Tumbling at Cultural CCRAM is a modality with many traditions and brilliant results. With this project, we intend to renew our Tumbling track and enable the continuation of work started about two decades ago... Help us make the leap!
But... What is Tumbling?
Tumbling is a sport that is a part of the gymnastics area. It is characterized by the rapid chain of acrobatic elements in rotation without motion of momentum, in an elevated track that is 25 meters long with a driving base that helps gymnasts in their performance.
The gymnast should always demonstrate speed, strength, flexibility and ability while performing a series of acrobatic manoeuvers.
As it was already mentioned, this sport has been practiced at CCRAM for about 20 years and currently has 15 athletes with age ranging from 6 to 13 years.
The track where the drills are practiced, due to its 25 years of use, presents damages that have increased in recent years. Some of the plaques are broken and several cracks are visible on the carpet, which put at risk the safety of gymnasts. The risk increases significantly at older ages, which is why we don’t have athletes older than 13. Moreover, these lacks require extra care during practice, damaging the athletes in their technical evolution.
Despite these important limitations, the professional value of teachers and the enthusiasm of our gymnasts has allowed to achieve many successes on regional and national levels.
We have been present in large regional and national competitive events:
In 2010, when the track problems weren’t as serious, our gymnast João Moreno won the Absolute National Champion title;
In 2014, our gymnast Mariana Silva won national runner-up in the beginner echelon (12 years), and other top ratings on the national scene;
In the last two years, we managed to qualify for the final of the Portugal Cup, proof queen of the national sport;
In February 2015, our athlete Carolina Val (regional runner-up in 2015), qualified for the Nacional Championship in a qualifying race, where she achieved the best result of the established athletes. On 11 April, in Santo Tirso, she won the National Champion title in the beginner echelon. She is now in trials for the World Cup by Age Groups.
What wouldn’t we achieve with a full operational track?!
The tumbling track is composed by a set of multiple plates and two rolls of carpets approved by the International Gymnastics Federation. The damage could be repaired on the plates, but the rolls have lost the proper consistency, so they have to be replaced too.
We appeal to all who are interested in sports to collaborate in this noble challenge. It would be an irreparable loss to all this great technical merit of work if it was interrupted. To secure a job with higher quality, satisfaction, professionalism and rigor, we need to achieve the goal we set ourselves with this project.
With a new track with all the perfect conditions, we will continue to form champions!
Help us make the leap!