Growing up, my siblings and I never had any home-use gymnastics products and using couches, chairs, beds and pillows just wasn’t the best way to train. I can still remember my mom’s constant frustration with us bouncing all over the house. She had to deal with 4 gymnasts under one roof!

The products available for home use now are awesome and made so ergonomically they can fit in to any home. The Nastia Liukin line of products in particular have become extremely popular – durable, safe and affordable for home-use.

Two products in particular that are essential for girls practicing at home are the Nastia Liukin Junior Balance Beam and the 4’x8′ Nastia Tumbling Mat. This combination provides a great way for beginner gymnast to train basic skills safely and comfortably at home.

Nastia 8′ Junior Balance Beam & Tumbling Mat

First, the Junior Balance Beam is meant to mimic a competition beam but on a smaller scale. It’s only 8 feet long which is small enough to fit in to any room but long enough for your gymnast to practice their leaps, handstands, jumps, back walkovers etc. It also has that same suede covering used on a competition beam, so they feel just like they are back at the gym. That’s pretty cool! Man, if I only had a pommel horse in my home, I wouldn’t have been so bad at it!

So, you have your beam, now you just need a mat underneath for safety. The Nastia 8 ft. Tumbling Mat fits perfectly underneath, running the entire length of the beam and is firm enough for the beam legs to sit directly on top.  Now you have a rockin home beam set up!

Another great thing about your mat is it is also multi-functional. Of course it is a tumbling mat, so you can use it for back handspring training, cartwheels, round-offs etc, but it also will fold into a block, so you can use it for over-splits, other stretches and even plyometrics if desired.

My niece McClure has this exact set-up at home and loves it. She’s put in a lot of time on it and it definitely shows with her improvement. In the video below, Jay goes in to a little more detail on the two items and McClure shows you a portion of her Level 2 beam routine.

Hope you enjoyed that! Right now all Nastia products are currently on sale for the Holiday Season. You can shop for the Nastia Junior Balance Beam here>>

Happy Holidays!

Brad Thornton

Strength & Fitness Team Lead

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Since shopping during the Holiday Season is so crazy and chaotic, I wanted to make sure it was super simple to find gymnastics gifts for your gymnasts from American Gymnast this Holiday Season.

This video goes over our Holiday Gymnastics Ideas and Stocking Stuffer Ideas for your gymnasts.  These items are currently in-stock, but will be selling out quickly, so watch the video now and place your orders!

Train Smart. Compete Hard!

Jay Thornton
American Gymnast

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Both of my kids love playing on our mats at home – they are firm enough for basic tumbling skills and yet, soft enough even for preschool age children to do forward rolls and flop around on. The mats fold at every 2′ panel, like the Blue one you see in the video, so that you can stack them or put them up out of the way.

I’m proud to say that my 2 year old daughter, McClure, just learned her first forward roll on these mats! My 7-year old son, Liam, loves to do forward and backward rolls, handstands, cartwheels and whatever else Ill let him get away with.

If you need a great quality, fun, Tumbling Mat for home, check out our American Gymnast mats. My family loves them, so I’m sure your’s will too!

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To see if we have the folding mats you are looking for, check out the Gymnastics Mat Specials category of our web site.  You’ll notice some of these mats do not have the “Add to Cart” button next to them.  If that is the case, it means these are now sold out.  If you click on the particular Gymnastics Mat you are interested in, you will see how many of that item we have left in stock.  Once they’re gone, they’re gone.  We won’t have them available at this price again.

We sincerely appreciate your business!

Jay Thornton

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