Hollington Acro & Tumble Comp Sept 2014

MxP Mika & Natalie GOLD 

WE. ARE. BACK!!

Its a new season, new competitions, new grades, and new challenges. We kicked off our season with a large invitational at Hollington GC in Hastings, near the cost - where Leora (Ashira's mum) and Karen (Layla's mum), both made full use of!!! After asking their lovely daughters where they were, it became apparent that offspring will quickly rat on their governing bodies... telling me they were at the beach!!!

Moving on from building sand castles... the competition was both Acrobatics & Tumbling. We competed both acro and tumbling in the morning and then mainly tumbling in the afternoon. The morning competition was the highlight of the day. Our WP and our MxP both performed very elegant and soft routines, which had parents and coaches commenting positively on the choreography of the routines. Unfortunately due to mounting technical errors, our WP of Olivia & Eden placed 10th.

However our mixed pair of Mika & Natalie came out on top claiming their first competitive GOLD medal!! They actually came out with an artistry score of 9.45!!!!! In fear of exaggerating, that is a MONSTROUS artistry score for such a level of acrobatics. They should be proud, proud, proud. As are we :)

In tumbling, Alix Stagg came out on top in her Grade 4 tumbles, above her competitor, whereas our other tumblers found it tough to get their mojo back whilst tumbling. Special shout out to our Sophie Boehler who only completed her tumbles the DAY BEFORE the competition... and still placed 4th. You go Soph! :)

RESULTS HERE

Summer Training 2014 Trailer 2

Summer Training 2014 Trailer 1

TJ Tumbling (Boston) July 2014

All Tumblers with Medals! 

TJ Tumbling and Gymnastics Club in Boston (Lincolnshire) regularly hold informal Tumbling competitions a few times each year. Its a great time for us to try out new grades and allow tumblers to compete for the first time.

We had a great competition, with a few surprises along the way. Ashira Sears made a great comeback, after 7months out of gym, to claim a Gold medal in her category as well as the 3rd highest score for her final run, in ALL categories! Well done her!

Alix Stagg had learnt her new grade only 2 weeks before the competition - but our National Finalist wasn't phased - she brought some excellent tumbles to the table. Our newbies including Leah and Tara showed some good first-time tumbling and Georgina really made some serious improvement, taking a Gold medal, even though she only tumbles around 20-30mins a week!!!

Full Summary:

Ashira Sears: Gold & Bronze overall highest score
Tara Marinkovic: Gold
Georgina: Gold
Erin Kovacs: Gold
Alix Stagg: Gold
Leah White: Silver
Layla Sklar: Silver
Jemma Evans: Silver

Well done all!!

Tumbling National Finals, Telford 2014

Hannah - Our National Champion!

I normally write long-winded, well versed stories for this blog site on all the happenings for our squad, in terms of competitions and events. Not this time. Its quite simple.

HANNAH TANG IS A NATIONAL CHAMPION IN TUMBLING!!!!!

Well done to both Hannah and Alix for both making it through to the national finals, which means beating 3 separate competitions in the structure and maintaing a good tumbling ability.

Hannah managed to do this and more. She won the GOLD MEDAL at the national finals, to add to her gold medals at both Semi-Finals. This makes sure that no-one tumbles as well as she does in her age group and category.

Well done to both girls :) "hashtag, proud".

Acro & Shooting Stars June 2014 - Croydon

All the Acro stars gymnasts

A lovely day, a great competition! We travelled down to "Souuuf" London, also known as South London :).. for a competition known as "Acro & Shooting Stars" which is regularly held every few months at different locations in London. The competitions are aimed at gymnasts whom are complete beginners and new to the sport/discipline.

Although this was our first time entering this competition, both our Development Squad and our NDP Squad didn't disappoint! We had some clean Acro Stars routines from our development gymnasts who were competing for the first time. Due to an unforeseen absence, Mika Balabey was drafted in to compete at this level despite only learning the routine the day before, and still managed to come home with the SILVER medal with his new temporary partner Gabriel De Silva, well done boys!!

Our NDP gymnasts also did well, with some great Acro Stars performances. Special mention to the WP of Leah White and Chloe Santandrea, who came away with a GOLD medal place in their category, followed by our WP of  Ella Hyman and Masha Vasilyeva whom brandished a lovely BRONZE medal in the same category!

Later on in the morning, we had the "Shooting Stars" competition which was National Grade acro routines. Again, our two pairs competing had never competed before. We witnessed two very calm and composed routines from our WP of Olivia Peerless and Eden Noik and our MxP Mika Balabey and Natalie White. Our WP just missed out on the bronze medal by 0.1!!!! Whilst our MxP took GOLD with a massive score of 26.9!!!

Well done to all :)

Overall we mustered up the following medals:

Mika & Natalie GOLD
Leah & Chloe GOLD
Sam & Ivan GOLD
Mika & Gabriel SILVER
Ella & Masha BRONZE

National Tumbling Semi Finals 2, Coventry 2014

Alix outside the Tumbling Arena

More travelling, more jumping, bouncing and flipping!!

This was the second and last instalment of National Tumbling Semi-Finals for those who had qualified from Regional Championships, and the last chance for all 4 of our tumblers to achieve a high enough score to finish in the top 8 over both semi-final events. 

The morning saw Hannah Tang, Olivia Foley and Erin Kovacs all compete around 9am, and as they were all in the first round of their categories, they were left only knowing half of their groups scores, and so we were all frantically checking the wizardry of the BG app (download it if you haven't got it yet!) to see their final places in their categories. By midday we had the full results to show Erin in 9th position, Olivia in 13th, but once AGAIN, Hannah beat all her competitors finishing in the GOLD medal position!! Well done her!!

In the afternoon (after their maniac coach decided to travel to and from Coventry twice in the same day), Alix Stagg was competing at 6pm. In this instance, Alix had an uphill struggle, but was certainly capable of overcoming what was before her, as she had finished 8th in the last event. This time however, she finished 6th overall, and as she had a higher score after performing much cleaner tumbles this time round, we now know she has qualified for the National Finals with Hannah! Well done!

Massive well done to all tumblers involved! What a great day!!!