Benefits Found Nowhere Else in Sports!
Trampoline is FUN and enhances children’s fitness faster than perhaps any other activity. But the benefits go beyond that:
* There is no better activity than trampoline to train spatial awareness, a critical skill in all sports. Additionally, spatial awareness is considered one of the ‘eight intelligences’ and has been linked to enhanced cognitive development.
* The inherent FUN of trampoline disguises the amount of energy being expended! Unlike so many children’s activities, when on trampoline, children eagerly sustain an activity level that leads to genuine fitness including: cardiovascular health; leg and core strength; calorie burning and weight loss.
* At the bottom of every bounce, gravity is 2-5x body weight. This compresses every cell in the body helping the lymph and other circulatory systems eliminate toxins from the body.
* Trampoline also helps; the vestibular system; optical tracking and peripheral vision; fear management; concentration and attention to detail; and so much more.
Tumbling
Power tumbling is performed on elevated spring runways (also called Rod Floors) that help tumblers propel themselves higher than a basketball goal as they demonstrate speed, strength and skill while executing a series of acrobatic maneuvers. Top-level contenders will perform explosive somersaults with multiple flips and twists. WRGA does not currently have a Rod floor, however we can practice all the necessary skills on the floor we do have.
Trampoline
Although even in the early years of trampolining, notable American and international athletes performed many of the difficult skills and combinations of skills that are seen today, modern trampoline competitions are quite different than those of the early developmental years -- due in part to advances in equipment design, changes in the rules and governance, and more systematic training of the athletes.
International competition trampolines are larger and more powerful than those utilized in the early years and a far cry from the "backyard" models that are found today in most American suburban neighborhoods. These modern trampolines can propel trained athletes as high as 30 feet in the air during performances! During two competitive routines of 10 skills each, upper-level athletes can easily demonstrate a graceful array of double, triple and twisting somersaults. Trampoline is now an Olympic Sport.
Synchronized Trampoline
Synchronized trampoline demands the same athletic skill as individual trampoline, while adding the element of precision timing. Using two trampolines, two athletes perform identical 10-skill routines at the same time. In this most artistic event in the sport, each performs as a mirror image of the other, doubling the visual beauty of trampoline competition.
Double mini-trampoline
Double mini is a relatively new sport that combines the horizontal run of tumbling with the vertical rebound of trampoline. After a short run, the athlete jumps onto a small two-level trampoline to perform a rebounding trick immediately followed by a dismount element onto a landing mat. Double mini is similar in concept to springboard diving, using a mat instead of water.
About Tumbling and Trampoline