General Chat / Trampolining Video

china, i think?

Sorry that I'm late on this topic....but, you know, now that I'm back to school (I finished school ), I have less time free time...
Anyway, Congrats...You made an awesome job, really impressive...I'd love to make those a acrobatics...

Edited by RCFanB&M, 27 July 2006 - 03:51 PM.

Good for sex.

Only if she can flip that way too.

Unless you're thinking about that "kung fu sex" video clip or something.

Joe, at the moment i'd say the best 5 nations are as follows.

1) Japan
2) China
3) Russia
4) Germany
5) France

We're languishing around in 7th or 8th. This is only for mens, by the way. Incredibly, Japan's womens team wouldn't feature in the top 5, and GB's would be about third.

I found a club to go to for the summer holidays (finally) but the weird thing is they coach that all power comes from 'toes forward', whereas my uni club coaches 'hips'. Like, for a tuck back, my uni club coaches hips. For a straight back they coach hips and toes. But this club in Birmingham coaches just toes for everything.
What's your professional opinion?

As a very astute and clever lad yourself, i'm sure you can see that they can't both be right. Truth is, they're both right to a certain extent, but power (that is to say, they're using the word "power" wrongly, it should be rotation in this case) is created from a variety of places. Different clubs focus on different things, but it's good to get a good grounding in all the techniques. When used in conjunction with one another, that's when you start getting enough rotation to double somi at ease.

V. impressive. Makes me miss gymnastics :-(.

How old do professional men trampolinists get before they get too old? For men gymnasts its about 25, just wondering.

I am VERY impressed watching this. It's definitely much more exciting than watching a diving event.

How long have you trained to get to this level?

Gymkid - I personally would say most people are past their best at about 28, although the silver medal in the olympics 2004 went to Moskalenko at the age of 35. He's a law unto himself, though, what a fucking legend. We peak between 22 and 26, normally.

Trajan - Glad to hear it! Would be nice to get some more exposure for the sport, it's definitely a fun one to watch. I've been trampolining since the age of 3, so that would make it 16 years! Plenty of hours have gone into this...

Haha ok it's just a bit difficult being told to do different things by different people who have pretty strong ideas on the subject.
Astute. I like that

Hey Turtle, physically speaking, you're great at this, but what about psychology?, what about your mental condition?, I mean...since a lot of people is looking at you...you just forget they are there?, what do you do?. I play tennis, and I just need to be self-confident, that's enough...if I'm self-confident while playing the match, I don't care if there are a lot of people watching me...but if things starts going wrong...
So, what do you do?, do you have any special strategy?

That's quite interesting, as in the past couple of years i've had a few problems mentally. I've never had a problem with the fact that people are watching me, but if the competition is a big one, or the stakes are high, I had a habit of cracking, losing concentration and falling off. What I did to change that was to change the way I trained. I now train many more whole routines rather than part routines, and that way the physical act of doing the routine is so ingrained that I have a lot more confidence while doing it. I also use some relaxation techniques, such as listening to certain music (everyone has their own favorite type to relax them) and having a "competition routine". This routine means that I do the same thing before and during every competition, no matter how big or small, and that way I can switch my brain on to the fact that i'm in a competition. I also keep reminding myself that the people that are watching have no bearing on what I do on the trampoline, that's between me and the bed.

When you start losing points, do you start realising that there are people watching you? And does that in turn make you lose more points? I've always wondered about the mental side of tennis, mainly due to the fact that Andrew Murray seems so good physically, but maybe has a lot to learn mentally before he can challenge the big few.

One of the people at my uni club was saying their brother was really good but then just before he went to the nationals started doing a full-full every time he took off for any sort of back somersault. Like, he couldn't do anything but a full or a full-full, so he had to drop out of the competition, and now he's had to learn right from scratch again.
That's got to suck.

That's what's known professionally as a "head-fuck".

It sucks seriously, though. I had a couple, one where I couldn't full full at all, and one where I couldn't take off for a forward somersault while bouncing. Had to start with a back somersault, then I was fine...

When you start losing points, do you start realising that there are people watching you? And does that in turn make you lose more points? I've always wondered about the mental side of tennis, mainly due to the fact that Andrew Murray seems so good physically, but maybe has a lot to learn mentally before he can challenge the big few.

Well, you're aware that people is looking at you in every moment of the match, but that doesn't affect you, if you're self-confident (as I said before), because when you're self-confident, you just play the way you want, I mean, you make less mistakes and you have much more control on your game; that happens to me, at least. If you start being insecure, things get harder, because you start loosing control in the match, and you feel that you can't handle your game...it's reallly difficult to change that in the middle of a match.
Personally, I don't care if I'm winning by 5-0 or if I'm loosing by 0-5...the match doesn't finish until the last point. If I took an advantaje of 5 games, I make my best for winning the match and if I'm loosing 0-5, I don't care...I'll do the same thing...give my best for winning the match...I may not take as many risks as if I'm winning, but I won't lower my level, just because of that.

...Wow. Just wow.

Kudos, my dear! =)