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The Invercylde Weekend
What's New!
December 2009 - Lauren Birtles was selected for National Academy Squads (National & Regional) This is tremendous achievement for Lauren and everyone at the club is very proud of her. Well done Lauren!
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Dundonald Gymnastics Club old boy David Weir is now training with Scottish Gymnastics elite squad. Congratulations David!
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The tea/coffee, juice and
healthy snacks have been a big success and will continue to be available.
If you would like to help man the table please let a
committee member know - your help would be much appreciated.
We arrived on Saturday nice and early at 9.00 am to beautiful views and the sun
shining, a lovely change! Fourteen gymnasts stayed overnight along with coaches
Linda, Syl and Pauline. After rooms, beds and numerous fluffy toys were
organised we joined the other 14 gymnasts who were not staying overnight along
with coaches Scott, Laura and Katherine and headed for the gymnastics hall.
Fabulous venue! Sprung floor, pits, vault runs, 4 beams, everything we could
want. Everyone worked hard all morning learning new skills and improving old
ones.

Meals were provided in the restaurant in the main building with a great
variety of quality home cooked food from the buffet to choose from. The
children, unable to resist tried hard to fit most of everything on offer onto
overflowing trays. The problem was that most of the younger ones could not carry
the food trays to the tables, especially while balancing plastic cups filled to
the brim with drinks! The coaches came to the rescue and ferried umpteen trays
to tables rather than have the inevitable mess to clean. Luckily it is fact that
coaches only need 15 minutes max for meals!
The afternoon included a ballet and dance lesson courtesy of Shirley Jamison,
the boys making a gallant effort to join in and on the whole, looking pretty
good. A demanding conditioning session followed which could have been conceived
as the coaches ensuring all slept well that night. As if we would! 
Saturday night was spent in the lounge area where coaches along with the
resident staff were treated to some karaoke singing with a variety of soloists
and duets belting out their numbers with renewed energy. An eating frenzy seemed
to follow with copious amounts of snacks appearing from nowhere, in particular
an abundance of Pringles! (David). PJ’s on and a “quiet” game of charades was
organised to wind down, or so we thought, apparently you have to shout the
answers at a high pitch for the game to be any good!
Tongue in cheek the coaches suggested we should all have an early night and
be in bed by 9.30 with lights out at 10.00? To our delight gymnasts and coaches
were settled quietly and in correct beds/rooms by 10.30. Did we mention they are
all little angels?
Next
morning most were up and raring to go by 7am. Breakfast and packing done we
headed back to the gym, suitably smug after a good night’s rest. Various
rotations on bars, beam, floor and trampoline filled the morning followed by a
session on the popular air track where again some new tumbles were achieved. We
finished off our day with a ballet/dance class and Scott in particular excelled
at this, much to the amusement of everyone else.
A big thank you to all Inverclyde staff who were most helpful and pleasant.
We had a lovely weekend which proved beneficial to all who attended and we hope
to return again next year.
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