10ft Trampolines

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10ft trampolines could be a stepping stone to greater things. Trampolining is categorised under gymnastics which is an Olympic sport. Once having tried trampolining maybe your child moves on to other forms of gymnastics. This is not such a bad thing as in order to do gymnastics one must be very fit or at least will get very fit from participating in gymnastics. All sports require a high level of fitness. But you never know if your child has gymnastic ability until he or she tries it out.And we all know how important it is to encourage our children to participate in sports The 10ft trampoline is an ideal introduction and maybe your child takes to trampolining like a duck to water.

Trampolining in it’s own right is now an Olympic Games event. Tumbling and trampoling consists of 4 events which are synchronized, individual, double mini and power tumbling. But since 2000 the individual trampoline is a separate event. The competitor must perform an individual routine which involves a build up phrase where he or she jumps repeatedly to achieve the optimum height and then must do 10 leaps with aerial skills to score points.

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The routine is marked out of 10 points. Additional points are also earned based upon the difficulty of the moves. In the high level competitions such as the Olympics the competitor must perform 2 routines. The first routine has only 2 moves which are scored upon difficulty and the second routine is a free for all where the competitor decides the whole routine for himself. There is a final routine that can be performed but this is optional.

Synchronised trampoline is another version of competition and very similar. However with this there are 2 competitors who perform together as a team. Their routine is awarded points on synchronicity as well as the form and difficulty of their moves. The competition double mini trampoline uses a smaller trampoline that has a run up and 2 moves are performed in the preliminary round with a further 2 moves in the final if the competitor reaches the final. The competitor cannot repeat any moves and the marking of points is done in the same way as with the individual trampoline. And finally with power tumbling, competitors have to perform an explosive series of twists and flips down a sprung tumbling track with the scoring again done in a similar way as trampolining.

History of Gymnastics

The Ancient Greeks had physical fitness very high on their lists and all Greek cities had a gymnasium which was courtyard where the Greeks could run, jump and wrestle to get fit. But as the Roman Empire ascended this form of physical diminished and military training took over. It was though the Roman who introduced the wooden horse. The Olympic Games were abolished in 393 AD by Emperor Theodosius because they were corrupt and so the popularity of gymnastics as well as other sports diminished. There was then Christianity that had a deleterious effect on gymnastics and for many centuries gymnastics was basically forgotten about.

Girolamo Mercuriale wrote the book De Arte Gymnastica in the 15th century about studies of diet, exercise and hygiene from the ancients and their use of natural methods to cure disease. This is considered to be the first book ever written on sports medicine.

In the late 18th and early 19th century both Johann Friedrich GutsMuths and Friedrich Ludwig Jahn created exercises for men and boys on apparatus they had designed. These exercises led to the modern day gymnastics as we know them today.

In 1881 in Liege the International Federation of Gymnastics (FIG) was founded and the popularity of gymnastics began to take off. Such was the popularity of the sport that it was included in the first modern Olympic Games in 1896. But the sport was changing and women also became involved. In the 1920,s gymnastic events were organised and held for women and the first women’s Olympic competition was held in the 1928 Games in Amsterdam.

By 1954 all Olympic Games apparatus and events had been standardised to the modern format for both men and women and the scoring system had been agreed upon.. Around this time it was the Russian gymnasts who came to the forefront in the sport performing both difficult and highly disciplined routines and performances. And as with most sports when television gets involved then the popularity grows even further. This happened with gymnastics. Gymnastics now has a world wide following with competitors from all corners of the world participating. Perhaps the most well know gymnast is Nadia Comaneci who scored the first perfect score in the 1976 summer Olympics which were held in Montreal. She was Romanian and 4 of her perfect 10 out of 10’s were scored on the uneven bars, 2 on the balance beam and 1 in the floor exercise. Despite these scores though the Romanians still lost the gold medal to the Russians. So perhaps you have a future Nadia Comaneci in the family and maybe one of the ways to see if this is true is to buy your child one of the examples of 10ft trampolines.