More About My Trampolining

Trampolining is all about control, and in order to stay in control, you must have good body tension. In order to improve your body tension, you must exercise your core body muscles. I usually do this at home, as each trampolining class is only one hour long, so there is not enough time to work on your muscles during classes.

Each class is split into three 20 minute sections called 'rotations'.

 1. Routine work - In this rotation your coach gives you a list of moves in a certain order, and you must perform them in what's called a routine. The routine consists of 10 moves, and sometimes it is quite hard to remember the order of all the moves, but after a while it becomes easy and you perform flip after flip without even thinking about it.

2. Move work - This rotation involves learning new moves and perfecting moves you already know in order to score highly in you routines. The move I am working on at the moment is called a rudi. It is a straight bodied front flip with 1.5 spins incorporated. the hardest move I know is called a Lazyback Cody. It involves a 3/4 backflip landing on my front, and then from my front I do another 1 and 1/4 backflip.

3. Floor work - This is my favourite part of the class. In this rotation, we move off the trampolines and onto the floor, where some gymnastic equipment is set up. We do handstands, round offs, backflips, etc. on the mats, we do flips and spins on the mini tramp and we practise tricking on the air track. This is all do improve our balance and to train our core muscles.