gym club

2014 -  Excitement !  Moving to the Swakopmund Indoor Sport Centre The Swakopmund Indoor Sport Centre is a full-service, multisport complex - incorporating shops, offices, medical rooms, a gymnasium and a sports hall that can accommodate 40 badminton courts - situated along the Henties Bay Road and Welwitschia Road in Swakopmund, Namibia.  It is the only multisport complex of its kind in the entire African continent.  

Seven Aspire gymnasts tried out their Grade 14 routines and four their Grade 13 routines in preparation for the county competition in March 2014. Head Coach, Jo Henden, was very pleased and surprised, when two of our Grade 14 gymnasts scored the highest on two pieces of apparatus receiving gold medals, Keira Blignaut on vault and Darcie Meyrick on bars.  Jo said, "All the gymnasts and coaches have to work very hard as they have so little training time compared with bigger clubs. It is wonderful to see them succeeding." Well done girls!

We took took 38 gymnasts of all abilities from 5 year old novices to 12 year old intermediate gymnasts to this friendly local competition. They all competed on vault, trampette and floor. We are thrilled that Aspire won 27 medals!  Lara Trott and Katie Cronin won medals on all three pieces in the age 9 intermediate group. Megan Humphrey, winning gold, joined them to make it an Aspire clean sweep on trampette.  Jade Batson won 3 medals in the 9 year old Novice competition Once again the 10-11 year old Recreation group put in good performances winning 8 medals in the Novice competition.  Head coach, Jo Henden, was especially pleased for Nicole Beale, gold on Vault, because last year she missed all the medals coming 4th on each piece. Jo said " I am most grateful to all the coaches who came to help. It makes so much difference when young gymnasts have their own coach with them at these events. Thanks also to Liberty Gymnastics for organising this friendly and popular event, ...

The Yateley Cup - Gemma for always focusing on the task in hand, making big improvements over the term, listening and taking advice given by her coaches. The Frogmore Cup - Mia for always trying very hard. Her skills have really improved and she is always smiling. The Aspire Cup - Jessica for continued effort to keep improving and for endeavouring to perfect new skills by working through discomfort and pain

One of our coaches Nigel has just passed the British Gymnastics Level 1 General Gymnastics Coaching award.  This is great news and further strengthens the excellent coaching that takes place at the club. Well done Nigel!