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Tuesday 9th of February 2010 - Welcome to The Blue Falcons Website, Part of Chelmer Valley High School
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Kings Rd Primary Sch, Fete - Saturday 19th June 2004
Kings Road Primary School – Saturday 19th June 2004
After such a positive display last week at Braintree, the team was charged up
and raring to go again. Receiving such a warm welcome from our hosts always
makes for a good start to any display and the welcome here was no exception.
A run through of the demo vaults caught the audience’s attention, especially
as Tom and James demonstrated their vaults and ‘personalised’ landings in turn
by coming off either side of the mat with full grins. Despite a bit of a
breeze the hoops of fire came out and all vaulters performed open, tucked and
double somersaults well above the danger zone.
In Fast Hocus all double deckers were timed very well with a few close enough
to cause a lady in the crowd to hide behind her hands. If she thought that was
scary she was going to have kittens by the end of the programme! In the laying
gymnast element Gareth sporting his Sonic the Hedgehog goes Punk hairstyle stood
at the buck for Ed to somersault over with plenty of room. Well would you fancy
landing on one of those spikes? And Aaron turned a neat one and a half tucked
somersault over Vinnie. The pyramid teetered precariously as vaulters from
both groups straddled it, but managed to hold together for the duration. This
was followed by a good variation of somersaults from both groups on the 1 –2
section. As the routine came to its close the long group brought both excellent
height and distance over the five standing gymnasts. (At this point the lady in
the crowd had no option but to take her hands away from her face to applaud
enthusiastically.)
After a short warm up The Fledglings routine got under way with the long
group’s bomb burst of roll on pin jumps off. During the course of the routine
there were some very good, neat necksprings from Hollie, Amy, Danni, Will, Adam
and Shaun, but once again there were the occasional stumbles from the short
groups on their pin jumps, which sadly takes the edge off of the whole
routine. Even with the lady in the audience getting into the spirit of things,
clapping and cheering, Gary missed the egg on his first vault. On his second and
final vault the egg rolled away sidewards only to be caught securely by Alun
making sure it was completely smashed. The first section of L for Leather ran exceptionally smoothly with only one
pin jump! Brad and Vinnie opened the doubles section with slightly mistimed
longarms over the tables but perfectly synchronised somersaults on the mats. Of
all the doubles I think the award for perfect timing and vault has to go to Ed
and Matt who were absolutely spot on with their longarms. There were some great
somersaults over the kneelers from both sides including Vinnie’s double tucked,
Tom’s very neat half twist, Gareth’s slap into open, Martin’s sky high 8ft
longarm, Ed’s full twist, Greg’s tucked somersault and Jess Wright’s superb high
dive. Some of the double deckers went slightly awry but those that weren’t
looked excellent. The ever-increasing height of the pyramids posed no problems
for the vaulters as they heightened their vaults too, clearing both pyramids
faultlessly. As a slight adjustment to the ending we had a single file bomb
burst over the ‘long long’ table to bring the routine to a satisfactory ending.
The hoops of fire made their return for the start of Gemini despite it
getting slightly windier. Fortunately no-one came away wearing hot pants. The
long group produced some excellent mirror vaults from Brad and Gareth – open
somersaults, Owen and Vinnie – shortarms, Tom and James – tucked somersaults,
Aaron and Ryan – biranis, Ed and Martin – open somersaults and Steve and Matt –
longarms. The vaults over the kneelers were neat, energetic and in some cases,
exceptionally high. In the trick section Owen did a late drop to kneel for Brad,
Gareth, Vinnie and James dropped (eventually) for Aaron’s full distance tucked
somersault, Kevin’s unmistakeable back somersault off of the table and Ed’s
brave belly flop onto the table finished off with a backward twisting flop onto
the mat. Steve once again got pushed off of the table by Gary who then raised
Michael up onto his shoulders. Over the pyramids it was a case of blink and you
missed it as Kevin performed a very tidy through vault over the top. A rapid
variation of pin jumps, dives and necksprings in the short group bomb burst set
the pace for the long groups’ burst of vaults. By now the lady in the crowd was
thoroughly enjoying the afternoon’s entertainment and was probably one of the
first to rush to the other end of the arena for the best view of the minibus
vaults. These were initiated with Owen – open with half twist, followed by Ryan
– tucked, Greg – tucked, Jason – longarm, Kevin – longarm, Dave – slap
somersault, Brad – tucked, congratulations to Marcus on his maiden flight/
clamber up and pin jump off, Matt – longarm, Chris – longarm, Steve – tucked,
Tom – half twisting somersault, Ed – open, Gareth – open, Vinnie – tucked, James
– full twister, Aaron – open and Gary – neckspring. And if that hadn’t been
exciting enough, Owen, Brad and Ed demonstrated their prowess at walking, or in
Ed’s case running, on their hands across the length of the minibus. And still
not content with that Owen and Brad tried their luck even further by attempting
to longarm the minibus lengthways. Unfortunately the challenge proved a little
too much and the nearest they came were swift longarms to the middle, a quick
run on their hands before rolling off at the other end. The crowd didn’t seem to
mind how they got across as they, (and especially the lady in the crowd), had
had a thoroughly enjoyable afternoon’s entertainment.
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