Trampoline Gymnastics

Trampoline gymnastics has two streams: recreational and competitive. Athletes in this sport perform various gymnastics skills while bouncing on an Olympic sized trampoline. This sport consists of routines performed on an individual trampoline, a double mini trampoline and tumbling, which is performed on a rod floor. At the Okanagan Gymnastics Centre, we have four Olympic sized trampolines, a double mini trampoline and a rod floor.

Trampoline gymnasts often begin their journey at the recreational level before progressing into a competitive level. In recreational gymnastics, athletes learn basic skills such as different shape jumps and body landings. Different shape jumps include tucks, pikes, and straddle jumps whereas body landings include skills like front drops, back drops, airplanes and swivel hips. Once our athletes master these skills they progress to a higher level of recreational gymnastics. This level trains them in dive rolls, doggie drop front tucks, basic forward flips, and back drop pullovers.

The athletes continue learning in this higher level of recreational gymnastics until our trampoline coaches determine if they are skilled enough to progress into a competitive level. The competitive level is more complex than the recreational level. It involves learning different shapes of flips and mastering twists. Our beginner competitive athletes learn higher level flips such as back flips in multiple shapes, baranis and rudis. A barani is a skill that requires a gymnast to carry out a front flip with a half turn (180 degree twist), whereas a rudi is a front flip with 1 ½ twists (540 degree twist). This level is then followed by a higher competitive level where our athletes learn to perform more complex skills such as the cody and the ballout, and are introduced to 1 ¾ and double flips. A cody is when the athlete performs a backflip from the stomach. A ballout is when the athlete performs a front flip from the back. Higher level competitive athletes begin to learn more complex double flips in different shapes and with twists, and at the highest levels even triple flips are learned. 

All levels stated in the recreational CanJump program are offered at the Okanagan Gymnastics Centre. We have competitive athletes from provincial level 1 to national level 6. OGC has athletes compete in provincial and national championships each year, and we have had athletes in the past progress to compete at a world level. Our athletes in the national levels compete at Elite Canada as Team OGC and Canadian Championships as Team BC. The athletes that are selected to compete at World Age Groups or World Championships are able to represent their country as part of Team Canada.

At OGC we pursue our mission to deliver a quality gymnastics program for community wide engagement; with meaningful participation by all from foundational to high performance. Our staff are very friendly and always eager to answer any questions or concerns. Contact us at info@okanagangymnastics.com or call us at 250-765-0888 to learn about our trampoline gymnastics program.