sfx13 Authors Blog: 2012

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

The Gymnastics Competition

At school we showed our news which were our gymnastics ribbons and medals(awards). For our gymnastics competition we had six routines. The routines were pommel,high bar,vault,floor,rings and Parallel bars. The colours of the ribbons are green,blue,red and gold.The red and gold ribbons are the ones we are aiming for. After lunch we showed the class our routines, well most of them anyway. We showed them the parallel bar routine, then the high bar routine.After that we showed them our floor routine. And last, but not least, our pommel routine. Last of all the teacher took a photo of us together holding up our medals,ribbons and certificates.

By Thomas Robinson and Ben Murray.

Monday, May 21, 2012

Gymnastics competition day

The day had finally arrived! "The gymnastics WAGS competition is today"Ben & Thomas woke up thinking.We were up at a quarter past six (not that early but around that time!) and we were all ready dressed up in our leotards with shorts over them.After we got to the WAGS gymnastics building we hopped out of our cars with butterfly's in our tummies.We put on our track suits and went inside.When we got inside we started stretching and did our warm up.At ten o'clock we started competing.The first routine that we did was pommel on the floor.We had to do five half circles.The next routine we did was high bar.We had to do L hold and then two tension swings then a chin up pullover,a cast half circle and then three long dished swings then we dismounted, stuck our landing and saluted.Our third routine was vault.Vault is when you run up to a spring board and dive roll off it onto a mat. Our fourth routine was floor. We did a cartwheel,backward roll into squat sit for three seconds (which is how long we held everything for)after that we had to do a candle stand,then up into bridge,we then did a dish and then rolled over into a arch. We then did front support an two press ups and jumped into squat sit,did a straight arm forward roll and a straight jump. Then we went to rings and did the routine which was chin up to vertical hang then over backwards to pike hang,down to L hold then three long dish swings and dismount. Last of all we went to the Parallel bars.We did L hold to three long swings and 45 degrees dismount.At the prize giving Thomas came first and Ben came second. By Thomas Robinson and Ben Murray