BRITISH GYMNASTICS: Trampoline Technical Committee

TRAMPOLINE NEWS No 22 October 2003

Editor: John D Beeton: ceo@gordonsacf.sol.co.uk

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EDITORIAL Martin Laws Welcome to this October edition of TRAMPOLINE NEWS. My thanks to John Beeton the editor, for all his efforts to keep you all informed. Please circulate this Newsletter as widely as possible. Good luck to all those who made places on the World and World Age-Group teams. This year, the team is bigger than ever, and we look forward to seeing some excellent results for your labours. As the international competition circuit starts now to really focus on the World Championships, and the all important Olympic place’s, the other members of the NTTC have been quietly beavering away to make sure no one is left out! The Foundation Coaching network is up and running and it is hoped that this will bring welcome support for grass roots and new coaches. To sign up, simply type www.bg-coaches.org into your web browser and fill in your name, e-mail address, BG membership number and make up a password. You will then receive an e-mail containing full details on how to log on. Our thanks must go to Richard Ollerenshaw for his skills in developing this web support, and in giving it a transparent look to the BG web server. We hope to achieve a great deal with this technology, and if used wisely, it will be further developed in the future. The Regional / Home Nation Trampoline Technical Committee Chairs came together for the second time this year, and hopefully, this will become a much more regular meeting. Regional and National issues were featured and improvements in the communication process, given the highest priority. Please, can I ask you all to make sure that your region / home nation is aware of your e-mail addresses, to help speed the process of communication in the future. Richard Ollerenshaw is still seeking members of hat small team of news hounds, to ensure we are making the best of our successes, local as well as national. Please get in touch with Richard if you feel you have the skills and time to contribute to his team. New competition packs are being drawn up by Craig Bellis’s team, and will be with us all shortly. Please be diligent in reading this as there will undoubtedly be many small changes and we don’t want anyone caught out at the last minute.

The total home circuit has grown each year under BG and is a very difficult task for our competition working party to manage. There is always more wok to do, but my thanks must go to all involved, and those regional organizers and volunteers, without whom we couldn’t be as successful as we are. Cathy Page and her team have continued to develop the coaching structure and we are moving towards the new coaching license. I am still getting many calls from BTF qualified coaches who have not continued membership into BG. Please help by getting the word out. There have been so many updates and changes that those outside the system will most certainly be out of date. If you haven’t done any courses under BG it may well be worth you considering attending a course to update knowledge, or even simply purchasing a copy of the common core material and sport specific applicable to your level. It is vital that everyone still active in our sport become aware and update their practices and get the word out to those who have yet to join our new family. We are currently working on the National Technical assembly in Lilleshall 24/25^th January 2004 (get it in your diaries now) and it is hoped the programme will bring many more Trampolinists to it than ever before. Please remember that this is your opportunity to meet and discuss your ides, needs and feelings, as well as gain valuable information. Disciplines such as Sports Acro have, for a number of years, used this as a focal point for all clubs, and most make sure that they have someone attending. Trampolining has not yet switched on to the fact that this Assembly is important to clubs and we are trying to improve the programme as an encouragement. Cathy Page will be organizing a higher level coaching conference during the weekend and I am looking for more ideas about hat you all actually want to see. Mixing with other disciplines is important and indeed ALL the lectures are specifically designed for everyone to get something out of it. Please let me know if there is anything you specifically feel is appropriate to hold, and you never know, it may happen! I look forward to seeing you all soon. STOP PRESS As we go to press, we are in negotiation with both the Russian and Belarusian federations to have a three-way international in Great Britain prior to he Olympic Games. Both RUS and BLR federations have agreed in principal to this senior match, which will be confirmed / or otherwise whilst I am in Hanover. Ed.

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7^th World Games 2005 in Duisburg (GER): 14^th to 24^th July

Qualifications

The World Games are the most important event besides the Olympic Games and take place every 4^th year, in the year following the summer Olympic Games. They are governed by the International World Games Association (IWGA), recognised by the General Association of International Sports Federations (GAISF) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC), who support the World Games. It is said that the World Games are the <Olympic Games> of those sports and disciplines who are not part of the programme of the Olympic Games. Similar to the Olympic Games, there are approximately 27 sports (International Federations) in the programme of the 2005 World Games.

The FIG plays a very important part in the World Games. It has a total quota (participating gymnasts) of 294, and the following 20 events included in the Programme of the 2005 World Games in Duisburg:

Rhythmic Gymnastics

Individual Rope, Ball, Clubs and Ribbon

Sports Aerobics

Men Individual, Women Individual, Mixed Pairs, Trios and Groups

Trampoline

Men’s Synchro and Women’s Synchro.

Tumbling Individual Men and Individual Women.

Double Mini-Trampoline Individual Men and Individual Women

Sports Acrobatics

Mixed Pairs, Men’s Pairs, Women’s Pairs, Women’s Group (3)

Sports Acrobatics

Mixed Pairs, Men’s Pairs, Women’s Pairs, Women’s Group (3) and Men’s Group (4)

Similar to the Olympic Games, participation is limited by a quota (number of gymnasts per discipline) and therefore, qualifying events and criteria are necessary.

The FIG’s new quotas, decided by the IWGA for the World Games 2005 in