It's the most attractive and spectacular modality from the Olympic disciplines of gymnastics, because they are done with air acrobatics consecutively and with an impressive rate of difficulty. 

Its nature is in performing a series of exercises with an elastic bed, where the acrobatics that the athlete will perform is the main protagonist.

It is divided in three specialties: Tumbling, Elastic Bed and Double Mini-Tramp. 

There are three basic positions in the air for jumps and tricks: pike, tuck and straight stand. The athletes add turns and rotations to obtain a higher difficulty score, usually opting to perform dynamic jumps a few meters over the elastic bed, an opportunity in which skills and precision are combined to land consistently in a central area of the springboard called jumping zone.

At the start, the springboard was included within the traditional gymnastics, until it became a separate discipline and its first world championship took place in 1948.