Category: Power Tumbling

Trampoline World Championships Tokyo

… 34th FIG Trampoline Gymnastics World Championships taking place 28 November – 1 December …

There is a strong argument to be made that there has never been a more powerful field assembled for a World Championships …

The Ariake Gymnastics Centre provides the perfect setting for this year’s World Championships with the individual Trampoline specialists knowing that (with a maximum one of one place per nation) the eight finalists in both the men’s and women’s events will win a quota place for their country for Tokyo 2020. …

2019 Trampoline Worlds Tokyo

The 2019 Trampoline Gymnastics World Championships will be held in Tokyo, Japan from November 28 to December 1, 2019.

The competition will take place at the Ariake Gymnastics Centre, the same venue that will also host the gymnastics competitions at the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics, and will serve as a test event and a qualifier for the 2020 Summer Olympics. …

Canada has named their team. Two time defending Women’s Olympic Champ Rosie MacLennan will be competing.

Click PLAY or watch some Women’s Tramp highlights from last year on YouTube. (26min)

Click PLAY or watch how Trampolinists qualify to the Tokyo Olympics on YouTube.

Tumbler Kristof Willerton

Kristof Willerton is — to me — the most impressive Power Tumbler of all time.

Click PLAY or watch quadruple back on Instagram.

Click PLAY or watch full twisting triple layout on Instagram.

National Collegiate Acrobatics & Tumbling

Acrobatics & Tumbling is a relatively new American College sport exclusively for female athletes.

The NCAA Committee on Women’s Athletics has recommended that all three divisions of governance structure add Acrobatics & Tumbling to the NCAA Emerging Sports for Women program Aug. 1, 2020.

There were 29 NCAA colleges and universities sponsoring teams in 2019. The sport must reach 40 varsity programs to move forward to the NCAA governance structure for championship consideration in future.

Athletes are recruited as bases, flyers or backs. Some compete only the tumbling portion. Each team has 30 members or more. Baylor, the top team in 2019, has 50 on their roster as I post.

Scholarships are available. Numbers and amount vary school-to-school.

Competitors come from disciplines including Acrobatic gymnastics, Artistic (often Levels 8-10), Trampoline & Tumbling, and competitive Cheer  (often Levels 4 & 5).

The harder competition surface is typically a basketball floor with roll mats on top.

Click PLAY or watch some highlights on YouTube.

Baylor 2019

 

 

Canadian Trampoline Championships

Jon Schwaiger of Caledonia, ON repeated his double gold-medal performance from 2018, taking gold in both senior men’s tumbling and DMT for another year.

“The competition went pretty well for both,” said Schwaiger who captured his eighth-consecutive senior tumbling title this weekend. “I went four for four on both (apparatus) which is really all you can hope for, and I also set a new difficulty record on DMT on my first pass. Looking forward to Worlds, my plan is to just clean up some of my passes, and up the difficulty in the straight passes and just get them more confident and consistent.”

Read more – 2019 Canadian Trampoline Championships wrap-up in Oshawa, ON

Jon Schwaiger

tumbling out of triple pike

Rasmus Steffensen from Denmark.

Click PLAY or watch it on Instagram.

Jia Fangfang – Floor

BIG tumbling from the former World Power Tumbling Champ.

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.

Trampoline Sports Elite Canada

Women’s Trampoline
Sarah Milette
Rachel Tam
Sam Smith

Men’s Trampoline
Keegan Soehn
Nathan Shuh
Jake Cranham

Women’s DMT
Laurence Roux
Danielle Grieve
Kalena Soehn

Men’s DMT
Mario Bruno
Justin Lefaivre
David Dawson

Women’s Tumbling
Jordan Sugrim
Zoe Hipel

Men’s Tumbling
Jon Schwaiger
Michael Zeuner

Full results.

Next up are Trampoline Nationals in Oshawa, ON from July 24-28 at Durham College.

related – Rosie MacLennan and Jérémy Chartier named 2018 Athletes of the Year in Trampoline Gymnastics

SENIOR ATHLETE & COACH OF THE YEAR:
Rosie MacLennan (King City, ON). COACH: Dave Ross

JUNIOR ATHLETE & COACH OF THE YEAR:
Jérémy Chartier (Montreal, QC). COACH: Karina Kosko

Rosie did not compete having injured her ankle at the World Cup in Belarus.