Following the success of British trampoline gymnasts at the World Championships 2013 and European Championships 2014 British Gymnastics is pleased to announce the launch of the Trampoline Performance Pathway, funded in partnership with UK Sport and Sport England, to increase the quality and size of the trampoline gymnastics talent pool across England and Northern Ireland.… Read More »
Gold for The East Region at The Trampoline NDP Regional Finals. Three of Eastern Region’s promising young trampolinists travelled to Exeter last weekend for The Regional Finals, an event bringing together talented jumpers from all around Britain. Loughton’s Lauren Tebbutt was first to compete. Showing some fine skills and stability, Lauren performed two pleasingly neat… Read More »
We understand that there has been some confusion arising from various communications about the regional championships. Can we please clarify that the routines (click the link to view) and requirements, including NDP mappings, are as per last year and are based on the routine structure we agreed to support at last years AGM, i.e. last-years BG… Read More »
Some of you may recall Dan Frost, a long-time competitor in the region, who has now moved to Portsmouth for his studies in engineering. Planning to enter the Great South Run and pondering on who to run for, he heard of Steve’s tragic death and, having fond memories of him as a judge, decided to… Read More »
The squad coaches are inviting the following gymnasts to the upcoming May squads (please see earlier news release for details), being held at Brentwood on Sunday 25th May. Clubs are asked to confirm intentions to attend to [antibot mailto=”[email protected]”] as soon as is reasonably possible. Junior Squad – 9:00 – 11:50am Maddison Merritt – Brentwood; Zara Phillips –… Read More »
It is with great sadness that we have learned of the death of Steve Locke from Apex Trampoline Club, after a short illness. Steve has been part of the trampolining region for many years now (Jack Kelly recalling his presence on his courses back in the 1970’s when he was instrumental in re-establishing Apex after… Read More »
As a result of low numbers of applications, due to a clash of dates with other events, the proposed DMT squad session on Sunday 18th May will not go ahead.Phil Dodson, Regional DMT Squad Coordinator, extends an open invitation for coaches to bring performers to his club sessions on a Saturday evening (5:15 – 7:30)… Read More »
The UK Clubs League is a unique UK provision in trampoline and DMT, it is a League system run ‘by the Clubs for the Clubs’, the handbook has now been published and can be downloaded from the following link: UK Clubs League Handbook 2014 Current LTAD principles are at the heart of the League. This… Read More »
Eastern Region’s Georgia Downing, who jumps for Sprungloaded DMT Club, took the DMT silver medal at the 2014 European Championships held in Guimaraes, Portugal on 12th April. Georgia, coached by Phil Dodson, who was also recently appointed as the region’s DMT squad coach, qualified through to the final in only the 7th slot after hitting the… Read More »
Reflecting on progress As we approach the end of the second year of the regional development squad we have been reviewing the progress achieved so far and considering how to become more effective in working towards the objectives we set. Those objectives were: To raise the overall standard of Trampoline Gymnastics within the Eastern Region.… Read More »