Southampton National Acro Competition - May 2013

On the lovely sunny Bank Holiday weekend, our Acro grade 1 women’s pair, Sadie Levi & Ryoka Tanaka competed at the Southampton National Acro Championships as they qualified for this comp at the previous Regional Acro Championships in London in March.

They produced an outstanding performance, winning a Bronze medal representing London, beating 17 other qualifying pairs from around the country, including Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland! They in fact had a higher technical score than the silver medallists!

Well done to them both, as they are among the best Acrobatic gymnasts at this level in the country!

Tumbling Regional Finals 2013

Sophie Boehler - 1st Place

More results for Hendon’s very first Acrobatics & Tumbling Squad! This time we were competing at the most important Tumbling competition of 2013 – The REGIONAL TUMBLING CHAMPIONSHIPS, held in Richmond. The rules were simple – come first, and you will compete Nationally for the London Region!

The squad is building up a strong tumbling reputation, as we received some great results. Ashira Sears qualified to reach the National Tumbling Finals held in Stoke on Trent in June! Jemma Evans won her competition and smashed her rivals by nearly a whole mark above the closest competitor! Massive congratulations to them both.

Special mention to Ali Keles who decided to compete despite suffering from a nasty fall on the tumble trak during training 2 days before the competition. Despite this, he narrowly missed out on reaching the finals by 0.4 of a mark.

Alix Stagg also was thrown into the deep end, as she only joined the squad a few weeks ago, from the Women’s Artistic squad.  She won a silver medal, losing out on nationals by a VERY tight margin of only 0.04!

Lastly, unfortunately, despite our Sophie Boehler coming 1^st in her category, she missed out on nationals ONLY due to a technical scoring rule. The judges were hard at work figuring out who qualified, and unfortunately she just missed out.

Full summary below:

Jemma Evans – Grade 1 – GOLD

Sophie Boehler – Grade 2 – GOLD

Ashira Sears – Grade 2 – GOLD

Ali Keles – Grade 3 – SILVER

Alix Stagg – Grade 3 - SILVER

Jasmine Hallam – Grade 1 – SILVER

Daisy Margolis – Grade 1 - BRONZE

Acro Regional Championships - 2013

Ali & Natalya - Pitch off. (Silver Medal)

Congrats to all the gymnasts attending the regional championships over the weekend. We had some very mixed results. Unfortunately our groups who have been doing so well recently, faced some stiff competition, and didn't place as well as in previous competitions, having said that, they did place higher in artistry than those groups above them!

With that said, we must congratulate our mixed pair once again. Ali and Natalya narrowly missed out on the top spot going to National Finals.. by only 0.1! Their technicals were stronger than the winning pair!

Lastly, very very well done to our new partnership of Sadie and Ryoka, who placed 4th, and have managed to qualify to REPRESENT LONDON in the Inter-Regional Prep & Grade 1 Championships, situated in Southampton in May. What a wonderful acheivement, for their first year of acrobatics. Well done girls!!

RESULTS HERE

King Edmund (Bristol) Acro Results - Feb 2013

Sadie & Olivia - Front Angel on Hands

Sadie & Olivia - Forwards Walkovers

We started to see some real improvement in our Women’s Pairs! Special congratulations to Sadie Levi & Olivia Foley for placing 7th out of 18 pairs, our best WP placing so far! The Trio’s did well with Gr1 in 7th and Gr2 placing 6th in their category.

Our Mixed Pair narrowly missed out on a bronze medal, by 0.35! They came in 4th. Some very smooth routines, nice competition, well done to all!

RESULTS HERE 

L&G Acro Competition Results Jan 2013

Well done to all who attended the competition in Sutton. It was a very long day. Unfortunately our Mixed Pair who woke up at 6am, then found themselves competing 11 hours later at 5pm. This produced some mistakes not normally borne by them. Nevertheless, they still maintained and 8.3 tech score.

Our Grade1 trio still staying up there with the best of them… only being beaten by 2 of London’s best Acrobatics clubs. They placed 6th overall. Well done girls!

RESULTS HERE