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My club is being displaced from the building we have been in for EVER, but one of the benefits is that the company kicking us out is getting us new equipment. We have to provide them with a list of what we need, along with suppliers and costings. One of the things we wanted to get along with...

Very general and hypothetical (at the moment) question over here, but I saw a job (non gymnastics related) advertised in the U.S. and I'm interested in applying for it. I wondered, while I am doing my research about the place, and the state, and the job if I would be able to continue with tramp...

My university sports centre has recently been persuaded (by me) to have a rig fitted for the trampoline club to use during training. Myself and 2 other tramp coaches in the club are qualified to use it and it's been very useful so far. The other day one of the cheer girls walked into the hall...

I coach a rec tramp session with what is generally a very nice bunch of kids. Recently there is a girl who has started pushing the boundaries. It has always been a feature of use club that the coaches have a good rapport with the kids and will make jokes. There is a lot of give and take with...

I recently had an 'appraisal' with my immediate boss at the leisure centre I coach at. This is very casual work and there are some months that I don't rack up any hours at all, and some when I do 30. During my appraisal my manager asked me about development plans and I said I was booked to begin...

I have Ehlers Danlos Syndrome causing hypermobility and some musculoskeletal issues, including a scoliosis. Its not particularly severe but the primary curve is high in my spine into my neck, meaning that it gives me badly slanted shoulders (one is 6cm higher than then other), and the secondary...

I recently qualified as a judge, and my course was paid for by the organisers of a particular competition, tying me to judge at said competition. I SCRAPED passing the practical exam, (60% was the pass mark, I got 62...) but the theory I was fine with (98% and the mark I dropped was a...

We don't normally take gymnast info when we get new people coming into the club, mostly because they are all adults, all students at the university, and we get many people who come for one session to try it and are never seen again. However, we are now under increasing pressure from the uni to...

I have my L2 tramp coaching assessment in 2 weeks. I am a bit of a trampoline geek and thought I was all prepared and knew everything I needed to know about how the assessment works. Then I looked at the 'timetable for assessment' thing (which can be found on the second page of the BG L2...

I found out 2 weeks ago that I got accepted onto a PGCE course that starts in 2 weeks! I'm so excited and nervous at the same time. It's for primary schools so I will be working with mostly 5-11 year olds and I will be speicalising in inclusive special needs education. I will go on placement...

I don't get a lot of conditioning at any of my training sessions (read I dont get any unless I decide to do it myself) because they are generally all about cramming the skills into limited time on the trampolines. I used to be able to do a pretty straight straightback (layout) but that was a...

Freshers week is coming up and this is the main time we have to promote the tramp club at my University. I'm pretty invested in it because I set it up a year ago and don't want to see it flop. We had a good first year and competed at 5 comps and won medals at all but 1. If we don't get enough...

I started the trampoline club at my University and thus I get to choose what we wear. As yet I have been very relaxed (I just wanted to get them out there competing, not freaking out about what to wear) but our second year is approaching and everyone wants to look nice and together for comps and...

So on Tuesday I was having lunch with a friend before going to coach/train at Uni when my stomach started to hurt. It wasn't that bad and I thought it would go away soon enough - if it didn't I was thinking I would just coach and not train myself. I left lunch at 4 and by the time I got to Uni...

Ok, I have a coaching assesment coming up and as part of it you have to deliver a warm up activity that is fun, and engages the brains of the participants as well as their bodies ie. getting them to run around the floor will not fly because they don't have to think at all. I always use warm up...

My dad has been away working in Perth since February and is coming back in September. He has decided that he wants to bring us (us being my 2 sisters and I) back a present, but he wants it to be something Australian. He suggested this particular brand of handbags and sent links to all of us but...

Today at training I asked somebody to throw a mat under me for crashdive barani ballout. My coach cut in and said that she wanted to see a tucked non-twisting ballout first. Fine. I went up, and then I thought 'crap, how do you actually DO a crashdive?!' I got round but it wasn't pretty. I tried...

The past few times I have trained at one of the centres I use I have had really sore heels. It's not the Achilles' tendon, but the actual pad of my heel under my foot. One hurts much more than the other. It can't be the tramp because tonight I used a different one to normal and still had pain...

Tuesday will be my final session as chair of my University's trampoline club, and our final session before the summer. I want to do fun awards for everyone but I'm running out of ideas! can anyone add to the list I already have? So far I've got: Most improved tramp - for the girl who took 3...

I crashed a competition yesterday - the first time I've ever done that. I don't even know what happened - I did my first skill (BSS(T)) fine, took off for my second skill (mind blank starts here) the skill was a straddle jump. That move that you learn on your first day at trampolining. I landed...