Acrobatic Competition Squads

What Is Acrobatic Gymnastics?

Acrobatic Gymnastics is a team based gymnastics sport, incorporating balancing, aerial skills, and individual floor skills within a choreographed routine. Acrobats use their partner’s hands, feet or shoulders to perform balance skills, such as handstands, or dynamic skills such as somersaults.

There are 5 different divisions in Acrobatic Gymnastics: Women’s pairs, Men’s pairs, Mixed pairs, Women’s trios and Men’s fours.

Our Acrobatics History

SXL is the most awarded Acrobatic Gymnastics Club in NSW with achieving the Gymnastics NSW Acrobatic Club of the Year award 13 times since our opening. Our club is proud to have had over 100 athletes be selected onto the Australian Acrobatics National Squad and have had athletes represent Australia in the 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020 & 2024 World Championships.

Our coaching team, led by head coach Xilin, has received recognition on a State & National scale with being awarded the International Coaching Team of the Year & Levels Coaching Team of the year awards multiple times. All awards can be seen in our display case at the Centre.

About Competitions

Australian Acrobatic Gymnastics competitions divide competitors into Levels or Age Groups. The Levels stream consists of Levels 1-10 and enables competitors of any age to compete at state and/or national competitions, while Age Groups are internationally applicable and offer the opportunity to compete at international events.

Acrobatic partnerships perform two or three routines depending on the Level or Age Group in which they are competing. All competitors perform a balance routine, where Acrobats perform static balances with their partners, and a dynamic routine, where Acrobats perform aerial and tumbling skills.