Category: Power Tumbling

25th Trampoline World Age Groups

Though Artistic Gymnastics has yet to launch Junior Worlds, Trampoline sports have had it for a long time.

Sofia’s Arena Armeec is now set to play host to the 25th World Age Group Competitions.

More than 900 junior gymnasts hailing from 43 different countries will compete for the 32 medal sets at stake over the next four days. As the seniors did last week, boys and girls of the age categories 11-12, 13-14, 15-16 and 17-21 years will perform in Individual, Synchronised and Double Mini-trampoline as well as in Tumbling. …

FIG

Trampoline Worlds – day 1 finals

Women’s Trampoline
1. China
2. Belarus
3. GBR

Men’s Trampoline
1. China
2. Russia
3. Japan

Women’s Tumbling
1. China
2. GBR
3. France

Men’s Double Mini-trampoline
1. Russia
2. USA
3. Australia

China takes three of four golds on first finals day

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full-in triple back

Alex Siefert on tumbling trampoline.

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Trampoline World Championships promo

Bulgaria, November 9-12, 2017.

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via Canadian Trampoline & Tumbling News

hurdle drills

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Note that all these demonstrators take off from the sprint for their hurdle from the opposite leg they put down first on round-off. The legs switch during the hurdle.

That’s far more common than the alternative (taking off with the same leg).

Boris Verkhovsky first told me decades ago that a switch leg hurdle should increase power, but that it wasn’t essential.

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Jake Stoeckicht – tumbling drills

I want to attend a camp with coach Jake Stoeckicht from Rockford. He’s passionate. A great communicator. And I really like his approach to backward tumbling.

He uses many drills with exaggerated hip flexion. Edouard Iarov and many of the top coaches of the world encourage that technique. Note that the final skill in competition will not be done with anywhere near this kind of hip flexion. These are only progressions.

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32nd Trampoline World Championships, Bulgaria

November 9-12, 2017

Trampoline, Double Mini-Trampoline and Tumbling

Olympic Champion Rosie MacLennan is not competing, but most of the the BIG NAMES in Trampoline will be there.

New for this Olympic cycle, in Trampoline, horizontal displacement will be evaluated by judges using video. If the gymnast’s body touches a zone outside the designed red square center box of the bed, a deduction will be applied. This should make routines safer, scoring more objective.

 

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UPDATE from Anna:

At Worlds HD deductions will actually be taken by centre of mass in the bed, which does mean there is a chance to be slightly outside a zone and get the lesser deduction. Therefore scores should be slightly higher than when it is judged manually by eyes (and judged by hips).

So far we have found it is not a great separator for total score (i.e. expect the top 20 to score 9.7+ for each routines, and quite a few 10s), but it an exceptional encouragement for safety and control.