GTramp is a relatively new sport that has exploded in popularity in the past few years. GTramp stands for “Garden Trampoline,” but this isn’t your usual run-of-the-mill trampoline jumping, this sport involves epic, jaw-dropping acrobatics and gravity-defying moves. It’s fun to watch and even more fun to do.
The sport has gone from strength to strength, the popularity having been fuelled by social media, where the hashtag #gtramp now has more than 219k posts on Instagram and participants freely share their moves, whilst supporting and encouraging each other. The movement started to gain traction in 2016 and is currently being led by tween and teenage boys around the world — but with more and more girls starting to join in.
The athletes are called GTrampers or Flippers and what they do is not to be confused with the Olympic sport of trampolining. GTramp is freestyle, where acrobatics and daring trump pointed toes and perfect landings. Slightly rebellious in nature, it’s a combination of the daring of parkour, the energy of freestyle snowboarding and the street cool of skateboarding. As with any sport there is a lingo that accompanies it and the flippers show off their kabooms, with their codies and their ball-outs.
Whilst uniqueness and playing to your own strengths, seems one of the keys to GTramping success, the trampolinists have established a kind of hierarchy for the hardest way to do a trick – a double bounce, when one flipper utilizes the force of his or her bounce to send another flipper higher, is the easiest, with a tower bounce, the one bounce and standing following in order of difficulty. Quintuple (5) flips, which not long ago were rarer than hen’s teeth in the world of garden trampolining, are now becoming more commonplace in recent years, as the athletes push the limits within the sport.
Whilst GTramp is a sport mostly practised individually or with friends in back gardens, there are opportunities for the athletes to take part in organised events. As the sport matures, the more organised the events are becoming, though on the whole the atmosphere is still one of a supportive community and less about traditional competition-based sporting concepts. The GTGames, run by the Freestyle Trampoline Association, take place every year in America, New Zealand and Europe and provides a perfect opportunity for likeminded flippers to get together and see who can perform the best moves and compete to be the best GTramp athlete.
North Trampolines, are the perfect piece of equipment to practise your GTramp moves on, whether you are a beginner or seasoned professional. With their Swedish made springs and exceptional safety features, these trampolines offer you a world-class bounce experience that can take your jumping to the next level.