A Guide to Trampoline Competitions

Arriving at a competitions: Always ensure you arrive in plenty of time to your competition, prepared with the correct competition kit, training shoes, neat hair, white socks or trampolining shoes, report to your lead coach, who will sign you in and have your warm up card. No fizzy drinks, or sweets are recommended prior to competing. You may be required to complete a tariff sheet (grade E and above) prior to your competition, if this was not done you should have a tariff sheet ready to hand in to your coach.

General Warm-up
Every competitor has a general warm-up where the whole group will practise the routines you are going to perform. You will have a warm-up which you hand to the warm-up marshall. This is also an opportunity to choose which trampoline you prefer to jump on.This can discussed with your coach. Warm-ups are usually limited to 2 for your set routine and 2 for your voluntary, or there may be a time limit.

Controlled Warm-up for your set routine
Each competitor will be called individually to warm-up their first routine, the set routine. The competition marshal will call your name when it is time for you to have your go. You should only do one routine, then get off. This routine is not judged, and you may still be coached during warm-ups.

Remember that while you warm-up and compete you will need spotters If you haven't this will hold the competition up.

Compete your set routine
After the controlled warm up, after the next five competitors you will be called to compete your set routine. This will be judged by the panel of judges so you must wait until the Chair of the judging panel tells you to start. If there is a delay, then just sit on the trampoline and wait for them to come over and tell you to start. You must present to the judges before and after your routine. Remember to stand still for 5 seconds after you finish!

Controlled Warm-up for your voluntary routine
As for your set, you will have a warm-up for your voluntary, the voluntary routine can be different from the set and will include moves with a tariff, however, there are restrictions on certain novice groups performing somersaults, and tariff and the amount of tariff that can be competed is limited to your grade or the terms of a particular competition You will again be called by the competition marshal to warm-up your voluntary routine. You will complete one routine and leave the trampoline. Again, this is not judged.

Compete your voluntary routine
After the controlled warm up again 5 goes later you will compete your voluntary routine. As for the set, you should sit and wait to be told to start by the chair of the judging panel. Your final score is made up of your set and voluntary scores added together. This joint score can help you qualify up to a new grade according to the set qualification score and or you final position in your competition.

Finals
There will be a final for the top 8 competitors after both rounds, and you will compete another voluntary routine. In some competitions including National Finals the Final rounds scores are returned to 0, rather than be added to the previous two rounds scores,finals are competed in reverse order of qualification, with the person in 8^th jumping first in the final and so on.

How is it Judged? A competition is judged by a panel of judges. There are 5 form judges who decide how well the moves were performed (this highest and lowest scores are knocked off) and there are 2 tariff judges who calculate the tariff (difficulty) of the routine according to the set tariffs.

What categories are there?

Regional Competition:

Novice U11 U13

G F E D - UI5 O15 Girls Boys Ladies

National Competition

National C

FIG B

FIG A

Performing Synchro

As well as individual competition there are also Synchro Competitions, where two trampolinists compete on adjacent beds, performing an identical set and voluntary routine, the pair get marked for form and synchronicity and tariff (in the voluntary). Like individual competitions the top 8 pairs proceed to a final.

Double Mini Trampoline (DMT)

The DMT is like two mini tramps that have been joined in the middle. The first is at an angle and called the mount, from which skills are performed onto the second mini tramp. The second mini tramp is called the spotter, where skills can be performed back onto the mini or as a dismount onto the landing mat.

DMT is really a combination of Athletics, Trampolining and Gymnastics. Competitors sprint down a track and hurtle onto the DMT before performing double and triple somersaults with the same technical requirements as required on trampoline. The only difference is that they have to land on a bed less than a quarter the size of a trampoline before performing a dismount on to a landing mat.

In DMT competitions there are four passes, two in the preliminary round and then two in the final round. Each pass consists of one skill performed as either a mount or a spotter, followed by a dismount skill making two skills per pass. The execution is judged in exactly the same way as trampoline, however the difficulty is more akin to tumbling where a double somersault gets double the difficulty and a triple somersault gets triple the difficulty. In competition passes cannot be repeated, and the scores from the first two passes are added together to get the final score, and the top 8 progress to the final.

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