Club Competition

Date: Saturday 13th December 2014 at Sawston

Entries close: TBC

Entry ages: 4 years +

It was a cold morning on Saturday 13th December. After a phenomenal effort setting up the previous day the hall and gym were set for the 2014 Cangaroos Club Competition. Ali first through the door turned the lights as the hall came to life ready for the highlight of the Cangaroos year. There are few things more impressive than watching our team of coaches, committee, gymnasts, judges and friends all come together to put on a day that requries such an enourmous amount of preparation.

As the chirstmas fayre in the gym came to life it Neil arrived to setup the IT - and despite forgetting how power leads worked got it up and running pretty quick. The whole club posed for the club photo and we began the day with the Coaches Ego Cup. This is a contest between all L2 or higher coaches at the club and is based on pure execution. The current holder was Luis but this year he faced stiff competition again from Franky, Tony, Nicky and Ali. Nicky who had only got her routine working the previois night and pulled out an awesome rudy but unfortunately tried to bow to early after she landed it and ended up touch the end deck. Franky did well also with minimal practice but after the first three it was Tony who led. Tony who had yet to win the cup could now only watch as Luis flew into the air scraping the Sawston roof to beat Tony's score with stright 8 scores. This only left Ali - who also had never won the cup to compete. After some shakey in bounces he found his form and stormed into first place and secured the Ego Cup putting Luis in 2nd and Tony in 3rd.

We then kicked off the main part of the competition which all our gymnasts had cma e to enter in. Our extra volunteer judges Jane Macrae Jo Wardle and Sussanah Hughes arrived to help out for this. With new qualified county judge Olga Feldman getting her panel ready we were underway.

We saw so many notable performances that we could not possibly list them all here but some of note;

• Alex Radford - coming back from a massive injury winning GPD group
• Hermione Simpson and Daisy Frost - getting over their fear of back somersaults and competing at NPD 2 for the first time
• Henry Ashton - competiting a far more difficult routine than ever before and coming 1st
• Olivia Newey - picking up two 3rd palce trophies in NPD and GPD
• Brothers Fergus and Rufus picking up 3rd and 2nd respectively
• Felicity Lawrence - storming to 1st place with some great scores
• The Elves of Sydney and Trinity - picking up two 1st places
• Matis and Danae Candotti - picking up 1st and 2nd
• Zach Goggin - his potential beginning to shine through coming 1st in NDP 6
• Matt Burson - coming 1st scoring 9s for his set routine and setting the club tarrif record with his vol
• And so so so amny more...

As the individual competition came to a close it was time for the synchro. This involves two trampolinists performing the same routine at the same time. Marks in our competition are awarded for synch and form only with an additional price for best costume. We saw some great routines this year and Neil and Sarnie's efforts were a demonstration that anyone can enjoy our sport at any age or ability - even if they are a middle aged man dressed in spandex - do not worry readers it was ensured to be appropriate :). Winners of the synchro were Matthew Burson and Zach Goggin narrowly beating Sydney and Trinity.

Finally we finished with the 2 trick competition. A competition where gymansts perform their two craziest tricks and the crowd picks the winner. We had 4 entrants in Luis, Ali, Lawrence and Matt. In the first round Ali performed a Barani to back landing followed by a double back pullover. Lawrence beat him by 1 vote performing a double turntable. In the other 1st round tie Luis performed a back somersault followed by a 2 3/4 front somersault to beat Matt's 1 3/4 Front fliff ballout barani. This setup the final where Lawrence perofrmed a 3/4 back somersault 1/2 in 1/2 out cody to beat Luis' 2 1/4 Front somersault with full twist straight.

The Cangaroos wish to thank all our helpers for making this day so awesome. Huge congratulations to all our gymnasts and we look forward to seeing you all next year.