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The new Orbiter from Tumbl Trak is a revolutionary new backhandspring trainer that can be used for so many other stations and drills.
New from Tumbl Trak!
The Booster Blocks provide endless opportunities for stations around your gym!
Soft Training = Smart Training!
The Quick Flex Bar-in-a-Bag is a great transitional bar trainer.
Doug's Blog
On July 1, David Rath, our friend from Australia, arrived in Seattle. We picked him up and drove across the Tacoma Narrows bridge-which David had wanted to see. On Friday, David and I visited John Smith at NASA in Gig Harbor, WA. David liked several of the drills he saw there, and was especially interested in the furniture mover sliders used for strength and flexibility-he ended up taking 12 of them back with him!
On July 6, I took David with me to visit Greg Mutchler at Olympic Gymnastics in Silverdale, WA where we attached the Flex Bar to one of his Tumbl Traks. I was impressed with how well his kids, who are more familiar with using the Frame Bar, adjusted to it. Not only were they doing back-bounce to handstand, but were doing front belly-bounce to handstands, which should help them with cast handstand, back uprise to handstand, and front giants! Our next gym that day was Emerald Gymnastics in Redmond, WA, where Brian Muenz is now head team coach. Sandy Flores, the owner, showed us her new recreational gym, which may need to expand, as enrollment is growing fast. Brian's kids had a great time using the Flex Bar, too. The next day, David and I stopped again at NASA, then went on to the Lakewood Y, where Kevin Milleren runs a great gymnastics program. As we walked in, he was setting up an interesting tumbling station with our bungee mats, into a pit.
We visited Twisters Gymnastics, in Port Townsend on July 7, and David and I put a frame bar on a little Tumbl TRAK that we used to sell. It was a Mini Trak XL, which is 4 ft x 6 ft and may be a product that we should re invent, as a bar, vault and tumble trainer for limited spaces. The girls did well on it with the bar and some got their back bounce to handstand.
Finally, on July 8, we took David to visit Klahhane Gymnastics in Port Angeles, where I first saw the Flex Bar concept in use last fall, by Jan Urfer's son-in-law, Mark Kindlespire, of Palouse Gymnastics. That afternoon, David and Diana enjoyed a hike up Hurricane Hill, at the top of Hurricane Ridge in Olympic National Park. David tried to hold a handstand on the slippery snow. [Read More]
Doug Davis
At the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Doug Davis competed floor exercise where Fred Roethlisberger was his coach. Before finishing college, he was the assistant coach for the women's team. After graduating, he coached high school girls' teams and also a college team for several years.
Doug then went to work for Bob Bradley with Milwaukee Academy of Gymnastics. After marrying he and his wife, Diana, moved to Michigan where he joined Midland Gymnastics Training Center coaching artistic gymnastics and power tumbling.
Doug also owned and operated his own gym in Ithaca, MI for three years. After the Ithaca gym caught fire and burned down, he began the company V.T.L., Inc. now known as Tumbl Trak.
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Are you ready for camp?
Thank you to Ruth Dunkley for sending photos of her camp girls training on their Tumbl Trak during their summer camp. For more information on their camp, visit www.gymcamp.homestead.com.
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