Rebecca Bross

From the Facebook album: 2010 Canada Cup by Brett MacAulay

Click PLAY or watch a Trampoline and Tumbling photo montage on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

… My advice to Naama is to consider this an advanced technique. Beginners should perfect long, low backward handspring series first. (Think of a rock skipping across a lake.)

Manjak has gymnasts do many sets of 5 normal ffs every day, for example.

Much, much later you can shape the skill for specific reasons, as Watanable is doing here.

Brett MacAulay linked to this saying, …

I think the first trick is Miller Miller Plus holy cow batman!

Karen Cockburn and Rosannagh MacLennan, both of Toronto, turned the tables on China’s world champions on Friday to win gold in women’s synchro trampoline at the 2010 Canada Cup.

At last year’s world championships in St. Petersburg, Russia, Li Dan and Zhong Xingping edged the Canadian duo for top spot in the event but this time around it was a different story. Cockburn, who has won a medal at the last three Olympic Games, and MacLennan finished with a total score of 132.90, well ahead of the Chinese pair at 129.5. …

Alberta Gymnastics

Karen and Rosannagh

… Alex Seifert of Calgary and Emily Smith of Burlington, Ont., captured the men’s and women’s senior tumbling …

Sounds like it was a great event.

coach Denis Vachon

Photos from the Facebook album: 2010 Canada Cup Trampoline & Tumbling competition by Grace Chiu GraceClick

full results on Gymnastics Canada

A skill as old as the back handspring will have a thousand different drills to help learn it. This video represents a few of my favorites, but it is by no means exhaustive.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Of thousands of good drills like these, for me only 3 are critical:

• trust fall (spotted)
• trust fall bend knees slightly, straighten knees, return to start position (spotted)
• … same as #2, but the gymnast is spotted on a tip over to handstand on some

The trust fall is the most difficult part of the flicflac for beginners.

Beginners, once they can do it on the trampoline, should train downhill to ensure good technique.

Beginners should do long and low backward handsprings until they can do series. At that point coaches can consider advanced techniques … shortening the distance of the second half, for example.

There are 8 more great video tutorials on the JAO YouTube channel.

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.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Team CGC TV on YouTube

Thanks Brett.

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.