Many excellent books on tumbling are available to the instructor or coach. Most of these, however, deal with individual stunts without definite series of progressions. Furthermore, in most cases the descriptions and illustrations represent the viewpoint of the single author or authors.
A need seemed to exist for some degree of uniformity and standardization in the performance techniques of the usual tumbling stunts. The authors accordingly undertook to secure, by objective methods, reproductions of the composite viewpoints of representative tumbling instructors from various parts of the United States.
This undertaking involved six major objectives:
1. The standardization of the form for the various tumbling
stunts selected for the major units of the series.
2. Securing agreement as to the proper selection and teaching
sequence of the several stunts within each progression.
3. The production of attractive and accurate illustrations of
a composite form agreed upon for the selected tumbling units.
4. Devising suitable and acceptable variations in individual
and group activities for each of the several units.
5. Securing agreement as to the most acceptable nomenclature and teaching methods.
6. Arranging appropriate group stunts for each unit in order
to emphasize socialization through tumbling.
