Trampolining is a competitive Olympic sport in which gymnasts perform acrobatics while bouncing on a trampoline.  These can include simple jumps in the pike, tuck or straddle position to more complex combinations of forward or backward, single or multiple somersaults and twists.

 

There are three related competitive rebound sports, synchronized trampoline, tumbling (or power tumbling) and double mini-trampoline.  All routines are made up from compulsory routines plus voluntary routines or passes.

 

Individual Trampoline consists of an individual competitor performing two routines. The routines consist of a compulsory and a voluntary routine. The compulsory routine consisting of ten consecutive skills, where the skills are mandatory.  The second voluntary routine consists of ten consecutive skills to suit the maximum ability of the competitor, where the diffulty tariff of the routine is added to the overall score. The scores also include time of flight. This is the amount of time the competitor is in the air.

 

Synchronised Trampoline is judged the same as individual trampolining but there are two people on separate trampolines. Competitors are marked on how well they stay synchronised with each other. The routines that they perform must be identical and if either competitor performs a different skill or even the same skill in a different position the routine stops at that skill and they will receive a score only for the part of the routine performed before the error.

 

DMT (Double Mini Trampoline) is smaller than a competition trampoline. It has a sloped end and a flat bed. The gymnasts run up and jump onto the sloping end and then jump onto the flat part before dismounting onto a mat. Skills are performed during the jumps or as they dismount.

A double mini-trampoline competition consists of two types of pass. In the one, which is known as a mounter pass, the athlete performs one skill in the jump from the sloping end to the flat bed and a second skill as they dismount from the flat bed to the landing mat. In the second, which is known as a spotter pass, the athlete does a straight jump from the sloping end to the flat bed to gain height, performing one skill while landing back on the flat bed and then a second skill as they dismount. These skills are similar to those performed on a regular trampoline except that there is movement laterally along the trampoline.

 

Tumbling is an acrobatic sporting discipline which combines some of the skills of artistic gymnastics on the floor with those of trampolining. It is practised on a 25-metre long spring track. Competitors perform two passes, each containing 8 skills along the track, usually starting with a Round-off, Barani, or Rudi (the Barani and Rudi are forward, twisting somersaults) followed by a series of back-handsprings and/or whips (a fast, long back somersault done in a straight body position) ending in a 'dismount' skill. Only the feet and hands are allowed to make contact with the track.

 

 

 

 

 

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