Meet the coach...

Samantha Palmer

2 x Junior World Champion and European Champion

4 x Senior World Cup Winner

Senior World Final and European Champion

Level 2 coaching award

Senior First Aider

Sam first started the gymnastics world participating in artistic from the age of 6, training all four pieces. At this age she was selected by her Russian coach for the competitive squad and by 9 she was in the British national squad, representing Great Britain.

At 12 Sam decided to try tumbling for fun.... and became hooked! By the end of the year (1999) she was selected to represent GB at the World Championships where she gained a respectful 7^th place. Sam being a perfectionist analysed her fellow athletes and found where she needed to improve, being so determined she returned two years later to win the World Championship title in 2001. This wasn’t it for Sam, she took the Junior European title in 2002 and went on in 2003 to win the World title for a second time, the first female Tumbler to take the title two consecutive years.

Unfortunately in 2004 Sam snapped her anterior cruciate ligament and had to undergo major surgery. This meant 18 months out of training and intense rehab. But never the less she went to the gym daily and kept her basic strength up to return to full training in August 2005. After a hard 6 months Sam was back on form competition in the world circuit. 2006 was the most successful year of her career, winning the Senior European Champs, 4 world cups and the World Final title, making Sam no doubt, the World best Tumbler.

At the end of 2007 Sam turned her talent to coaching, after 4 months in the USA and several years at home she is now with us today at NBG to bring a Tumbling program to lif

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The History of Tumbling

Power Tumbling is a gymnastic sport combining the skills of trampoline and artistic gymnastics. When it very first started the tumblers performed only on thin mats, from then floors have evolved in a variety of ways, including ski’s tied together! The floor used today was developed by Randy Mulkey, it is a 26m long track consisting of fibre glass rods under two foam mats. At the end of the rods the tumbler will land their dismounting skill. The sport is controlled by the Federation of International Gymnastics (FIG).

With a run and runway over a hundred feet long, there is plenty of speed and power and excitement in the sport of power tumbling and it is also a great training tool for artistic gymnasts who must train in tumbling anyway.

The lineage of tumbling can be traced as a spectator sport and participation event all the way back to the ancient Olympics, the more modern version then began to shape in more recent times.

Tumbling has only once ever been in the Olympics, the summer of 1932, it has since been a demonstration sport in the 1996 and 2000 Olympics but is yet to return to competition. Not to be disheartened, tumbling has many other international competitions, the World championships, European and Pacific rim, world cup series and World games. The world games is the alternative for all the non-Olympic sports.