Gymnastics Festival Practices

 Gymnastics Festival Practices

At the moment MLH  we are practicing gymnastics for the festival. Every year there is a gymnastics festival for most schools in Gisborne.   It's optional if you would like to participate in this festival. I am going to participate in the gymnastics festival this year. Sadly last year our school did not do the gymnastics festival because it got cancelled by COVID-19. 

There are grades that you can enter in for different levels, like D grade, C grade, B grade, A advanced and A grade. The difference between A advanced and A grade is that A grade make up their own floor routine but in A advanced is when they give you a routine but you do all the other A things. 

I'm in B grade,  so that means they give me routines and I need to practise lots until I get it off by heart. In 2019 I participated in C grade. Every Monday and Friday lunch time we practice our routines. I love Gymnastics!   If you're a girl and you're in B grade you need to do vault, floor and beam.  If you're a boy and your in B grade you need to do bar, vault and floor. My favourite thing in gymnastics is bar so I'm a bit disappointed that girls don't do bar. 

In the gymnastics festival there are the individual grades and then there is a dance that is called the rhythmical dance.  I'm in Wainui Beach school rhythmical dance team. We have been doing lots of learning about backflip tucks. Our coach is called Jacks. She is a very good teacher because she knows lots of things about gymnastics, beat , line placing, music and flips.  The Gisborne gymnastics club is very big and the floor is like a big mat but it has springs underneath and then soft padding underneath. I'm very excited for the Gisborne gymnastics festival.