Game version
Skill-card game: pick a card with a skill you already know and show it with your coach nearby. The pair collects five clean skills together.
Round-Off with a Coach
Turn a cartwheel into a round-off that snaps your feet together, the base of most tumbling passes.
By Coach Evan Waechtler Youth coach (U11, Cache Valley, Utah) and founder of SSTracker Updated October 30, 2026
Set up
Warm up with 5 cartwheels.
Core: Your usual skill. Move up only with your coach’s OK.
- Ages
- 14 and up
- Time
- 15 min
- Space
- Gym or court
- Bring
- Mats, coach
- Level · skill
- Advanced · Tumbling
The steps
How it works
- Warm up with 5 cartwheels.
- Take a short run, hurdle and reach long for the mat.
- Bring your legs together over the top and snap down.
- Finish tall with arms up. Do 8 with your coach.
Coaching point
Snap down, chest up.
Safety: Only in a gym with a qualified coach and proper mats. Never try this at home. Any hit to the head, or dizziness or a headache after a fall: stop, tell your coach, and no more stunting or tumbling until a doctor clears you.
Make it fun
Play it, don't drill it
Challenge
Pick a level: Less (a shape or roll), Core (your usual skill), More (a clean skill with a stuck landing). Move up only with your coach’s OK.
Story
You are a circus star performing your favorite act.
My best
Beat your own count
Move up only with your coach’s OK. Only your own number counts: today against last time.
Practice makes progress
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