As I had to judge due to two judges not showing I could not watch everybody but the ones I did see, I was very impressed and saw many gymnasts giving it their all and impressing their coaches.

I was judging Bars most of the time and I was really impressed by some of the routines I saw. They were nothing like what I have been seeing in training. I'm sure Daisy will agree that her "Shushunovas" performed exceptionally well with Zoe and Lea executing fantastic dismounts.
I think our new Squad Club Champion, Annabelle Clifton, deserves a 'Big Well Done' as she was actually quite ill being physically sick prior to competing.
Congratulations to Christy Llewellyn our 2010 Recreationl Club Champion. Christy has been working very hard and it goes to show spending time on the basic condiditoning pays off.
I would like to thank Richard Cadle for all the work he has put into our three young men. I can not always be there with them and Richard has done a fantastic job trying to motivate the lads. I know how difficult that can be. Well done Toby Webber who is showing great potential with the limited boys apparatus the club has. Toby has only just recently learnt his tuck back dismount off the bars and performed this exceptionally well. He is not a very tall lad and the Vault is almost as tall has him but he flew over like it was nothing. Toby definitly earned his place as Boys 2010 Champion getting Gold on all four apparatus and scoring the hightest recreational Floor and Vault scores combined winning the Upton Shield.
One Area Maya has put a lot of time stressing the importance of is the Range and Conditioning sets for the Development and full Squads. Dawne Cole was asked to be firm judging the R&Cs and had some very good comments after the competition about many of the younger development gymnasts. Most of their scores were over 10.20 out of 13.50Amy Aston won the Range & #Conditioning Trophy with an impressive score of 11.50. There was only one Squad gymnast, Leah Plant, who scored above 10.00 and she has been suffering with a bad knee for some time now and deserves recognition for her of 10.20 and gold for her level. The squads had to perform the National Grade 8 - 5 Range and conditioning set which is quite difficult so although not getting above 10pts Gemma sole needs a mention for her Gold on R&C with a score of 9.90.
Our Development squad 2010 Champion is now Tessa McCormick who won 3 Golds and 2 Silvers with an overall total of 55.90 Well done Tessa!
Our two Squad groups were competing Grade 11 and Grade 7 of the Natinal Development Plan. The Grade 7 is exceptonally difficult requiring some "scary" moves which the girls have been working very hard on over the past few months. I think the most impressive achievement would have to be from Amy Deller who only last week first managed to do a giant on the wooden A-Bars. She performed her giants unaided for the first time at a competion, sadly the power she got from the giant was more than she could handle when it came to her dismount. It was suppose to be a Straight back but due to the power and her tucking in she over rotated and fell on landing. Amy also performed one of her tidiest floor routines I have seen her do, giving her Gold on Floor. With that Gold and a good Bar score Amy pipped Gemma to 1st place in Grade 7. Gemma Sole has been stuggling to get back in form after have two seperate injuries last year but won 3 Golds and a Silver and placed 2nd in Grade 7. I think I need to mention Jess Pitts also, at Grade 7 who came 3rd for all her effort. Jess won 1 Gold on Bars with and impressive 11.80 and 2 Silver medals.
Our Grade 11 squad group was not without it's personal best, as mentioned above Annabelle Clifton after purging all in the morning amanaged to win 2 Golds and 3 Silvers and become the Squad Champion 2010. One girls who I know was very proud of her personal achievement on the day was Katie Harris who has been struggling to get that elusive "upstart" finally managed to do a lovely upstart and with straight arms. Well Done to her!

I am not even going to start trying to list all the medal winners of the day here as it would take me as long to write it as it did to give them all out. I will try to get them posted on the site later. I do have one other mention which is a very sought ofter Trophy, "The John Goodgame Trophy". This is awared to a gymnast, which could be either from the Recreational or Squad groups, who may not be the best but who always shows up for training, never complains when asked to do conditioning, has a good attitude to her training, who helps put out equipment and also helps encourage her peers. This year it was decided this trophy should go to...Drum roll....Olivia Stock. Keep up the hard work and good attitude.

There are always going to be disappointments and a few falls and routines that just don't work on the day, but this is all part of life and we all have to learn to deal with it. This is why gymnastics is so good for our youngsters, it helps to develop individual confidence and character that can be use in other areas of thier life.