In March this year, tumblers from our prep to elite squads competed in the Regional Qualifiers. An annual event that takes place in a few stages, meaning not only do they have to bring their A-Game once, but multiple times.. qualifiers and then the main event finals.
March was the Regional Qualifiers, where we over-performed in our categories. Many titles, personal bests and confidence boosting tumbling passes from all of our gymnasts. The success in March meant we had to do it all over again in the Regional Team Finals. Our coaches and gymnasts travelled to Birmingham ready for a weekend of training and competition, hoping for more success in this event to take them one step further, Regional Finals.
A few months have passed since the qualifying rounds, giving our gymnasts time to improve further on technique, learn from any errors and to be ready for an even higher level of competition.  From the NDP levels to FIG levels, our gymnasts faced competitive rounds, it wasn’t going to be easy for any of them. Most categories had over 20 gymnasts and knowing already, that each of those gymnasts had already won in their region, meant the taking could have been for anyone (we were crossing our fingers it would be our Spelthorne teams of course!).

Over the weekend of competition we had 5 tumblers qualify for the Regional Finals and also a bronze medal achieved by Charlotte Kenna in her category, FIG Development 15-16. A great achievement for this growing team of tumblers.

FIG Level results:

3rd Charlotte Kenna FIG Development 15-16 –  qualified for finals

4th Arwenna Harvey FIG Development 11-12 –  qualified for finals

NDP Level results:

5th Harriet Wender NDP 1 9-10 years – qualified for finals

5th Minnie Taylor NDP 2 9-10 years – qualified for finals

7th Keira Day NDP 3 11-12 years – qualified for finals

11th Caitlyn Rowe NDP 1 9-10 years

17th Ella Searle NDP 3 11-12 years

12th Maddie  NDP 3 15+ years

17th Polina  NDP 2 11-12 years

Bring on July and the final round for these gymnasts. A great result had by all, room for improvement, development and plenty more training sessions to prepare these gymnasts for their next competition.

xoxo

Tumbling Spring Events

Alongside all of the Regional tumbling action there was more to come! Another competition for our FIG gymnasts. A competition that takes part in two Spring Events. The Spring Event not only is a competition to excel in each category but is about finding the top 16 male and female tumblers in each of the age categories. Success in the Spring Events means our tumblers could qualify for the British Championships. So keeping calm and performing clean tumbling passes is essential!

In May, of our tumbling coaches and tumbling team competed in the first Spring Series across 6 age groups.

• Gymnasts perform 2 optional tumbles at each event and the two scores are added together. Their best total score from either event is the one used for their final ranking position.
• Gymnasts must perform tumbles that meet the minimum difficulty standards for their particular age group & they must also score over a set amount of points to qualify for the British Championships.
  AND FYI ****These minimum standards have been increased dramatically this year, so it’s tougher than ever to get to the British Championships****  :-O ….. Not only that, some of the categories had over 45 gymnasts competing for just 16 places!
• The Spring Events are also being used to select the team that will represent Great Britain at the World Championships in Tokyo this December

Results from Spring Event 2