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Getting Ready for Rio! Contents What’S in This Issue GYMNASTBritish Gymnastics Digital Magazine SUMMER 2015 GIARNNI REGINI-MORAN GETTING READY FOR RIO! CONTENTS WHAT’S IN THIS ISSUE... OUR TOP 5 VIDEOS GIARNNI REGINI-MORAN Check out our gymnasts in action Interview: Youth Olympic Champion looks ahead to Rio 6 1010 16 22 THE EUROPEAN GAMES NUTRITION TIPS FOR TRAINING Making history at the European Games in Baku We delve into healthy eating tips for when you’re training Copyright © 2015 SUBSCRIBE TO Published by British Gymnastics. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may THE MAGAZINE be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without written permission RIGHT HERE of British Gymnastics. Identification and naming of individual gymnasts on printed photographs is determined by the information received and therefore cannot be guaranteed for accuracy. LET’S GET The views expressed by the individual contributors are not necessarily those of British Gymnastics. Equally the inclusion of advertisements in this magazine does not constitute SOCIAL, endorsement by British Gymnastics of the products or services concerned. British FOLLOW Gymnastics is unable to recommend any product, guarantee that it is free of any banned substance or take any responsibility for any claims of effectiveness. US HERE Cover photo - Giarnni Regini-Moran Gaining the top spot in our FOLLOW US summer edition of must see vids is our tumbling British OUR TOP FIVE Champ! If you missed Kristof Willerton’s performing a MUST SEE TOP triple straight somersault - where have you been?! GYMNASTICS Kristof performed this incredible skill recently and First up on our list is a VIDEOS is one of the first gymnasts montage of the 2014 in the world to do so. The TeamGym European World Champion tumbling Championships.5 The UEG recently released the footage gymnast just goes from of the event which we think strength to strength; you is awesome! The team spirit have to watch this, talk and skills are amazing. This about defying gravity! is certainly worth a watch if you’re thinking of coming to the 2015 British Gymnastics Championship Series which 1 5 includes TeamGym! Second on our countdown is IN OUR SUMMER EDITION OF THE 2former British artistic gymnast GYMNAST MAGAZINE, WE TAKE A LOOK Number four on our list is the Danusia Francis! Danusia BACK OVER THE LAST FEW MONTHS one and only Ashley Watson A team of our members has spent the last few years from4 Leeds! Men’s artistic competing for UCLA in America AND PICK OUR TOP FIVE MUST SEE 3recently spent time in South gymnast Ashley performed Africa to help introduce after finishing her elite career for GYMNASTICS VIDEOS. WHETHER IT’S IN incredibly on the high bar at disability gymnastics. Great Britain. It’s great to see our OR OUT OF THE GYM, HERE ARE OUR the British Masters back in They conducted various gymnasts continue in our sport March in Liverpool. The video and do great things and Danusia PICKS FOR THE LATEST MUST SEE VIDS! workshops providing of his routine went viral on disability training across the is certainly doing that! She has social media and rightly so, country. We followed the been wowing crowds with her his routine is packed full of team during the final phase impressive and flawless routines difficult and jaw dropping of their visit. It’s definitely an ever since she made the trip elements. If you haven’t seen inspirational watch! across the pond. Check out her it already it is not one to miss! beam routine from earlier this year, talk about sassy – we love it and just wait for the dismount! GYMNAST 6 INTERVIEW By Olivia Howard INTERVIEW “I would love to try for Rio. I his surname hails from and his the coaches said to my mum feel like I’m up to the senior mum Kerri from Italian which is I should try out for their INTRODUCING standards and when I compete where the Regini comes from. recreational class and as I was against them I don’t really get He tell us his mum wanted to advanced I made it into that too nervous, I feel like I fit in call him Giarnni as its Italian group and it all went from GIARNNI REGINI-MORAN and I’m part of the team. I do a and his four siblings also there. Now I train at the Europa lot of competitions with them follow suit with the youngest Centre with my coach Pete so I know them well. My floor at 7 years Ricco who is also (Etherington).” YOUTH OLYMPIC and vault are at senior levels a gymnast with heaps of and I am working on bringing potential, brother Emilio who Giarnni has now developed CHAMPION LOOKS my other routines up too. Even is 12, 14 year old sister Elise into one of Britain’s most though I am currently still and 15 year old brother Carlos promising gymnasts and if his a junior, I’m working senior who have all been involved in difficult routines aren’t already AHEAD TO THE routines now so I’m prepared. gymnastics at some stage. impressive enough he vows to If I have to downgrade for a push even harder this summer REAL DEAL IN RIO junior competition this actually For Giarnni, it’s always been to up his game even more. really helps as when I take the gymnastics and it was one Giarnni Regini-Moran is just more difficult moves out I have swing on the rings many years “If I want to compete against 16 years old a good ten years a really good fitness level.” ago that had him sold. the best in the world I’ve got to younger than some of Britain’s keep working on improving my Coming from a talented and “I started gymnastics because routines. I’m working on some current senior level gymnasts large family, Giarnni’s dad I was just running around like harder skills which will take but he has already proven he Glenn is from Irish decent crazy at home! I remember time but once I’ve got them can battle with Britain, Europe which is where the Moran in jumping onto the rings when hopefully I can really nail them and the world’s best having I first tried a session and I in competition. My floor has a was swinging and pulled my 16.8 start value which is one of been crowned 2014 Youth legs up and flipped over. I the highest in the world. I have Olympic all-around champion, remember telling everyone a routine that is in the 17 start junior European floor champion how awesome it was! One of values but I just need to get and 2015 British Masters floor all of the tumbles consistent first. I’m hoping to change my and vault champion. routines around a bit so I can have them ready by the To be eligible to compete end of the year but I will take in an Olympic Games, male everything as it comes.” gymnasts must turn 18 in the year of competition. Giarnni Looking set to make a name for himself, Giarnni is very will venture into adulthood just quick to tell us that just like any weeks before the Games open young gymnast he still has a in Rio but instead of classic sporting idol. party celebrations, Giarnni “Dan Keatings is someone I may well have a different focus really look up to. When I was and that is certainly what he is younger I used to compete in aiming for. the same region as him and GYMNAST 10 GYMNAST 11 INTERVIEW “It’s the European Youth Olympics this July, I’m hoping to be selected and to go out there and do well in that competition, then we’ve got a junior Japan competition which is always a big test as we get to compete against the top talent from international greats such as Japan and China! I’m excited to see what the rest of 2015 holds!” The coach’s verdict: We ask Giarnni’s coach Pete what it’s like “MY FLOOR HAS to coach the rising talent and he tells us how supportive his family A 16.8 START have been and how Giarnni’s early VALUE WHICH success was at times unexpected. IS ONE OF THE “He has got a great personality; it’s HIGHEST IN over the last few years that he has taken control of his own training. THE WORLD” Before that it was more me telling him what to do and now he has his own way of doing things, it’s great because it shows he cares I used to go to his gym every the week for my apprenticeship. “A Cassina is a really difficult skill and can take control. As a team Sunday. He was my idol and I I train with Tommy Nicolaou and to do on the high bar, not many we joke around a bit but when we always looked up to him. Now Toby McCarthy. Tommy is at my people in the world can do it. are at competitions Giarnni knows I know him well as a friend and level and we have competitions Sam Oldham always starts little when he needs to be serious and even when I go to squads now we in training; we like to see who can clubs, so you’ve got ones like the focus, and we then go through the get on really well. We even go to be the first one to learn a new strength club, I know he’s got a motions where he takes himself watch Liverpool (football) games skill.
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