Telford Twisters Trampoline Club

Well, I've recently completed the UKCC Level 2 course at Rugeley Leisure Centre in Staffordshire, the home of G-Force Trampoline Club. Their Head Coach Paul Coates ran the course and was very enlightening. 

The level 2 course was 5 days long and built on the basic moves learnt in level one and concentrated on all the progressions needed for forward somersault, back somersault, lazy backs, baranis and crash dives.

The course also concentrated on gymnast...

I really enjoyed peters level 2  course,Which i attended with sammy so that the coaches had children there to practice on.

Although it was peters course me and sammy also learnt a lot over the two days. I learnt front somersaults and sammy learnt lazy backs.

It was really good fun even though it was really hard work.

shannon tolley:P

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This write up was done by Darren on Josh and Elise's first West Midlands Training Squad Session:-

Saturday was Josh and Elise's (J/E) first development squad session. After registration they had their warm -up and then were split into two groups.

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