Re-Tryouts

Everyone who is presently in a Developmental or Provincial Tumbling group is required to attend the

Re-Tryouts on Wednesday, June 3rd.

Developmental Tumblers from Amanda's, Ellie's or Ricardo's groups are expected to be at the Re-Tryout between 5:00 and 7:00pm.

Provincial Tumblers from Don's and Dave's groups are expected to be at the Re-Tryouts between 7:00 and 9:00pm.

No alternate dates for Re-Tryouts will be provided so if there is a soccer, or baseball or anyother conflict please note that this is the one time where you really need to come to the gym.

We have been evaluating you over the course of the year. The elements we are looking at include: attitude, behaviour, dedication, performance, skill development, parental willingness to participate and be involved when requested.

The Re-Tryout allows us to see all of the athletes together and to make direct comparisons between athletes from different groups. As well it allows Niki and myself to see all of those athletes that are in groups that we ourselves do not coach directly. We will be doing a direct evaluation of tumbling skills and physical fitness during the Re-Tryouts.

Most athletes will find themselves back on the team. Some athletes will not. This is part of being in competitive sport. Sometimes athletes will be cut from a team or program after several years of participation. Please understand this. We believe that all of the athletes in our program are talented individuals and will be able to find success in other aspects of their athletic careers even if it is not in tumbling in our program.

If you find your child NOT invited back next year you may request a meeting with Niki and/or I to discuss our decision but most decisions are final.

We thank everyone for participating and making the OGC Power Tumbling Team one of the strongest tumbling clubs in Canada. We are in fact the largest tumbling club in Canadian history.

Congratulations to everyone this year and all the best in the future.

June Schedule

Here is the June schedule as it stand right now.

Items to note:

Amanda will be away between the 30th of May and the 6th of June. On Sunday May 31st Ricardo will be supplying for Amanda. On Friday June 5th we will have another subsitute coach but I have not confirmed who as of yet. Amanda missed a Wednesday night class this week (May 20th) due to illness. She will be making that class up in June but we have not yet set a time. I will e-mail this Developmental group when we have firmed up a Make Up class time and date. Our apologies.

Re-Tryouts will be Wednesday, June 3rd, Developmental Tumblers are to come from 5:00 to 7:00pm and Provincial Tumblers are to come between 7:00 and 9:00pm. I will post more specific information about the Re-Tryouts.

Open Tryouts will be on Thursday, June 4th. We do not plan to have Call Backs this year.

Groups for the next season will be posted on Monday, Jun 8th.

Parent Meetings for the new groups will be the subsequent Wednesdays (Wednesday, June 10th there will be a parent meeting for all Developmental Tumblers and Families, this includes new tumblers, Wednesday, June 17th there will be a parent meeting for all Provincial and National Tumblers and Families, this includes any tumblers that will have been moved up into a provincial group from a developmental group).

The last day will be Friday, June 26th.

The summer program will start Monday, July 5th.

We will be taking the last week of June (June 29th to July 3rd) and the last two weeks of August off for summer holidays (August 24th to September 4th).

We will start back to regular Fall/Winter/Spring schedule on Thursday, September 10th.

2009/2010 Tumbling Program Summary

We have decided to change the structure of the Oakville Power Tumbling Program for the 2009/2010 season.

Please note that we have removed the Developmental 4 group. We have decided to downsize the developmental program as next year we will be having a large number of athletes trying to get into only a handful of spaces in the Provincial and National groups.

Please also note that the Developmental 3 Group will be training 8 hours instead of 6.

The Provincial D group will train 8 hours as per normal.

The Provincial CB and Provincial CBA groups will train 10 hours and will actually be co-coached by both Niki and myself like we do with the National group.

I will be providing you with a July/August Schedule shortly and a tentative September (Fall/Winter/Spring) schedule.

Please note that Dave, Ellie and Ricardo will not be coaching in the tumbling program next season. We thank them for their great work and enthusiasm coaching in the tumbling program over the past couple of seasons. I'm sure we will see them supply coaching in the future and continue to see them around the Oakville Gymnastics Club.

OGC Tumbler on Cirque Website

Just copy and paste the following search string to bring you to the Cirque Du Soleil website (or click on this link). At the top there are pictures that fade in and out of different performers. The one with the little hat and the yellow suspenders is Ryan Stephenson formerly a tumbler in the OGC tumbling program.

http://www.cirquedusoleil.com/en/shows/saltimbanco/show/about.aspx

Ryan has been traveling in the America's for two years now and will be heading to Europe this summer with the traveling show Saltimbanco.

All the best to Ryan.

Don

Retro Summer Invitational

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Here is a picture of the information sheet that was handed out over the past week to all tumblers. Some did not get it for whatever reasons. Please register with Agnes in the main office as soon as you can.

The REGISTRATION DEADLINE is Sunday, May 24th.

The COMPETITION DATE is Sunday, June 14th.

May 24 WEEKEND

Just wanted to let you know about the long weekend schedule.

It's the same as regular.

Monday, May 18th is cancelled as that is the holiday and the Glen Abby Recreational Centre will be cosed. Ricardo's Developmental Class will not be running on that day.

Get out and enjoy the weekend though. Please let your coaches know if you will be cottaging or away for whatever reason.

Thanks

Don

Schedule resized