Long trip but worth the drive

Photocall attended by half our competitors shown in
our training hall in Brentwood School

Brentwood Trampoline Club had cause for celebration last weekend following a long day at Easton College, Norwich.  The event was just one of four British Gymnastics grading competitions held each year where performers have the opportunity to prove their ability to move onwards to higher grade competition.  For this reason the club's Head Coach, Paul Kitchen was delighted that 26 of the club's competitors had made the long journey as he says:

"It's a long way to go but an important journey to make to test the competitor, and their family's, resolve since when they qualify to National competition the journeys become longer and involve overnight stays."

Paul was equally pleased with the results with 15 of Brentwood's competitors achieving the targets needed for qualification giving a 58% success rate against a competition average of just 34%.  Of course, the club also gained a fair share of trophies with 12 individual podium places and 3 winning teams - full details of the individual success stories are on the clubs website at www.brentwoodtc.org/easton_16oct11.htm.

The next challenge for the club is to host its annual Open Competition at their training base in Brentwood School Sports Centre where they are expecting nearly 300 competitors to be chasing, among other awards, the Georgia Cordery Form trophies for under-13 and over-13 trampolinists. These trophies are awarded each year to those who display the highest quality skills, rather than difficulty, and are in memory of Georgia Cordery.

Launch of new tracksuit

Our new tracksuit is now available to order for delivery in time for Christmas.The stylish Italian tracksuit is made by Errea and embroidered with the clubs name, logo and herald on. Navy and white the suit includes red stripes. We hope all our members will want to buy one especially if they are competing for the club. It is important that members feel they belong to our club and are proud to wear our club clothing and that we as a club look the best when at competition.

We have 6 tracksuits of various sizes at the club in order that you can try one on to get the best size and fit, the sizes noted are continental and therefore not easily transferable to UK sizes. We will order a selection of sizes so hopefully everyone will be delighted with fit.

These tracksuits can only be ordered in batches with the first deadlines for ordering having been set as 30th October (for delivery in time for Xmas) and the end of February 2012.  Children's sizes will be £35 whilst Adult sizes £40 inc VAT.

To ensure you get yours please place your order with Graham Parker, cheques made payable to Brentwood Trampoline Club. Delivery will be pre Xmas.

Don't forget we also have a wide range of other club clothing a selection of which is in stock, unfortunately we do not have a place to display it easily. Please refer to the club website for details and if you have any queries then please do not hesitate to contact Graham.

All clothing will be on display at our Open competiton on 30th October.

Any queries please e mail grahamparker963@btinternet.com or 07947 606568.

Newsletter posted on website

Reporting on nationals success, Jack Petchey updates, upcoming social events, fundraising ideas and competitions the newsletter also asks wonders if everybody is really prepared for competitions and judging.  Read more on-line from our website.

National Finals - Two Golds, One Bronze

Susanna, Josh & Chrissie with their medals

For national trampolinists, the culmination of their efforts throughout the competition season is to attend the National Finals and the icing on the cake is to make the finals day having ended in the top-8 following the preliminary rounds on the first day. For 3 Brentwood Trampoline Club members this past weekend was their chance to show just how good they were as the finals were held in the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham.

For the past 3 years Chrissie Law, from Brentwood, has made the Finals but missed out on finals day achieving a best result of 29th last year; this year, however, she has stepped up a gear and was more confident having finalled consistently in the gala competitions she had attended making 4th place on a few occasions. For Susanna Badley, from Harold Wood, and Josh Newman, from Noak Bridge, this was to be their first experience having only graduated from regional competition last October.

Competing in the NIA is a daunting experience as each group of competitors walk into the huge arena from behind the curtained training area to music and loud clapping from audience and officials alike and many find their nerves begin to take hold at this point. This year the three Brentwood Trampoline Club members overcame all nerves and put on a wonderful display on the qualifying day to impress the judges with their great form and saw all three move into finals day in top three places. Chrissie, in particular, had excelled posting all new personal best scores in her efforts to put past years disappointments behind her.

Finals day and and there was plenty of time for nerves to build up as other finals went before them but finally time came for Susanna & Josh to compete in their respective groups, Chrissie had longer for nerves to build as her final was later in the day. All three, however, prevailed with Susanna becoming under-15 girls National C champion, Josh under-13 boys National C champion and Chrissie taking 3rd place in the under-19 girls National C with yet another personal best score.

Brentwood Trampoline Club takes its competitive training seriously and so work resumes throughout the summer period towards next years competition season, (unlike many other youth groups) the club remains open throughout the summer period for both competitive and recreational trampolining and regularly has pay-as-you-go spaces. If you are interested in taking the sport up just check the club's web-site (www.brentwoodtc.org) for session times.

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.