TeamGym
What is TeamGym?
It’s team gymnastics, working together to achieve beautiful floor routines, powerful tumbling and trampet aerial skills. The sport was developed by the Scandinavians and has been part of the European Union of Gymnastics since the early 1970’s.
TeamGym consists of three sections: women, men and mixed teams across primary, youth, junior and senior age categories. In each of the three sections a team may consist of between eight to ten gymnasts with a maximum of twelve gymnasts including reserves.
The TeamGym European Championships is the highest competitive level in the sport. The event takes place every 2 years and at each Championship sees new countries joining the sport.
TeamGym – Full Teams
Teams compete on 3 apparatus; Floor, Tumble & Trampet to music. The whole team must perform on floor demonstrating dance rhythmic sequences, shape formation changes, acro skills, leaps, jumps, balances, flexibility and group work. The best choreographed routines tell a story or trigger an emotion – like joy, happy, sad. The team also perform a series of tumble and trampet runs, using 6 team members for three passes on each piece of apparatus. Tumbles must display backward & forward passes. Trampet must display vault & trampet passes.
Tumble
Teams perform three different rounds of tumbling down a run up of 16 metres onto a 15 metre track with good streaming (as one gymnast lands, the next has started and another is getting ready to start) landing their final skill on a 7×4 metre long landing area. The team must start and complete their performance within 2:45mins to instrumental music, jogging back as a team between rounds.
A tumbling series must consist of a minimum of three gymnastic acrobatic elements performed forwards, backwards or a combination of both. There must however always be a forwards and backwards tumble.
The team selects their top six gymnasts for each round, working to the strengths of the team. In mixed teams there must always be equal numbers of male to female gymnasts, unless the competition is a unisex event. In the first round the gymnasts must all perform the same skills, after that they can intensify the difficulty and wow the audience with their performance.
Gymnasts must wait for one another and all jog back together at the end of each round. Bonuses can be awarded by judges if the whole team use identical technique or wow the judges.
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TeamGym – Micro
Introduced to support clubs with not enough gymnasts to make a full team and to gain valuable competition experience without the pressure of a floor routine.
Teams compete on 2 apparatus, Tumble & Trampet to music. The micro team (consisting of between 3-5 members) perform a series of tumble and trampet runs, using 3 team members for three passes on each piece of apparatus. Tumbles must display backward & forward passes. Trampet must display vault & trampet passes.
Floor
Teams perform a choreographed routine to instrumental music within a 14 x 16 metre non-sprung floor area from 2:15 – 2:45 mins. The routine can tell a story but all participants must be actively engaged with some skills being performed in unison, whilst others may use mirroring or canon form. No one is allowed to stop unless the music demands it as part of the choreography. There is no front as in many European competitions the audience is sat all around the arena.
Effective teamwork, with good solid technique in elements and spectacular acrobatic skills are also needed. So, the routine must consist of difficulty elements such as balances, jumps, acrobatic elements, and in combination, whilst displaying flexibility, a traveling rhythmic dance sequence and a group element.
Trampet
Teams perform a series of somersaults and twists from a trampet, with good streaming, using both the trampet and trampet vault. Each team must perform three different rounds with at least one round executing skills using a vault and another using just the trampet. Like tumble, trampet is performed to instrumental music and must conclude within 2:45mins. Like tumble round 1 is identical and teams may choose their top 6 gymnasts to perform in each round.
Trampet has the wow factor, it is fast, it is high, it is daring and powerful. Coaches are stood on the landing area as a safety precaution to rotate, catch gymnasts and stop the performance, if necessary. Gymnasts must wait for one another and all jog back together at the end of each round.
Being part of the TeamGym community, you will experience a sport like no other. During training and at competitions the phenomenal team spirit amongst participants, officials, coaches, volunteers and spectators is contagious. The exhilarating, dynamic and spectacular routines that provide great entertainment, leaving you speechless and on the edge of your seat.
TeamGym at Horizon
Our Teamgym program begins with recreational gymnasts learning to work together and support one another.
Gymnasts are given independent learning alongside Team partner tasks as they develop team building skills. Together they start to learn how to support one another, lead an activity, take responsibility and follow instructions from their peers and team mates. This is more than just learning gymnastic skills, these are valuable life skills.
We all bring our special uniqueness to a team, together we harness our strengths & make the team resilient.
Fun competitive competitions for all gymnast levels
So you’d like to try TeamGym, Great!
