Coaches Tramp Board for Xcel

[coachmolly]

Has anyone been to an Xcel meet in the last season or two that did NOT provide a tramp board/air board for Xcel sessions?
For the last 2 seasons I've lugged ours around with me only to find one on site at almost every meet. However we did go to one meet that only provided 1 tramp board with 2 vaults running. This season I told my kids I would not be bringing our own board (it's scratched up my car terribly as I load/unload it by myself) but as we approach the first meet I'm starting to panic that we will get there and there won't be one available. I hate to email the meet director this close (meet is tomorrow) to the meet to ask so thought I would check here first to see if anyone had run into any problems?

 

[wandrewsjr]

Just email the meet director. Part of her job is answering these questions. The only meets I have seen with issues of not having a tramp board are those held in gyms that don't have one.

 

[gymdog]

Hm, I think it's fine to email but if it's in state then the meet is using an equipment company so I would expect them to have full equipment. We've used a few different equipment companies and they have always brought enough of the tramp boards. Plus I looked on YouTube for videos from last year and I see one of a girl in bronze using a tramp board.

 

[coachmolly]

Thanks! I think this meet should be okay as it has multiple Xcel sessions, but it would be just my luck for the meet I don't bring a board to not to have one.

 

[fuzi]

I've been to one invitational (in a gym) where they didn't have one. It was a huge drama because a couple of teams claimed it was unsafe to vault without it since that's all they ever trained. I was judging. They ended up borrowing one from a nearby gym and rearranging the rotation schedule to those teams could vault last.

I'd check with the meet director.

 

[Jasmynn]

If they are hosting an Xcel Bronze/Silver meet they are REQUIRED to have the proper equipment. So in the case of them not having one, is against the rules. I believe that could have been a problem for them had it been reported. It was not an "option".

 

[Jard.the.gymnast]

How was it?

 

[coachmolly]

Our meet last weekend had boards for both vaults, but it's our next meet that I'm most concerned about. Last year they only had one air board, had I not brought the one from our gym one of the vaults would have been stuck with a springboard. So I might actually email that meet director in the next few weeks.