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National Championships for Trampoline and Tumbling are being held in Hamilton this weekend. The campus of McMaster University will be welcoming the top athletes in the "Trampoline Gymnastics" disciplines as well as Rhythmic Gymnastics this weekend and Artistic Gymnastics next week.

We have three OGC Tumblers participating: Lauren Rotolo in the Novice 15+ Women's Tumbling, Luke Mackinnon in the Novice 10-14 Men's Tumbling and Jonathan Meehan in the Youth Men's Tumbling.

This Sunday is the Tumbling Team Competition where you will have the opportunity to see some of the best tumblers from across Canada do their thing.

We invite all of you to come to the Championships whenever you might have time this weekend.

The exciting team competition begins at 6:00pm on Sunday, May 31st but there are other tumbling events taking place all weekend.

You can find the competition schedule at:

http://www.2009cdnchampionships.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=21&Itemid=35

We hope everyone comes out to watch. Nationals will never be closer.

Tickets are sold at the door.

Here are the prices

Category

Adult Senior Student Child
18+ 55+ 13 ‐ 17 6 ‐ 12
Preliminary Rounds $12.00 $10.00 $10.00 $5.00
Finals $15.00 $12.00 $12.00 $6.00
3 Day Pass (Does Not Include Finals) $30.00 $24.00 $24.00 $9.00
4 Day Pass (Does Not Include Finals) $42.00 $32.00 $32.00 $12.00

Family Pass (Daily Only) Includes: any combination of 4 categories less $8
Example: 3 Adults (x $12) and 1 Senior (x $10) = $46 less
$8 = $38

TEAM Photo ERROR

My apologies for posting that the Team Photo was only for the Provincial and National Tumblers. I myself have not been at a Team Photo session in the past so I couldn't remember who was to be in it. Glad everyone showed up despite my ERROR.

We apologies for how long it took but we were glad with the turn out.

Don

Summer and Fall Schedules

Here is the schedule for the Summer and the TENTATIVE Fall schedule.

We have tried to keep it so that people have their Fridays off as well throughout the summer.

During the Summer Andree Matte will be filling in for Niki. Niki will return to coaching in the fall. I will provide you all with a profile of Andree shortly.

As we get closer to each month we will distribute a more complete schedule.

OGC Team Photo

All Provincial and National Level Tumblers

We are planning to have a TEAM picture taken next Tuesday evening, May 26th at 7:30 p.m. There will be no individual pictures done. Agnes has notified, or will notify, everyone by email to wear their competitive suits or track suits or a nice suit, especially the little ones. Please notify your staff. The individual pictures will be done sometime in the fall.

For those of you who train during this time we will simply break from training for the duration of the picture taking event and then resume training.

OPEN Tryouts for 2009/2010 Season

OPEN TUMBLING TRYOUTS
THURSDAY, JUNE 4TH

For those trying out:

If you are 8 years of age or younger you need to be at the gym for 7:00pm and will be tested until 8:00pm.

If you are 9 years of age or older you need to be at the gym for 8:00pm and will be tested until 9:00pm.

Please wear appropriate gymnastics attire. Baggy shirts and shorts are not good gym attire. Wear something form fitting and able to move with you.

We will be evaluating: attitude, listening skills, behaviour, physical ability and physical potential.

If you are selected to be part of the Oakville Gymnastics Club's Power Tumbling Team for the 2009/2010 Season you will be contacted by phone and invited to attend the Parent Meeting on the following Wednesday.

If you are NOT selected you will still receive a call and provided with one of several options: Invited to tryout again in the future when more skills are acquired, Invited to continue the recreational gymnastics or trampoline and tumbling classes, or we might suggest that tumbling is not a sport that your child's aptitudes are suited for.

Prerequisites: general strength and flexibility. Cartwheels, round-offs, and standing back handsprings are a great asset as many athletes who will be trying out for the team will have these skills or better; however, this does not prevent us from selecting individuals who have raw talent and appear teachable.

You will be supplied with more detailed program information at the Open Tryout.

Please wait to ask program questions until after the Tryout.

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.