TeamGym offers things no other area can.
Briefly it gives the gymnasts a chance to work as a team in 3 different areas:
Anyone interested in TeamGym can now obtain all the information they need from
the following web site - www.teamgymuk.com
The spirit of TeamGym is a wonderful experience and brings a whole new perspective to enjoying sport.
In order to keep progressing we are entering more competitions. Unfortunately this involves quite a lot of traveling.
British Teamgym Finals
Gloucester 19th April 08
Diamonds were represented in these finals in the National 3 and National 2 girls teams.
First to compete were the younger group. They have trained hard in all areas and made a lot of progress. However against clubs who are training for treble the amount of time they do they found it difficult to remain in contact with the top clubs and ended up a very creditable 9th in the country. When the new extension to the gym is completed training times will have to be looked at seriously if we are going to maintain contact and compete with the top clubs in the country.
The Junior team were next on and gave a much improved performance in all areas especially the floor and trampette increasing their qualification score by a massive 1.7! Unfortunately this wasn't enough to get them into the medals.
As with the younger team the Juniors have competed on half the training time of most of the Southern teams.
Both teams now realise what is needed to actually be competitive. Heavy correct conditioning is now the order of the day. |
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Northern Qualifiers Edinburgh March 08
3 teams were entered in this competition. A very young team in the Regional 3, National3 and a National 2 team.
After traveling with all of the English and Scottish Rugby fans everybody arrived at Meadowbank in time to compete.
First on were the 2 younger teams. The Regional team performed very well in their first competition and were not overawed by the occasion. They completed all of their pieces with hardly any errors.
The National team in this category achieved similar scores on all 3 pieces again with no major errors. This achieved them the bronze medal in this area and a place in the finals in APril. Well done to all.
Finally the National 2 team were on. After a fairly traumatic training period where several members f the squad picked up niggling injuries we had a depleted team to compete. The first piece was the trampette whichis normally a strong area. Unfortunately too many falls cost us dearly and we were always having to play catch up. O ntumble again mistakes cost us dear andd due to an injury sustained on this piece had to compete on floor with one gymnast withdraw. Despite this they were 0.35 of the gold!. They have qualified for the finals and now we are trying to get all members of the group fit.
Finals are taking place on 19th April at the G1 ventre Gloucester.
Crawley Open December 2008
To finish the year off the National 3 and National 2 teams travelled down to Crawley for their Open Competiton. After a very wet journey down we all arrived at the venue. It was a very good setting for the competition and was very well run.
First on were the National 3 team. In all parts of the competiton they put in solid performances. They have made good progress since their last competition in Newcastle in July but were just out of the medals,
The National 2 team also put in some good performances especially on trampette where they were technically the best team and achieved the highest mark on that piece. On tumble there was some good work from Emily Taylor, Leoni Moran, Faye Thomas and \Sammu Jo Ingham who performed and landed her first double back in competition. Well done. The floor was an emtirely new one and from the perfomance still needs a lot of work. As a result the team were narrowly beaten into 4th place. |
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Teamgym Scottish Friendly 6th Oct 2007
In order to keep progressing we are entering more competitions. Unfortunately this involves quite a lot of traveling. On Saturday 6th Oct we traveled up to Edinburgh for the Scottish Friendly.
The team was trying out some new moves in a competitive environment for the first time in both the tumbling and trampette.
In the tumbling double tuck backs were landed along with a double twisting straight back salto.
On the trampette double fronts were landed.
The standard continues to improve and with these new moves the team won the competition.
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