What We Offer – Gymnastics

As a Purley Gymnastics Club we offer a number of types of gymnastics to suit all ages abilities.  Gymnastics requires balance, strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, artistry and endurance. For those that are just starting out for the first time or have never tried we start with the basics of coordination and balance, learning the basic skills before progressing ensuring that they are taught how to do each skill safely and most of all by having fun whilst doing this.  

As you progress we offer the most common form of gymnastics at both competitive level or if you wish by keeping it purely recreational in the way of  WAG (Womens Artistic Gymnastics).  This covers events such as Floor, Vault, Uneven Bars & Beam. We encourage everyone to take part and learn new skills and continue developing  and encourage everyone to take part at our local internal events. We do have squads that compete in these events but we also have a number of gymnasts who are just as happy having fun with their friends. 

 

As a Croydon Trampoline Club we also offer Trampoline Gymnastics which includes the Trampoline & the Double Mini Trampoline. These can both be practiced for recreational excercise or competitively 

 

 

Firstly Trampoline Gymnastics which includes Trampoline & the Double Mini Trampoline as well as General Gymnastics

Gymnastics requires balance, strenth, flexibility, Agility, coordination, artistry and endurance. We offer the most common for of gymnastics at both competitive level and recreational in the way of Artistic Gymnastics which covers events such as Floor, Vault, Uneven Bars & Beam. We also offer rhytmic gymnastics ? Dancing???

Trampoline covers a number of different events, at Twizzlers we currently offer  at both recreational & Competitive level :-Trampoline, Double Mini Trampoline & Tumbling. Trampolinists start with learning the basic simple jumps and how to stop safely working there way through to if they have an interest to competitive level which includes 10 move combinations that are scored

Trampolining or trampoline gymnastics^[1] is a competitive Olympic sport in which athletes perform acrobatics while bouncing on a trampoline.^[2] In competition, these can include simple jumps in the straight, pike, tuck, or straddle position to more complex combinations of forward and/or backward somersaults and twists. Scoring is based on the difficulty and on the total seconds spent in the air. Points are deducted for bad form and horizontal displacement from the center of the bed.

Outside of the Olympics, competitions are referred to as gym sport, trampoline gymnastics, or gymnastics, which includes the events of trampoline, synchronised trampoline, double mini trampoline and tumbling.

Gymnastics is a type of sport that includes physical exercises requiring balance, strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, artistry and endurance.^[1] The movements involved in gymnastics contribute to the development of the arms, legs, shoulders, back, chest, and abdominal muscle groups. Gymnastics evolved from exercises used by the ancient Greeks that included skills for mounting and dismounting a horse, and from circus performance skills.^[2]

The most common form of competitive gymnastics is artistic gymnastics (AG), which consists of, for women (WAG), the events floor, vault, uneven bars, and beam; and for men (MAG), the events floor, vault, rings, pommel horse, parallel bars, and horizontal bar.

The governing body for competition in gymnastics throughout the world is the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG). Eight sports are governed by the FIG, including gymnastics for all, men’s and women’s artistic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics, trampolining (including double mini-trampoline), tumbling, acrobatic, aerobic, and parkour.^[3] Disciplines not recognized by FIG include wheel gymnastics, aesthetic group gymnastics, TeamGym, and mallakhamba.

Participants in gymnastics-related sports include young children, recreational-level athletes, and competitive athletes at all levels of skill.

Within the 2 core elements of Gymnastics & Trampolining we offer a number of skills that you can learn. In trampolining we have some squads and stuff as well as DMT. For Gymnastics we do some things i dont know the name of Tumbling, Bars, Beam, Floor dancy stuff! In trampoline children can work towards competing at Aspire Level

For the British Gymnastics guide to Trampoline, DMT & Tumbling please click here