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TWEET WALL BRYONY PAGE Top tweets from our gymnasts We talk to the reigning British Trampoline Champion about her life as a gymnast, the ups, the downs and the mindset involved 4 6

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Wall Louise McColgan Sam Oldham Lucie Colebeck Jennifer Pinches

@LouiseMcColgan @Oldham93 @luciecolebeck23 @jempin515 Welcome @PurvisDanny Great Escape and a roast dinner Happiest moment of my Congrats to my little bro Harry Well done today at the Scottish : ) you can’t get a much better life right now (left) who won the British Schools to our Champs : ) thanks for taking the time Sunday evening than that! http://instagram.com/p/ Trampolining Champs with his twitter wall to have a photo taken with me l8KBBOOhUE/ team yesterday! pic.twitter.com/LL6ytBQGK5 pic.twitter.com/i8qDcf8m1w - check out this issue’s tweets from our top stars...

Brinn Bevan Becky Downie Lynne Hutchison Georgia Lancaster Rhyannon Jones

@brinnbevan @Bdownie @lynnehutch94 @GeorgiaLaaa @RhyannonJones Tried my Maltese yesterday and The amount of times me and Love my @BathRhythmic Her pike I won! Lol 62 forward rolls it wasn’t too shabby Ellie are out together and get team mates though <3 <3 <3 pic.twitter. in a minute http://instagram.com/p/ the comment...”Are you twins?” well done everyone! com/9GUkFaikHy #dizzy @ParkWrekin lmeTnKSBiz/ Is ridiculous but it makes us #teambath pic.twitter.com/ @Ghockenhull pic.twitter. FOLLOW US laugh everytime : ) H0jlyyP89b com/jRkBJcdJQz @BGMediaTeam GYMNAST 4 GYMNAST 5 MY FIRST

BRYONY DAY IN THE GYM

“THE KIDS WERE CLIMBING THE ROPES AND I WENT“ PAGE STRAIGHT TO THE WHY DO I LOVE TRAMPOLINING? I ENJOY THE FEELING OF BEING IN THE AIR. THERE IS A POINT AT THE TOP OF THE TOP AND LOVED IT JUMP WHERE YOU FEEL WEIGHTLESS AND FEEL LIKE YOU FROM THERE CAN FLY. YOU CAN GO SO HIGH, THERE’S SO MUCH VARIETY I REALLY DON’T KNOW WHY EVERYONE DOESN’T DO IT!

Bryony Page is the reigning British trampoline champion. The 23 year old is part of Britain’s hugely TRAINING, TRAINING, successful women’s senior trampoline team who go .TRAINING… into this month’s European Championships as team I always think about training, at uni I always think NEVER GIVING IN… champions. Bryony tells us why trampolining is the ‘right when am I next training, how can I balance my I’ve never thought about giving in, I’ve always sport for her… life so that training is the priority’. For me that’s not a enjoyed the sport. Losing confidence or struggling sacrifice, it’s a choice. to complete the skills is something every gymnast goes through, it’s just part of trying to improve and THE START... challenge yourself. For me it was something that was My mum and dad wanted to put me into lots of BATTLING WITH quite dramatic and lasted a long time but if you love different sports but I was terrible at most of them! My .CONFIDENCE... the sport you can find ways to work through it and first day in the gym the kids were climbing the ropes In 2007 and 2008 I lost all my confidence, I was afraid actually the pride you have in conquering it is huge, and I went straight to the top and loved it from there. you feel you are capable of anything. I took to trampoline the most and it’s always been my to do the skills. Not because I couldn’t do them, but favourite part of gymnastics. People sometimes see maybe because I was getting older and thinking it as a garden sport but when they watch it properly about everything too much. I had to re-teach myself EVERY TRAINING SESSION they understand. Professional trampolining is a from the start. Literally build up the basics from the .COUNTS… different level. point that I couldn’t do a front somersault at one point as I was so scared of failing and not achieving I always like to learn from every session. I’m my goals. To come back I broke down every skill and constantly looking for little techniques or little ways BECOMING A BRITISH gradually just moved on, each little skill I got back I’d to focus and motivate myself. Ultimately loving the .GYMNAST... give myself a smiley face in my diary, every session sport is what is at the heart of everything I do, when was a bonus and every session I taught myself to be things are going wrong you just ask yourself ‘why am I had no idea I was going to be so good. When I first positive. Of course it’s like a roller-coaster; you take I doing this?’ and the answer is because you love it. made the step up to national level it was all a blur two steps forward and one step back. Even now I can If a session doesn’t go to plan I always try to at least really, I didn’t appreciate what was going on. As you get nervous but I think I’ve become so much stronger end it well or do one skill really well to take a positive get older you start to realise what it’s all about and as a person and as an athlete for having gone away for next time. take pride in your achievements, you of course still through that stage. It was the most difficult time for enjoy it but it also becomes a way of life. me in the sport, especially as I love trampolining so much but having said that I wouldn’t change it as it has made me so much stronger and confident today.

GYMNAST 6 GYMNAST 7 PREPARING FOR We wish Bryony and her .COMPETITIONS… WE ARE trampoline, tumbling and double-

In the big competitions the saying ‘practice makes REIGNING WORLD mini-trampoline teammates permanent’ stands true. You only compete for a good luck at the 2014 European

very small amount of time so the build-up is vital, “AND EUROPEAN Championships taking place in months in advance it’s important to make every CHAMPIONS, AND Portugal from 7-13 April. routine matter so the consistency is there and so in a “ competition it feels like another training session. WE HAVE A GREAT I still get nervous for a competition, it doesn’t matter GROUP OF GIRLS if it’s just in the club or at a World Championships, ALWAYS PUSHING I still feel nervous because it’s important to me to always do my best. EACH OTHER Visit the official BRITISH GIRLS ON TOP OF event .THE WORLD… website... We have a really strong British team at the moment, on the girl’s side especially. We are reigning World and European Champions, and we have a great group See what Bryony’s up to by of girls always pushing each other. As soon as one girl does something you think ‘wow I want to do that’. checking out her twitter page: We are competitive and supportive which is the best combination. We are a very complete unit when we compete in team events which we’ve proved at major twitter:@BryonyPage1 championships. Individually I know what I want two achieve and do and that’s my best, in my head I have ambitions but we’ll see what happens. Watch Bryony in action at last year’s Trampoline and Tumbling British Championships

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The 2014 British Artistic and Acrobatic Championships were two incredible events. Here’s a selection of some of the best images from across the two weekends of outstanding gymnastics action.

Photos: Alan Edwards

Watch Becky win gold on beam in the apparatus finals.

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Watch Sam claiming bronze on high bar in the apparatus finals

...on her way to winning silver on beam in the apparatus finals GYMNAST 14 ONE SECOND 2014 BRITISH OF ACTION GYMNASTICS CHAMPIONSHIPS 28 - 30 MARCH ECHO ARENA, LIVERPOOL

Watch Daniel’s pommel horse gold medal winning routine in the apparatus finals. NEWS, RESULTS & VIDEOS CHECK OUT THE OFFICIAL EVENT PAGE BY CLICKING HERE TO SEE MORE!

WOMEN’S BRITISH SENIOR ALL-AROUND CHAMPION

Watch Rebecca’s beam routine on her way to being crowned MEN’S BRITISH British champion SENIOR ALL-AROUND CHAMPION

Watch Max on floor during Saturday’s competition

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SENIOR MIXED PAIR CHAMPIONS

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HEATHROW NEWS, RESULTS & VIDEOS CHECK OUT THE OFFICIAL EVENT PAGE BY CLICKING HERE TO SEE MORE!

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CHAMPION Age: 15 Club: Club Esprit

Tyler Brumitt from Esprit Gymnastics was the 2013 Junior British Rhythmic Champion. Now in 2014, at just 15 years old, Tyler moves up into the senior category alongside her teammate, Laura Halford, the 2013 senior British Champion. With the Commonwealth Games looming, Tyler is working hard to try and secure a place on the English team. We caught up with the rising star during her national squad training and found out all about her love of and why her journey to training is a lot longer than you might think!

GYMNAST 29 . . . GYMNASTICS... YOU MIGHT ASSUME... Why I love it... My highlights... You might assume... I love rhythmic gymnastics because it’s a Becoming junior British Champion was That I was always really flexible! I had to work sport where you learn so many different skills. amazing and so was competing in my first my splits hard and my back flexibility. If you It’s like a combination of dance, mixed with world cup. I also had an amazing experience at want to get involved in rhythmic you can do it, flexibility and strength; it’s a complete mix, the 2013 Australian Youth Olympics. as long as you work hard it will come! so it’s really cool and unique. I like all of the apparatus but my strongest piece is probably The best and worst things about clubs. People say it’s a hard apparatus to use being a gymnast... WHO INSPIRES because there are two of them but I think it’s Best: Being able to show who you are and quite easy! show your personality through expression and My idol... YOU... performance. It has to be Yana Kudryavtseva Worst: Has to be lots of conditioning! (2013 World Champion) from . She is really elegant and has beautiful pointed feet and is very talented for her age.

MY HOPES FOR 2014... What do you want to achieve? In my first year as a senior, I’d love to represent England at the Commonwealth Games. I think it will be slightly harder this year however and it will be strange as the people I look up to are now competing THINGS WE MIGHT against me, but I will still go and do my best! NOT KNOW...

Watch Tyler One thing you might not know about me… performing her I actually live in Spain, in Torrevieja, Alicante. I moved there when I was three. I fly back ribbon routine at the 2013 and forth and train in both countries but compete for England. So therefore I speak Rhythmic British fluent Spanish and travel lots! Championships.

Luck and superstition... I have a load of good luck charms in my bag, I think they work! I also pray each time before I go onto the floor in a competition.

I never go anywhere without... My ring that my nan gave me and earrings that my mum gave me as they are really special to me.

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