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Standing Bounce
Use the basic “feet to feet” standing bounce to
warm up and get the feel of the trampoline.
Try to keep the body straight. Your legs should
be slightly apart when landing on the bed and
together in the air with toes pointed. As you
jump up from the trampoline bed push down
hard on the balls of feet and toes, stretch your
body upwards and swing your arms forward
and upwards.
As you come down onto the bed bring your
arms down to your sides, part your legs slightly,
land with feet flat and flex your knees.
IMPORTANT: TO STOP YOUR BOUNCE
Bend your knees as your feet touch the bed.
Practice this move so that you are confident
that you can stop dead if you find you are
getting out of control or going away from the
centre of the bed.
TUCK JUMP
Start as if doing just a standing bounce. At the
top of your bounce bring your knees to your
chest and briefly clasp your shins. Let go and
return to standing bounce with body straight
and arms at sides before landing on the bed.
PIKE JUMP
Start as if doing a standing bounce. At the
top of your bounce, bending your body at the
hips, raise your legs, keeping them straight
and together, to the horizontal position
and briefly touch your shins. Return to the
standing bounce before landing on the bed
with arms at your sides.
STRADDLE JUMP
Similar to the pike jump, but stretch your
legs apart as far as possible with the toes
pointed and try to touch the top of your feet in
the position at the top of the bounce, before
returning to land on your feet with your arms at
your sides.
SEAT DROP
First, without bouncing, just sit in the middle
of the bed in the correct landing position. This
is with your legs together and straight out in
front of you. Lean slightly backwards with back
straight, arms beside and slightly behind you
with fingers together and pointing forward.
Next stand up and drop to the Seat Drop
position, without bouncing. Then try the move
from a little bounce. To bounce back onto your
feet lift hips forward and push up with your
hands.
Make sure that you drop to the Seat Drop
position in the middle of the bed and land back
on your feet in the middle of the bed.
HALF TWIST
From a Standing Bounce, as you leave
the bed raise both arms and bring them
together above your head whilst looking in
the direction you wish to twist. This action will
help you twist your body round so that you
land facing the opposite direction, having
rotated through 180 degrees. The higher and
quicker you lift your arms the further you will
twist. Always twist in the same direction.
FULL TWIST
Performed as for the half twist but with more
effort so that you rotate through a full 360
degrees and land in the same position that
you took off from. Do not attempt a full twist
until you have perfected the half twist.
HANDS AND KNEES
Without bouncing, adopt the hands and knees
position as shown. Return to the standing
position and with a small bounce lift your hips
back and upwards and drop to the hands
and knees position. Hands and knees must
hit the bed at exactly the same time. Push up
slightly with your arms to return to the Standing
position.
BACK BOUNCING
As an introduction to the Back Drop and to get
the feel of where and how to bounce on your
back,try back bouncing. Without bouncing,
adopt the Back Drop position. Keep your chin
forward and head off the bed by continuing to
look forwards. With legs and hands up in the
air start regular bouncing motions by bringing
your knees up towards your chest to push your
body into the bed, then open your legs out
to lift off the bed. Tuck them in as you hit the
bed and open out to leave the bed. Work with
the bounce and you’ll find this an easy and
enjoyable move.
BACK DROP
First without bouncing, adopt the Back Drop
position. Keep your chin forward and head
off the bed. Legs should point upwards and
forwards, at about 60 degrees from the surface
of the bed and arms at a similar angle.
From standing position with hardly any bounce,
keeping sight of the outside of the trampoline
all the time, kick both legs up and forward
lifting hips and aim to land in the centre of the
bed on the upper part of your back. Lift your
hips up and forward and bear down with your
legs to return to standing position.
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