To quickly recap, the basic tumbling and acrobatics class I went to had about eight participants. The instructor led us in across-the-floor stretches and exercises, followed by teaching us how to do ...

Scenes from the Cartwheel for a Cure gymnastics meet on Saturday, Jan. 13, 2024, at Berner Middle School in Massapequa. Credit: Peter Frutkoff Julia Blette of Oceanside competes in the floor exercise ...

The founding members hope that the team will be open to students with a range of gymnastics experience. “Even [for] people who have never even thought about doing gymnastics, the thought of learning ...

For six years, ‘Cartwheel for a Cure,’ an annual gymnastics fundraising event in Nassau, raised money for The Boomer Esiason Foundation, which seeks to fund cystic fibrosis research. This was done, in ...

Children walked atop balance beams as a nearby group of boys ran and did diving somersaults onto a mat. Girls in another section of the gym practiced basic skills on the uneven bars. Just a typical ...

After doing gymnastics in the fall, 6-year-old Mattea DiGirolamo was told she had to practice her cartwheel. Nobody expected her skill-building habits to continue into her spring T-ball season. During ...

Becoming a successful gymnast almost always starts with preschool-aged kids in leotards barely able to do a cartwheel. It usually ends in high school — or college, for a few of us — at which point ...

Tumbling, climbing and somersaulting on a bus usually get kids in trouble. But not on the Gym Bus. Jeff Conner had the idea to teach gymnastics out of a school bus nearly 40 years ago and since ...

Growing up, 33-year-old Annie Lugo-Walsh always wanted to take gymnastics lessons. "I always took the gymnastics unit really seriously in P.E. class," she recalled. "I remember we got to choreograph a ...