Acrobatics and tumbling is now a NCAA championship sport (1 Viewer)

[Ahsoka]

Meaning that it is officially sanctioned as a NCAA sport, with its own tournament. The first championship will be in 2027.

And if you don’t know what acrobatics and tumbling is, it’s a sport that draws from aspects of artistic gymnastics, acrobatic gymnastics, and cheerleading, but with different types of events and opportunities. This is a video showing highlights from a competition in compulsory categories (the “easy” stuff), acrobatic categories (stunts and pyramids), toss categories (pretty self explanatory), and different tumbling categories (solo, duo, group). There are also other categories not shown here (I know the team event isn’t shown). I really like this sport, it really takes so many of the best aspects of gymnastics and cheer and consolidates it into one sport. And I love that it has a lot of opportunities for different people, since in gymnastics and cheer there’s fewer chances to do one thing you like and are good at (for example, tumbling) without also needing to do other things you may be worse at/not like (for example, uneven bars).

 

[Ahsoka]

I’m so tempted to tag the facts category because I think this is so cool but that’s a stretch So I’ll just tag a couple people I think might enjoy this.

@Nina @Tickita

 

[sooya_]

hmm, that's interesting ah but 2027 is so far away :(

 

[Ahsoka]

hmm, that's interesting ah but 2027 is so far away :(

But also understandable, with it just being considered a sport now it would probably be unreasonable for there to be a tournament in just a few months But there’s a lot of clips on YouTube of people doing this sport, and sometimes even full competitions. Though you do get a ton of gymnastics and cheerleading results, so you need to weed those out (though both of those are amazing too).

 

[sooya_]

But also understandable, with it just being considered a sport now it would probably be unreasonable for there to be a tournament in just a few months But there’s a lot of clips on YouTube of people doing this sport, and sometimes even full competitions. Though you do get a ton of gymnastics and cheerleading results, so you need to weed those out (though both of those are amazing too).

Wow!!! :o

 

[Tickita]

Yesss that's so awesome, I could watch tumbling and tosses all day

 

[Ahsoka]

Yesss that's so awesome, I could watch tumbling and tosses all day

I like how the tumbling passes are long and with a lot of connections. Gymnastics doesn’t have connected passes as much (though ofc they do to some level), and it’s cool to see longer tumbling like that. Especially in sync with others