Date: Saturday 10th December 2016 at CRC
Entries close: 2016-12-03
Entry ages: 4 years +
The highlight of every year sees the Cangaroos from all centres, ages and abilities come together to compete at the annual club competition only this year at CRC.
After some frantic trampoline construction Thursday evening by Ali and Tony to put the new bed on the competition was fully setup on Friday. This was the first year that we have hosted the competition at CRC with the previous years all being at Sawston. The new venue was fantastic and offered the space we so desperately missed from the years before.
The day kicked off with the club photo. After much organising everyone was in place and Luis sailed over the crowd against the backdrop of the brightly painted CRC climbing wall.
After the photo was the annual coaches "Ego Shield". A contest where all coaches compete against each other. Last year's holder Luis was aiming to be the first two hold it for two years and pulled out a good routine to start the group. He was however pipped to the post by Nicky "Taylor" Swift who despite only practicing twice before stormed in a great routine to take first. You might understandably think that Ali would have taken third, however you would be wrong. His ascension to greatness was cut short by a somewhat poorly executed straddle jump as he slid elegantly off the side of the trampoline.
Following the coaches contest the coaches took their positions and the competition kicked off and the stalls opened. Competitions were so close and so many exceptional performances were watched including so many first-time bouncers. It takes courage to perform a routine in front of you piers, families and other club members and the list of great moments was truly endless. Special mentions must go to Jo Costin for her determination to do a back somersault in NDP 2, Alex Radford for his sensational recovery since injury, Maram and Nastya for their excellent determination despite only a few week's practice, Michael Kapitsa for continually pushing himself harder, Catherine's "go big or go home attitude" Trinity for scoring the highest execution score of the day and Zack for setting this year's highest tariff.
As the individual competition drew to a close the synchro took over. All manor of beasts, characters, bananas, elves, heroes and villains took to the trampolines to decide the winner of the ever eventful synchro event. This year the show was stolen by Macy and Molly scoring 18.7 / 20 for sync with really good execution scores.
The club wishes to thank the huge list of volunteers who gave up their time to make this awesome event possible, donaters of tombola prizes and DE Photo for some great shots of the event. The list of helpers includes but is not limited to:
- Anthony and Sarah Goggin
- Jane Macrae
- Joanne Wardle
- Tammy Jarvis
- Kim Pearson
- Laura Able
- James Able
- Simon Burson
- Matt Burson
- Neil Pike
- Scott Kinley
- Franky
- Marianne Monie
- Louise Dexter
- Sandra East
- Sine Marlow