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The finals of the 2009 World Trampoline and Tumbling Championships will be broadcasted on Universal Sports, Nov 13-14.

UniversalSports.com/gymnastics

We’re seeing by far the best online coverage ever of a Trampoline and Tumbling World Championships.

From FIG …

… It will be exciting to watch Japan’s world class Trampoline gymnasts. At the last two world championships, Tetsuya Sotomura and Yasuhiro Ueyama medalled in Individual as well as Synchronised Trampoline, topping by their joint Gold in 2007.

More recently, their team-mates Shusuke Nagasaki and Masaki Ito won this year’s World Games and the 2009 World Cup season in Synchro. And no matter who wins the race in St Petersburg, these four gymnasts make a hell of a team! …

meet many more of the competitors – Trampoline stars line up for action!

Check, too, AcrobaticSports.com available in French and English.

FIG is posting some very good pics on the official competition website.

VACHON Denis + SMITH Emily (CAN)

click through to one of the photo gallery pages

A few Grace Chui photos from St Petersburg:

by Grace Chiu (GraceClick.ca)

Charles Thibault, Canada

Wait a minute. … That bear is actually from a Russian circus called Sadka.

Trampoline World Championships 2009 – official home page

The young trampolinist from the U.K. some were calling the next Jason Burnette had to withdraw from World Championships.

What a shame.

His training was going superbly … then 5-days before departure to St. Petersburg he reportedly dislocated his knee cap and broke bones in his lower leg.

Was it on his new rudi out piked triffus?

No, straight bouncing on trampoline, it seems.

He’s in hospital for some time having a series of operations. As an elite athlete the doctors will be very cautious in trying to bring him back to 100%.

We wish him a speedy recovery.

(via MissEducated)

My Facebook feed is full of athletes and well-wishers talking about travel to the most beautiful city in Russia.

Let me add my best wishes to everyone participating.

World Championships in Trampoline, Tumbling and Double Mini-Trampoline will get underway in St Petersburg (RUS) at the Sports and Concert Complex.

A total of 274 gymnasts (162 men and 112 women) from 32 different federations and every continent will participate in these championships, which feature Individual and Team competitions in Individual Trampoline, Tumbling and Double Mini-Trampoline as well as Synchronised Trampoline events. Great Britain and Russia will be sending the largest delegations (23 gymnasts per country), followed by Canada (22 entries) and the USA (19 participants). Kylie Walker (NZL), and Claudia Prat (ESP), both Women’s Individual Trampoline, will be the only representatives from their countries.

Let’s have a closer look at what and whom to expect:

… read it on the FIG website

26th FIG World Championships – November 11 – 14
19th World Age Group Competitions – November 18 – 21

Click PLAY or watch “Insane Tumble” (2003) on YouTube. (This will get you in the mood for World’s.)

Thanks for the link, Mike.

… A local trampolinist over the weekend has set a new U.S. record for “degree of difficulty” in an official competition and will be one of the U.S. representatives in the Trampoline and Tumbling World Championships in Russia this November.

Over the weekend Logan Dooley, 22, completed a routine that included 10 skills that totaled a degree of difficulty of 17.1 in the Final Selection competition held at the Cashman Center in Las Vegas.

The competition determined which U.S. athletes would go on to the World Championships. …

read more – THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER – O.C. trampolinist makes World Championship team

On YouTube I found his first 17.1 routine in training from about 4 months ago.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

I checked in at Gymblog Brazil to see what’s the buzz in the 2016 Olympic nation.

In recent years the Brazilian gymnastics got firsts. Diego e Daniele Hypólito, Daiane dos Santos, Jade Barbosa, … Medals staged the World Cup, which before were only a distant dream, have become routine for athletes like Diego and Daniele Hypolito, Daiane dos Santos, Jade Barbosa, among other champions. With the confirmation that the 2016 Olympics will be in Brazil, the euphoria swept the gymnastics and professionals involved with the sport. …

Rio Gym Brazilian celebrates 2016 and expects even more support – translated to English

I’m very happy for everyone there. Having enjoyed the 1988 Winter Olympics in my home city, I know all the positives that will result from being the host.

Congratulations.

We can expect a new generation of gymnastics stars to train hard for the Games in their home country.

Ana Claudia Silva

Sam showed me this video.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

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==== Update:

MissEducated tells us that Jordan Ramos, a British tumbler, has already slammed from further. He’s an athlete sponsored by Milano Sport.

Another step forward for NCAA.

The National Gymnastics Foundation, in partnership with USA Gymnastics, is creating a Collegiate Gymnastics Developmental Fund. The fund’s goal is to provide solutions to support collegiate programs in peril and offer educational and business training for coaches and program administrators to assist them in building financially secure programs. The Collegiate Gymnastics Developmental Fund complements the initiatives USA Gymnastics already has in place to support collegiate gymnastics.

“Collegiate gymnastics is a vital part of the gymnastics fabric in the United States,” said Steve Penny, president of USA Gymnastics. …

In addition to the Collegiate Developmental Fund, the National Gymnastics Foundation already has scholarship programs in place for men’s collegiate gymnastics and trampoline athletes that are endowed through donations and fees. USA Gymnastics organizes national championships for both men’s and women’s gymnastics to supplement the NCAA National Gymnastics Championships. USA Gymnastics has taken an increasingly proactive role in supporting the collegiate arm of gymnastics; earlier this year it hosted a summit to discuss the issues facing collegiate gymnastics and assisted in a fundraising effort for Cal State Fullerton women’s gymnastics team.

The Collegiate Developmental Fund (CDF) will be supported through public and private donations, as well as through some existing funds in the National Gymnastics Foundation. The NGF has dedicated funds valued at $100,000 to seed the CDF.

“The Foundation is still working out the details for the fund,” said Bob Wood, chair of the National Gymnastics Foundation. “No grants will be issued until the guidelines and parameters for funding and distribution are solidified. We are excited about the opportunities the Fund will present, and we hope the gymnastics community will band together to build a solid endowment for this effort.”

“This is a huge step forward,” commented Mike Lorenzen, president of NACGC/W. “We are very excited about the opportunity to work with USA Gymnastics and the National Gymnastics Foundation to identify solutions to maintain and develop new college programs.”

“It is important for us to work together to sustain NCAA gymnastics as an important goal for all of our athletes,” said Mike Burns, president of the College Gymnastics Association for men’s gymnastics. …

The National Gymnastics Foundation was created from the energy and excitement generated by the gold-medal Olympic effort of the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. Proceeds totaling $1.4 million from the 1984 Olympics were used to establish the Foundation, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization. Today, the Foundation’s assets total approximately $4.3 million.

USAG – National Gymnastics Foundation, USA Gymnastics create Collegiate Gymnastics Developmental Fund

Where can people donate?

The excellent annual coach education weekend in Canada has been announced. Vancouver September 25-27, 2009.

Keynote Speakers:

Jamie Atkin (Trampoline Gymnastics Head Coach at Airdrie Edge Gymnastics Club in Alberta) and Lisa Cowan (2006 Artistic Women’s National Level Coach of the Year by Gymnastics Canada Gymnastique).

Other presenters include Andrée Montreuil, Jeff Pauliuk, Nancy Beyer, and many more.

Coast Tsawwassen Inn, 1665 – 56th Street, Tsawwassen, BC
Delta Gymnastics, 1720 – 56th Street, Tsawwassen, BC

preliminary schedule on the official home page

A 15yr-old trampolinist from the City of Liverpool Trampoline Club is drawing comparisons to the Silver medalist in Beijing, Jason Burnett.

His name is Luke Strong and, like Jason did, he’s doing BIG difficulty at a young age.

Click PLAY or watch Luke on YouTube.

Luke is now coached by Jay Scouler. He started out at Propulsion Trampoline Club where he was coached by Andy Wild.

Seems there’s a lot of acrobatic talent coming out of the U.K. leading up to the London Olympics.

Thanks MissEducated.

Nani

Nani Vercruyssen marks her first seven months as a senior elite (18+ yrs) by winning the US elite gymnastics national championships in both individual and synchronized trampoline.

And, because of her first place ranking, she was also selected to represent the US at the 2009 World Cups in Belgium and Poland plus the World Championships in Russia.

At the VISA Gymnastics Championships held this past week at the Dallas Convention Center, Vercruyssen first won the senior women’s synchronized trampoline event with partner Alaina Williams of Huntsville, AL. She then tied with Williams in the senior women’s individual trampoline event but was named the overall champion according to a tie-breaking policy whereby the title is given to the athlete receiving the highest execution scores.

Vercruyssen started at the bottom of the senior elite ranks in January and quickly moved up to her current rank as America’s best female senior elite in trampoline gymnastics after having been the world champion for athletes under 18 years of age for the past four years.

Thanks Hal Halverson for forwarding us this information.

Go Nani!

Vercruyssen leaves Saturday 22Aug09 for her first World Cup competitions in Belgium and Poland. Vercruyssen is the first gymnast from Hawaii to compete at this level.

Vercruyssen is coached by her mother (Dr Donna Mah) and father (Dr Max Vercruyssen). She trains, coaches national-level teams, and judges at Hawaii Academy in Kalihi and attends Roosevelt High School where she is a senior.

source – Hawaii Girl Wins National Trampoline Championship