REGIONAL GRADING COMPETITIONSunday
7 October saw Richard’s Trampoline Club at the Eastern Regional
Grading competition in Ipswich. Being
a graded competition means if the qualification score is achieved, then
this permits the trampolinist to progress onto the next grade.
The club only had 4 competitors today, but amongst themselves
they came home with medals for 1st, 2nd and 3rd
so an extremely successful day for the club! At
Grade 4 Jo Collins has been trying to qualify up to grade 3 for over a
year now. Despite lack of
preparation due to work commitments, this didn’t show today.
With some good warm-ups the pressure was on, Jo rose to the
challenge though and produced some superb routines.
She qualified up to Grade 3 by a very large margin and also won 1st
place. Also
at Grade 4 Bradley Sapsford was having an amazing day!
He’s only competed once before at an open competition, and that
was at a lower grade. It
was a late decision to move up a grade, but in the last couple of weeks
prior to today Bradley improved his routines tremendously.
He completed some of his best ever routines and he was rewarded
with the required scores to move up to Grade 3 and finished in 2nd
place. At
Grade 3 Lizzie Mercer was suffering with a bad back during her warm-ups.
She managed to compete but she wasn’t at her best, she’s
shown good improvement over the summer so it was a shame not to see it
today. However she still
did enough to finish in 3rd place. Also
at Grade 3 was Sophie Perks, she had a tough group where the standard
was very high. She
completed some good routines, especially her voluntary routine, showing
good improvement since her last competition.
She missed qualifying up to Grade 2 by just 0.2! Overall an extremely successful day for the club, well done to everyone who competed today!
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