Trampoline Championships
Trampoline Championships
No Audio The National Dutch Trampoline Championships are held in Amersfoort, Holland. Imported from America, trampoline jumping has become very popular in a short time. Judges award points on the difficulty of the acrobatics and their overall performance. A woman is jumping up and down doing back tucks and front pikes, and periodically landing on the stomach known as a log roll. A girl jumps doing front pikes and back pikes completing some backwards and forwards somersaults. A young male gymnast performs his trampoline skills; he tucks himself into a ball. When he's airborne, he performs a repetition of triple somersaults with ease, ending in a half twist jump. Well-dressed crowds cheer. He executes a front twist and followed by a back twist. CU trampoline springs shaking. Judges taking notes. A girl gymnast performs a full twist jump. She makes a straddled jump followed by a forward twist and backward somersault. She bounces, grabs her knees and does a backward somersault. She continues executing the twists forwards and backwards, known as the full twist jump. When her performance is complete she bounces smiling off the trampoline to nearby coach or gymnast who helps her down.