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The Rock to host Acrobatics and Tumbling

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A new competitive event is coming to The Rock of Sports & Performing Arts in Hudson Oaks this fall. Acrobatics and Tumbling is a subcategory of gymnastics that has been sweeping the nation, and especially Texas. 

Baylor University won its seventh consecutive National Collegiate Acrobatics & Tumbling Association National Championship in May of 2022 against 40 other colleges around the United States.

The event was also just picked up by the United States Olympic Committee as an official sponsored event.

Now, The Rock will become the first gym in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex to host a clinic, classes, and possibly a competitive team.

The clinic will take place from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 27. Coach of the reigning youth champion, Tracy Cowan, will be on hand to instruct during the clinic. Anyone from beginners to advanced students are welcome. Athletes will be split into age groups 6-9, 10-12, and 13-plus.

“It’s kind of a hybrid cross between all-star cheer and trampoline tumbling,” the gym’s owner, Tina Rusinovich, explained. “It doesn’t have all the ‘foo-foo fluff’ that cheering has, it’s more athletic. The athletes will be in volleyball style uniforms with numbers on them.”

Of all the subcategories of gymnastics, Acrobatics & Tumbling is among the most precise as coaches must submit their formations and routines with which athlete/number will be in which position at any given time.

The routines include many maneuvers and techniques from multiple different gymnastic events, but a lot of them are inverted.

“Cheerleaders would usually do routines on their feet,” Rusinovich said. “With this, they’re actually going to be inverted on their hands.”

The sport has been growing rapidly and Rusinovich wanted to get The Rock and her athletes ahead of the game.

“The closest gym to us that does this is in Waco,” she mentioned. “There’s a couple in south Texas and then there are many in other states. But we’re going to be one of the first ones to start this program.”

The Rock will start holding classes for Acrobatics & Tumbling in the Fall of 2022 and will look to be able to put together a competitive team with enough interest shown. If not enough interest is shown at first, classes will still take place until there are enough athletes to hold a team.

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