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Latest website updates and club news....

 

News Update 18th February 2012

 

Alpha Factor competition - Ipswich A few Flames gymnasts took part in the Alpha Factor competition today, and came out with strong scores, showing they are nearly ready for the Regional Championships in 2 weeks time.  Well done to Izzy, Kenz and Edie.  Sorry to say that injury stopped Anna from taking part, and Kate was too poorly too ..... Scores can be seen by clicking on these links Compulsory 2&5; Compulsory 4&3; Grade 7 - 5; Grade 8; Grade 12; Grade 13; Grade 14.

 

County training today was quiet and really useful for the gymnasts who attended.  With lots of coaches and not too many gymnasts (because of the Alpha Factor, illness and various other reasons!) there was plenty of time and opportunity to practice and perfect Grades moves and routines.  Now we just need for all the gymnasts to remember the things they learned, so they can put in perfect routines for the next two weeks!

 

News Update 13th February 2012

 

Flames joins the twitter revolution! Flames now has a twitter account - so follow flames @flamesgymclub and get tweeting us.  Tweeting will enable us to put real time information (including comp scores) out on the web as things happen.  Get following!!

 

 

News Update 11th February 2012

 

Big Congratulations to Emily Moles who came overall 5th (out of 105 competitors) in the BUSA National Finals held at Aldershot today, Em's was 4th on bars and beam. What a great competition for her proving that even the "oldies" can still perform at the highest levels.

 

News Update 5th February 2012

Urgent News - I understand the roads are passable today and therefore we will go ahead with training / practice competition today (unless the snow starts to fall again).  Please check your phone / emails and this website for messages but if you don't hear, please do phone, text or email to check if you are unsure whether training is going ahead. 

 

News Update 4th February 2012

Urgent News - unless the condition of the roads and the weather improve on Sunday 5th Feb, squad training may have to be cancelled.  Please check your phone / emails and this website for messages - Al will do her best to be in touch with any changes to plans, but if you don't hear, please do phone, text or email to check whether training is going ahead. 

 

Congratulations to Khalysah Plummer, Lauren Weston, Flo Govier and Kate Bishop who have all achieved places in the West Midlands Regional Squad for 2012.

 

Congratulations also to Izzy James, Lucy Fennell, Anna Bates, Megan Hughes, Niamh Taylor and Brogan Greenwood who have all achieved places in the Metropolitan County Squad for 2012.

 

News Update 23rd December 2011

 

Sorry for the delay in getting the Club Competition score on the website but  a failed hard drive needed replacing and then a rebuild ensued! If you go to the Comps & Results page they can be viewed.

 

 

News Update 11th December 2011

 

Please note the following 2011/12 Christmas/New Year opening hours for Flames

 

Date	Recreational Gymnastics	Squad Gymnastics
Tuesday 20th December	6 - 7.30 p.m.	6 - 8.00 p.m.
Wednesday 21st December	Cancelled	6 – 8.00 p.m.
Friday 23rd December	Cancelled	Cancelled
Saturday 24th December	Centre Closed	Centre Closed
Tuesday 27th December	Centre Closed	Centre Closed
Wednesday 28th December	Cancelled	6 – 8.00 p.m.
Friday 30th December	Cancelled	Cancelled
Tuesday 3rd January	6 – 7.30 p.m.	6 – 8.00 p.m.
Wednesday 4th January	6 – 7.30 p.m.	6 – 8.00 p.m.
Friday 6th January	6 – 7.30 p.m.	6 – 8.00 p.m.
Saturday 7th January	Baby Gym as usual	Training as usual

 

Everyone at Flames wishes you a Happy Christmas and New Year!

 

Important notice about fees for all parents

 

Unfortunately, due to increased running costs for the Club, it will be necessary to increase the charges for all training sessions from the 1^st January 2012.  This is the first increase in fees since 2007, as we have always tried to absorb increased cost of rent, coach development, equipment purchase and competition entry charges, and we hope you will agree that the sessions still offer excellent value for money with high quality coaching in a superb facility, thanks to a willing band of volunteers who dedicate many hours each week to gymnastics.  Parents have asked for our fees structure to be a bit clearer, so from 1 January 2012, the training fees will be:

 

£3.50 per gymnast for baby gym (£4.50 for gymnasts who are asked to stay longer than one hour).

£39 for an 8 week term (£3.25 ph) for all recreational gymnasts (i.e. 6-7.30 pm once a week)

£80 for an 8 week all inclusive term for Intermediate Squad gymnasts (Loretta / Tracey’s group)

£137 for an 8 week all inclusive term for all competition squad gymnasts (any gymnast who stays more than one short session pw)

Squad parents may opt to pay this on a weekly basis at £18.50 per week (£148 for 8 weeks, compared with £137 if paid in one sum).  This will need to be paid regardless of attendance.

 

The above fees arrangement will mean that parents of squad gymnasts will achieve best value for money if squad gymnasts attend all the sessions available.  When sessions are cancelled, relevant adjustments will be made.

 

I am sorry that this fees rise is necessary, and welcome you to speak to me if you have any concerns about the charges.  You can either speak to me at the club or contact me by phone (07973 209 630) or email me from this website (see contact us in the menu on the left of this page).

 

Alison

 

News Update 14th November 2011

 

Well done Flames!  We won medals in every level we competed in the Regional Teams Competition yesterday!  - Our level 4 team (Saffron Ollerenshaw; Lucy Fennell; Edie Barlow; Izzy James) won SILVER, the Level 3 team (Megan Hughes; Brogan Greenwood; Niamh Taylor; Amy Potter; Morgan Watkins; Anna Bates) won BRONZE, and the Level 2 team (Hannah Leeson; Elise Chang; Kate Bishop; Tori Pybus; Flo Govier) won SILVER.  Our FIG team were amazing!!!! They beat tough opposition from Park Wrekin and Chelmsley Wood to win GOLD.   The FIG team were Khal Plummer, Lara Williamson, Amber Moore, Emily Mole, Lauren Weston and Serena Chang.  Not bad when 3 of the 6 have either semi- or completely retired from competitive gymnastics!!!

 

Photos and scores will be published soon.  In the meantime, the Flames girls are working towards their next two competitions - the John Reeves Inter-County Comp on the 27th November (at Lilleshall) and the Club Championships on the 17th December.

 

 

News Update 7th November 2011

Congratulations Hannah - Hannah Leeson competed in the National Age Group finals this weekend and scored a fantastic 42.8 and achieved 37th place.  The  West Midlands team came 5th.  Hannah had an unsettled start to the competition with a fall on vault and bars, but a clean beam routine and a well executed floor routine, her scores reflected her improvement.  Well done Hannah we are proud of your performance!  Edie Barlow was reserve for the Level 4 team which came in 7th.   Photos of the national finals were taken by BC Photographic (www.bcgymphotos.co.uk) .  If you want to look at the photos you will need the password which is available from Al or Laura.

 

Judging - are you interested in judging gymnastics?  do you sometimes wonder how the judges reach the scores they do?  the West Midlands Gymnastics Association will be running a judging course very soon - if you would like to do this course and qualify as a judge, please let Al know.

 

Good luck - to Flames gymnasts competing in next weekend's Regional Team Championships at Lilleshall ... our teams will be a force to be reckoned with!

 

Sorry - for any parents or children who were unable to get a place at the Saturday morning 'Baby Gym' session this week, please accept our sincere apologies for any upset and disappointment caused.  Unfortunately we were unusually very short of coaches and helpers and could not safely offer places for very many children.  Normal service will be resumed this weekend!

 

 

News Update 30th October 2011

More Flames success! Congratulations to - Lara Williamson has passed her Club Judge course / exam this weekend.  Lara will now be training, coaching and judging with Flames!!!  If anyone else is interested in getting involved in judging, there is a course being planned in the West Midlands.  Please let Al know if you are interested as names need to go in soon.  This is a really useful skill for coaches, gymnasts and parents, so why not give it a go so that you can make more sense of competition results.

 

Also congratulations to Flames gymnasts who have been selected to represent the Metropolitan County in the Inter-County Competition (the John Reeves competition).  Gymnasts from Flames taking part in this competition are Kate Bishop, Niamh Taylor, Anna Bates, Megan Hughes and Kerys Lorenzo-McDonagh.

 

Get well soon - Ubfortunately Mackenzie injured her hand this weekend when doing a tuck back somersault on the floor.  We hope you get better soon Kenz, as the gym will be a quiet place without you!!

 

News Update 25th October 2011

Well done - to Kerys Lorenzo-McDonagh and Maisie Benbow for their excellent scores at the West Midlands Regional Level 5 Championships.  Maisie achieved 5th place in the 9-10 year old competition and Kerys 16th in the in-age competition.  Scores for the competition can be found here.

 

News Update 16th October 2011

Congratulations - to Emily Mole and Abi Walker who both passed their level 2 coaching exam today.  This means they are now both qualified to run their own club if they ever wish to.  Emily and Abi are both former competition squad gymnasts from Flames, and we are delighted that they continue in the sport we all love.  Thank you to the gymnasts (and their parents) for giving up their weekends to be at their course and exam.

 

Good luck - to Lara Williamson who will be taking her first judging exam next weekend.  Lara is also a competition squad gymnast at Flames.

 

Good luck - to Kerys Lorenzo-McDonagh and Maisie Benbow who compete in the Regional Level 5 Championships next weekend. 

 

Cerys Bell-Bedlow - we recently welcomed 9 year old Cerys, an 'International 8' level competitive gymnast from Swan Districts Gymnastics and the Western Australian Institute of Sport in Perth, Australia.  Cerys was on holiday in England visiting relatives in Solihull and trained with us whilst she was over here so she didn't lose too much training time.  By the time Cerys left earlier this week she had made lots of friends at Flames, and we hope that Cerys will come back and visit us again soon.  If you send Al your photos they can be loaded on to the photos page for everyone to see.

 

No Squad training - please note there will be no squad training on the following dates:

 

SATURDAY 22ND OCTOBER (Al is taking a break!) and the other coaches are at the Level 5 competition.  BABY GYM will take place as usual, please can coaches / senior gymnasts help out as always!

 

SATURDAY 5TH NOVEMBER (Coaches will be at the National Finals in Guildford).  Sunday training is still planned at the moment, but Al needs to know who will be in to train please!

 

Please also note the following dates:

 

SUNDAY 30TH OCTOBER - County training

 

SUNDAY 13TH NOVEMBER - Regional Teams Competition, Lilleshall

 

SUNDAY 27TH NOVEMBER - John Reeves Inter County Championships, Lilleshall

 

SUNDAY 4TH DECEMBER - Flames Sunday training

 

SUNDAY 11TH DECEMBER - County trials

 

SATURDAY 17TH DECEMBER - Club Championships

           

 

News Update 26th September 2011

Congratulations - to Emma Elton and Beth Smith who both passed their first coaching exam yesterday.  The course they took is specifically for 14 - 15 year olds who are not old enough to take the Level 1 Course.  Flames always encourages gymnasts who feel they wish to slow down their training and begin other involvement in the sport to start coaching and/or judging.  We hope Emma and Beth will continue to coach for many years to come.

 

Congratulations - to all the Flames gymnasts who competed in the Regional Championships this weekend.  We are delighted to see gymnasts achieving 'personal best'  performances and medals / national final places.  The scores can be found by clicking here.

 

Our biggest achievements at the weekend were:

 

FIG Seniors - Khal Plummer 1st place overall and 1st place on vault, bars and beam (and 3rd on floor too!).  Well done Khal! Serena Chang retired injured but not before achieving 3rd place on vault.

 

FIG Juniors - Lauren Weston 4th place overall with 3rd place on beam

 

In Age 4 - Edie Barlow 5th place (travelling reserve for the team representing the West Midlands in the National Finals); Mackenzie Watkins 7th place; and Isobel James 8th place.  Edie also achieved 3rd highest score on bars, and Kenzie scored 3rd highest on beam.

 

In age 3 - Hannah Leeson 3rd place (and a place in the West Mids team for National Finals).  Hannah scored the 2nd highest on bars and 3rd highest on beam.

 

Out of Age Level 3 (11/12 years) - Kate Bishop 5th place, Elise Chang 6th place and Niamh Taylor 8th place.  Kate scored 3rd highest on beam and Anna Bates scored 3rd highest on bars.

 

Out of Age Level 2 (12/13 years) - Florence Govier 2nd highest score on beam.

 

Well done girls - now we just need to prepare for the National Finals, the team comps and the level 5 championships!

 

News Update 12th September 2011

 

Congratulations - to Hannah Elton and Lori Walker who passed their Level 1 Coaching exam yesterday.  We always encourage our older gymnasts to start coaching, and we hope that they will continue to coach for many years to come.

 

Competition entry fees - please can all gymnasts who are competing in the Regional Championships later this month pay their entry fees to the Club.  Thank you!

 

Fees were due in August! - In case you were on holiday and missed the notices, club training fees (£39) are due for the period 9th August to 14th October .  Please bring your training fees and the payment slip with you to your next session.  The payment slip can be downloaded here.

 

British Gymnastics Membership (Insurance) is due at the end of September.  All gymnasts must have British Gymnastics membership - the payment slip can be downloaded here.  Please bring this with you to your next training session.

 

 

News Update 21st August 2011

Flames parents and gymnasts know how to party! Last night Flames gymnasts, families and friends joined forces with the Old Doms Cricket Team to have a great evening BBQ / picnic. 

 

Thank you to everyone who was able to join Derek, Alison and Alan at their house, for helping to make the evening everything we hoped it would be. 

 

Gymnasts spent their evening in and out of a hot tub, bouncing on a bouncy castle, eating BBQ food once they had persuaded a parent or coach to cook for them!, and of course watching X-Factor as soon as they had finished eating their well earned supper.  Parents meanwhile enjoyed meeting friends 'old' and new and relaxing in the evening sunshine (well for a while until the rain came) watching the activity from a safe distance!

 

We think there were between 85 and 90 guests helping Alison and Alan celebrate their first full summer in their new house, and thanks to Amy, there seem to be plans for another event in October or November ...watch this space for news as it becomes available!

 

Thank you again for a lovely evening, and Alison would like to thank everyone for all her lovely birthday presents, and her friend Anne for helping get everything ready in the afternoon.

 

Alan will load some photos of the evening soon, so check back in a day or so to see if they have been uploaded.

 

 

News Update 7th August 2011

Take a look ... at George, a former Olympic gymnast showing how he can still exercise well at over 90 years of age.  Here's the link: http://filmlondon.org.uk/best_of_boroughs/walk_tall/

 

News Update 6th August 2011

Fees are due! - club training fees (£39) for the next ten weeks are due on the 8th August.  Please bring your training fees and the payment slip with you to your next session.  The payment slip can be downloaded here.

 

British Gymnastics Membership (Insurance) is due at the end of September.  Gymnasts will be given a reminder note during September asking you to pay this mandatory fee.

 

Club fun day! Invitations are now being given out, please remember to let Alison know if you want to come along to the party.

 

Change to training times - please note that there is no training tomorrow (7th August) or on the afternoon of the 20th August. 

 

News Update 25th July 2011

Club fun day! There will be a club fun day during the afternoon and evening of the 20th August (weather permitting!).  The bouncy castle and hot tub are booked, and all gymnasts (old and new) and families and coaches are welcome.  Just bring a cossie and a towel, and lots of energy to make the day one to remember.

 

Since the party invitation is extended to lots of people, you are asked to bring with you your own meat to put on the BBQ (you can bring a portable BBQ to if you like) bring beer / wine (for adults only obviously! and chairs / blankets to sit on.  All the entertainment will be provided!!!

 

I'm sure you will agree it sounds loads of fun and for once not all about fundraising! 

 

If you are planning on joining us, please can you add your name to the list which will be posted on the notice board at the gym, just so that we know how many people to expect!

 

News Update 10th July 2011

Another fantastic competition for Flames Gymnasts! - A very big well done to Flames Gymnasts who competed in the Metropolitan County Championships today.  Click here for the scores.

 

We managed to achieve some personal bests and even took home so medals and trophies too.  Personal bests included giants from Jess Wevill, two and half twists on floor from Khal, forward giants from Hannah, and tsuk vault and giants on bars from Anna Bates.

 

Medals / trophies were won by:

 

Kerys 1st Level 5; Ashleigh 2nd Level 5

Jess C 1st Level 4 in age; Kenzie 2nd Level 4 in age; Izzie 3rd Level 4 in age

Hannah 1st Level 3 in age

Kate 2nd Level 3 Open Elise 3rd Level 3 Open

Khal 1st FIG Regional Squad

Lauren 2nd FIG Regional Squad

Lara 1st FIG Open

Tori 1st Level 2 Open

 

Hopefully photos will be posted very soon.

 

News Update 13th June 2011

Congratulations to gymnasts who trialled to join the Metropolitan County Squad this weekend.  In addition to the gymnasts already in this squad, we now have Aimee Murphy and Rheanne Davidson in the squad.  Well done gymnasts, and for anyone who didn't get in this time, its really only a matter of time until you do!

 

County Championships will take place on Sunday 10th July.  Flames will be co-hosting this event, so parents I am  hoping we can call on you all again to help with taking money at the door, judges refreshments, raffle tickets (and prizes) and inputting scores etc.  More requests to follow soon!

 

Club fun day! There will be a club fun day in July or August (date to be confirmed, and dependent on the long range weather forecast), which will include a barbeque, bouncy castle, hopefully a hot tub and maybe even face painting - all gymnasts and families will be invited (you will need to bring a portable BBQ, drinks and chairs / blanket, all the entertainment will be provided!!!) I'm sure you will agree it sounds loads of fun and for once not all about fundraising!  Look out for more information soon.

 

News Update 25th May 2011

Fees are due again! Please complete the fees form (click here) and bring it to the club together with your fees.  We have recently used club funds to buy a new spring board and board runner for vault and coaching courses for 3 aspiring coaches (Hannah, Khal and Lori) and exam fees for Sarah's coaching exam.  Next on the shopping list is a new trampette and more safety (crash) mats and landing mats.

 

Our County Championships are fast approaching and the competition squad is now getting ready fitting their skills into their routines.  The County Championships give the gymnasts a chance to see how they are doing in their preparation for the Regional Championships in the Autumn.  If you would like to watch the county championships, they are taking place on the 10th July at the Munrow Sports Centre. 

 

News Update 1st May 2011

Congratulations to Jess Clarke and Hannah Leeson, and to the West Midlands teams they were competing with in this weekend's National Compulsory Grades Finals.  Jess came 45th in the Grade 4 competition and Hannah 35th in the Compulsory 3 competition.  The West Midlands teams came 9th and 6th respectively.  Well done too to ex-Flames gymnasts Christine Tse who came 4th in the Compulsory 4 competition and Megan Parker who came 2nd in the Compulsory 3 competition.

 

A really big thank you again to all the parents, coaches and gymnasts who helped to host the competition this weekend, especially to Derek Bishop for helping Continental Sports to set up on Friday afternoon, and Simon Stirling and Danny and Helen Williamson for helping to clear the gym after the competition this afternoon.  It was great to see Claire Charley back with us for the day, and helping to keep the runners in order!  At the risk of missing anyone, Alison would like to give a big thank you to Helen, Danny, Michelle, Sheree, Tracey, Rheashenda, Carol, Nikki, Daniella and Jo (I am really sorry if I have missed anyone!!!).

We raised a fantastic £161 in the raffle - which means over the two weekends of hosting national finalas we have raised £377 - thank you to everyone who brought in prizes and to Helen and Lara for all the brilliant wrapping.

 

The next big event will be the County Championships on the 10th July. 

 

Finally don't forget its county squad training next Sunday morning (8th May).

 

 

News Update 16th April 2011

 

Congratulations to Anna, Ellie and Flo and to the West Midlands teams they were competing with.  The National Finals for Grades 8 and 6 were competed at Cocks Moors Woods Leisure Centre in Kings Heath yesterday and the gymnasts did the West Midlands proud.  In the Grade 8 team Anna had the highest bar score for the team, but unfortunately the team only managed 11th place.  The Grade 6 team achieved 5th place, with team member Meisha Guest from East Staffs Gym Club coming 4th overall - a fantastic success.  The scores will be posted soon, but in the meantime you can find them by looking on the scores website www.gymdata.co.uk 

 

Today we have Ria competing for the West Midlands team in the National Final for Grade 7, so fingers are tightly crossed for a good competition for  her.  Good luck Ria!

 

Alison wants to say an enormous thank you to all the parents and gymnasts who helped to run the competition yesterday, especially to Danny and Elliott for turning out on Friday night to set up, to Michelle for making sure every job was covered and keeping everyone in the right place at the right time and to Helen for co-ordinating it all before the day and giving me the help I needed to concentrate on getting the gymnasts ready to compete.

 

We raised a fantastic £216 through the two raffles, and again its a really big thank you to everyone who gave prizes for us to raffle.

 

Now the work starts again, as many of you will know we are hosting again in two weeks time for the Compulsory Grades National Finals, when yet again Flames gymnasts and parents will be able to show the world just how brilliant they are!

 

News Update 3rd April 2011

 

Here are the scores from this weekend’s Regional Grades 14 - 12 competition.  Well done to all our flames gymnasts who all passed their grades.  Especially well done to Kenzie, Edie, Saff. Tessa, Tate and Maisie W for achieving a top 10 place either overall or on individual apparatus.

 

 

News Update 30th March 2011

 

Go to the results page to see the scores from the British Schools Championships which took place in Newcastle last weekend.

 

News Update 27th March 2011

Well done Khal!   Khal competed for the West Midlands in the British Schools competition today, and scored an impressive 44.15;  with just one error (fall from beam when landing her front somersault), she had a very good day, and came 26th overall.

 

Squad gymnasts, please make sure you know the change to training times at Easter (see below), and please bring in any raffle prizes for the National Finals which we are hosting.

 

 

Last week on RED NOSE DAY, Flames gymnasts raised £160 for RND charities - the money was raised by Squad gymnasts wearing red leotards and had to make their coaches laugh out loud in order to raise £5.  We had a great evening, and parents / gymnasts / coaches are asked to send any photos in for this website.

 

 

News Update 24th March 2011

Please note that training will finish at 8.00p.m. on the following dates (due to the Uni closing early over Bank Holidays):

 

Fri 22^nd April         

Tues 26^th April     

Wed 27^th April          

Fri 29^th April           

 

We will start at 6.00 as usual.

 

Training booked for Sunday the 3^rd April and the 1 May have been cancelled as these clash with National Finals.

 

Good luck Khal for your British Schools competition this weekend!

 

 

News Update 17th March 2011 - Happy St Patricks Day!

 

Club fees are due again next week, please can you make sure your daughter brings her payment with her to her next training session.  Please print and fill in this form (fees form) to bring in with the payment. We look forward to receiving your payment.

 

Squad gymnasts who have not yet paid their competition entry fee for either the recent Club / National / Compulsory Grades competition or the forthcoming Club Grades 14-12, please bring in your payment as soon as possible (£16).  Thank you!

 

More News Update 14th March 2011

 

Red Nose Day fun this Friday

 

We hope Flames gymnasts will do something funny for money this weekend!  Alison will donate £5 for every squad gymnast wearing a red leotard and who makes their coach laugh out loud by doing something funny on Friday evening …

 

Go on, raise money for a really good cause and have a laugh at the same time.

 

News Update 14th March 2011

 

Grades photos are now on the Lots of Pics page.

 

News Update 7th March 2011

Congratulations to all our Flames gymnasts who competed in the Regional Grades Championships this weekend.  Scores can be found by clicking here (and are also on the comp results page).  From this competition, Flames gymnasts have won places in the team to represent the West Midlands in the National Grades Championships.

 

Here is the list of passes, medal winners and National Finalists:

 

Regional Challenge (FIG competition for gymnasts who have completed their grades)

Gold medal - Khal Plummer

Bronze medal - Lauren Weston

4th Place - Serena Chang

 

Compulsory 5

Bronze medal - Joely Smith

 

Compulsory 4

Bronze medal - Jess Clarke

 

Compulsory 3

Bronze medal - Hannah Leeson

 

Regional Grade 11

Bronze medal - Niamh Taylor

Gymnasts who also achieved a pass - Amy Potter (8th place); Morgan Watkins (11th place)

 

Regional Grade 9

Bronze medal - Brogan Greenwood

 

National Grade 8

4th place (National finalist) - Anna Bates

 

National Grade 7

Gold medal - Ria Smith

Gymnasts who also achieved a pass - Elise Chang (7th place); Tori Pybus (9th place); Kate Bishop (10th place); Danni Hardwick (15th place)

 

National Grade 6

Bronze medal - Ellie Parker

5th place (National finalist) - Florence Govier (5th place)

 

Good luck to our gymnasts who still have their Regional Grades competition and to the gymnasts who now get ready for their National Finals.  We also wish Khal Plummer good luck as she has been selected to represent the West Midlands in the British Schools Championships in Newcastle this month.

 

News Update 27th February 2011

Congratulations to Flames gymnasts who competed in the Alpha Factor recently.  The Alpha Factor is a national competition and was held in Ipswich, and the scores can be found by clicking below (and on the comp results page too):

 

Compulsory Grade 3

 

Hannah Leeson, Compulsory Grade 3 - 9th place

 

Compulsory Grade 4

 

Jess Clarke, Compulsory Grade 4 - 15th place

Compulsory Grade 5

 

Joely Smith, Compulsory Grade 5 - 20th place

 

National Grade 6

 

Ellie Parker, National Grade 6 - 5th place

Florence Govier, National Grade 6 - 8th place

 

National Grade 7

 

Ria Smith, National Grade 7 - 7th= place

Elise Chang, National Grade 7 - 12th place

Kate Bishop, National Grade 7, 15th place

 

National Grade 8

 

Anna Bates, National Grade 8 - 6th place

 

Grade 12

 

Maisie Wolstencroft, Regional Grade 12 - 22nd place

 

Grade 13

 

Mackenzie Watkins, Regional Grade 13 - 7th place

Tessa Stirling, Regional Grade 13 - 12th place

Edie Barlow, Regional Grade 13 - 27th place

Tate Hendrickson, Regional Grade 13 - 28th place

 

We also of course congratulate the gymnasts who moved from Flames a week ago who did well representing Notts GC:

 

Megan Parker - Compulsory 3 - 1st place

Christine Tse - Compulsory 4 - 3rd place

Eden Wathen-Edwards - Compulsory 2 - 7th place

 

Results from the English Championships, in which former Flames gymnast Fi Chang competed can be found by clicking here and via the comp results page.  Well done Fi!

 

News Update 17th February 2011

 

There has been lots going on at Flames in the last few weeks with lots of comings and goings ... so here is our update!

 

We say hello and welcome to lots of new gymnasts including Kerys Lorenzo- McDonagh; Ashleigh Owen, Tate Hendrickson; Florence Govier and Hannah Leeson.  We also welcomed Laura Mannion (coach) to the club before Christmas.

 

We say cheerio and good luck to Megan Parker; Eden Wathen-Edwards; Christine Tse and Fi Chang who have moved to Notts to train.  We also say thank you and good luck to Jo Miller and Nila Benfield who also moved to Notts GC.  Jo has been with Flames for 21 years, having moved to the club as a young gymnast.  She and Nila have worked hard with their group of gymnasts and they have done well in competitions regionally and nationally and of which we are very proud.  We hope they all continue to enjoy their gymnastics at Notts and that they achieve all they aim for.

 

We also say a sad farewell to Jodie Mennell who joined Flames quite recently and who has moved to live in Australia.  Good luck Jodie, we will miss you!

 

Finally we wish 'Good luck' to all Flames gymnasts competing in the Alpha Factor competition this weekend - fingers are crossed that the competition goes well!  Its a great warm up for the regional grades competition in just two weeks time.

 

News Update 24th January 2011

 

Photos now on the PICs page includes the John Reeve, Club Comp (both in 2010 folder) and the Squad Girls in 2011 folder. Go there and take a look at our star's!

 

 

 

News Update 16th January 2011

 

Belated Happy New Year to everyone! We are now back to full training, and our competition squad are working hard towards their next competition.  Some gymnasts will be competing in the National 'Alpha Factor' Championships as a warm up for the Regional and National Grades finals which all of our competition squad take part in (except the gymnasts who have successfully completed all of their Grades, of which there are few!). We have just one gymnast competing in the English Championships in a few weeks time.

 

We have also had our first County, Regional and National Squad training sessions for 2011, giving our gymnasts a chance to train with gymnasts from other clubs and gain extra coaching from other coaches outside of the club.

 

Inevitably, its fees time again!  Please could all gymnasts bring in their fees (£39) together with the completed fees slip (download from here!).  Gymnasts who owe competition entry fees should also bring these in (Alpha Factor £25).

 

Sorry for the delay in uploading the photos from the end of 2010, hopefully these will be posted soon!

 

News Update Christmas Day!!

Happy Christmas everyone.  I hope you have had a great day.  Alison wants to say thank you for all the gifts you gave her.  Her day has been spent eating and playing with the grandchildren - with time to walk in the woods and feed the ducks at the lakes.

 

See you all on Tuesday!

 

 

News Update 23rd December 2010

 

Sorry for the delay in publishing the scores for the Flames Club Championships 2010.  The competition started on Saturday 18th but could not be finished because of the heavy snow and so the last piece was competed on Tuesday 21st before we had our 'party night' of displays and exchanging presents.  Click here for the scores.  Photos will follow soon!

 

 

We had to cancel our last night of training on the 22nd December because of travel problems for coaches and gymnasts, so we look forward to seeing our squad girls after the short break on Tuesday 28th 5-8 pm and the same on Wednesday 29th.

 

Flames coaches wish all gymnasts and their families a Happy Christmas!

 

News Update 20th December 2010

 

 

Congratulations to the following gymnasts who have been given places in County, Regional and National Squads:

 

Metropolitan County Squad:

Jess Clarke

Jess Wevill

Anna Bates

Megan Hughes

Brogan Greenwood

Niamh Taylor

Amy Potter

Morgan Watkins

Maisie Wolstencroft

Tate Hendrickson

Kate Bishop

 

West Midlands Regional Squad:

Ria Smith

Jodie Mennell

Eden Wathen-Edwards

Sophie Ward

Lauren Weston

Khalysah Plummer

Emma Elton

Lori Walker

Amber Moore

Fi Chang

National Squad:
Megan Parker

 

 

News Update 19th December 2010

 

Flames Annual Club Championships

 

Thank you to everyone who managed to make it to Flames despite horrendous travel conditions caused by heavy snow this weekend.  We managed to complete our last Baby Gym session of the year (thank you to Imran and his family for the Christmas treats) and to almost complete the competition that started shortly afterwards.   But with the weather worsening and news of road closures, we were forced to stop the competition before all of the competitors had had a chance to work all four pieces.  We will complete the event on Tuesday evening and will announce winners after then.

 

In the meantime, please note the following dates and times:

 

Christmas Training Times

         

First Baby Gym session for 2011 Saturday 8^th January

First recreational gymnastics session for 2011 Tuesday 11^th January

 

Competition Squad dates and times to note:

 

Tues 21 Dec – Squad only 6 – 9

Wed 22 Dec – Squad only 6pm Games, displays and exchange of presents only

Fri 24 Dec – closed

Sat 25 Dec - closed

Tues 28 Dec – Squad only 5 – 8

Wed 29 Dec – Squad only 5 – 8

Fri 31 Dec – closed

Sat 1 Jan – closed

Sun 2 Jan – Squad only 2 – 5

Tues 4 Jan – Squad only 6 – 8

Wed 5 Jan – Squad only 6 – 9

Fri 7 Jan – Squad only 6 – 9

Sat 8 Jan – Baby Gym and Squad as normal

Tues 11 Jan – return to normal training

 

News Update 1st December 2010

Regional Squad training on Thursday 2nd December is CANCELLED in anticipation of poor weather.

 

Flames Christmas Training Times

        

Last recreational gymnastics session for 2010 Friday 17^th December

Last Baby Gym session for 2010 Saturday 18^th December

First Baby Gym session for 2011 Saturday 8^th January

First recreational gymnastics session for 2011 Tuesday 11^th January

 

Competition Squad dates and times to note:

Annual Club Championships Saturday 18^th December

Tues 21 Dec – Squad only 6 – 9

Wed 22 Dec – Squad only 6pm Games, displays and exchange of presents only

Fri 24 Dec – closed

Sat 25 Dec - closed

Tues 28 Dec – Squad only 5 – 8

Wed 29 Dec – Squad only 5 – 8

Fri 31 Dec – closed

Sat 1 Jan – closed

Sun 2 Jan – Squad only 2 – 5

Tues 4 Jan – Squad only 6 – 8

Wed 5 Jan – Squad only 6 – 9

Fri 7 Jan – Squad only 6 – 9

Sat 8 Jan – Baby Gym and Squad as normal

Tues 11 Jan – return to normal training

 

 

News Update 29th November 2010

 

At the end of another busy weekend for Flames gymnasts, we are delighted to confirm that our DE Photoshoot on Saturday has raised £70 for Flames, and will be put towards the cost of much needed new mats.

 

Some of our gymnasts competed for the Metropolitan County Squad in the John Reeves West Midlands Inter County Competition on Sunday .  Unfortunately our teams did not do as well as we had hoped, winning bronze medals in both the senior and junior competitions .... as they say - it's not always about winning, it's about taking part!  The journey to and from Lilleshall in temperatures of -8 degrees together with a diversion along some very 'interesting' country lanes made the day all the more memorable!  Anyway, click here if you would like to see the scores and photographs will be added in a week or so (when the web man returns from his travels to Switzerland!)

 

Now our gymnasts are preparing for County Testing on December 12th and the Annual Club Championships for all Squad gymnasts (Saturday 18th) and the end of year displays (Wednesday 22nd). 

 

Please note our Christmas opening times (see news 21st November below)

 

 

 

News Update 21st November 2010

 

Don't forget DE Photos are visiting Flames this Saturday (27th) and will be taking photos of gymnasts and their families (action shots and studio shots) for you to buy at very competitive prices, whilst fundraising for Flames.  DE Photos are official British Gymnastics and West Midlands Gymnastics photographers.  This is open to any Flames gymnast, not just squad gymnasts, so pop in between 10 and 4 to get your photo.

 

 

Flames Christmas Training Times

        

Last recreational gymnastics session for 2010 Friday 17^th December

Last Baby Gym session for 2010 Saturday 18^th December

First Baby Gym session for 2011 Saturday 8^th January

First recreational gymnastics session for 2011 Tuesday 11^th January

 

Competition Squad dates and times to note:

Annual Club Championships Saturday 18^th December

Tues 21 Dec – Squad only 6 – 9

Wed 22 Dec – Squad only 6pm Games, displays and exchange of presents only

Fri 24 Dec – closed

Sat 25 Dec - closed

Tues 28 Dec – Squad only 5 – 8

Wed 29 Dec – Squad only 5 – 8

Fri 31 Dec – closed

Sat 1 Jan – closed

Sun 2 Jan – Squad only 2 – 5

Tues 4 Jan – Squad only 6 – 8

Wed 5 Jan – Squad only 6 – 9

Fri 7 Jan – Squad only 6 – 9

Sat 8 Jan – Baby Gym and Squad as normal

Tues 11 Jan – return to normal training

 

 

News Update 16th November 2010

Click for the scores from the Regional Teams Competition 2010

 

News Update 16th November 2010

New photos have been added at last! So go to the Pics page (2010 folder) and take a look...

 

News Update 14th November 2010

Brilliant news ..... In the West Midlands Regional Teams Competition today:

 

Level 5 - Flames Gold!

Level 4 - Flames Gold!!

Level 2 - Flames Bronze!!

FIG - Flames Silver and Bronze!!!

 

Well done Flames gymnasts and coaches.

 

Pictures and score sheet to follow as soon as they are available.

 

 

 

News Update 13th November 2010

 

Good luck to our gymnasts representing Flames this weekend in the Regional Teams Championships (Sunday, North Solihull Sports Centre).

 

 

News Update 7th November 2010

Well done Megan!  Congratulations to Megan Parker who came 7th in today's Level 4 National Finals.  Megan was part of the Gold medal winning West Midlands team who leapt and swung to victory at the competition in Guildford today.  Yesterday the West Midlands Level 4 team, with Ria Smith reserve for the team and ready to compete if needed, won the bronze medal.  A fantastic weekend for the West Midlands and for Megan in particular.  Scores can be found on the gymdata website and will be published here soon.

 

 

News Update 24th October 2010

 

Congratulations - to our level 5 gymnasts who competed in the Regional level 5 competition yesterday.  We had another successful day, and the scores can be found either on the results page or through this link here.

 

Highlights of the day include: Christine Tse, overall silver medal in the in-age championship. Christine was in first place on beam and floor, but had an unfortunate fall on the bars landing which cost her the overall gold medal .... just wait till next time!  Mackenzie Watkins achieved overall 7th place with 5th place on beam; Jess Clarke was in 8th place with 3rd place on bars and 6th on vault.  Saffron Ollerenshaw came 19th overall with 8th place on vault and bars, and Tessa Stirling 20th overall with 11th place on floor.  Good work girls!

 

In the out of age competition, Maisie Wolstencroft came 13th overall, with 4th on vault and 9th on floor.  Hannah Miller came 35th and Maisie Benbow 41st.

 

Photos to follow as soon as I can get my trusty assistant to sit at his computer and load them all up!

 

We now get ready for the Regional Teams Competition on November 14th, and squad parents and gymnasts please all note we are hosting this competition, so please be prepared to lend a hand with the running of the competition and with raffle prizes.  We will not need to prepare food as this is organised through the centre.

 

 

News Update 14th October 2010

 

Fees are due again! all gymnasts please print this slip (club fees click here) and bring together with your £39 fees to your next session.  Thank you.

 

Flames Photo Shoot - DE Photos are returning to Flames on Saturday 27th November - this follows a very successful visit in 2009, when lots of parents and gymnasts had studio shots taken for Christmas presents etc.  This isn't just limited to pictures of gymnasts, brothers / sisters / parents etc can come along too for that photo you have always wanted but couldn't afford the £300 studio charges!  All Flames gymnasts, families and friends are welcome, and don't forget all the photos you buy help towards our fundraising, so that's another really good idea for doing it!

 

Congratulations - to the gymnasts who competed in the Regional Individual Apparatus Championship and the West Midlands Regional Championships.

 

We were delighted as always with fantastic results, and we are especially proud of Khal Plummer who won the Regional FIG Junior trophy.  The results for all of these recent competitions can be found on the results page, and you can get there from these links too! Photographs will be added to the photo page soon (sorry for the delay).

 

Alpha Factor 2010 scores

 

Regional Individual Apparatus Championships 2010 scores

 

Regional Championships 2010 scores

 

Don't for get that all gymnasts, coaches and judges must be members of British Gymnastics - and membership is now due -  Please complete the membership form (see link from the news update 30th August below) and bring to the gym together with the relevant payment - thank you!

 

Good luck - to our Level 5 gymnasts competing on the 23rd October at North Solihull Sports Centre.  Please can all gymnasts pay their £13 entry fee as soon as possible.

 

Regional Teams Championships - Sunday 14th November, North Solihull Sports Centre.  The teams for this competition are -

 

Level 5 (6 gymnasts in the team, any 5 of the 6 compete each apparatus, top 4 scores for each apparatus count towards team total)
 

1	MAISIE WOLSTENCROFT
2	CHRISTINE TSE
3	JESSICA CLARKE
4	SAFFRON OLLERENSHAW
5	MACKENZIE WATKINS
6	TESSA STIRLING

Level 4 (6 gymnasts in the team, any 5 of the 6 compete each apparatus, top 4 scores for each apparatus count towards team total)

 

1	HANNAH LEESON
2	MEGAN PARKER
3	ELISE CHANG
4	ANNA BATES
5	KATE BISHOP
6	MEGAN HUGHES
Res	MORGAN WATKINS
Res	AMY POTTER

 

 

Level 2 (5 gymnasts in the team, any 4 of the 5 compete each apparatus, top 3 scores for each apparatus count towards team total)

 

1	RIA SMITH
2	EDEN WATHEN-EDWARDS
3	DANNI HARDWICK
4	TORI PYBUS
5	ELLIE PARKER

 

 

FIG (5 gymnasts in the team, any 4 of the 5 compete each apparatus, top 3 scores for each apparatus count towards team total)

 

1	FI CHANG
2	KHALYSAH PLUMMER
3	SOPHIE WARD
4	LORI WALKER
5	LARA WILLIAMSON

 

 

1	EMMA ELTON
2	LAUREN WESTON
3	AMBER MOORE
4	JESSICA WEVILL

 

 

News Update 12th September 2010

Congratulations to all our gymnasts who competed this weekend  - to Fi, Eden, Megan and Christine who we hear had a great Alpha Factor competition (please can one of the competitors send a score sheet so that we can add it to the results page), and to the remainder of the squad who competed in the Regional Team Apparatus Competition.

 

Especially well done to one of the FIG teams who won silver, and to the Level 4 and 2 teams who both won bronze.  Photos and scores to be added as soon as they are available.

 

A fantastic start to the season, and a great preparation for the Regional Championships at the beginning of October.

 

Dont for get that all gymnasts, coaches and judges must be members of British Gymnastics - and membership is now due.  Please complete the membership form (see link from the news update 30th August below) and bring to the gym together with the relevant payment - thank you!

 

 

News Update 30th August 2010

 

British Gymnastics membership is now due for all gymnasts, please complete this membership form link (click link) and bring to the gym together with the relevant payment - thank you!

 

Practice competition for all gymnasts competing in the Regional Individual Apparatus Championships (12th September) will take place on the morning of Saturday 6th September).  Please could judges make themselves available to help with this practive event.  Parents are welcome to spectate. Gymnasts in this event are:

Mckenzie, Saffron, Tessa, Maisie W, Morgan, Anna, Kate, Amy, Jess C, Hannah L, Megan H, Elise, Ria, Ellie, Tori, Danni, Lauren, Khal, Lara, Lori, Whizz, Amber, Emma and Jess W.

 

Good luck to the gymnasts competing in the Alpha Factor competition on the 11th August: Fi, Eden, Megan and Christine.

 

 

News Update 4th August 2010

 

Flames welcome gymnasts and coaches from Diamonds gymnastics club in Halifax, West Yorkshire who are visiting us this weekend! Here is the plan for the weekend:

 

Friday: arrive at Munrow for normal training 6-9.

Saturday:

-Training 11-1

-Lunch 1-2 at the gym

-Training 2-4 (note early finish time!)

-Dinner at Frankie and Benny’s (Broadway plaza) 5-7pm. Please bring £15 to cover cost of the meal and drinks

-Bowling 7.30-8.30pm at Bowlplex (Broadway plaza)

Sunday:

-Meet at Cadbury World at 9.15 to make our time slot at 9.30

-12-12.30 return to Munrow for lunch

-Training 2-5

 

News Update 2nd August 2010

 

This week we welcome gymnasts and coaches from Diamonds Gymnastics Club, Halifax, Yorkshire to train with us.  Flames gymnasts trained at Diamonds Club earlier this year, and really enjoyed the chance to make new friends and visit another club (not to mention learning new gym skills), and we are now returning the opportunity. Please can gymnasts return the form confirming which activities they want to take part in (and pay deposits etc) .... a trip to Cadburys and a meal at Frankie and Benny's is on offer, so please be great hosts and get involved.  Finally, make sure you are bringing some lunch to share on Saturday (see the notice board) and remember there is training on Sunday again (2-5) before Diamonds head off back to Yorkshire.

 

Thank you for the fantastic £60 donation by parents and coaches to Cancer Research UK in memory of Alison's Mum, Brenda.

 

News Update 18th July 2010

 

Message from Alison: A big thank you to everyone for all your kind words and support over the last two weeks, and for the beautiful flowers you all gave me on Saturday.  I hope that I will be back on track fairly soon - as many of you will be aware, 'business as usual' is very important to me.  Thank you again!

 

News Update 11th July 2010

 

Congratulations - to all the Flames gymnasts who competed in the Metropolitan County Championships today.  The club managed to take Gold in all levels we entered, and even had silver and bronze medals to add to our tally too!  Take a look at the scores by clicking here

 

The photos will be posted soon (as soon as there is neither football nor cricket  on the TV to compete with!).  In the meantime, here are the highlights of our success today:

 

L5 In Age - Christine Tse 1st; Mckenzie Watkins 2nd; Jess Clarke 4th; Saffron Ollerenshaw 5th

 

L4 In Age - Megan Parker 1st

 

L4 Open Age - Kate Bishop 1st; Amy Potter 3rd; Anna Bates 4th; Elise Chang 6th

 

L3 In Age - Eden Wathen-Edwards 1st; Ria Smith 2nd

 

L2 In Age - Ellie Parker 1st

 

L2 Open Age - Danni Hardwick 1st; Tori Pybus 2nd

 

FIG Regional Squad - Lara Williamson 1st; Lori Walker 2nd; Khal Plummer 3rd; Lauren Weston 4th; Fi Chang 5th

 

FIG Open Age - Sophie Ward 1st; Jess Wevill 2nd

 

News Update 20th June 2010

 

Congratulations - to Dr. Claire Charley who has announced her engagement to Tom.  Claire lives in London and doesn't get too many opportunities to get to the gym these days but she is still very much a 'Flames gymnast'!. 

 

 

News Update 20th June 2010

Firstly an apology for the delay in updating the Flames website news page.  It's not that we didn't have any news to share, it's more that it's been a very busy time in and out of the gym, leaving just enough time between training sessions to eat and sleep and nothing else...... anyway, we are back on track, and here is this weekend's update:

 

Congratulations - to Maddie Kerr who won the mega-ted raffle prize in our recent raffle.  The raffle was open to Baby Gym and Recreational gymnasts and raised £46.  Thank you everyone who bought tickets and to the generous parents who donated the teddy and added the chocolates and the glorious packaging.  Our next raffle will be at the County Championships on the 11th July.

 

Congratulations - also go to Joeli Smith who has been offered a place in the County Squad following the trial on the 13th June.  Almost all of our squad girls are in county, regional or national squads.... a pretty good achievement for a small club relying on the commitment of a volunteer coaching force!

 

 

Practice Competition- we will hold a practice competition next Saturday morning (26th June) for all gymnasts due to compete in the county championships on the 11th July.  Parents are welcome to come along and cheer the gymnasts along (and help with the organisation if you wish!).

 

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News Update 7th June 2010

Message from Sue James, Competition Organiser for British Gymnastics:

 
A rather belated thank you again, on behalf of the WTC, for all your help at the Compulsory Grades Competition.  Once again Birmingham Flames did a wonderful job throughout the day and we really do appreciate all your club does for us.  Please pass this on to all who came.  I do hope that you will be able to help us again in 2011 and I will of course be in touch with you early in the year.
 

Well done Fi - despite carrying the remains of a couple of injuries, Fi had a good competition, and had good scores on beam and floor.  Fi managed to pick up another injury on floor which meant she withdrew from the competition after competing 4 of the required 5 pieces.  Needless to say this had an effect on her final position, but Fi still managed to score 36.050.  Well done! 

 

Don't forget - County trials 13th June and County Competition 11th July!

 

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News Update 3rd June 2010

Good Luck Fi for the British Championships this weekend.  We can't all go and watch, but you can be sure we will be thinking of you and cheering you on from the Munrow Centre.  Go Fi!

 

Message from Philippa Morgan - Please can we confirm who is waiting for regional leotards / tracksuits that have been paid for.  Also, we need to return leotards and tracksuits that were hired for the national finals (please bring these back to the gym and Alison will take to regional training next week).  I have so far only had two leotards returned (Whizz was one, who was the other???)

 

Message from Joanne Hemming - Just a couple of reminders re Metropolitan County:- 

v 13 June – Retrial for this year (gymnasts 03 birthday or any exceptionally good other ages!), criteria as for trial earlier this year

v County Competition – Sunday 11 July at Munrow

                  Level 5: 8yr & 7yr

Level 4: 9yr.  10+

Level 3: 10yr.  11+

Level 2: 11yr.   12+

FIG: Open Age.  ‘Regional’ squad

 

We need to nominate a judge - is anyone willing / able?

v County squad training dates for 2010: 13/6, 11/7 comp, 29/8, 19/9, 31/10, 12/12 trial 2011!

v ALL gymnasts will need to retrial in December in order to retain their place in the County Squad for 2011 . . . . a new criteria will be sent out shortly.

v “John Reeves” Inter County competition 2010 – 28^th November; teams to be selected after considering competition results and attendance at training sessions.

 

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News Update 29th May 2010

New photos have been uploaded of the Compulsory Finals 2010 and National Grade Finals 2010 can be seen by going to the Lots of Pics page.

 

News Update 16th May 2010

 

Thank you to all the parents and gymnasts who helped in the hosting of the National Compulsory Grade 4 Championships this weekend.  As always Flames have been recognised as being excellent hosts and we have been asked to host again in 2011 (as long as the competition is still held in Birmingham).

 

The raffle raised a fantastic £340 (combined leotard voucher and main raffle funds), with the hamper won by our own Saturday morning coach Dave Walker - Dave is Dad to Abi who was a successful squad gymnast with Flames for many years and now coaches a group with Amber on Wednesday evening.  Thank you to everyone who donated prizes especially The Zone, A Star Leotards, Yvonne Chang and the shop where Clare Pybus works!

 

Congratulations to Eden and Megan, our very own Flames gymnasts who competed this weekend.  The Compulsory 3 team (with Eden as reserve and competing as an individual in her own right) won the bronze medal.  Eden was placed a fantastic 8th in the Range and Conditioning competition, and came 24th overall, proving that hard work and dedication really does pay off in the world of gymnastics.

 

The Compulsory 4 team came in 6th place, and we are proud to announce that Megan was 4^th on bars and 8^th in Range and Conditioning and 18th overall. Well done Megan, this is an excellent results for your first national finals. 

 

 

News Update 2nd May 2010

 

Thank you to everyone who supported our quick fundraising effort and bought tickets for the draw for two VIP tickets for today's European individual apparatus finals.  The tickets were donated to the Club by Elite International, suppliers of Flames leotards, tracksuits and Flames on Fire T-shirts.  The VIP tickets were won by the Butt family whose two boys Samuel and Freddie attend our Saturday morning 'Baby Gym'.  I hope you enjoy the competition.

 

Yesterday 30 gymnasts and parents from Flames Club watched the Team Finals of the Europeans at the NIA.  What a brilliant competition it was, with the British Team led by Beth Tweddle, and strongly supported by her team mates - including our own coach Ricky's niece Jocelyn Hunt - winning the SILVER MEDALS.  British Gymnastics has waited years for this success, so well done to the British team from everyone at Flames.

 

Good luck to the Fi Chang who competes in her the Espoir British Championships very soon and to Megan Parker and Eden Wathen-Edwards who will be competing in the National Finals for the Compulsory Grades in two weeks time.

 

Don't forget we will be hosting the Saturday competition for the Grades competition, so please be ready to help out to make sure Flames keeps up its excellent reputation as one of the best hosts around!

 

News Update 25th April 2010

Congratulations to Flames gymnasts who represented the West Midlands in the National Club Grades Championships at Cocks Moors Woods Leisure Centre here in Birmingham.  The following Flames gymnasts competed:  Ellie Parker, Chanel Kang (reserve), Ria Smith, Kate Bishop, Lara Williamson, Serena Chang and Whizzy Ward (reserve).  Lauren Weston withdrew from the team when she injured herself a few weeks ago, and is now working hard to get her arm strong and mobile enough to get back to full training on it.

 

The scores from the competition will be posted here as soon as British Gymnastics make them available, but if you cant wait for that, then the scores can be found at www.gymdata.co.uk

 

The results were:

 

Grade 8, the West Midlands team came 12th, a disappointing result however the Flames gymnasts did really with with Ria Smith from Flames who came 15th in this really tough competition, and  Kate Bishop in 45th place.

 

Grade 7, the team came in 9th, with Flames gymnast in 42nd place.

 

Grade 6, there were no Flames gymnasts participating, and the West Midlands team came in a disappointing 13th place.

 

Grade 5, the team came a fantastic 3rd, with Toni Saunders from Tamworth taking the National title - well done Toni from everyone at Flames!  Lara Williamson came in the top 20 with 17th place despite disappointingly falling from bars and beam, and Serena Chang 22nd (Serena also unfortunately had a few falls which cost her dearly).  Nationally it would seem there are very few gymnasts managing the grade at all, and I was delighted to see that we had 3 gymnasts (including the reserve) from Flames all in the team.  Well done girls.

 

What next?

 

We look forward to the Compulsory Grades finals on the 15th and 16th May, and as usual we not only have gymnasts from Flames representing the Region (Eden Wathen-Edwards and Megan Parker) but Flames are hosting the Saturday competition.  Alison will be bringing information in to the gym about the hosting arrangements this week, parents please note we will need to help set up Friday evening as well as host Saturday and run a raffle - so many jobs to do, so hopefully we wont have to rely on a few but share the load across many!

 

Also, we have tickets for the European Championships finals on Saturday 1st May - there are still a few left if any gymnasts still wish to buy; and a raffle for two tickets in the VIP area for the apparatus finals on Sunday 2nd May (just £1 per raffle ticket). Have a go, it will be a fantastic competition to watch and will help raise funds for Flames.

 

 

News Update 18th April 2010

Congratulations to Flames gymnasts who competed in this weekend's Regional Grades championships.  Flames gymnasts were fantastic.  The scores can be seen from this link -comp score sheet-, and the photos of our medal winners will be added to the photo page soon.

 

The results from the English Championships and the Grades weekend in March are also on the Comp results page so take a quick click over to the results page to find out more.

 

National finals next weekend, and then a trip to watch the Europeans before we knuckle down to prepare for the British Championships (Fi) and the County Championships (all squad gymnasts!)

 

 

News Update 2nd April 2010

See the pics of the new floor being laid! Go to the pics page and look under 2010!!!  I know all of our gymnasts and coaches (and most of the parents) cant wait for the chance to start using the new floor this evening - we have waited far too long for this.  We will celebrate in true style by training really hard and doing all kinds of clever tumbles and leaps.

 

News Update 30th March 2010

Really very very BIG sorry to anyone who had a wasted journey to Flames this evening.  Unfortunately it was not possible to take up the floor, put up scaffolding to mend the lights and replace the floor in time for our session, leaving only the bar area fit for use this evening.  I didn't know this until about 3.30 p.m. this afternoon, and everyone who I had a text contact number for was sent a message - I am sorry if you are one of the people who I don't have a number stored in my phone for. 

 

This Friday (2nd April), gym starts at 5pm (finishing at 6.30 for recreational gymnasts and 8pm for squad gymnasts) as the centre is closing early.  Normal training times are then resumed, with Baby Gym as normal on Easter Saturday and squad training Sat and Sun as planned.

 

Squad training will finish at 8.30 / 8.45 on Tuesday and Wednesday (6th and 7th April) as the centre needs to be vacated before 9pm.

 

I hope these changes don't cause too many difficulties, and I wish everyone a relaxing and enjoyable Easter holiday.

 

 

 

News Update 21st March 2010

New pictures added to the Pics page of the girls at the Grades Comp on 13/14th March.

 

 

News Update 17th March 2010

Here are the scores from this weekend's competition - I will upload the photos this week too.  Sorry for the delay.  Well done again to all our Flames gymnasts, what a fantastic weekend! Click here for the scores

 

 

News Update 15th March 2010

Congratulations to Flames gymnasts who competed in Sunday's Regional  Grades championships.  The results and photos will be added to this site soon, but in the meantime a big fat congratulations goes to all of our Flames gymnasts as they all passed their grades and brought in even more medals (see the update of 13th March for Saturday results) so well done to:

 

Regional 9 - Tori Pybus (GOLD); Freya Phillips (Silver)

 

 

News Update 13th March 2010

Congratulations to Flames gymnasts who competed in today's Regional Compulsory and National Grades championships.  As always, our gymnasts did us proud.  The scores will be posted as soon as they are available, and photos will be added too - if you have any photos you want adding to the website send them to the Club by email and we will add them.

 

Although I don't have any scores to publish, from memory I think we have the following finalists, and we are congratulating almost all of our gymnasts for passing their grades today:

 

Compulsory 4 - Megan Parker (silver) and a place in the Regional Team for National Finals

Compulsory 3 - Eden Wathen-Edwards, 5th place and reserve for the Regional Team that goes to National Finals

 

National Grade 5 - Lara Williamson (bronze); Lauren Weston 4th; Serena Chang 5th; Sophie (Whizzy) Ward 6th place All these gymnasts are part of the team for the Regional Team that goes to National Finals

National Grade 7 - Ellie Parker (bronze) and in the Regional Team for the National Finals

National Grade 8 - Ria Smith (GOLD); Kate Bishop (bronze) and both in the team for the National Finals

Regional Challenge - Khalysah Plummer (GOLD), Lori Walker (bronze) (no national finals for this competition)

 

 

Hopefully more excellent results to announce tomorrow.

 

 

News Update 19th February 2010

Congratulations to Donna (Wed eve coach) and Julian Harris on the birth of Oscar yesterday.  Oscar weighed a healthy 8lbs 2oz.  We look forward to seeing Oscar at Baby Gym in a few years time!

 

New floor area - the new floor has been ORDERED!!!!  Fantastic news after so many year's of campaigning and fundraising.  The floor area has been fully funded by the University, so our fundraised money will be used by the club to buy other important things for the club including kit and coach development.  Thank you for your patience, and we all now wait for the new floor to be delivered and installed.

 

News Update 31st January 2010

 

Sorry for the delay since the last update, its been a busy start to the year with a few days and nights of snow doing its best to interfere with our return to training after a longish holiday over Christmas - but it will have to try harder as we are determined if not foolish and to prove the point, most of the squad girls managed not to miss any training sessions at all even though roads were treacherous and the temperature refused to get above -5 degrees!, 

 

After this strange start the year we soon got our training back into our usual patter, with very full training sessions, and ever growing interest from gymnasts and prospective gymnasts from across the region wanting to join our wonderful Club. 

 

Flames gymnasts start 2010 with new leotards and tracksuits, and very fine we will look too when we go to our first competition of the year and dazzle all the opposition!

 

Congratulations to Gabbie Cook and Caroline Curry who have passed their Level 1 Coaching Qualification this month, and thank you to the gymnasts who helped them during their exams.

Good luck to Amy Clarke as she starts her pre-school coaching course this weekend.

 

Training and Competition Dates to note in Feb and March:

• Sunday 7th Feb, Flames squad training 2 - 5 (Munrow)

• Thurs 11th Feb, Regional squad training 6.30 - 9 (Munrow)

• Sunday 14th Feb, County squad training 2 - 5 (Munrow)

• Saturday 6th March, Senior English Championships (Leicester) (Emily Mole)

• Sunday 7th March, Junior English Championships (Leicester) (Khal Plummer, Lori Walker), also squad training at Munrow 2-5

• Thurs 11th March, Regional squad training 6.30 - 9 (Tamworth)

• Saturday and Sunday 13th & 14th March, Compulsory, Regional and National Grades (all except grades 14-12) (North Solihull Sports Centre, Chelmsley Wood)

• Sunday 21st March, Compulsory Grade 2 Liverpool (Fi Chang) and County Squad training 2-5 (Munrow)

Please send in your entry fees soon!

 

News Update 2nd January 2010

 

More photo's added today - Club Competition. If any parents took photos they would like putting on the clubs website email them via the clubs email address and they will be included.

 

News Update 30th December 2009

 

Training for squad gymnasts this weekend - Saturday 11 - 3 (your last chance to hit the sales instead!), Sunday training CANCELLED!

 

 

The new Squad photo's eventually have made it to the website - technical problems forced a total rebuild of the gallery!! Go to the Pics page...

 

News Update 23rd December 2009

Our last day of training yesterday included the final part of our club competition - the scores can be seen from this link.

 

The annual group display routines gave a hard fought battle which was won by Ricky's group.  Well done to Lori, Emma, Freya, Danni, Megan H, Brogan and Saffron.

 

Dont forget squad training next Tuesday (29th December, 2-4pm)

 

Wishing you all a great Christmas from all the coaches at Flames.

 

 

 

News Update 19th December 2009

 

Well done all the Flames gymnasts who competed in the Club Championships today.

To look at the scores click on the link HERE

 

Remember our Christmas training times: Due to Centre closing / opening hours, Flames training for recreational / Baby Gym gymnasts will be closed from Sunday 20th December and re-open Tuesday January 5th.  Squad gymnasts you will have a Range and Conditioning test before you perform your Christmas displays and exchange presents on Tuesday 22nd December from 3pm - 6pm.

 

Squad gymnasts will also train on Tuesday 29th December 2 - 4pm (to do our best to keep you all fit and in condition to return to training in the New Year (January 5th).

 

Happy Christmas everyone!

 

 

 

News Update 12th December 2009

Congratulations to all the Flames gymnasts who have been awarded places in squads for 2010:

 

National Squad - Eden Wathen-Edwards

Regional Squad - Emily Mole, Khalysah Plummer, Lara Williamson, Lori Walker, Lauren Hudders and Lauren Weston

County Squad - Freya Phillips, Danni Hardwick, Ellie Parker, Brogan Greenwood, Chanel Kang, Kate Bishop, Morgan Watkins, Ria Smith, Mackenzie Watkins, Anna Bates, Amy Potter, Megan Parker, Jessica Clarke and Christine Tse

 

We are especially proud of Eden's success, she is the first Flames gymnast to be given a place in National Squad ... well done Eden, keep up the good work.

 

Good Luck to Kate, Ria and Brogan and the rest of the Metropolitan County teams at the John Reeves Memorial Inter-County competition tomorrow!

 

News Update 16th November 2009

Congratulations to the gymnasts in the Regional Teams competition yesterday.  The final results have not yet been published as they are currently being checked and verified (an error has been reported to the competition organiser which needs resolving before the results are published).  In the meantime, we are especially proud of our Level 4 'Fire' Team who won gold (as far as I know this is not likely to change!) and our FIG 'Fire' Team who won silver.

 

Final results can be found by clicking here; and photos will be published soon.

 

Don't forget to buy your photos from Saturday's photo shoot from the DE Website - please email the club if you haven't received the password, and if you are known to the club you will be emailed the password.  The link to the DE website is: www.dephoto.biz/flames

 

 

News Update 9th November 2009

Congratulations to Ria Smith, Kate Bishop, Brogan Greenwood and Megan Parker who have all been selected to represent the Metropolitan County in the Inter-County Championships (John Reeves Memorial Championships) next month.

 

Remember - DE Photos are at Flames all day on Saturday taking all those important photos. They are happy to take 'studio' shots of family groups, squad groups, and coach / group shots as well as action photos and posed photos in the gym.  The prices are excellent, and the photos make great Christmas presents, so bring a variety of leotards and get your hair done ready for pics, pics and more pics (I'll make sure we get some new ones for the website too).  This opportunity is open to squad, recreational and baby gym members and to their families (and coaches and families too!).

 

News Update 5th November 2009

 

Christmas training and team competition information ......

 

Christmas opening: Due to Centre closing / opening hours, Flames training for recreational / Baby Gym gymnasts will be closed from Sunday 20th December and re-open Tuesday January 5th.  Squad gymnasts, your club competition will take place on the Saturday 19th December. Christmas displays and exchange of presents will take place on Tuesday 22nd December from 3pm - 6pm that evening (we may even fit in some conditioning!!). 

 

Squad gymnasts will also train on Tuesday 29th December 2 - 4pm (to do our best to keep you all fit and in condition to return to training in the New Year (January 5th).

 

Regional Team Competition – 15^th November: Good luck to all our gymnasts competing in the Team Competition:

11.45 arrive          Flames ‘Fire’ Level 4 team (Brogan, Eden, Ria, Kate, Megan P) and Level 2 team (Tori, Danni, Ellie) start

1.45 arrive            Flames ‘Blaze’ Level 4 team (Amy, Megan H, Lauren C, Anna, Morgan, Reserve Azlana) and FIG ‘Fire’ team (Emily, Lori, Khal, Lauren W (start bars)) and FIG ‘Blaze’ team (Lara, Emma, Whizz, Lauren H (start rest))

 

 

News Update 25th October 2009

Flames gymnasts success at Regional Championships - Congratulations to the Flames gymnasts who competed in the Regional Level 5 Championships yesterday.

 

The following results were achieved (photos to be posted soon):

 

Click here for the scores

 

Level 5 In Age - Megan Parker, SILVER MEDAL (score of 50.000)! with highest vault score, 2nd on beam and 3rd on floor.  Also congratulations to Azlana Johnson (score 41.200) and Hannah Miller (score 36.600)

 

Level 5 9 / 10 years - Anna Bates, GOLD MEDAL (score 47.650) with highest bar score and 2nd place on vault and beam.

 

Level 5 11 /12 years - Charlotte Willetts, 5th place with 2nd highest score on floor

 

We now look forward to the National Finals for Emily and Ellie in Guildford, the Regional Team competition and the National Challenge Cup in November.

 

 

News Update 18th October 2009

New lights!!! How fantastic that after months of waiting we now have new lights in Slater Hall and gymnasts can finally see the vault from the end of the run up, and one end of the beam from the other.  Thank you to all the gymnasts, coaches and parents who helped to get the gym back to a usable state again, and especially Daniel for his fantastic work with a broom and Lauren W and Torz who went round with 'Henry' to make sure the gym was clean and ready to train in.  Here's the proof for Karen and Claire that they really do know how to used a vacuum cleaner!

 

 

 

 

World Championships at the O2 Arena - Didn't we have a brilliant time when we watched the all-round competition on Friday?  Our British girls did well, but we had no idea what would happen over the weekend.  Flames congratulates Beth Tweddle for her fantastic success in the floor final .... gold medal .... we can all dream ..... but Beth has proved it can be done with sheer determination and some really hard work. 

 

 

News Update 10th October 2009

New judges for Flames - Congratulations to the new judges who passed their exams this weekend.  Our new club judges are:  Danni Parker (re-qualified from previous cycle); Sarah Furley (re-qualified); Carol Waldron; Sally Clarke; Rachel Johnson (re-qualified); Nila Benfield (re-qualified) and Tamsin Perry.

 

Level 5 competition- Good luck to Flames gymnasts competing in the Level 5 competition in two weeks time, you just have a few more training sessions to get everything right!  For many gymnasts this is their first 'proper' competition, so we wish you the very best of luck.

 

World Championships at the O2 Arena - Some Flames coaches, gymnasts and parents are off to watch the All-around final of the World Gymnastics Championships next weekend (Friday).  There may be a couple of tickets spare if any gymnast now wishes they had booked a ticket .... let Al know if you want to go.  The tickets are £45.25 and the coach fare £21.00.

 

Fees are due - Your fees (£39.00) and British Gymnastics / insurance is now due, please make sure you bring your fees in to your next training session.

 

 

News Update 4th October 2009

Flames gymnasts success at Regional Championships - Congratulations to all Flames gymnasts who competed in the Regional Championships and Age Group Competition this weekend.

The following results were achieved (photos to be posted soon):

 

Click here for the scores

FIG Senior -

Emily Mole, BRONZE overall, with GOLD on Beam (plus 2nd place on bars)

 

FIG Junior -

Khal Plummer, BRONZE overall with 2nd place on vault, 3rd on bars and 2nd on floor (brilliant to see Khal compete her double back somi for the first time, and landed brilliantly!!!)

Lori Walker, 4th place overall

 

FIG Espoir -

Lauren Weston, 4th place with GOLD on vault

Lara Williamson, 5th place with 3rd on bars

Lauren Hudders, 6th place, with 2nd on bars

Whizz (Sophie) Ward, 8th place

Emma Elton, 9th place

 

In Age Level 3 -

Emily Bagnall, BRONZE overall, with 3rd place on vault, and 3rd on beam

Ellie Parker, 4th overall

 

Emily and Ellie will now represent the West Midlands in the National Finals in Guildford next month.

 

In Age Level 4 -

Eden Wathen-Edwards, 6th with 1st place on bars and 3rd on floor

Ria Smith, 9th place, with 2nd on floor

Kate Bishop, 12th place

Amy Potter, 20th place

Megan Hughes, 22nd place

Morgan Watkins, 23rd place

Lauren Creegan, 25th place

 

Level 4 Age 10/11yrs

Brogan Greenwood, 11th place

 

Level 2 Age 12/13yrs

Tori Pybus, 10th place

 

Level 2 14+

Danni Hardwick, 5th place, with 3rd on vault and 1st on floor

 

 

The next competition is the Level 5 (in and out of age gymnasts) on Saturday 24th October at North Solihull Sports Centre - good luck Flames gymnasts!

For scores from the Regional Individual Apparatus Competition click here

 

 

 

News Update 27th September 2009

Here are the times for next weekend's Regional Championships:

 

Sat 3^rd Oct

8.30am for 8.45 registration - Morgan, Eden, Megan H, Ria, Kate, Lauren C, Anna, Amy, Molly
(finish approx 12 midday)

10.45 for 11.00 registration - Emily B, Ellie finish approx 2.30 pm)

1.30 for 1.45 registration - Emma, Lauren H, Whizz, Lauren W, Lara, Emily M, Caroline, Lori, Khal (finish approx 5pm)

Sun 4^th Oct

8.30 for 8.45 registration               round 1

11.00 for 11.15 registration - Brogan, Tori, Danni (finish approx 3pm)

 

There will be no squad training on Saturday – please can helpers attend Baby Gym as usual!!!

 

 

Saturday 14th November - DE Photos are coming to Flames - DE Photos, the region's approved photographers have been booked to come and spend a day taking studio and action shots at Flames. This is an ideal opportunity to get those really unusual Christmas presents for friends and family!!  Get that photo you always wanted!!!  DE Photos will take photos of individual gymnasts, groups, and even gymnasts with their brother / sister etc.  Bring along a variety of leotards and get photos in all your best kit. Make the most of this exciting opportunity whilst raising valuable club funds. More details to follow soon .......

 

 

 

News Update 20th September 2009

Congratulations to Flames teams - Today at the Regional Individual Apparatus Competition, the Flames teams showed that they have lost none of their grip on the medal places over the Summer holidays.

 

The following results were achieved (scores and photos to be posted soon):

 

FIG A team (Khal; Lauren H; Lori; Emily M): silver medal winners

FIG B team (Lauren W; Lara; Whizz; Caroline): 4th place

Level 2 team (Tori; Ellie; Emily B; Danni): silver medal winners

Level 4 A team (Amy; Eden; Ria; Kate B): silver medal winners

Level 4 B team (Anna; Lauren C; Megan H; Brogan): bronze medal winners

 

Our next competition is the Regional Championships at the GMAC on 2nd and 3rd October - good luck gymnasts!

 

 

British Gymnastics membership - is due again .... please can all gymnasts ensure this is paid as soon as possible.  Membership forms will be given to all gymnasts over the next few days, however, if you wish to receive a copy electronically, please email the club from this website for your form.

 

News Update 4th September 2009

 

Message to all full competition squad gymnasts!

Gymnastics World Championships 2009 – 16th October - Women’s All Round Final

As many of you will remember, last year I asked who would like me to book tickets for them to watch the world championships due to take place at the O2 Arena on Friday 16^th October (starting at 6.30 p.m.). My records show that I initially had requests for Ria x3; Jo x1; Laura x1; Alison x1; Rachel J x2. 

 

At the time I ordered 20 tickets, based on the people who had asked and the likelihood of being asked by others as we got nearer to the time!  I therefore have 12 tickets still available.

 

More recently I have had additional requests from Carol / Danni x2; Wai Yee x5; Jo x4; Jane x2. 

 

These tickets are only available for gymnasts and families of the full competition squad (sorry for excluding others but I have had to draw a line somewhere!). However, before I allocate tickets to people who have more recently requested, I want to be as fair as I can to everyone in the squad and therefore believe I should offer the remaining tickets out again and when I have everyone’s requests, I will try to share the tickets out to as many gymnasts as possible – if needs must, then I will draw names / tickets out of a hat. 

 

The tickets cost £40.50 each plus the booking charge of £4.75 (Total £45.25).  I also plan to book a coach if that is convenient for everyone – again if this is how everyone wishes to travel, there will be an additional inevitable charge for the coach fare. I will allocate tickets to as many gymnasts as possible (and then release remaining tickets to family members).

 

There are tickets still available for families to buy from the World Gymnastics Championships website (or via the BG website) for those who are not successful in getting tickets / enough tickets through the club, although having checked today, there are no ‘gold’ tickets remaining for the Friday event.  I would be more than happy to hire a coach big enough for all of us to travel and include anyone who has purchased their own tickets – I just need to know as I will be booking the coach in the next week or so.

 

Please let me know ASAP whether you wish to apply for the remaining tickets (please write it on a piece of paper!), and if you are willing for your daughter/s to travel without a parent – this may make allocation easier!

 

Please note this will be a late night, and is likely to involve gymnasts taking (at least) the afternoon off school to attend –you will therefore need school’s permission for this!!!

 

 

News Update 1st September 2009

 

Training and Competition update - just a quick reminder to everyone that there will be a practice competition for the Team Apparatus / Levels on Saturday 5th Sept, and we will then advise gymnasts of who is competing on which apparatus in the comp on 20th Sept (at North Solihull Sports Centre).  All our teams have been accepted into the competition so we will have two FIG teams, one Level 2 team and two Level 4 teams competing.

 

The Regional Championships / Levels comp (not including level 5) will take place at the GMAC on Saturday / Sunday 3rd & 4th October.

 

The next County Squad training is on Sunday 13th September.

 

News Update 30th August 2009

 

Congratulations to Yvette Baker - Yvette is a synchronised swimmer who has been training with Flames GC for the last year or so to improve her flexibility.  Many squad girls will have seen how hard Yvette worked to improve her splits so that she could improve her marks in competition.  We are delighted to tell everyone that Yvette's hard work has paid off and she has now been offered a place in the GB squad and has moved to Aldershot to train in the High Performance Centre.  Well done Yvette!

 

Happy Birthday to Ricky (21 again today!)

 

 

News Update 23rd August 2009

 

Thank You - from Al for all the lovely birthday presents, they are all being put to very good use (especially the chocolates!). 

 

Happy Birthday to Ricky next weekend - another '0' birthday .... I bet you will be too busy partying to attend County training!

 

 

News Update 16th August 2009

 

Congratulations to Nila Benfield on passing her Level Senior Coach Award (Level 4).  Nila joined us about a year ago for mentoring through her skills development and exam and liked the club so much she decided to stay!!!  We're really pleased you did Nila.  Happy  Birthday for today as well Nila, enjoy your day.

 

Competition News: Our entries have gone in for the first competition for the Autumn season.  The first competition is the Team Apparatus competition, in which 4 gymnasts compete just one piece of apparatus for a single team score.  We have entered teams in FIG, Level 2 and Level 4. The competition is on 20th September at North Solihull Sports Centre. Good luck to the following girls:

Emily Mole; Khal Plummer; Lori Walker; Lara Williamson; Whizzy Ward; Lauren Hudders; Lauren Weston; Caroline Curry; Emma Elton; Eden Wathen-Edwards; Ria Smith; Lauren Creegan; Kate Bishop; Megan Hughes; Amy Potter; Anna Bates; Megan Parker; Kate Kelly; Danni Hardwick; Tori Pybus; Emily Bagnall; Ellie Parker

 

Club Competition Clothing - please can all squad gymnasts check that they have all the correct clothing for competitions. New stock can be ordered, but there needs to be a few weeks to allow for the order to arrive.  Order early please!

 

Coach Development - you will have noticed that we have some new coaches working with our squad gymnasts.  We welcome Rob, Claire and Megan from Revolution GC who are being mentored through their coaching course / exam by Jo, Nila, Amy and Sarah.  As you will all realise, learning how to handle some of the tricky gymnastics skills takes lots of practice for coaches, so a big thank you to our gymnasts who have to do lots of repetition of skills (no bad thing though!) to help the coaches to get it exactly right.

 

News Update 26th July 2009

 

Regional Awards:  Lots of people from Flames have recently been formally recognised by the West Midlands Gymnastics Association for their contribution to the sport of gymnastics.  Our congratulations go to everyone for the following awards:

 

    Young Coach of the Year -     Amy Clarke

 

    Merit Gymnast -                     Emily Mole

 

    Merit Coach -                         Ruth Clarke; Amy Clarke; Jane Curry; Laura Hindley

 

    Long Service Coach -             Sarah Furlow; Jo Miller; Sally Perry; Dave Walker;

                                                   Donna Harris (Witherford)

 

Judge News: Our congratulations also go to Jane Curry and Alison Last who have recently passed their Regional Judge award.  Jane did especially well, achieving the second highest score with over 90%.  The course was the first Regional Judge course and exam to be run across the country following the publication of a new code of points at the beginning of this year.  The code is always updated following every Olympic Games, with the value of moves changing, some moves being removed from the code and new moves added.

 

We now have a few people planning to complete the Club Judge Award.  If you would like to find out more about judging, please ask Al or Jane who will answer any of your questions.

 

Photos: Don't forget to look at the photos from the County Competition, which can be found on the 'lots of pics' page of this website, under the 2009 section.

 

 

 

News Update 13th July 2009

 

Scores spreadsheet now on the Comps page, photo's later today...

 

News Update 12th July 2009

Metropolitan County Competition - well done to all our Flames gymnasts, we had another fantastic day and the scores and photos will be posted on this website later today.  In the meantime, as a taster ....

 

Regional FIG 1st Lara Williamson; 2nd Lori Walker; 3rd Khalysah Plummer; with highest vault score by Khal for her straight Tsukahara, highest bar score Lauren Hudders for her new routine with full turning giant and double pike back dismount, highest beam score Lori Walker and highest floor score Khal.

 

County FIG 1st Emma Elton (as the only gymnast in this group, Emma had the highest score on all pieces!)

 

Level 2 out of age 3rd Tori Pybus with Tori having the highest vault score.

 

Level 3 in age 1st Emily Bagnall. Emily had the highest score on vault, beam and floor - well done Emily!

Level 4 out of age - no medals for Flames but Brogan Greenwood had the highest scores on vault and floor.

 

Level 4 in age 1st Ria Smith; 2nd Eden Wathen-Edwards.  Ria had the highest vault score and Eden the highest bar score.

 

Level 5 in age 3rd Megan Parker with highest vault and floor scores.

 

We also raised £57.90 for the club funds!

 

Thank you to everyone who helped to run the event, your support is always appreciated.

 

 

West Midlands Gymnastics Awards - congratulations to the following people who have recently been given an award by the West Midlands Gymnastics Association:

 

Merit Gymnast - Emily Mole

Merit Coach - Amy Clarke, Ruth Clarke, Jane Curry, Laura Hindley

Young Coach of the Year - Amy Clarke

Long Service Award - Sarah Furlow, Jo Miller, Sally Perry, Dave Walker, Donna Harris (Witherford)

 

 

News Update 5th July 2009

Swine Flu update - Catch it, bin it, kill it!  The University of Birmingham has reminded us of the importance of good 'housekeeping' during the current flu pandemic.  Please make sure you always carry and use tissues, cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when you cough or sneeze, throw away the tissue as soon as possible, wash your hands afterwards, and regularly throughout the day.

 

You will already have seen that alcohol hand gel is available at all washbasins and at the entrance to the Centre, and you are encouraged to continue to wash your hands regularly and not just use hand gel. 

 

If you think you may have flu (you have fever, sudden cough, headache, tiredness, aching muscles, runny nose, sore throat or any other flu symptoms), please stay away from training sessions until you are better (symptom-free).

 

County Competition Sunday 12th July  - good luck to all the Flames gymnasts taking part in this competition, which will take place at the Munrow Sports Centre.

 

News Update 20th June 2009

As promised here is the link to the scores from the National Espoire Challenge competition.  Photographs are on the photo page - take a look, there are some great shots of all of the girls.

 

News Update 7th June 2009

Congratulations to the Flames gymnasts who competed in the National Espoir Challenge Competition in Gloucester today, Lauren Hudders, Lauren Weston, Lara Williamson and Sophie (Whizz) Ward.  The scores for the competitions will be  posted on the BG website soon, and in the meantime are on www.gymdata.co.uk .  As soon as we have some photos, we will post them on the photos page.  Lauren Hudders achieved equal 22nd (with Ellie Fletcher from East Staffs), with Lauren Weston tucked right in behind them both in 24th place. Lara Williamson was next in 33rd and Sophie Ward in 41st.  

 

Our next competition is the Metropolitan County Competition on 12th July, so not much time left for everyone in the Squad to get to prepared!

 

 

 

News Update 4th May 2009

 

So much has happened since the last update its difficult to think where to start ... but always first and foremost is a big thank you from Alison to all the parents, gymnasts and coaches who helped to host that National Compulsory 4 competition on Saturday 2nd May - as always we have wowed British Gymnastics with our style and efficiency, and we even managed to raise over £70 by running a raffle!! Thank you too to the parents who helped set up the gym on Friday evening. Sue James, Competition Organiser has sent this message to the club:

 

Dear Birmingham Flames 

I would just like to thank you all for all the help you gave this weekend. The WTC really appreciates all the voluntary help we receive at these competitions.  We were very grateful for the Friday evening helpers for without them several of us would have been up very late on Friday night!

Your Saturday workers were equally well received as of course without them the competition would not have run so smoothly either. I hope that you all enjoyed yourselves that we can book a date with you next year! 
 
Many, many thanks again. 
Sue

Sue James 
WTC Competition Organiser

 

Congratulations to the Flames gymnasts who competed in the National Finals, Eden Wathen-Edwards and Emily Bagnall.  Click here for Compulsory 4 and 3 National Final Scores, and click here for the National Grades 8 - 5 scores. We are especially pleased to note that Eden's team (Compulsory 4) won the bronze medal, and Eden came an excellent 12th.  Well done girls, we are very proud of you.  The photos from both competitions can be found on the photo page of this website ... enjoy!

 

 

There are also new Baby Gym and Squad photos on the photo page, and knowing there were two girls missing from the Squad photos (Emily and Georgie) we will be taking some more photos in a few weeks time to make sure that all of our squad girls are included.

 

Congratulations to Donna Witherford who married Julian on Saturday 25th April - photos of Donna and some of the Flames coaches are on the photo page.

 

To find all these new photo's go to the Loads of Pics page and open the 2009 folder.

 

 

Get well soon wishes go to Georgie' Phillips who isnt training at the moment because of a sore knee; and also to Danni Hardwick who injured her foot during County Squad training.  We hope you are both back in the gym very soon.

 

We now 'look forward' to the next national final competition - the British Espoire Challenge Cup. Lauren H, Lauren W, Lara and Whizz are all entered, fingers crossed that we have enough time to get ready to compete in Gloucester in a few weeks time.

 

Finally, its nearly time to pay fees again!!! I know the weeks just fly past, but the next 10 weeks term begins on Tuesday 19th May - please pay your fees (£39)promptly. Thank you!

 

 

 

News Update 14th April 2009

Thank you from all the Flames coaches for all the Easter Eggs and gifts this weekend.  Hope you had a fab Easter too!

 

Don't forget gym starts early this Tuesday (14th) and Wednesday (15th) - its a 5pm start.

 

Also don't forget we have a photographer coming to take lots of photos on Saturday 25th April, so make sure you bring in a selection of leotards to be photographed in.

 

Finally, squad girls please remember we are due to host the National Finals on 2nd May and we need lots of willing volunteers to help out at the event (and a few Mum's and Dad's to help set up the gym the evening before).

 

News Update 7th April 2009

 

Here as promised as the results of the Regional Grades Competition. CLICK HERE or go to the Comps and Results page.

 

 

News Update 6th April 2009

 

Congratulations to Flames gymnasts who competed in the Regional Grades 14 and 13 competition this weekend. We were delighted that all of our gymnasts achieved the mark required to move to the next grade.

 

This was the first competition for Thaila Allen-Hadley and Hannah Miller, and they managed to hold their nerve and pass their grade. In Grade 13, Lauren Creegan achieved 7th place on vault and floor, and 12th place overall.   Not bad going with 92 gymnasts from across the region in the competition. Anna Bates also achieved a top ten place coming 9th on vault.

 

Our Grade 13 gymnasts ended up in 12th; 17th; 21st; 22nd and 44th place - well done girls!

 

Final results for the weekend will be posted here very soon! If you cant wait, email the club from this website and a copy will be emailed to you.

 

 

News Update 18 March 2009

 

Photo's from the Regional Compulsory, National and Club Grades competition have now been added to the Flames picture gallery. You can find them in the folder marked 2009. If you have any photos to be added email in and get them added! So click here = Lots of Pics page.

 

 

News Update 15 March 2009

 

Click here for the results from the Regional Compulsory, National and Club Grades competition. Photos will be on the photo page soon!

 

 

 

News Update 15 March 2009

Congratulations to Flames gymnasts who competed in the Compulsory, National and Regional Grades competition this weekend. We were delighted that most of our gymnasts achieved the mark required to move to the next grade. Extra congratulations go to our medal winners and to those who achieved a place in the Regional team for National finals:

 

Khal Plummer - Regional Challenge Gold medal (coach Alison Last)

Lori Walker - Regional Challenge Silver medal (coach Ricky Hunt)

Eden Wathen-Edwards - Compulsory 4 Bronze medal (coach Jo Miller)

Emily Bagnall - National Grade 8 4th place (coach Laura Hindley / Sarah Furley)

Lara Williamson - National Grade 5 Bronze medal (coach Alison Last)

Shay-Anna Hines - Regional Grade 10 Silver medal (coach Amy Clarke)

 

Click here for the results from yesterday (Saturday). Final results to be posted soon!

 

 

 

Flames Photo-shoot ............. 25th April 10 a.m. - 1p.m.

 

Want to buy early for Christmas???? Or maybe you are stuck for an unusual gift idea? We have invited a local professional photographer to Flames to take photographs of gymnasts as part of our fund-raising campaign. We hope you will support this by buying photographs of your gymnasts. The more you buy the more we raise!

 

The photographer will be available at 'Baby Gym' and morning Squad training on Saturday 25th April 2009. This opportunity is also open to recreational gymnast members - just arrive with your leotard and an idea of what photograph you would like taken.

 

We plan to also take a group photograph of all squad gymnasts, so its really important that all squad gymnasts attend. Pease make sure you bring your Flames competition leotard and your Flames on Fire black T-shirt and Red T-shirt and hoodies.

 

Hosting of Compulsory National Finals

 

We have been asked to host the Compulsory National Finals on Saturday 2nd May. I do hope that parents and gymnasts will be available to support Eden at her first national grades final whilst hosting the event. Please let Alison know if you are able to help. Thank you.

 

 

 

News Update 14 March 2009

 

Training times for Easter - due to the change in Munrow Centre opening times during the holiday period our training times will change as follows:

 

Friday 10th April

        Recreational Gym 5 - 6.30; Squad Gym 5 - 8pm

 

Tuesday 14th April

        Recreational Gym 5 - 6.30; Squad Gym 5 - 8pm

 

Wednesday 15th April

        Recreational Gym 5 - 6.30; Squad Gym 5-8pm

 

We apologise for any inconvenience caused by these change in training times.

 

Good Luck!

 

To all of our gymnasts competing in the Compulsory, National and Regional Grades competition today and tomorrow..... fingers are very tightly crossed for a good weekend.

 

 

 

News Update 2 March 2009

 

Competition programme for 14th and 15th March ... click here

 

 

News Update 1 March 2009

 

Good luck Lauren!

We wish Lauren Hudders good luck for her Compulsory 2 grade competition next weekend - our fingers tightly crossed for you that you have a good competition!

 

 

Congratulations Hilly

 

Well done to Hilly Scholes who passed her first coaching exam last week - Hilly spent a lot of time preparing for her exam, and her success is very well earned .... we're proud of you Hilly.

 

Happy 30th Birthday!

 

Happy Birthday to Claire Charley, who had a 'zero' birthday in February. Claire still shows us how gymnastics should be done, even though she now has to fit in her training around being a doctor in Accident and Emergency in London. Looking forward to seeing you soon, Claire!!

Fees are now due

 

Please pay your term fees promptly - payment forms are available from the gym. On payment of fees parents will be provided with an authority card which they should carry with them whilst at the Munrow Centre. Centre staff will be carrying out spot checks to ensure that all those who access the building are either members of the centre or associated with the club.

 

 

Competitions Information

 

The first grades competition using the new grades structure is due to take place on 14th and 15th March. The Compulsory Grades will take place on Sat 14th in the morning, the National Club Grades and the Regional Challenge will be during the afternoon. The Regional Club Grades (11 - 5) will take place on Sunday 15th. These competitions are at the new GMAC centre in Perry Barr.

 

The second grades competition, for younger gymnasts (grades 14 and 13) will take place at Chelmsley Wood in April - more details to follow.

 

Good luck to Lauren in the National Grade 2 competition on 8th March. Hope it all goes to plan - it should after all the work you have done!

 

 

Older news!

 

Regional Squad 2009

Flames gymnasts continue to be amongst the very best in the Region:

Congratulations to the following Flames gymnasts who have been offered a place in Regional Squad for 2009:

 

Emily Mole

Khalysah Plummer

Lara Williamson

Lori Walker

Lauren Hudders

Lauren Weston

Sophie (Whizz) Ward

 

We are really pleased to have girls of all ages in the squad, 11 year olds (the youngest age possible for the squad) through to 16 years (fast approaching 17 and soon to be let loose with a car!) at which time most girls have decided the sport is too tough and walked away. Keep flying the flag for Flames girls, its great to see so  many of you have made it to this important squad.

 

County Squad 2009

 

Following a test session for all County hopefuls, once again Flames gymnasts achieved fantastic results and it's a big 'well done' to the following gymnasts who have been offered  a place in County Squad for 2009:

 

Kate Kelly

Eden Wathen-Edwards

Kate Bishop

Megan Parker

Emily Bagnall

Ellie Parker

Danni Hardwick

Beth Smith

Shay-Anna Hines

Georgie Phillips

Lauren Creegan

Jessica Clarke

 

Dates for county squad training and County Championships:

 

15th Feb; 1st Mar; 3rd May; 31st May; 12th Feb (County Championships); 30 Aug; 20 Sept.

 

Don't forget to order your county leotard soon!

 

 

 

Flames Annual Circuit Challenge and displays

 

The circuit challenge took place yesterday, with all teams working to the max to try and win. The winning team eventually made off with a stash of pre-Christmas chocolate. The Christmas Displays were a delight as always, with a judging panel made up of a parent representative from each squad group. The results required a 'dance off', and the final results put Ricky's group in 1st place. Well done to all our gymnasts!

 

 

Club Competition 2008

 

Results can be found on the Comps Scores page. Here are the headlines!

 

Congratulations to all our medal winners, and thank you to judges and coaches for all your help.

 

Gold medal winners for the Competition were: Emily Mole, Caroline Curry, Lara Williamson, Lauren Weston, Beth Smith, Kate Kelly, Danni Hardwick, Emily Bagnall, Shay-Anna Hines, Eden Wathen-Edwards, Brogan Greenwood and Megan Parker.

 

Club Champions 2008 (i.e. grades and levels scores in 2008 added together) are Emily Mole, Lori Walker, Khal Plummer, Lauren Weston, Beth Smith, Kate Kelly, Danni Hardwick, Emily Bagnall, Shay-Anna Hines, Eden Wathen-Edwards and Brogan Greenwood.

 

 

 

 

Christmas party!!! Friday 5th Dec.

 

Thank you to the team of parents who worked so hard to make the evening a great success. We all had a brilliant time .... we always know how to party well! See 'pics page' for the photos.

 

 

 

 

Sunday 30th November 08 - John Reeves competition, Tamworth.

Click here for a full copy of the results.

Congratulations to the Senior and Junior Metropolitan teams who both won their competitions. Flames gymnasts in the event included Lauren W (who also had the overall highest level 2 score in the competition plus highest vault), Danni and Shay, with Beth, Becky and Emily B all reserves. Photos to follow!

 

Sunday 23rd November 08 - Level 5 competition success. Click here for a full copy of the results. Well done to Eden (Silver medal, in age competition), Ria (bronze medal, in age competition), Lauren C (10th place in age competition) and Brogan (9th place age 9/10 yrs competition). Also see the photo page for medal winners photos.

 

17th November 2008 - Flames gymnasts win in style!

More fantastic results from competitions ...... At the Regional Teams Competition on Sunday 17th November, Flames gymnasts romped home with a bundle of trophies and medals (photos to be put onto the website next weekend - sorry for the delay): Click here for results.

 

• Level 5 team Silver Medal winners (Skye, Eden, Brogan, Lauren C, Ria and Amy)

• Especially well done to Eden who came 1st= on beam and overall, and to Ria who came 1st= on beam with Eden

• Level 4 (10 years and under age) team Bronze Medal winners (Georgie, Svenja, Ellie P, Emily B, Ellie S and Bella)

• Level 3 team - 4th place (Tori, Becky, Shay and Danni)

• Especially well done to Becky who came 2nd on floor

• Level 2 team GOLD MEDAL winners (Kate, Lauren H, Lauren W, Whizz and Beth)

• Especially well done to Kate who came 1st overall and Lauren W who came 2nd overall. Lauren also came 3rd on vault, 3rd on beam and 1st on floor!!- a good days work Lol, well done!

• FIG team GOLD MEDAL winners (Emily M, Caroline, Lori, Khal, Lara and Emma E)

• Especially well done to Khal who came 3rd on vault, 1st on bars and 3rd on floor, and Emily who came 2nd on bars,1st on beam and 1st on floor!!! Excellent work ladies!

 

Congratulations - to Nila Benfield, who received a 'Merit Coach' award at the 2008 West Midlands Regional Awards on Sunday 19th October.

 

Please look at the 'Parents Page' for important and useful information from a recent parents meeting (14th October)

 

 4th & 5th October 08 -

Even more success for Flames gymnasts!

Well done to all the gymnasts who competed in the in-age, out-of-age and FIG competitions. Especially well done to:

• Emily Bagnall (Level 4) for gaining a place in the National Finals for the first time

• Kate Kelly (Level 3) silver medal

• Lauren Hudders silver medal, Lauren Weston bronze medal and Whizz National Final team member (all Level 2)

• Lori Walker bronze medal (Junior FIG)

• Khalysah Plummer silver medal, Lara Williamson bronze medal (Espoire FIG)

• Emily Mole silver medal (Senior FIG)

Also BIG thank you to everyone who helped to host the event on Saturday, the excellent runners and beautiful presentation parties and to parents who looked after the ticket sales, sold leotards, sold raffle tickets, kept the judges fed and watered and did all those other jobs which just kept things going! Our raffle raised £112, and we received a donation of £120 to the club funds for hosting which will all help towards our new floor area. Scores are available from the comps page, and photos of medal winners will be posted in a few days time.

 

 

Well done Flames gymnasts -

Well done everyone who competed at the Regional Team Apparatus on Sunday 14th September. We didn’t have the best of competitions but it was a good enough start to the season. We used the competition to try for some new moves, and had a feel of the competition arena before the Regional Championships! Well done especially to the level 2 team (Lauren, Beth, Whizz and Lauren) and the FIG team (Emily, Khal, Lori and Caroline) for achieving medal places. Also well done to Ria - 3rd on floor;

Svenja - 3rd on bars; Shay - 3rd on beam; Tori - 1st on vault; Becky - 3rd on bars; Lauren W - 1st on vault; Lauren H - 2nd on floor; Emily - 3rd on vault; Khal - 2nd on bars; Lori - 3rd on beam; Caroline - 3rd on floor.

 

Thank you to Lara to keeping all the gymnasts in the right place at the right time and to Helen for making the brilliant cushions for the medal presentations. Helen was asked to give the medals at the end of the first competition - and I think she was more nervous than the gymnasts had been!

 

Now we look forward to the Regional Championships at the new centre in Perry Barr in October ..... but first some more work in the gym!!!

 

To see all the comp scores, click here.

 

British Gymnastics membership   - CLICK HERE FOR MEMBERSHIP FORM

 

 

Category	Amount to pay
Non competitive gymnast	£17.75
13 week temporary membership	£8.95
6 week temporary membership	£5.50
Club Official	£17.75
Competitive gymnast	£27.50
Club Student member (18+ in full time education)	£27.50
Full member for all Club Coaches or above	£72.50
Joint member	£58.50 each

 

******Flames young coaches / gymnasts achieve high honours for success in other aspects of their lives******

 

Flames sends big congratulations Polly Clarke who recently came 3rd in the World Kickboxing Championships in the Czec republic. Polly has been with the club as a gymnast for many years, and is also involved in coaching young gymnasts several times each week. Polly's sister Amy and Mum Ruth are also some of our most involved volunteers, Amy coaches a squad group 16 hours each week and Mum Ruth coaches recreational gymnasts 8 hours each week, manages our waiting list, and is also our Welfare Officer.

 

We also are delighted to tell the world about Flames most clever gymnast in our history! We are proud of the success of Amy Young who is a recreational gymnast and qualified coach with the Club. Amy recently stunned the UK by achieving a fantastic 10 A*'s and 7 A's at GCSE. Amy has now started her A level courses in English, Geography, French and PE. Well done Amy!

 

 

Hi everyone - we have now added a Guest Book to our web site, so people who visit our club website can leave a message for us - we may get some famous gymnasts signing our book! You can find the link to the Guest Book on the 'home page' ... get signing in.....

 

 

County Competition results 5 July 08

 

Congratulations to all Flames Gymnasts, especially to our brilliant medal winners:

Lori Walker 1st (Open FIG)

Khal Plummer 1st(Regional Squad FIG)

Lara Williamson 2nd (Reg Squad FIG) Lauren Hudders 1st(In Age Level 2)

Lauren Weston 2nd(In Age Level 2)

Sophie (Whizz) Ward 3rd (In Age Lev 2) Rebecca Grand 1st(Out of Age Level 3)

Tori Pybus 2nd (Out of Age Level 3)

Shay Hines 1st (Out of Age Level 4)

Skye Sturdy 1st(Level 5)

Megan Parker 2nd(Level 5)

 

Also well done to Emily Mole who achieved a place at the Senior British Championships which took place on June 28th 2008. Only 29 gymnasts achieved a place in this prestigious event this year, so we are very very proud that Emily flew the flag for Flames. Unfortunately an injury sustained in warm up meant that Emily's performance was not as great as she had hoped, but she competed all her pieces and did especially well on floor and vault.

 

Well done Em!!!!

 

 

 

Latest newsletter - click on this link....

 

Important News about 'Baby Gym' sessions

 

Please note that Baby Gym and Squad sessions are CANCELLED on Saturday 19th and 26th July 08(due to Coaching Courses organised by the City of Birmingham Gymnastics Club). We're sorry for any disappointment, but hope you will be back with us from the 2nd August!

 

Squad training will take place at Loughborough University from 11.30 - 1.30 for those two Saturdays.

 

 

Have a look at our new page on this website ... its called 'Fund Raising' ... its all about our fund raising activities, the money we have raised and how we have spent it. Click on the button to the left of this page!

 

 

THANK YOU letter from British Gymnastics - we received a fantastic thank you letter from British Gymnastics for when we hosted the National Finals. You can see a copy of the letter here (click here) or on the Club notice board at the Munrow Sports Centre.

 

 

 

BIG THANK YOU from Alison to everyone ... to all the parents, coaches and gymnasts who helped in the hosting of the Compulsory Grades National Finals at Cocks Moors Woods Leisure Centre on Saturday 3rd May - what a great success!! Included in those thanks are thanks to the coaches who made sure that our usual 'Baby Gym' went ahead as usual - no mean feat!

 

Flames are well known for its hosting, with nothing being too much trouble to do. What a team!!!

 

 

The raffle raised £65 which will go into our fundraising pot.

 

Well done and thank you again.

 

 

 

Well done Flames gymnasts and the West Midlands Teams!

 

 

Well done to Flames gymnasts Khal, Caroline, Emma, Lara, Lauren and Whizz (Sophie) for their excellent performances at the National Finals last weekend. Especially well done to 'top 20' places achieved by Emma (12th) and Lara (16th).

 

The West Midlands did well with the Grades 2 and 1 teams achieving 5th place, the Grade 3 team coming 8th and the Grade 4 team 10th. (see photos on the Pics page - you will find them in the 2008 folder!)

 

Ellie Fletcher from East Staffs was crowned British Champion for Grade 3 - big well done Ellie from everyone at Flames and the West Midlands.

 

 

Latest Club Newsletter (posted 6 April 2008), please click on this link

 

 

 

Congratulations Angharad -who passed her Level 1 Coaching Exam on Sunday 6th April 08. It's great to have yet another qualified coach working here at Flames. Well done Angharad, you have done yourself and the Club proud!

 

 

Congratulations Emily and Renee - after several months of hard work, we are delighted to announce that Emily Mole and Renee Deeley have passed their Level 1 Coaching Exam (29th March 08). This is the first step on the coaching ladder. Well done, we're proud of you!. 

 

 

 

                        

Grades Competition Success

15th and 16th March 08

Birmingham Sports Centre, Highgate

 

Flames gymnasts romped home with a brilliant tally of medals following the Grades competitions in March. Not only did we return home with lots of medals but all our Flames gymnasts passed their grades:

Compulsory Grade 3 in age; Kate Kelly silver medal

Compulsory Grade 3 out of age: Lauren Hudders gold medal

Club Grade 1: Khal Pummer silver medal; Caroline Curry 5th; Rebecca Cook 19th

Club Grade 2: Emma Elton silver medal; Lara Williamson bronze medal

Club Grade 3: Lauren Weston silver medal; Sophie (Whizz) Ward bronze; Tori Pybus 14th; Beth Smith 21st; Danni Hardwick 32nd

Club Grade 4: Emma Owen 8th; Shay Hines 21st; Georgie Phillips 27th

 

Well done girls!!!

 

 

Congratulations to Flames Gymnasts

who gained places in Regional and County Squads in 2008

 

Young Development Squad - places were given to Lauren Hudders, Lauren Weston, Sophie Ward, Kate Kelly and Ellie Parker

 

Junior and Senior Squad - places were given to Emily Mole, Caroline Curry, Gabbi Cooke, Khal Plummer, Lara Williamson and Emma Elton

 

Dates for YDS and Junior / Senior Regional Squad training are as follows:

 

Lilleshall: 14 February; 13 March; 10 April; 8 May; ;5 June; 9 June; 17 July; 18 September; 16 October; 13 November; 11 December

 

Munrow: 31 Jan; 28 Feb; 27 March; 24 April; 22 May; 3 July; 4 Sept; 2 Oct; 30 Oct; 27 Nov

 

 

County Squad - places were given to Lori Walker, Rebecca Cooke, Beth Smith, Sophie Ward, Lauren Weston, Rebecca Grand, Lauren Hudders, Emma Owen, Kate Kelly, Shay-Anna Hines, Ellie Parker, Emily Bagnall and Megan Parker.

 

 

Dates for County Squad training are: 10 Feb; 2 Mar; 25 May; 29 Jun; 31 Aug; 21 Sep

(All 2 - 5 pm Munrow Sports Centre)

 

 

 

November 11th Update - more photos now in the Pics Gallery.......

 

The website now includes our Club Judges - what a wonderful bunch they are too - you can see who they are by going to the Coaches and Judges page.

 

Also we are have included loads more of photos on the Pics page. The gallery now includes a Hall of Fame folder - take a look at some of the Flames gymnasts of the past. We are also soon to include a folder of all the current squad girls when we have all parents permissions. Don't forget if you have some photos to include on our website please email to Al through the club email address.

 

 

Annual Club Competitions

 

Click here to go to the  Comp and Results  page to see the scores...

 

 

Christmas Circuit Challenge Results!

The circuit took place on Saturday 22nd December, and had 28 'stations' and each lasted 45 seconds - here are the scores:

 

Name	Score
Lauren Weston	708
Emma Elton	701
Tori Pybus	673
Kate Kelly	661
Whizzi Ward	643
Gabbie Cook	621
Skye Sturdy	608
Lauren Hudders	606
Beth Smith	586
Rebecca Hunt	585
Caroline Curry	581
Ellie Parker	580
Shay-Anna Hines	580
Lauren Creegan	566
Danni Hardwick	557
Rebecca Grand	541
Brogan Greenwood	539
Lara Williamson	525
Emily Bagnall	521
Marta Grana	519
Bex Cook	506
Bella Sanchez-Bishop	500
Emily Mole	499
Khalysah Plummer	496
Megan Parker	485
Elania Coulthurst	424
Lori Walker	retired

 

 

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