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Try these trampoline tricks if you wan to learn something new.

Trampoline Trick One:

The Turn-table (front drop, spin to front drop)

This is a cool trampoline trick, but a little hard to describe, so listen up! You need to be able to perform a good front drop with a bit of height. (Remember my online basics course teaches the ‘backward’ motion needed for a front drop).

First, perform you front drop, and instead of landing on your feet, tuck your legs up and stay in the air facing the trampoline and land back on to your front.

To perform the trampoline trick, you need to ’spin’ round so you are facing the opposite direction (half turn). So you front drop, push with your hands, tuck up a little and spin round, landing in a front drop in the opposite direction.

To build up a progression to this trampoline trick, simply aim to get just 1/4 of the way round and improve each time.

Eventually, with a really good front drop and spinning as fast as you can, you may be able to get all the way around so you do a full turn. It looks really impressive!

My personal best is a one and a half turn! Tip: tuck up tight if you want to spin faster.

Trampoline Trick TWO

The Airplane (full twist to front drop)

Again, this involves the front drop. First lean the 1/2 twist to front drop (in my guide, make sure you go backwards).

Then practice your full twist jump. Jump UP, hands above head, body tight, stomach flexed in and bottom clenched. Don’t twist straight off the trampoline or you won’t stay in the middle.

Now try the full twist, and as you come to land, drop to your hands and knees by pushing your bottom back (NOT forward on to your hands - BACKWARDS on to your hands and knees).

To get the full twist in to front drop, keep tight and straight while twisting, but bend your knees and push back to get into the back drop.

Remember, your chest should land exactly where your feet where when you took off.

Full twisting trampoline tricks, always look exciting and clever. As long as you can tap in to your core strength and keep tight while in mid-air, you should find them easy.

I have some more trampoline tricks up my sleeve, so keep posted to this blog!

Fay

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Trampoline Tricks are all a progression of one trampoline move to the next. From the basic tuck jump, to the double front somersault… just learn one at a time.

You can learn any trampoline trick you like… if you just accomplish the simple moves first and take simple steps to progress to more complicated trampoline tricks.

Learn the most important trampoline basic move - the TUCK jump. How on earth do you think you can do a double front or back if you can’t tuck up fast enough to get the rotation needed?

Learn the straddle jump and the pike jump. These are important for getting balance and pre-determining later moves.

Learn to do 1/2 twist and full twist jumps. Sound boring, but you need to know how to do them as “late twists” and not using your arms and twisting from the bed.

Learn Seat drops, half twist to seat drop; seat drop half twist out; and swivel hips. This helps with learning to get your hips up and how to twist in and out of moves.

Learn front drops and back drops. Then learn how to twist into them and how to twist out of them. These fundamental moves will teach you about ‘forward’ movement and ‘backward’ moves. Believe it or not… the front drop is “Backward movement and the back drop is a forward movement.

Understanding this is important if your want to do forward or backward flips.

Then there are an array of moves such as the Cradle - Back drop 1/2 twist to back drop, the Seat roll seat (roller), The airplane (full twist to front drop) and the full twist to back drop.
These are all tricks which require a clever skill of knowing ‘when’ to twist (hint: it’s late twisting and twist from the hips)

Of course, once you have learned all the fundamentals, you can start learning clever trampoline tricks including the Front flip which is a combination of the tuck jump and backward motion of a front drop. Or the Back flip which is a combination of the Seat drop (hips forward) - in to a back drop (hips up), utilizing the tuck jump!

The cody is a back flip in to a front drop and lift straight into a back somersault.
The barani is a front somersault with a half twist - with the key Twisting late - just like the roller!
You see - all trampoline tricks are a progression of learning one move and progressing in to another trampoline move.

If you want to learn some impressive trampoline tricks, leans the basics first and then add one move at a time.

MORE TIPS

• If you are having trouble competing a trampolining skill, try ‘getting tighter’. pull in the tummy and squeeze the bottom.

• Never think you need ‘room’ in front of you to perform a trampoline trick. Take off in the middle of the trampoline and you will land in the middle of the trampoline.

• Use your ARMS right in every move. The arms in the right position is the key to landing every move

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I am always asked… “Will Jumping on the trampoline help me lose weight?”.
Answer? Trampoline Exercise is a brilliant way to lose weight!

To get the same work out anywhere else you would need to do Cardio for 30 minutes, weight resistence (toning) for 30 minutes, additional Core training exercises for 30 minutes and it would be through a mundane and repetitive routine every day.

You get all these workouts in one when you trampoline exercise.

My website explains all the benefits, the lymphatic System drainage, the “face-lift” effect of trampoline exercise, the cellular level of trampoline exercise and the fact that it burns serious amounts of calories, beating any other form of exercise (apart from ‘fast-skipping’ like the boxers do before they get in the ring).

A friend of mine recently had a 2 minute bounce on my trampoline. I gave her a lesson in swivel hips and she practically crawled off the trampoline! She could not believe how hard the trampoline taxed her body and is now a believer that Trampoline Exercise is a way to seriously exercise and have fun at the same time.

Another huge believer in Trampoline Exercise is Tony Robbins (USA’s top motivational speaker and best – seller). He has long been a fan of trampoline exercise for both increasing fitness levels and lifting the mood.

If you suffer from depression, I can not emphasise enough that trampoline exercise will help considerably. You just feel Good!

Do not be mistaken, however, that meagrely jumping up and down for a few minutes is going to attain a super slim body.

Learn the moves – hey, I couldn’t make it more easy for you with my free e-book and DVD – and put them in to routines.

Right now you can get a free trampoline routine report by referring a friend here.

Anthony Robbins - The Worlds Most Successful Self Help Guru heralds trampoline exercise as a remarkable fitness work out and mood lifter.

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