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Girls Development Squad and BFree Display Team performed at Princes Risborough Town Festival 2010.

The girls performed Cops and Robbers to the Benny Hill Theme Tune which was great fun.   

Heather, Charlie, Bronwyn, Kate, Hana-Marie, Harriet, Kara

Morgan, Layla, Emily

Plus their coach Serena

BFREE DISPLAY TEAM

 Alicia and Diane performing a pairs routine to Starry Eyed were rudely interrupted by the freestyle boys tumbling in from the crowd and performing a variety of tricks on the tumble, vault, tramp and wall.

Alicia, Diane, Rad, James, Liam, Liam

Will, Jack, Sean

Jake, Zac, Eric

 

Firstly I would like to congratulate all the gymnasts who competed on Sunday in the four piece apparatus competition. You all did extremely well to compete across 3 to 4 pieces, especially with regards to the time you have to train in the gym and all your coaches are very proud of your achievements.

Level 8 Boys got Gold by a staggering 9 points and Jordan Mackay got Gold on both the Vault and the P Bars, stepping in on vault for Sean who was suffering with an injury on the day. Oliver Hurrell got Gold on the High Bar and all the scores were high right across the board for our boys, taking Gold in Vault, P Bars and H Bar. A special mention must be made for Dylan who got Bronze alongside Sean on the floor and put in his back flic for the first time!

 

Level 8 Girls missed out on Silver by .85 across all four pieces getting Bronze and Gold by 2 marks, so a fierce competition. Rebecca got Silver on the beam, Lauren Silver on the vault and Maia Bronze on the vault, and they got Gold overall on Vault.

Level 7 Girls got Gold overall and Gold for both Bars and Beam, with Bronwyn taking individual Gold on the Bars and Kara taking Gold on the Beam.

Level 6 Girls (12 – 14) got Silver in a very close competition. They took Gold on the Floor, with Heather getting Gold overall on this piece with 16.50 out of a possible 17.50! Harriet also got Gold on the beam gaining valuable extra points by taking the hard option of sumi dismount!

Level 6 Girls (15+) got Silver and all performed well on the day. Ellie got individual bronze on floor and silver on beam with a sumi dismount, while Diane got bronze on bars. Hattie stepped into the breach after Honor was injured in training the day before and competed on bars coming 4th plus a special mention must be made to Alicia who had to compete on all four pieces and only took on the bars routine the previous week.

A heartfelt BIG WELL DONE TO EVERYBODY

Kate, Jo and Serena

 

Mini Cheerleading, 2nd June 12.15 til 1, £5 - Introduction to pom dance – Suitable for 4 – 6 year olds

Cheerleading Workshop, 2nd June 1 til 3, £10 - Introduction to cheerleading and working on a routine to show at the end of the session – Suitable for ages 7 upwards

Fun Day, 4th June 10 til 3, £20 and £15 for additional siblings - A day full of gymnastics, to include bars, beam, floor, tumble, vault, rebound, rhythmic, circus, team games and parachute – Suitable for 4 years upwards, option for half day 10 til 12 for 3 to 4 year olds, plus early drop off at 9am for an additional £3.50.

Gymnasts from Booker are due to give a display at Princes Risborough Town Festival on 3rd July 2010. Girls from the competition squad will be showing their floor routines followed by a demonstration of Freestyle Gymnastics based on Free Running, Parkour, Tricking and Urban Gymnastics by the boys!

Come and support your club – between 2 and 4 in the afternoon.

Booker attended the County Floor & Vault Competition and came home with 24 medals, 10 Gold, 7 Silver and 7 Bronze:

Level 10

Our youngest competitor Emily Annis got Silver at her first competition and had the highest score on the floor, moving up to Level 9. Milo Rappo also got Bronze at his first competition and the highest score on the floor, also moving up to Level 9.

Morgan Edwards narrowly missed out on the medals by .25 of a mark, coming 4th with a high score of 23.50 and moves up a level. Georgina Farquhar also came 4th missing out on Bronze by .1, and also goes up to Level 9.

Phoebe Weetch got Bronze in a very large age group and moves up to Level 9. Saskia Obergfill-Evans missed out on the medals this time, by only .5 and obtained very respectable scores for her first competition.

Lastly Chloe Stacey got Silver and had the highest floor score in her age group – Well done everyone at Level 10

Level 9

Diane Coleman was our youngest competitor at Level 9 and came 8th in a very large age group. Victoria Smith also missed out on the medals this time but her high score moves her up to Level 8.

Oliver Hurrell got Gold for the 9 year old boys with the highest score on both floor and vault in his age group and moves up to Level 8.

Dylan Lawrence, Thomas Jackson and Jordan Mackay gave Booker a clean sweep on the podium taking Gold, Silver and Bronze. Jake Glanville followed in 4th place, and there was only .1 of a mark between each of the boys! All the boys move up to Level 8 after receiving high scores.

Katalina Thoms got Gold in her age group, with Alexandra Harkcom with Silver. Both girls and Maia Sethi all move up to Level 8.

Lastly Rebeccah McDermott got Gold at her first competition and also moves up to Level 8 after achieving the highest score on floor and a very high final score.

Level 8

Sean Harrison started by taking Gold and one of the highest scores across the whole level for his Handspring vault, moving up to Level 7

Caitlin Joyce, Nina Hamelink, Georgia Kilsby, Erin Cassells and Freya Bull all achieved good scores but missed out on the medals this time.

Charlotte North got Bronze by .1 of a mark in her age group.

Charlie Bunt and Bronwyn Edwards got Gold in their age groups against over 20 children each, with Heather Nixey taking Silver. All three girls move up to Level 7.

Level 7

 

Hana-Marie got Gold by a huge margin and moves up to Level 6. The youngest in this age group so a big Well Done!

Will Dutnall got Silver and the highest vault score across the whole of level 7.

Kara Leadley missed out on the medals this time while Honor Wicks got Bronze in her age group and the highest vault score, and Aleksander Raszpla got Gold.

Level 6
Ellie Claessens got Bronze followed by Harriet Lees in 4th place. Alicia Rice had an amazing competition and got the highest vault score across the whole of Level 6, followed by Harriet Frier in 4th place.

Lastly Diane Elliott got Gold in the 15+ age group and Alexandra Morton Bronze pulling out all the stops in both floor and vault.

Well done everyone who took part!

Many thanks to Jo Pontin who choreographed all the floors to music.

County General Floor & Vault
Milton Keynes
21st March 2010
County Four Piece Competition
Milton Keynes
11th July 2010
County General Floor & Vault
Milton Keynes
31st October 2010

Wednesdays 8 – 10pm
Last session of term is 21st July 2010

Extra sessions during holidays are 4th August, 11th August and 1st September
Fridays 6 – 7.15pm
Last session of term is 23rd July 2010

Autumn term starts on 10th September 2010

 Summer Term – 19th April 2010 – 23rd July 2010

Autumn Term 2010 – 6th September 2010 – 17th December 2010

Booker attended the Bucks County General Competition in Milton Keynes in October 2009.    27 gymnasts attended and we came home with 21 medals, 10 Gold, 5 Silver and 6 Bronze!!! Out of these gymnasts 18 scored high enough to move up into the next level.

LEVEL 10

Alexandra, Isabella, Katalina, Victoria, Aimee, Mia, Oliver, Diane

Victoria got Gold in the 8 year old girls section with the highest marks on both floor and vault. Isabella got Silver and Aimee bronze, so a clean sweep on the podium for Booker. All move up to Level 9.   Katalina got Gold in the 10 year old girls section with the highest marks on both floor and vault, and Alexandra bronze in her first competition! Both move up to level 9.   Oliver narrowly missed out on Gold and came home with Silver for the 8 year old boys and did a very neat and tidy floor and vault. Sadly Diane and Mia Taylor missed out on the medals this time, both coming 6th in their age groups.

LEVEL 9

Georgia, Erin, Hannah, Caitlin, Heather, Sean, Scarlet

Sean got Gold in the 7 and 8 year old boys section and achieved the highest score on the floor, moving up to level 8. Caitlin got Gold in the 8 year old girls and got the highest score on the floor, moving up to level 8. Scarlet got Bronze only narrowly missing out on Silver.   Hannah sadly missed out on the medals this time coming 6th.   Heather got Gold in the 9 year old girls section and achieved the highest score on vault and moves up to level 8.   Erin narrowly missed out on bronze by .05 coming 4th with a very high score and moves up to level 8.

LEVEL 8

Hana-Marie, Kate, Kara, Will, Freya, Evie, Aleksander

Hana-Marie got Silver in the 8 year old girls and achieved the highest mark on the floor, moving up to level 7.   Kate got Gold in the 10 year old girls and achieved the highest scores on both floor and vault, and overall across all ages in Level 8!   Kara got Bronze in this age group with a very respectable score and both girls move up to level 7.  Evie and Freya came 5th and 6th in this section with very high scores showing the high level of competition.   At last there was a big turn out for the 10 year old boys.   Will took Gold in this age group and the highest score on vault across the whole of this level for both boys and girls! He moves up to level 7.   Aleksander got Gold and 26.30 moving up to level 7.

LEVEL 7 & 6

Alex, Ellie, Rosie, Diane, Honor, Harriet

Harriet is the star of the day after getting Gold against fierce competition in the 12 year old girls in Level 7, achieving the highest score on floor.   Ellie took bronze in this age group and achieved the highest score on vault.   Both girls move up to level 6.   Rosie got Gold with a staggering 28.50 and achieved highest score on both floor and vault, while Diane followed closely behind with Silver.   Both girls move up to level 6.

Alex got bronze at level 6 with 27.05, a very good score at this high level.

Whey hey, back on English soil. What a journey, got to Accra airport at 8pm last night and arrived in the UK at 6.30  this morning. It’s only a 6 hour flight but the airport is definately on Ghanian time and took forever to get through all the checks, probably because there was one, yes just one, metal detector thing in the whole place and half the world needed to get through it to board!   My brain has ceased to function, can’t vouch for Jo but I reckon she’s in the same state, but I will attempt to write the blog for the last day because omg it was such a good one!

Our last day was to be spent teaching at the Osu Children’s Home and we didn’t expect to have a good experience because it is such a desperate place so to finish our trip on such a high was amazing. It was a bit of a shaky start, we nearly gave up believing we would actually be able to teach that day, after all the meetings to organise it that week it was really depressing. I guess it just the ghanian way, no communication or organisation for that matter. The usual long wait, then we had to literally take the matter into our own hands and seek out and find, question and push people to get it sorted, but oh it was really worth it.

To begin with the class was chaotic with way too many children, 99% of which were very keen boys, but what a bunch of lads – we soon realised we had a really capable group, all prepared to give us 200%. We had been promised the Civic Centre so we lugged all the equipment across campus in the heat only to be chucked out of there an hour later! So we lugged it all the way to the carpark where there was shade and carried on regardless.

 

Our whole feelings about the Osu changed when we met Janet who was the head of the pre-school there. Bubbly and smiling, she stayed with us the whole session and even threatened to join in. Finally we had found someone who seemed interested in the children and she was keen to carry on the gym after we had left. She recognised the talent in the boys and said she would set up evening sessions for them and run a friday session for the little ones each week.

It really was full on all afternoon, the boys instant reaction to anything is to push, kick or hit. Most of the children at the home are there due to abuse, abandonment or are orphans and there is a lot of emotion flying around. They are tough cookies and have had to look after themselves to survive. We found we really did have to keep them in line but the rewards were amazing, they could all vault by the end of the session and every last one of them could cartwheel so we taught round offs aswell as all the basic floor skills and then finished with back flics!

Teaching in the heat was unpleasant to put it mildly, with tops you could wring out and even the odd bit of chaffing, lovely!

So we left the Osu with high spirits, time and attention is what they children really needed and we managed to give them this in bucket loads. We’ve met some amazing children and some truly good people who we can trust to help us. Obviously we will miss the chaos, the random street sellers and the big pot holes which gave us whiplash, and of course Effort our lovely driver. He was really helpful and mucked in wherever we were, helping us control the more rowdier elements and also did take some pictures for us as we had our hands full.

We left Ghana with heavy hearts but we have started something good here. When we have caught up with sleep and work we will update with the Charity’s figures and expenditure. This is not the end, thank you for reading and all your support. Until next time!

 

Big Love

Jo & Kate