Editor: John D Beeton: john@jbeeton.wanadoo.co.uk
EDITORIAL
Martin Laws Dear all, Welcome to this June edition of TRAMPOLINE NEWS
2005. My thanks to John Beeton the editor, for all his efforts to keep
you all informed, and all those who have contributed to this important
Newsletter. Please circulate this latest edition as widely as possible. Cathy Page is already working on the National Technical
Assembly 06 with speakers in a Trampoline specific program to supplement the
comprehensive general program. Please make sure she is aware of sessions you
feel are important. So far we have a session booked in the main programme to
introduce DMT to the wider gymnastics disciplines, and Mike Phillipson is
planning a judging update/conference.
Since the release of the Trampoline Strategic
Plan, many have been active in pursuing its aims and objective across the
UK. However if you have not yet downloaded this from the BG website (we are
up to version 3 now) and discussed the issues with your region, please ensure
you don’t get left behind! As we said in the last edition work has already
commenced on issues within the plan and indeed in the whole world of our
sport. Many changes are underway or in discussion for a myriad of reasons. Already we have seen changes to: FIG Judging rules and process NTTC committee structure and reporting process. BG
structures and process World Class targets, funding and programmes. Regional/Home Nation Development officers structure
and priorities We said in the January issue that Trampoline
competitions in 2004 had an increase of participants from 2003, with in
excess of 9000 members registered as trampoline competitors. Well 2005 is
well on the way to increasing again and is on target to gain the 2% increase
required each year of the plan. Despite
many coaches voicing
concerns over the increases in |
BG membership and also the splitting into
recreational and competitive membership, still our figures are rising and
again on target to achieve the 2% increase for 2005. With the budget cuts from World Class
and internally, it is obvious that BG will have to source more income from
its members. We can all speculate
that membership will need to rise again to cover the £3m loss, however it
would be a huge hike to gain that amount from 100k members. In order to reduce costs BG has gone
through the normal rationalising of staff/budgets/business etc but we need to
raise much more to cover these substantial losses. One sound way is to raise funds from those not yet involved in
the organisation. Sales of
merchandise are thankfully on the increase, but nothing like enough to cover
the amounts required. We can ALL help
this cause, which eventually helps us directly in limited increases in
membership. Please sell the concepts,
bring in new member organisations and welcome as many new members as possible
to the Gymnastics family. JUDGING Mike
Phillipson Since the last report, three of our
judges attended the FIG Intercontinental Judges Course in Prague
CZE to gain the latest information and knowledge by the experts of the
FIG on the alterations to the Code of Points and Technical Regulations, and
of course, practice our judging. Claire Thompson was upgraded to
Cat 2 TRA and remains at Cat 3 for DMT. Peter Heames was upgraded to
Cat 2 DMT and remains at Cat 2 for TRA. Mike Phillipson remains Cat 2
for DMT and Cat 3 for TRA. All three candidates from Great Britain felt the course
itself was much better than four years ago in Bratislava. The presentation of
the Code of Points and Technical Regulations was much better, especially as
we were able to download the paperwork well in advance of the course. The venue in Prague was also much better (although rather
cold). Vladimir Zemen and his team are to be congratulated on their
organisation in Prague. The FIG Technical Committee was extremely helpful
throughout the course, and it was good to see two new faces involved in the
work of the FIG. |
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The
International Brevet Course for Great Britain took place at Gillingham last
weekend, with John Beeton GBR and Vladimir Zemen CZE as tutors.
We were extremely lucky to receive the services of these FIG experts at this
time, as the current TC members’ programme is complete full until the end of
the current year, what with courses and international events. A further
report on the course is given elsewhere in this edition of Trampoline News. Judge Course: we are holding courses at Gillingham
(09-10 July) for County, Regional, Zonal and National level, hopefully to
move people up the judging scheme, if they are appropriately experienced, and
pass the course. It will also be an opportunity to look at judge tutoring as
well. Most courses have about 7-8 applicants so far. WANTED Organiser/s to host the following
planned international matches, on behalf
of British Gymnastics during 2006: 4 x Nations Annual Match GBR
v DEN v CZE v GER 9-11 Jun 2006 plus Under 15s International Match GBR v SWE v POR 6-8 Oct 2006 Funding will be available for both
events, but organiser/s are also expected to obtain local sponsorship, to
cover hall hire, reduced accommodation costs, small reception / entertainment
etc., to help offset costs. Note: dates can be negotiated
somewhat. All enquiries to myself in the first
instance. Ed. A BRAVE STEP FORWARDS UK Sport has made it abundantly clear that it expects medals at the
Olympic Games in order to get funding, Sport England has followed suit. However this concept can all change if we
get the Olympics in London 2012, who will be the winners and losers of such intense
focus. We are faced with stark
choices and some gymnastics
disciplines are already facing no funding |
at all. I do however want to remind everyone that under the
BTF, that’s exactly what we had, no funding.
We didn’t collapse as a sport and indeed we were very successful. However our newer squad members and
families won’t remember the days of fund raising just to get a club member in
the GB team to a World or European Championships. In those days I remember looking at sports such as Athletics and
wondering why we were excluded, today of course we are very much the “chosen
ones”, but how do we maintain this position? The first course of action I believe is to understand just
what is involved. If you bought a
trampoline from a manufacturer, you wouldn’t be happy if they deliver a
springboard 4 years late! That’s what
we have actually been doing (metaphorically of course)! Funding Agencies fund for a reason, they
effectively buy something, if we say we are going to provide medals, then
that’s what we should be doing.
Currently we won’t get funding unless we are medal prospects and the
ONLY medal of interest is an Olympic one. I would firstly like to congratulate all of our
squad members, personal and squad coaches for keeping Great Britain at the
forefront of the international scene. Trampolining has faired well under
these heavy cuts in funding, however the pressure is now on from all funding
agencies to become even sharper and bring home even more medals, with the
ultimate of a medal in Beijing as a clear target. The prospect of failure
simply cannot be considered if we are to remain funded at all! This has left
us however with some major rethinking to ensure efficiencies and delivery is
maximised in all high performance areas. This isn’t all doom and gloom, we
simply have to keep doing well what works and improve those areas that are
holding us back. I do believe we are capable of achieving, but we
must ALL share targets, we must ALL share the responsibility if we are ALL to
share the glory! For the members of squad the implications are
obvious, they must spend the money on the right things, funding is about
training and events and both are key to improving. Through the last year various consultation stages were
undertaken and this resulted in a list of issues to tackle: ·
Fully
centralised, not supported ·
Personal
coaches not sufficiently involved & recognised ·
Global
targets never cascaded and personal goals don’t match up with WC goals ·
Consistent
support ·
APAs for
trampolinists, not value for money ·
We have
good enough coaches to deliver ·
The most
important aspect is coach education ·
Sports
science support in the trampolinists location ·
Two HPCs
doesn’t cover the country Carried forward to Page 6 |
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2nd DMT Trial for World Championships and
FIG International Age Groups Competitions (FIG IAGCs) Nick Earle The second of three trials for these competitions
was held in conjunction with the DMT & Synchro Mid-Season Competition
in Cardiff on Sunday 17th April. This was the largest Grade 1/2 DMT competition held
in the UK with 54 Grade 1 competitors and 60 Grade 2 competitors. After some very careful measuring by Steve Grist
we managed to squeeze 2 synchro panels with 4 trampolines and 2 DMT's into
the main arena, with one DMT being used for warm-up and 2 panels judging the
competitors on the second DMT. What's more the competition started on time,
ran like clockwork, and finished exactly on time. My thanks go to all the judges and marshals, but
especially to Martin Laws and Rosie Bascombe, for keeping
everything running so smoothly. For many people this was the first time they
had experienced two panels judging one DMT and it does take a little getting
used to. I think that everyone would agree that the standard
of the competition was very high and I would like to thank all the Coaches
and Athletes for the time and effort that much have gone into preparing for
this competition. The highest form score of 29.4 set by Andrew
Freeman (Top Flight) at the 1st trial remains unbeaten, with both Dominic
Swaffer (Jumpers) and Tom Jones (Birkenhead) scoring 29.1.
However, Michael Scott-Beaulieu (Jumpers) matched the highest
difficulty pass of 8.0 set by Philip Dodson (Salto), and has set a new
highest score for a pass with 36.6. I'm looking forward to the 3rd trial to
see if we can set some more records for British competitors. An additional 11 competitors met the minimum
criteria for FIG IAGCs and Matthew Swaffer (Jumpers) joins Philip Dodson as
the only competitors to meet the criteria for the Senior Team. Full results and the current ranking are available
from http://www.bg-coaches.org/results The next trial will be held at the Jumpers Rebound Centre in Gillingham
on Sunday 19th June. The next
meeting of NTTC is scheduled for 04 Sep 05 in London. If you have items that
you would wish the Technical Committee to discuss, please contact any of its’
members. All items must be received by 16 Aug 05 at the very latest. Ed |
World Games Great Britain will now also be
represented at the World Games in Duisburg GER in DMT, which received a wild
card in the ladies event. TRA / DMT Competitions are scheduled for 13-18 Jul
05. COMPETITION REPORT Craig Bellis We are now more than half way through the
competitive season in terms of the number of events. National Level
competitions are still enjoying growing entry figures, especially in the
higher grades. The Mid-season DMT
event had another large entry and was a great success. There were two panels of judges judging on
one piece of equipment. With the provision of separate apparatus for warm up
this made the competition run very efficiently. This system was arranged by Nick Earle and Steve
Grist, and is likely to be used for future DMT events. It was extremely sad, yet again, to see such low
numbers in the Synchro event. It is
acknowledged that without the DMT events running concurrently, the Synchro
event would most likely be economically unviable. It is hoped that the British Synchro Championships will see
larger figures. The event has been moved from June to November, and is no
longer at a time of year when people may be preparing for individual British
Championships or exams. I do strongly
feel that there is little incentive for clubs to excel at Synchro., as there
are few opportunities internationally for established Synchro pairs, unless
they are already being selected individually. Grade 1 competitions have facilitated two selection
events for World Championships and IAGGS (trampoline); two for World
Championships and IAGGS (DMT) and one for World Cup Synchro. There are two
further selection events, a Grade 1 on 14th May and the British
Championships (trampoline). The new rules for the senior groups, particularly
the two-thirds finalists and zero finals rules have caused some confusion;
this has lead to an incorrect number of finalists being allowed to compete on
two occasions. On one occasion at a selection event, it would have been
possible for someone who was not entitled to take part in the final round to
have taken maximum points. Luckily this did not happen. The minimum tariff
requirement has also caused some confusion in its application where
incomplete routines are involved. The
rule has not been applied precisely as written at events so far this year;
although it was applied in the manner it was intended. A note to the effect
of how the rule should be applied will be distributed at the forthcoming
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The organisation of the British Championships is
reasonably advanced. There has been
interest from outside parties for a sponsorship deal for this event for a
substantial sum of money. I am trying
to ascertain whether this lead will become reality, although I am now
somewhat sceptical. I am currently in the process of securing television
coverage for this event. The entry figures for the second Grade 1 in Macclesfield
on 17th March were very low due to a clash with the Flower
Cup. The event in Holland is attended
by a large number of British Clubs and also a British Gymnastics delegation.
As a result, the Macclesfield entry was reduced by approximately one
third. This almost made the event run
at a loss, however due to some radical cost cutting this event should just
break even. Reports from people who
attended the event said that it lacked any atmosphere mostly attributed to
the low entry. I will take further
consideration with the timing of National Grade events in conjunction with
the International calendar having seen the effect it’s had on the event both
as a competition and financially. |
Coach
Education Cathy Page Trampoline Coach Education UK Coaching Certificate – a
syllabus is being prepared including the Assistant Coach and there will then
be a need to rewrite /write resources. Some have already volunteered to help
with this. Anyone interested in helping with this please email me. IPC assessment - requirements for
IPC exam spelt out and circulated to all candidates. Possible exam date 23 or
24 July. Prospective IPC candidates -
there is an IPC Common Core theory module at Lilleshall on 23/24th
July. CV should be sent to Lloyd Reedhead. HPC - the next HPC course is July
25-29th see separate advert for details. Practical exam moves -
a list of moves to be examined practically at Coach and Club Coach have been
prepared and are almost ready for circulation to all examiners. At Senior
Club and HPC there are certain criteria laid down. This will standardise the
examination across the country. New tutors - Rosie
Bascombe DMT; Tony Burton – club coach examiner; Richard Ollerenshaw to
become mentor; Roland Portsmouth is
producing guidelines for mentoring potential tutors. Tutors/examiners seminar -
3/4th September at Loughborough. Mechanics – new terminology and
explanations of mechanics has been introduced to Coach Award – and resources
have been rewritten for the coach resource and Coach exam. Thanks to Richard
Ollerenshaw and Jake Bailey for their work with this. They are now tackling
the Club Coach Award. Award for Sports Centre Attendants -
on trampoline equipment to be put together as there is a demand from local
authorities for this type of course. Cathy Page ( cathyathome@tcp.org.uk) Trampoline HPC course Gillingham 25-29th
July Attendance at all days
essential. Cost £250 Coaches are invited to
attend with their own pupils who should be able to
do ½ outs, double backs, 1 ¾ fronts and single
twisting somersaults confidently Application
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FIG RETAINS ITS HUMOUR Having endeavoured to purchase a supply of FIG Polo Shirts over the
years, I decided to send an email to the new Secretary General of the FIG. “Dear Andrė 1.
I have been
endeavouring to persuade the FIG Shop to obtain a supply of XL and even XXL
Polo shirts for sale – especially for TRA. Despite promises over the “years”
nothing has happened. Would it be possible for you to give a small reminder
to your staff that not everyone in Gymnastics takes a S, M or L! Many thanks Your XXL friend Readers will be amused at the reply from Andrė. “Dear Mr. XXL, 2.
We have not only ran out of X;
XL AND XXL but of almost all our Polo-Shirts and articles for sale. Stèphanie
is, at this moment in time, buying and creating a new collection and I can
assure you that YOUR SIZE will be available !!! Your Swiss friend (X only) Four Countries Competition Saturday April 9th 2005 Judges report - Peter Heames Chair of Judges Competition Jury Execution: Bruce Craig
GBR Aquilino Martins
POR Sally Slinger
GBR Heike Rath
GER Cyril Cloud
FRA Difficulty Bert
Scales/Steve Grist GBR This was the first international held in Great Britain
under the new FIG Code of Points for cycle 11 (2005-2008). The judges
from POR, GER and FRA had all attended post Intercontinental (Prague CZE Feb 2005) courses and were
aware of the new requirements particularly in relation to execution. |
The judges and support officials
were able to meet together to make our introductions. This was I felt, a very
useful opportunity and allowed all to feel part of the “team”. It was also a
useful opportunity to go
through the way in which the competition was to be run. A number of
variations to the COP would feature. Most interesting was that the seniors
would nominate the two moves for difficulty but would not have these counted
as part of the first routine total! I used this opportunity to share with all the judges the new
expectations regarding execution judging. ·
An
expectation that the whole range of deductions would be used with really poor
elements receiving 0.4/0.5 It will be
much harder to score in excess of 9.0 ·
Take-offs –
amplitude ·
Shapes –
quality, depth and flexibility ·
Twists to
be completed before final half of somersault – especially in singles ·
Exits – at
the vertical, straight and held the end of the move. I reminded the judges that we are not judges for our
country and that it is essential that our marks reflect the performance
independent of the competitor who is competing. We were then able to go to the competition hall for
some practice though, as usual, we generally were only able to assess parts
of routines. Even so this did provide a good opportunity to compare judgments
and settle nerves. Throughout the competition the judging was
remarkably consistent with only a small number of rogue spreads. Only three
routines made it to around 27.0 which was entirely appropriate. Conversely
there were a number of routines that justly received sub 21.0 totals for
execution, especially in second and final routines. As Chair
there were quite a number of decisions to make regarding incomplete routines,
crashes, mat touches etc which kept me on my toes! The difficulty judging was very secure with only a
few queries that were dealt with very efficiently. I was aware of the need to
give them enough time to calculate/check routines so that ALL the judges were able to show their
scores simultaneously. The
competition ran very smoothly and almost exactly to time was pleasing. Overall I felt that as a team, including the
recorders (Pam Driscoll – computer and Linda Tee – manual) had
worked very well together. A very satisfying afternoon from a Chair’s
perspective. An even better afternoon when Great Britain won the
event! Ed. |
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These issues were forefront as the new system was
developed. The new system will have
two managers Jack Kelly for the Beijing 2008 squad and John Beer for the
development and 2012 squad. These
roles will be underpinned by a full time analyst and administration support. Personal coaches/clubs will operate in cluster
groups, where hopefully no Trampolinists will have to travel more than 1.5
hours to reach a squad session.
However it is acknowledged that those areas where performance numbers
are low, may not be able to achieve this immediately. These cluster groups will come together
once a month and personal programs will be set by the managers in discussion
with the personal coaches and the Trampolinist themselves. The next month, the targets will be tested
and progress analysed and so on. Four
times a year all the cluster groups will combine for National squad’s
selections and team building will be the prime objectives. Trampolinists, Coaches and Clubs will now share the
responsibility to achieve stricter targets and will be rewarded for
success. Where areas of deficiency
are identified there will be support programs devised by the managers to
correct the problem. Finally there is
intended to be financial rewards particularly to the Trampolinist to achieve
that all-important medal. So where does everyone else come in this
scheme? For those not involved in the
WC schemes, coach education is viewed as the key component to improve the
whole competitive base. Information
and analysis, advice and programs
will be provided to those in coach education to disseminate out to the whole
membership. Whether you are
recreational or competitive, it is vital that we introduce our new members to
the sport in an effective and fun way.
Therefore a long-term athlete development plan is being produced to
give everyone a head start. Finally if we can make our sport stand out in every
corner of the UK then further funding will be available via sources such as
Regional/County Sports Boards etc for the community work that we all
undertake. There is clearly much more to come and a great deal of
work to be done, but I am confident we are laying good foundations for the
future of our sport. F.I.G Age Group Games 2005 Eindhoven, 18th to 24th
September Trampoline Team
Selection Under 13 Girls Under 13 Boys |
Sophie Burr Nathan
Bailey Lucy Ryall Jordan
George Zoe Brookes Fletcher
Perry Megan Lillington ** Alex
Watson Nicole Short – Reserve 1 Mitchell Benham –
Reserve Emma Britton – Reserve 2 **Megan Lillington to prove fitness at National
Championships to secure selection. Under 15 Girls Under
15 Boys Katy Ianson Joe
McAdam Lani Dacey Liam
Abrahams Claire Stapenhill Steven
Williams Emma Scanlon Thomas
Foreman Katherine Kane – Reserve Nick Davies – Reserve Under 17 Girls Under
17 Boys Yasmin Gumbs Tom
Lewis Laura Gallagher Chris
Hall Laura Williams Luke
Rendell Danielle Pietruszka ** Matthew Wright Cara Jaimeson – Reserve
Michael Freeman –
Reserve ** Danielle Pietruszka selected as ‘Wild Card’ on
scores achieved and international success and experience. U19 Girls U19
Boys Stacey Dann Nick
Joyce Hannah Lewis Danny
Creedon Hannah Davies Jason
Harvey Lisa Blackburn Michael
Wood Katie Woodgate – Reserve Officials Sharon Wood Head
of Delegation Sue Bramble Team
Manager Bill Leach Lead
Coach Tony Hull Coach Rosie Bascombe Coach All officials were selected on experience and
qualification. Any coaches who wish to be part of the delegation in the
role of chaperones to the teams should contact Sharon Wood. |
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