| Trampolining I took up trampolining at 9 years old when I attended a summer school at my local youth club in Leeds. As one of the better kids I was invited back to join coaching sessions when the term started that Autumn. By the age of 10 I had won my first competition and got the taste for winning. By 13 I was Yorkshire and North Midlands U15 champion and was regularly appearing on the national circuit. Throughout my teens I qualified for both the juniors and the seniors National championships every year and was selected as a youth international for the UK - Germany match in 1979. I was also National Schools champion that year. I competed until I was 24, winning a number of Open titles and I retired in 1985 as Yorkshire & North Midlands Open Champion, Scottish Open Champion and Scottish Synchro Champion. At eighteen I passed my first coaching award and quickly qualified up to Intermediate coach. I had to wait till I was 21 to take my Advanced coaching award, but passed that in June 1982, becomming the youngest ever Advanced coach. At the same time I also qualified as a judge. I took over as head coach of West Yorkshire Supertramps, my local club in 1979, when my coach retired and ran it until moving south in 1992. We managed to gain recognition as an "Advanced Centre" for Trampolining, one of only 4 others in the country. We had over 200 performers in the club with sessions running 6 days a week on 6 top quality 6mm trampolines. We had more than 10 qualified coaches in the club at various levels, with many performers competing at the top level. In 1992 we moved down south for work and I didn't do much Trampolining for a while. When Natasha started school I offered to do a Trampoline display at the school fete and I've been doing it almost every year since. In 1999 I started coaching again at Sawston Village College Sport Centre. Starting with just one leisure class and two trampolines we now have 3 recreational classes. The school has 2x 77A trampolines and part owns a 6mm EuroTramp. In 2004 I set up Cambridge
Canagroos Trampoline Club I have been a Trampoline Coach tutor and examiner since 2002 and in 2006 I became Club Coach tutor. If you want information on all the courses at Sawston Sports Centre, then please contact Shelly at Sawston Sports Centre If you want more information about Cambridge Canagroos, the courses and the people then contact me. Also, you can download my Sports CV. This gives full details of my qualifications and coaching history.
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