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A double mini-trampoline is smaller than a regulation competition trampoline. It has a sloped end and a flat bed. The gymnasts run up and jump on to the sloping end and then jump on to the flat part before dismounting on to a mat. …

Wikipedia Double mini-trampoline

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Google images.

The Presidio of San Francisco is the fantastic urban park just across the Golden Gate Bridge.

Presidio.gov announced a great new attraction opening this summer:

… an indoor trampoline park, opens in an historic former airplane hangar.

House of Air provides aerial and physical training on trampolines, as well as trampoline dodgeball, fitness classes, and open jump time. Its grand opening, expected to be in August, …

The idea for House of Air was developed seven years ago by Dave Schaeffer and Paul McGeehan during one of many long drives back from snowboarding in Lake Tahoe. Its mission of “giving flight to the flightless,” embodied in its mascot, a penguin wearing a jetpack, is a fitting reuse for building 926, which once helped launch De Havilland DH-48 biplanes …

official website – House of Air SF

Thanks SportsGirlsPlay.com for the link.

Competition was June 26-July 2 in Virginia Beach, VA.

Click PLAY or watch Kalon Ludvigson Tumbling on YouTube.

And another pass on YouTube.

Some results and photos were posted by USAG.

Click through to see a HUGE photo (slow loading) of all 1800 competitors at the 2010 Championships.

A fun photo slideshow from the Calgary Gymnastics Centre Trampoline and Tumbling team.

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Team CGC TV on YouTube

Thanks Brett.

Some interesting clips.

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The most valuable to me is at 28 seconds: double full twist to kick open to full twist in the opposite direction.

We’ve known this was possible biomechanically, but that’s the best video evidence I’ve seen on Earth that you can untilt one way, and retilt the other, mid-air.

Astronauts have done it perfectlly in weightless conditions.

Steve Elliot, for fun, could show half-in, half-out four different ways. R,R – R,L – L,L – L,R.

related – saltocafe → Claire from GK’s showing off her twisting skills.

Happy Canada Day, July 1st.

I just toured the venue for next year with one of the key organizers, Jim Rand.

As Canada’s largest annual celebration of gymnastics, the Canadian Gymnastics Championships will bring over 900 participants from across the country. …

The Championships will be co-hosted at the Chi-Wan Young Sports Centre and the CARI Complex – MacLauchlan Arenas, located on the University of Prince Edward Island campus from May 23rd-28th, 2011.

Sport PEI

via Gym Score Depot.

Artistic MAG and WAG. Trampoline Sports: Tramp, Double-mini and Tumbling.

Artistic is hosted in a 21,000 sq ft gymnasium, the same venue used for Nationals 1994. Expect Marshalls to be strictly limiting access to the Floor as space is tight.

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Trampoline and Tumbling will be happy, I think, in a big hockey arena. Lights will need to be raised for trampoline. The VIP area is in this building.

Awards have a nice space with a modern look.

The judging will be transparent as 3 courts will be made available for officials.

Though Charlottetown has a population of only about 33,000, everyone is confident that Jim and Lea Rand will put together an excellent Nationals.

Hotels will be at a premium, obviously. Book early.

Shout out for the 20 or more artistic and trampoline athletes from the Beausejour Gymnos Gymnastics club in Moncton, NB in the opening and closing ceremonies of the International Association of Athletics Federations World Junior Championships which are being hosted in their home town this summer.

Open ceremonies are July 19th with closing ceremonies on Sunday July 25th.

Don Anweiler in Georgia is looking for advice on what replacement bed to buy for their 7 x 14 foot trampoline.

Leave a comment if you have advice.

Jeremy Mosier at a recent clinic recommended we prepare kids for double somersaulting skills by training “Cody” and backward “Kaboom”. (VIDEO)

Once you can do those, the double salto backwards seems easy.

Not on that video, but another great drill for double back is “gainer“. (backward salto travelling forwards)

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Trampoline guru George Hery talks about using gainer as preparation for flyaway. True.

But those same gainer drills are great psycho-motor preparation for double back, as well. If a young gymnast is not comfortable with gainer, I don’t want them doing double back.

Gainers teach them how to get around when under-rotating.

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This week’s gymnastics technique video features a low impact yurchenko full vault drill used by the University of Minnesota women’s gymnastics team and Coach Jim Stephenson …

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They have a traveling rig connected to a twisting belt set up above their trampoline. Jim takes us through the drills they’re able to do on the station to teach all types of vaults: yurchenkos, tsukaharas, and even handspring entry vaults. The biggest advantage of a drill like this is that it’s low impact for the gymnast meaning they can do high reps of them without the pounding on their bodies.

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Here’s a similar twist belt concept. This is Calgary Gymnastics Centre Trampoline sports, coach Brett MacAulay.

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It slows down the skill brilliantly.

… Ultimately, however, I’d prefer not to use a belt, if possible. Or to use one as little as possible. Better the athlete do it themselves.

Just got a review copy in the mail. (It will be donated to Keith Russell‘s library at University of Saskatchewan).

Wow. It looks great.

A university quality text book. Glossy, heavy pages. Big, beautiful illustrations by James H. Stephenson, the best in the business.

Check out the Table of Contents.

Instantly I jumped to these two sections:

• Twist Direction for Somersault Skills
• Twist Direction for Round-off

I found, happily, that Dr. G.S. George agrees with what I’ve been teaching for years:

- all somersault twisting should be done in the same direction
- the initial turn of of the round-off should be in the opposite direction

photo of Tseng 2010 - GraceClick.ca

For example, if you put your right hand down first on round-off, you normally will twist all somersaulting skills to the right.

If you put your left hand down first on round-off, it’s normal to twist all somersault skills to the left.

We know this is “most common”. Bill Sands published that conclusion in Technique Magazine (2000) – Twist Direction (PDF)

This is for Artistic gymnasts. It’s more important for male gymnasts to be “normal” than for female. And, yes, you can win the Olympics if you are not normal. But – all things considered – your odds of winning the Olympics improve if your twist direction is normal.

I’ve not seen any scientific data on why this relationship between round-off and twist direction is most common in successful gymnasts.
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Trampoline and Tumbling coaches take a far more sophisticated approach to this issue.

Brett MacAulay at Calgary Gymnastics Centre would do many tests before deciding what direction a new trampolinist would twist somersaults.

He’d do a separate battery of tests to determine what hand to put down first on round-off. The two are not necessarily related, despite what we see as “normal” in Artistic gymnasts.
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Or catch Dr. George at one of his seminars this summer.

related post – ROUND-OFF – problematic tumbling skill

China is the top nation in Trampoline right now.

… The 46th Nissen Cup, held June 11 – 12, 2010 in Davos (SUI), brought together the world’s best trampolinists. China swept the competition with three Gold medals, one Silver and one Bronze. The United States dominated Men’s Synchro; and World Champion Dong Dong (CHN) beat Canada’s Jason Burnett, who soared through his exercise with an 18.8 difficulty. Olympic Champion He Wenna was victorious over World Champion and compatriot Shanshan Huang (CHN) in Women’s Individual. …

FIG – Powerful Chinese prevail in Davos

But how will rankings be affected when “time of flight” is introduced as a scoring factor starting Jan. 1, 2011?

I would think that heavier athletes like Jason Burnett would be advantaged.

Update: Anya informs in the comments that percentage body weight will be factored into time of flight.

Individual Trampoline

1. DONG Dong, CHN 41.900
2. BURNETT Jason, CAN 41.800
3. TU Xiao, CHN 41.600

I’ve asked a few trampoline coaches, but they seem to be taking a wait and see approach.

A glimpse into the week long NCCP Level 3 Technical gymnastics course we just completed.

Shout out to guest coaches Valérie Oudin (Champions) and Jeremy Mosier (Gymtastics).

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Valérie does not use low and medium beams much. Instead the kids wait until they are ready for competition height beam with big mats underneath. Progressively, she lowers those mats.

Jeremy recommends we prepare kids for double somersaulting skills by training “Cody” and backward “Kaboom”. Once you can do those, the double salto backwards seems easy. (I also like backward salto travelling forwards (“gainer”).

The Head Coach of trampoline sports at the host gym, Calgary Gymnastics Centre, Brett MacAulay, feels that Artistic coaches teaching somersaults and twisting saltos should be certified in trampoline up to Level 3.

We recommended that Artistic coaches bring in a trampoline EXPERT when introducing double backward somersaults to gymnasts.

Double forward somersaults are very dangerous. Beware. Some of the best tumblers in the world have been badly injured on multiple forward saltos. (e.g. Shewfelt, O’Neill, Dragalescu)