Class Placement
Gymnastics Skills
SKill Charts
Mats & Props
Gymnastics Equipment
200
A 13-year-old beginner with no gymnastics experience who wants to learn flips should be guided by staff into this specific class.
What is T&T TEENS 1?
200
This fundamental inverted skill involves placing your hands on the floor and kicking your feet over your head in a sideways wheel-like motion.
What is a Cartwheel?
200
A parent calls the front desk on the 15th of the month asking why they haven't received their child's latest skill chart update. You inform them that completed skill charts are sent out on this regular schedule.
What is the last day of each month?
200
Essential for teaching rolls, back handsprings, and walkovers, this wedge-shaped mat gets its popular food-inspired nickname from its triangular shape.
What is a cheese mat?
200
To safely learn new high-level flips and dismounts without hard impacts, gymnasts launch themselves off trampolines or vault runways into this deep, block-filled safety feature.
What is a Foam Pit?
400
An elementary Teacher calls asking for a 1-hour class with coach-led games, obstacle courses, and foam pit time for 24 8-year-olds in their 3rd grade classroom. Staff should recommend this option.
What is a Structured Field Trip?
400
Often taught in early preschool classes, this animal-named skill teaches side-to-side weight transfer by placing hands on a mat or beam and hopping feet over from side to side.
What is a monkey jump?
400
If a coach is tracking a gymnast who is currently practicing a skill but hasn't fully mastered it yet, they will mark the skill chart with this letter.
What is W (or Working)?
400
Found in every recreational class, this versatile mat folds up into accordion-like sections and is stacked to adjust heights for drills or stretched out for tumbling.
What is a panel mat?
400
Unlike a basic gymnastics mat, a competitive Floor Exercise surface gets its massive rebound and bounce from this underlying layer hidden beneath the carpet foam.
What are springs (or Spring Floor / Spring loaded Floor)?
600
A parent calling to enroll a 4-year-old child looking to combine early classroom education with daily coach-led movement should be directed toward this partnership program.
What is SPS or PlayDate+?
600
To build shoulder strength and power for handstands, gymnasts place their hands on the mat and kick both feet up into the air together in this farm animal-inspired drill.
What is a donkey kick?
600
Even if 100% of the skills on a chart are marked complete, a child cannot officially move up until the coach fills out this specific field in the skill chart.
What is the public notes in Class Recommendations?
600
Essential for tumbling progressions, this stationary, rounded mat allows athletes to independently practice the sit, arch, and push phases of a back handspring.
What is a boulder?
600
Following safety concerns over collision risks, the traditional apparatus was retired in 2001 in favor of this wider, spring-buffered surface, designed with a curved front incline called the "tongue."
What is a Vaulting table?
800
To officially enroll a student in Star League A, the child must meet these three specific requirements.
What are: be 6 years old, have completed Level 1, and do a trial in the class?
800
Considered the absolute foundational building block of all gymnastics, this inverted skill requires a vertical line from hands to toes with tight core engagement.
What is a handstand?
800
To advance to the next level, a gymnast’s skill chart must show this percentage of required core skills marked as "Complete" or "C" (excluding bonus skills).
What is 100%?
800
Filled with air rather than foam, this modern inflatable provides customizable spring and bounce while reducing joint impact during repetitive floor passes.
What is an AirTrack?
800
Athletes sprint down a runway and rebound off this small, two-level bed apparatus before landing on a thick mat.
What is a Double Mini Trampoline?
1000
A child wants to register for a class level meant for an older age group, but their birthday isn't until next month. Front desk staff can approve this age exemption as long as the child's birthday falls within this exact timeframe of their start date.
What is 3 weeks (or within 21 days)?
1000
On the balance beam, coaches use this delicious-sounding cue to teach gymnasts how to sweep their feet through a low, controlled kick along the top of the beam.
What is an ice cream scoop?
1000
Daily Double: In order for a coach to officially mark a skill as "C" (Complete) and add the date, a gymnast must successfully demonstrate the skill this many times across this many different classes.
What is 3 times in a row for 3 consecutive classes?
1000
Seen here on the screen, this ring-shaped foam mat helps athletes safely practice rolling and back handspring entry drills. 
What is a donut?
1000
Daily Double: Before learning to rotate circular leg cuts on the actual handles of a Pommel Horse, male gymnasts build foundational wrist strength and rhythm on this padded, dome-shaped floor trainer.
What is a Gymnastics Mushroom (or Pommel Mushroom or Mushroom)?