Teach tumbling stunts as parts of routines. It will be noticed, upon glancing at the illustrations in this book, that very little
stress has been placed on a definite beginning and finishing form for each stunt. Each should be not an exercise within itself but part of a routine; hence all the illustrations were drawn so as to show progression within a routine.
. Use definite progressions. The program presented herein has been built on definite progressions, which were set up only after careful study had been given to the difficulty, danger, and rate of transfer of training in each stunt. Each step within the progression helps to develop the correct fundamentals for the execution of the most important one, which is usually at the end of the series. It is assumed that the proposed progressions are subject to change and adaptation by the instructor to fit the needs of various classes.