09/25/2026
🤸♀️ WHY DO WE WORK ON DEEPER BACKBEND FLEXIBILITY? 🤸♀️
When our athletes work toward lowering a backbend closer to their elbows, the goal isn’t simply to “bend farther” it’s to build the shoulder, back, and hip flexibility needed for stronger, cleaner tumbling skills. 💪✨
With proper technique and coach supervision, this type of flexibility training can help athletes improve:
✨ Shoulder mobility
✨ Back and hip flexibility
✨ Body control and awareness
✨ Stronger bridge positions
✨ Straighter shapes in walkovers and handsprings
✨ The ability to create more power through their skills
The more mobility an athlete has in the right areas, the less they have to compensate somewhere else in their body. That can make skills look cleaner, feel easier, and allow them to progress into more advanced tumbling with better technique.
But here’s the important part: FLEXIBILITY SHOULD NEVER BE FORCED. 🤍 Every athlete progresses differently, and our coaches focus on safe, controlled stretching that meets each athlete where they are.
We aren’t stretching just to see how flexible they can become. We’re building the mobility, strength, and control that helps them EXCEL in their tumbling! 🔥