Week 11 notes

Hello all,

Thanks for your support over the past month, as I put lots of effort into the campaign to be Mayor for View Royal. 453 votes were more than I expected in this small community, where the current incumbents have a strong following. I really enjoyed meeting people more of my community and plan to do it again in 2014.

VRG Coaches are very blesssed to coach a great group of girls, with very supportive parents. Thanks for all the support you give your kids and the club.

Short notes about the next 3 weeks of training. (We will break for the Holidays on Friday December16th, 2011. Training resumes on Thursday January 5, 2011)

- TODAY AND NEXT SATURDAY Bodysuits, Photos and and preparing Gymnaestrada Routines. Please have girls hair up in tight high pony, or bun, short hair tidy. We may be late for pick up today. We will do any missing girls photos next week as well.

Gymnaestrada Routine is a fun big routine that we are putting all girls and we will also be recruiting participants outside of RG in the New Year. The goal for this routine is 30 participants, for our Performance in Whistler June 9 and 10 2012.

SATURDAY DEC 10 - Snowflake Mini Competition and Gala. This will be a wonderful day, and we need your daughters participation and your help. Next week there will be a sign up and quick meeting at 10:30 about the event. We are hosting Okanagan RG and Victoria Special O at the event. THE ENTIRE DAY IS AT Pacific Institute for Sport Excellence. (PISE) which is on Interurban by Camosun

9 pm on Friday - Pick up Okanagan girls from the airport - we are looking for billets for up to 10 girls, we will match them close to your daughters age, I prefer to billet to gymnasts togethers and priority will go to Girls on the competitive team program.

8:30 set up
Schedule 9 am and 945 classes - Your special Christmas Class, that will include a performance for your family members
10 am Victoria Special O will warm up and then Compete
11:30 Warm up for Okanagan and Victoria Competitors
12:30 Competition finishing at 3:30 pm.
3:30 Gala/Gymnaestrada performance
5:00 Tear Down
6:00 Dinner with Okanagan Team - Location to be Determined.

ORDERS OF EQUIPMENT AND TEAM WEAR

We are still finalizing new tracksuits for the girls as well as bodysuits so orders will go out in December with items arriving in January

Equipment - please check out www.bermosport.com, email me the list of what you would like to order by Thursday December 2, 2011 and equipment will be available for pick up on the 9th of December/10th

Thats all for now, have a great weekend.

Barb

Week Six - Amazing kids

Thanks everyone for your ongoing support and keeping your kids active!!!! I was going through some of my many, many publications and papers regarding coaching and RG...you can imagine that 30 years (I started coaching at 18) can create alot of paper... it became a bit of humour at times as I say that theory 30 years ago has been changed two or three times, and some of it is back in the 2011 programs. One of my favorite facts, is that skipping everyday is similar to running, and you need to do less to get the same benefits. So as you will see we incorporate skipping in all our programs and the look on a childs face when they have succeeded in skipping is my favorite face.

Just a few cudos for members of our club - Coaches - thank you to Karley, Leanne, Jayna, Lexus for their consistent positive and challenging manner they lead the gymnasts. Caroline Hoffman has decided to challenge herself into the National Stream level for the upcoming season, which is a big demand on time and training for someone in their graduation year. She is progress amazingly, and enjoying additional help and environment by travelling to Vernon and training with their Coach Camille and some National Team members.

And to all the little ones you are the highlight of my week, your energy and enthusiasm keeps me young and looking forward to seeing you perform at the upcoming events.

Congrats to our different group members, you will all be performing at the Snowflake event December 10, 2011. As will all our 30 plus members- Keep the date open and we will inform you of costume and routines and schedule in the next couple of weeks.

I have found some amazing insight into choreography late in my life, and I am so glad to have strongly connected to our senior group of Alex, Cairo, Carly, Emma and Zoe your energy and kind feedback are making the routine come together so quickly and it will be awesome.

Next week we will have order forms for tracksuits and for equipment... Please place your orders by email and payment can be credit card or cheque. We will also be having a photography session in November team and individual. These will be ready before Christmas.

We have run this club as a not for profit society for the past 2 years, and hope that there are some parents able to come to our AGM on Monday November 21, 2011 5 pm - 6 pm. There are exciting events and trips planned for this season, so do come, hear about it and give your energy to your daughters program.

Any questions or comments - don't hesitate to call, I love to hear from you all