Dangers of Trampoline Parks

Trampoline and pits are dangerous unless taught by a certified, qualified, experienced coach. Find the best club and coach in your area.

how much TRAINING / EXPERIENCE has this referee had?

Ty Thomasson died at 30 years old in February 2012 after somersaulting into a shallow foam pit at Skypark, a facility in Phoenix.

Trampoline parks host up to 50 million visitors annually but both adults and children are suffering severe and even fatal injuries after visiting these popular attractions. The families of injured victims speak out.

Watch the 3 minute feature on Doctor Oz.

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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Dobre brothers 1.2 million subscribers

Personally I follow no YouTube celebrities. (OK, maybe Nile Wilson.)

But the sons of 1987  World Champion Aurelia Dobre have a huge online following.

Click PLAY or watch one of their goofy edits on YouTube. Mom shows up at 3 min 10 seconds.

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.

wide arm muscle-ups on Rings

Alan Bower

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Alan will be competing for the USA at the Cottbus World Cup, Nov. 23-27 in Germany.