Briefly it gives the gymnasts a chance to work as a team in 3 different areas:
Floor
Tumbling
Trampette
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.
This year is a transition year for all groups with the ages changing to fit into European competitions. With this in mind we are building for the future and for the National 1 group looking to qualifying to represent Great Britain in 2 years time.
To help with this development we are increasing the quality of our coaching staff. Aimee Short, Lisa Markham, Leoni Moran and Vic Hendry have all recently qualified as level 2 coaches and are looking forwards to using their new skills as well as continuing to develop by attending the upcoming level 3 course. The impact of this will hopefully be evident in the near future. So big well done to you all.
Our squads have recently been strengthened by the addition of 4 gymnasts from the women’s 4 piece area. So a big welcome to Heather, Erin, Emily, Nikki and Laura. Good things are expected.
AT the recent Northern Qualifiers held in Edinburgh we entered 2 micro teams and a National 1 team.
The Mixed Micro National 2 team was a first for us with our sole boy in there. (Where all the boys????) In there group Lucy, Chloe and Alex tumbled and trampetted their way to Gold. Well done.
The Girls Micro National 2 team put in a fantastic performance on Tumble and Trampette to record a score of 16.10. This meant they only dropped 0.85 overall. A brilliant effort by SammyJo, Caroline, Georgia and Charlie. They outscored even the Southern Teams by over 0.5!!
Our very young National 1 Team continue to grow and are now developing into a great team. This competition didn’t quite go to plan with one of our gymnasts sustaining a serious injury during the competition. This hampered our ability to compete and unfortunately we narrowly missed out on qualification for the finals on this occasion. We wish Leoni well and hope to see her competing again in the future.
The next competition is in July in Newcastle where we hope to continue on the up!!
Edinburgh 2010 (video)
Bracknell International Team Gym Tournament
17th & 18th October 2009
The National 2 team travelled down to compete in this event against teams from Italy, Denmark and Finland to see where we stood internationally.
Once the competition started we were on trampette first. After a really good warm up, an excellent routine followed. This included the highest tariffed move of the day from Alice Copley. This was a straight front with triple twist. And it was stood. Well done Alice as this was the first time she had competed the move. The final score was 6.55, the 4th highest of the day. Vault is the area we need to work on.
Next up was the floor exercise. More hard work needs to be done on the basics to reach previous high levels as at 6.35we were 1.5 full marks behind the highest score.
Finally tumble. A near flawless routine saw all of the moves landed and special mention must go to Sammy Jo Ingham who stood her straight 2 ½ twist for the first time. Their final score on tumble was 6.8 which was 1.7 behind the top score.
Overall they performed very well on all pieces, achieving 7th position out of 12. This is an excellent result for the gymnasts but now they can see the areas they really need to work on.
Congratulations go to Aimee Short, Vic Hendry, Leoni Moran and Carol Rayner who all recently passed their Level 2 teamgym exam.
