Level 2 Championships

Saskia and Shan­non com­peted at the Regional OOA Level 2 Cham­pi­onships in Ipswich on Sat­ur­day 16^th Octo­ber.  Both gym­nasts had a good com­pe­ti­tion.  Saskia fin­ished in 4^th place over all in the 12–13 age cat­e­gory with a score of 43.100 win­ning bronze on Bars and Floor with team mate Shan­non win­ning the Sil­ver medal over­all in the 14+ Age group with a score of 42.200, tak­ing sil­ver on Floor and bronze on vault and beam.

FIG Cham­pi­onships

Clau­dia com­peted in the pres­ti­gious FIG Espoir cat­e­gory at the Regional Cham­pi­onships on Sun­day 17^th Octo­ber.  Clau­dia had an excel­lent com­pe­ti­tion, with clean  rou­tines on all pieces and achiev­ing her per­sonal best score of 43.100 plac­ing her in 6^th place over­all.  She was awarded a sil­ver medal for vault with a mas­sive score of 12.800 miss­ing out on the gold by only .15 of a mark.

Luke Fol­well (Hunt­ing­don GC) has led the Eng­lish medal charge at the Com­mon­wealth Games by tak­ing the Men’s All Around title, with team-mate Reiss Beck­ford (South Essex GC) in Sil­ver. The result fol­lows Team Sil­vers for the Eng­lish Men and Women in the open­ing days of com­pe­ti­tion. Home Nation gym­nasts now look for­ward to the Artis­tic appa­ra­tus event finals, with the Rhyth­mic Gym­nas­tics event begin­ning next week.

See news video at the BBC site…

View the indi­vid­ual Mens finals broad­cast on iplayer…

View the Mens Team finals on iplayer…

East­ern Region In-Age Level 5 and 4 Championships

Poppy aged 8 and Amelia aged 9 com­peted in the East­ern Region’s In-Age Level 5 and 4 Cham­pi­onships on Sat­ur­day 25^th Sept.

Poppy com­peted in the Level 5 com­pe­ti­tion and had a good com­pe­ti­tion fin­ish­ing in 6^th place over­all.  Poppy was awarded a Bronze medal for the 3^rd high­est vault score.

Squad mate Amelia had a tough com­pe­ti­tion com­pet­ing against the top 20 gym­nasts at Level 4 in the age 9 cat­e­gory.  She fin­ished in 12^th place over­all with a respectable score of 41.20.

Well done girls!!!!

Level 4

Amelia wins the 9yr old age cat­e­gory & is crowned Hert­ford­shire County Champion.

Amelia was the only gym­nast in Hert­ford­shire to com­pete in the In-Age 9 year old cat­e­gory at Level 4.  Even though she had no imme­di­ate com­pe­ti­tion she had an excel­lent com­pe­ti­tion fin­ish­ing with a score of 41.60, beat­ing many gym­nasts scores who were in older age groups.  Amelia com­pet­ing at her age at this high level is an excel­lent achieve­ment for both her­self and Berkham­sted Gym­nas­tics Club, Amelia is on the route to com­pete at British Level.

Squad mate Erin com­peted in the 10/11 age cat­e­gory also hav­ing an excel­lent com­ple­tion fin­ish­ing with a score of 41.55, win­ning the bronze rib­bon on Bars & plac­ing 6^th overall.

Level 2 and FIG

Saskia wins the 12/13 age cat­e­gory @ Level 2 and is crowned Hert­ford­shire County Cham­pion, with Squad mate Shan­non win­ning the 14+ age cat­e­gory also being crowned Hert­ford­shire County Champion.

Saskia & Shan­non both had excel­lent com­pe­ti­tions. All their hard work paid off when they took home a bun­dle of appa­ra­tus Rib­bons, medals & tro­phies.  Shan­non was also awarded the sil­ver plat­ter for the high­est floor score at level 2.

Squad mate Clau­dia com­peted in the pres­ti­gious FIG Espoir cat­e­gory win­ning bronze medal over­all and tak­ing home three appa­ra­tus rib­bons.  Clau­dia had an excel­lent com­pe­ti­tion despite only returned to full train­ing the Fri­day night before the com­pe­ti­tion after she sus­tained an injury train­ing in the USA over the summer.

Excit­ing new tram­po­line course starts this term on Mon­days 4:15pm-5:15pm

Click here for the Tram­po­line Class Details

Did you know that the new ‘Spi­der­man’ actor Andrew Garfield is a for­mer gym­nast? He won a medal at the NDP’s when he was 13 years old!

Hey, who can beat a gymnast?!

With just over two years to go until the Lon­don 2012 Olympic and Par­a­lympic Games, it is now time for LOCOG to launch the Lon­don 2012 Games Maker pro­gramme. This will start the process to recruit up to 70,000 peo­ple who will make the Lon­don 2012 Games hap­pen. These peo­ple will be called Games Makers.

The Games Maker pro­gramme offi­cially launches on 27^th July, although appli­cants for the major­ity of roles – gen­er­al­ists – will not be able to apply until 15^th Sep­tem­ber. How­ever, LOCOG is invit­ing pre-identified appli­cants for spe­cial­ist roles and spe­cial inter­est groups to apply from 9am GMT on 27^th July. This phased appli­ca­tion is to give mem­bers of the gen­eral pub­lic the whole sum­mer to con­sider their options and find out if this is really for them, whereas many pre-identified appli­cants, includ­ing peo­ple like you, may have vol­un­teered before and are at the heart of the sport.

Every appli­cant will be expected to com­plete an appli­ca­tion form and, if suc­cess­ful, attend a selec­tion event. All appli­cants offered a Games Maker role must also attend three train­ing events prior to the Games.

Eli­gi­bil­ity cri­te­ria
All gen­er­al­ists and spe­cial­ist Games Mak­ers will need to ful­fil the same basic criteria:

− Aged 18 or above on 1^st Jan­u­ary 2012.
− Eli­gi­ble to vol­un­teer in the UK in line with UK immi­gra­tion rules.
− Will­ing to vol­un­teer for at least 10 days of shifts and attend a min­i­mum of three days of train­ing.
− Able to find own accom­mo­da­tion and travel.

Whilst most of our roles require Games Mak­ers to be 18 years old or over by 1^st Jan­u­ary 2012, we do want young peo­ple to get involved too! We will unveil the Young Games Maker pro­gramme for up to 1,500 under 18s in sum­mer 2011. Please refer to www.london2012.com/volunteering for more details.

Apply­ing to be a Games Maker
Through our rela­tion­ship with LOCOG, British Gym­nas­tics mem­bers will be able to apply on 27^th July, as part of the first group of appli­cants. From that date you will be able to find every­thing you need to know about the Games Maker pro­gramme on LOCOG’s offi­cial web­site. Please note, how­ever, that your appli­ca­tion will not be through this site but via a secure page that is not avail­able to the gen­eral public.

More infor­ma­tion on the appli­ca­tion process and to receive a spe­cial code to assist with the appli­ca­tion process BG mem­bers can click here.

As you may have noticed, the school is hav­ing astro turf laid on the foot­ball pitch behind the gym­na­sium. This work will be com­pleted in Octo­ber 2010.

While the work is being under­taken, the gym car park entrance is now at the same side as the gym entrance.

In other words the car park is now a cul de sac and as such cars will be arriv­ing and leav­ing through the same road. Please be care­ful when dri­ving through here.

The good news is that we wont have to share park­ing spaces with the foot­ballers durng the work!

Well done to Con­nor Bart­let (an ex BGC squad mem­ber) who along with Mil­lie Spald­ing became the Acro­batic World Age Group Mixed Pair cham­pi­ons for 2010 over the weekend.

The young British com­peti­tors stormed into the Finals of the 6^th World Age Group Cham­pi­onships in Acro­batic Gym­nas­tics in Poland and before the clo­sure of the day on Mon­day 12^th June 2010, they had already accu­mu­lated 2 Gold and 4 Sil­ver medals. The two cham­pi­ons titles went to the 11–16 Age Group Boy’s Pair Christo­pher Childs and Jake Under­down (King Edmund Acro Gym) and the Mixed Pair Con­nor Bartlett and Mil­lie Spald­ing (Hare­field Gym­nas­tics Academy).

Well done to Jonathan Nash who passed his Mens Class 1 coach­ing exam on Sunday!

Thanks to the boys who went along with Jon to help out  as well — Tom, Daniel and Cameron.