Trampolining at County High

Competition organisation and judging

Introduction

To run effectively, a trampoline competition requires a substantial organisation activity including officials, equipment, safety mats and a host of other things easily forgotten. This document identifies the roles and activities involved in a competition and provides some useful points of reference. At the end of the day, however, experience is everything and the more practiced you become in fulfilling the required activities then the smoother the competition organisation. This paper addresses specifically:

• the planning of a competition
• the organisation required to support one ‘panel’, a panel typically comprises two trampolines set out as illustrated in Figure 1 below, together with associated officials – a competition can comprise a number of panels, and
• how routines are judged.

It is worth noting that competitions normally run in up to 3 ‘rounds’ being:

• Compulsory, or Set round, in which each performer competes an identical routine,
• Voluntary round in which each performer can compete a routine of their own construction (although comprising only legitimate moves) and often with some constraints on the overall level of difficulty, and
• A Final round in which the highest scoring performers (typically up to 8) will compete in a second Voluntary round

… although in local, friendly or other low-level competition it is rare for there to be a Final round.

 

 

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