OCR PE Unit 6.3 Gymnastics Based Sport - Trampolining

OCR PE Unit 6.3

Gymnastics Based Sport - Trampolining

The Perfect Model - Irina Kararaeva

Irina Karavaeva is a Russian trampolinist who is arguably the most successful and skilled trampolinist sice 2000 when trampolining was introduced to the Olympics. Karavaeva has been competing at international level sice 1990.

Achievments

• 2000 Olympic Champion
• 1994, 1998 and 1999 World Champion
• 1995, 2000 and 2004 European Champion
• 21 World Cup wins, including 5 World Cup final wins, this is a record
• The first trampolining Olympic Champion
• Recieved the Fair Play Award by the IOC President

Irina Karavaeva is known as a dedicated and driven athlete. This statement was proven when in the 1999 World Championships Karavaeva suffered severe back pain however pulled through and won her third world title.

Irina Karavaeva held the record for the most complicated and complex routine completed by a female trampolinist, the difficulty was 15.60. This record was broken in 2011 by British gymnast Emma Smith.


Below are pictures of Karavaeva in action -

Irina Karavaeva in training leading up to the 2000 Olympics

Irina Karavaeva competitng during the 2000 Olympic Games

Irina Karavaeva performing the routine for her 25th World Cup Gold Medal

Irina Karavaeva and Natalia Chernova performing a synchronized routine

Irina Karavaeva at the 2000 Olympics -

http://www.youtube.com/embed/qt9Nv3Cz3zU?rel=0

In this routine Karavaeva does many things well, they are -

1. She is precise in her routine
2. She lands on the cross all of the time
3. The moves she performs are complicated
4. She pulls of the skills and moves with accuracy
5. The timing of the routine is good 

Below is me demonstrating my skill level in trampolining -





In this routine I had bad balance, bad form and not a huge variety of skills or moves.