2021 Gymnastics Festival

On Tuesday the 25th of May, lots of schools from around Gisborne, including ours, participated in the 2021 gymnastics festival! It was optinable to go but me, around 20 other girls and 4 boys chose to go to represent our school. We practised 4 afternoons a week, and we got around 3 weeks to practice. On Tuesday, we hopped into different parents cars and headed off to the gymnasian. 

When we arrived at our destination, the gymnastics club, we got out of the car and headed into the gymnasium. It was freezing! We were only in leotards, shorts and a jersie when we got there but inside, we had to take our clothes off except for the leotards. We practised in the trampoline part of the gym, bar, beam, floor and vault. Other schools started to join us, I thought our leotards were the coolest. After all the schools arrived, we headed into the real gym to start the competition.

We started on floor. I wasn't the first one to go luckily, I was near the middle. The floor routine went like this, Quarter turn, forwards roll, half turn, backwards roll, side sachet, half turn, side sachet and a cartwheel. My score was 8.7. After everyone had had a turn a floor, we moved on to beam.

When we approached beam, the school that was previously on beam went to floor. We had to stay in the same order as the floor. The beam routine went like this, hop onto the beam with your legs hanging from each side, swing your legs up onto the beam, put one leg in the air and hold for 2 seconds, stand up, walk by dipping one leg then tiptoeing 2 times, turn around on you tiptoes and put on leg up, hold for 2 seconds, do 2 pretty ponies and star jump off the beam. my score was 8.9. After than we moved onto vault because girls are not allowed to to bar.

Last but not least vault, my favorite. We got one practise to go over or on top of the vault. On Betsy's practise, she went right over it, face planting on the mat bellow! On my practise I went over it, landing on the mat. This is how the vault routine goes, use the springboard to go over or on top of the vault. My score was 8.6 I think?

Did any of you compete in the 2021 gym festival?🐉