Tuesday, February 21, 2006

Fab site

Hello, I have just tried to add a link for a really good site with loads of videos but for some reason it's not playing so here is the address to copy and paste into your browser!

http://www.acrobaticsports.com
/afficherAccueil.do;jsessionid=B1B67D88F812B0FA579F6EF30BB95C8E

Hopefully that will work!

Check out the 1950s video "Up in the air" that you will find on the interview with George Nissen, inventor of the modern trampoline!
Scroll down to the bottom for other links, this link has messed up other stuff. Still don't know what I'm doing!

Lisa

Thursday, February 16, 2006

URGENT!

Unfortunately it has just come to our attention that those who have never competed before MUST register as a new competitor by Feb 19th!!
Usually it's a calender month before the competition date but with February being a shorter month this has possibly had some influence on this change of date. We already know of Ewan who will be competing for the 1st time. Anyone else however, please reply through the blog or by the club phone by 2.30pm 16th of Feb!

Wednesday, February 15, 2006

Tees Valley squad

The members have been picked for the first squad training which will be on Sunday April 2nd, 2pm--5pm at Brierton.
8 have been picked and 2 are on reserve. The list is on our notice board in the entrance hall at Brierton.
Please let us know as soon as possible if you are attending as your place can be given to someone on the reserve list if you can't make it!

Thursday, February 02, 2006

Changes and advances

At the moment we are in talks with Sedgefield Springers and Billingham TC about forming a Teesside squad!
Q) What is a Teesside squad?
A) The Teesside squad will be select members from the 3 clubs in the area coming together and training together periodically throughout the year. The criteria for qualifying for the Teesside squad is presently undecided. We will still be competing as 3 seperate clubs but what we want to gain from this is collective knowledge and experience from various coaches and support each other. Many regions including the North have a regional training squad so this is a great way for us all to get together and work hard. All three clubs are relatively new in getting established and although Hartlepool have been around longer many changes have taken place within the last 16 months, so we really are starting over
We are talking with, Jo from Billingham and Kev from Sedgefield about, when, where, how and who. We will keep you posted.
Entry will be by invitation only!

Thursday, January 26, 2006

Last nights training

Last night was a little different we planned the training to include a lot of stretching, exercise and strenghening and we had a few grumpy faces because of that.
However what we saw in just over an hour was a huge improvement! By the end of the session so many more of you were thinking about the move you were working on and phasing the move (shape of take off, flight and landing). We are going to do a yearly timetable and plan sessions to include more of this aswell as other sessions specifically geared towards different activities and skills. We hope after thinking about it you noticed a change yourself at the end of last night. The majority worked really hard!
Some are questioning the importance of flexibility, fitness and strength but these things are vital for your success in ANY sport and activity and if these factors are included in training the benefits will come back and most certainly will show in competition scores!

If you come 15 minutes early, we can warm up on the floor before moving on to the trampolines. Some have said that it eats in to class time, but as you can see from reading the paragraph above, this IS part of class time and a very important one.

Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Well done to everyone who competed on Sunday at Washington! It was a great day and we managed to pick up 7 trophies which was fantastic even though the judging has really toughened up! So don't be disappointed if your scores were lower than the last comp as just about everyone is in the same boat. We were proud to bits of all of you!