Jack's visit

Jack Kelly, England National Development Coach for British Gymnastics and erstwhile coach to no less than two former world champions, popped in to Brentwood Trampoline Club this week to oversee the final preparation of the club's 3 National Finallists.  The Nationals, taking place next weekend(23rd/24th July)  at the NIA in Birmingham, is the culmination of every gymnasts competitive year and based on their performances this year all three stand a good chance of winning a medal.

Pictured with Jack are Chrissie Law, 17, from Brentwood who will be competing in the Under-19 Ladies national C finals, Josh Newman, 12, from Noak Bridge who will be competing in the Under-13 Boys national C and Susanna Badley, 13, from Hornchurch who will be competing in the Under-15 Girls national C.

All three have trained with Brentwood from their very early days in trampolining and have progressed through the grading system delighting audiences wherever they compete with the elegance of their style - a trademark of the club which prides itself on high-quality above all else.

Congratulations to Ainslie Plews

Olive Law presenting Ainslie's
Jack Petchey award

.. our June Jack Petchey winner.  Nominated for her friendly manner and hard work in training she has also been rewarded with recent competitive success.  Ainslie has also started on her Level 1 Coach award and we look forward to seeing more of he around the club over coming years.

The next round of Jack Petchey nominations will be coming up after summer so can members please keep their eyes peeled for the nomination box then.  To find out more about Jack Petchey awards visit our dedicated page on our website.

Easton Open results

Some of our happy travellers

Yesterday we had 15 travel to the outskirts of Norwich for an Open competition hosted by Dragons.  Following hot on the heels of the grading we hosted last weekend the accent of this event was on fun with Synchro as well as Individual competitions.  The outcome exceeded all expectations with no less than 7 of the 15 winning their individual groups, two coming 2nd and another 3rd.  The synchro was slightly less succesful though with one 2nd placed pair and two 3rd placed and another member in 2nd place in the Russian Roulette.  You can read more about this and other results by checking on our website at http://www.brentwoodtc.org/comps_this_year.htm

Brentwood Trampoline Grading - Highlights

Wow, what a day for BTC - well done to all our competitors for doing their best and, in the main, succeeding.  More details (and pictures in due course) online on our website but to give you an idea of how well they did, how about these statistics:

• 48 competitors
• 8 first timers and 10 first time in grade (say one-third)
• 22 trophies (nearly 50% of our competitors)
• 7 winners
• 7 second-placed
• 8 third-placed
• 6 winning teams
• 11 qualifiers
• 36 equal or new personal best scores!

Many thanks to all our officials and helpers who made it a great day for the kids in particular, also to Neil at Cangaroos for keeping the results flowing through so folks didn't have to wait too long for presentations.

Jack Petchey Update

Nicola, Gemma, Vicky, Becky & Joe

As ever, our young members have been working amazingly hard and a stunningly large number have already been nominated for Jack Petchey awards this year.  Open to all members aged between 11 and 25, these awards are made to those who set the best examples to other members.  Find out more about the latest winners (pictured right) on our website at http://www.brentwoodtc.org/jack_petchey.htm.  Well done to Celia, our new Jack Petchey coordinator for stimulating such interest.

BG Young Leaders Camp...

Young Leaders Camp 2011
Are you actively volunteering in gymnastics and aged between 16 and 19 years old? With three successful Young Leaders Camps under its belt, British Gymnastics is set to recruit another 50 Young Leaders to attend the leadership event of the year! You will have the chance to take part in many different, new and interesting activities and workshops alongside 150 of England's top Young Leaders and volunteers. Be prepared to tackle anything that gets thrown your way and to enjoy yourself to the full!

To find out more information about the Young Leaders Camp 2011 please click here! 

Historic trampolinists & memories

A regular correspondent with this club, Tim Blake, son of Ted Blake who introduced competitive trampolining as we know it to the world, recently passed us a link to this wonderful footage of trampolining in the late 1960's, Tim identified some of the performers as follows: "It shows Paul Luxon and (I think) Bobby Stroud who trained at Regent St Polytechnic together. I can also pick out Dave Curtis and possibly Mike Williams but that’s about it.". Commentary is in French, nevertheless enjoy:

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Commenting on the footage Paul Kitchen, identified some names and memories "I used to train some with Bobby at Crystal Palace until the manager caught us getting free training in one of the downstairs gyms.  Surprised not to see Paul Wainwright there as he was Pauls synchro partner. The girl who is seen looking on from the tramp side is Wendy Wright. Competed alongside Biz Scales (Baldwin) in the same era. Di Bullen was coached by George Stephenson who coached me for a while in 73." as did Jack Kelly "I recognise a lot of these people including Ute Luxon (nee Czeck), Jane Pullen, Diane Bullen, Alan Gonzales and of course Paul Luxon (probably about 15yrs old) and Dave Curtis. A couple of the Swiss guys stayed and trained with me in Harlow. Most of the comp footage seems to be in a German sportshall I recognise though I wasn't there at the time."

Read more about trampolining history on our website.

Saffron Walden Grading Highlights

Faith, Maddie & Alex - a winning team

33 entered, 32 competed, 6 winners, 3 second placed and 4 third (41% medal-rate!),  and 13 qualified to higher grades - 19 set new improved PBs as well!  We also had 5 winning teams meaning only 6 of our entrants came home with nothing.

• Winners:  Charlotte Hussey, Lauren Bembrick-Taylor, Joe Harris, Georgia Tyrrell, Lauren Michaels & Lucy Phillips,
• Second: Emma Frost, Faith Everett & Jessie Durrell,
• Third: Natalie Shade, Nicola Miller, Jonathan Gibbs & Alexandra Bartkowiak
• Qualifiers G to F: Nicola Miller, Lauren Bembrick-Taylor, Holly Perry, Katie Cremer & Charlotte Lal
• Qualifiers F to E:  Charlotte Hussey, Natalie Shade, Joe Harris, Jonathan Gibbs, Georgia Tyrrell, Jessie Durrell
• Qualifiers E to D: Lucy Phillips
• Qualifiers D to C: Lauren Michaels
• Winning Teams: Faith, Alex and Maddie; Vanessa, Abbie Jo and Emma; Georgie, Jessie and Emma; Holly, Katie and Olivia; Nicola, Gemma and Becky.

More details are on our website.

Highly qualified at Gillingham

Josh & Susanna with medals

Three Brentwood Trampoline Club members enjoyed the short journey to Gillingham last weekend before notching up a highly impressive set of results and raising many an eyebrow as they set a quality benchmark.

Susanna Badley was first of the three to compete in one of the first groups of the day.  With 48 Under-15 Girls National C competitors it was a long wait until the end result was known but from the beginning she didn't relinquish her lead.  With a 0.5 advantage after the set round she pulled away further after the voluntary, now 1.3 clear and yet more in the final round ending 2.2 clear of the second placed girl despite her having a 1 point tariff advantage.  As well as the win she also gained an Enhanced Score qualification to FIG B competition and 3 new personal best scores.

Joshua Newman was competing next in the 14-strong boys equivalent group.  having had a niggling injury in the preceding weeks he was planning on simply repeating his set routine in the voluntary rounds giving him a 2 to 3 point tariff disadvantage against the main contenders.  Despite this he was in 2nd place after the set and posting consistently higher form marks than others maintained that position to the end.  As with Susanna, Josh's performance was also rewarded with an Enhanced Score qualification to FIG B and 2 new personal bests.

Chrissie Law was competing in the Under-19 Ladies National C class.  After the set round she was lying in 1st place, the voluntary round, however, saw her maintain excellent form scores higher than all her nearest rivals but fall back to 3rd place as opponents with nearly 2 clear marks of tariff advantage overhauled her.  In the final round Chrissie maintained her form with nobody getting close but, once again, higher tariffs held sway and she ended in 4th place - in a group of 40 an excellent return capped nicely with a FIG B qualification as well as 2 new personal bests.