I had the opportunity to photograph Sarah Prosen this week, who just won the silver medal in the double-mini trampoline at the 2009 World Games in Kaohsiung, Taiwan (the competition is essentially the Olympics for her sport). Sarah will be a junior at Hamline University and this shoot was for Hamline Magazine.
We met at Gleason’s Gymnastic School, which is her practice gym in Eagan, MN, and it was such fun photographing her at work. The way the double-mini trampoline works, is you get a running start (similar to the vault) and jump onto a trampoline that’s slanted upward where you do your first trick, then land on a flat trampoline where you bounce to a second trick and onto the landing mat. Challenging? Yea. It was amazing to photograph, and she wasn’t even doing her difficult jumps.
2 comments