Affinity Gymnastics Crawley

WOW! Where did summer go?!

We are so excited to see so many of you have signed up to our new classes with Spring Fit!

There are still spaces on Thursdays classes if you have joined in the fun yet then please do! Spring fit have their own waiting list and any spaces left will go to them! So get booking!

Ps you might recognise Tuesdays coach 😉

Check out spring fits website for more info!
www.springfit.co.uk

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A couple of pics from our final session. THANK YOU all for your awesomeness! Love the Affinity Crawley team. It’s been a fabulous adventure we’re proud to have been on and honoured to pass the baton to Springfit. All members and waiting list have had emails this week on how to register, please make sure you check your inboxes 👍🤸‍♀️🤩

And that’s a wrap! Week of performances with such fabulous glitter thanks to coach Natasha!
I want to personally thankyou all for the generous gifts, chocolate and flowers! I have a florist in my house tonight! LOVE IT! it’s been an amazing two and half years! Thankyou all for being a part! Sophie x

P A R T T W O
Tonight is our last session! We would love to use glitter! Please let us know if you are happy for us to do so! Comment below 🙂 thanks

well done to all gymnasts who performed this afternoon!!! Especially to our superstars who did their routine twice!!
If you are Thursdays class bring on the glitter!

well done to all gymnasts who performed this afternoon!!! Especially to our superstars who did their routine twice!!
If you are Thursdays class bring on the glitter!

This week come and watch! As always we love to show you a little of what we have been up to! This term its a “mash up” of the kids favourites! Come and watch for the last 20 minutes of your child’s class on both Tuesday and Thursday! See you there :)

Where does it go . . .I’ve been asked this question a lot – where does this all go? Where will my gymnast progress to within the sport or what does it all lead to?

There’s two answers to this – firstly the development route within gymnastics and how we do this at Affinity. Yes, we have squad gymnasts that enter competitions and do displays plus there’s plenty of progression within our class system. Here’s how it all works:

Red the rest of our blog here http://bit.ly/2FgK7Rc . http://bit.ly/2FgK7Rc

But I can’t even cartwheel! Something we hear a lot is: "My child isn’t good at gymnastics. They can’t cartwheel yet" or "Ha! I’m no good at gymnastics. I can’t even do a cartwheel!"
It’s true that a cartwheel is one of the most universally recognised gymnastics skills. So it is natural to base some kind of progress on this skill. But cut your child (or yourself!) some slack. It may be one of our ‘basic’ gymnastics skills but have you ever stopped to think about what a gymnast has to do, in order to do a successful cartwheel? Lets take a look:
- Go completely upside down and come back up again.
- Make a rotation – we start forwards, turn sideways, then turn back again to stand up.
- Travel forwards and sideways across the floor AND in a straight line.
- Coordinate their arms and legs, in the right order AND in the correct positioning. Not just once, but you’ve four separate hand and foot placements to get right.
- Have the strength and flexibility to kick their legs up in the air and -
- Balance on their hands….
- ….but not for long as you’ve got to shift the weight from one hand to the other then to the feet.
- Oh and lets think about form too – we don’t just want the legs in the air do we, we want straight legs, straight body, pointed toes.
- Land in your best ‘I just won the Olympics’ gymnast stretch.

And all of this with speed, all at the same time!!!

Phew I’m a bit overwhelmed just thinking about it.

Compare all these aspects to ‘basics’ in other sports – kicking a football, hitting a forehand in tennis, throwing a rugby ball, shooting a basket in netball, just simply running in athletics. It’s far more complicated and demanding physically. Plus add in that a gymnast at the cartwheel learning level will likely be learning many new skills each session. They aren’t spending all their time learning this one skill, or even a handful – it’s literally 15-20 skills at a time across all the various gymnastic apparatus. Now this is a great aspect of gymnastics – we’re a foundation sport that can literally teach you everything you need to be able to perform any movement in life or in any other sport.

So is it fair of us to measure all our progress or expectations on if our gymnasts can cartwheel?

No. I don’t think it is. To measure progress we need to look at ALL aspects of our training, across all apparatus, both physically and mentally. Which is kind of tough to do, especially when we’re all different. We find the best way to determine progress is to ask your gymnast how they are finding class, is there anything they can do now in the whole of their class (or perform better) they couldn’t before and also, are they enjoying it. If both of those are positives… from my point of view that’s a win and lets keep learning.

You know what, some gymnasts will never be able to cartwheel like the pros..... and that's ok.

Read more blogs here https://www.affinitygymnastics.co.uk/blog.php?id=25 http://bit.ly/2FefADB

Where does it go . . .I’ve been asked this question a lot – where does this all go? Where will my gymnast progress to within the sport or what does it all lead to?

There’s two answers to this – firstly the development route within gymnastics and how we do this at Affinity. Yes, we have squad gymnasts that enter competitions and do displays plus there’s plenty of progression within our class system. Here’s how it all works:

Red the rest of our blog here http://bit.ly/31mHo2h . http://bit.ly/31mHo2h

But I can’t even cartwheel! Something we hear a lot is: "My child isn’t good at gymnastics. They can’t cartwheel yet" or "Ha! I’m no good at gymnastics. I can’t even do a cartwheel!"
It’s true that a cartwheel is one of the most universally recognised gymnastics skills. So it is natural to base some kind of progress on this skill. But cut your child (or yourself!) some slack. It may be one of our ‘basic’ gymnastics skills but have you ever stopped to think about what a gymnast has to do, in order to do a successful cartwheel? Lets take a look:
- Go completely upside down and come back up again.
- Make a rotation – we start forwards, turn sideways, then turn back again to stand up.
- Travel forwards and sideways across the floor AND in a straight line.
- Coordinate their arms and legs, in the right order AND in the correct positioning. Not just once, but you’ve four separate hand and foot placements to get right.
- Have the strength and flexibility to kick their legs up in the air and -
- Balance on their hands….
- ….but not for long as you’ve got to shift the weight from one hand to the other then to the feet.
- Oh and lets think about form too – we don’t just want the legs in the air do we, we want straight legs, straight body, pointed toes.
- Land in your best ‘I just won the Olympics’ gymnast stretch.

And all of this with speed, all at the same time!!!

Phew I’m a bit overwhelmed just thinking about it.

Compare all these aspects to ‘basics’ in other sports – kicking a football, hitting a forehand in tennis, throwing a rugby ball, shooting a basket in netball, just simply running in athletics. It’s far more complicated and demanding physically. Plus add in that a gymnast at the cartwheel learning level will likely be learning many new skills each session. They aren’t spending all their time learning this one skill, or even a handful – it’s literally 15-20 skills at a time across all the various gymnastic apparatus. Now this is a great aspect of gymnastics – we’re a foundation sport that can literally teach you everything you need to be able to perform any movement in life or in any other sport.

So is it fair of us to measure all our progress or expectations on if our gymnasts can cartwheel?

No. I don’t think it is. To measure progress we need to look at ALL aspects of our training, across all apparatus, both physically and mentally. Which is kind of tough to do, especially when we’re all different. We find the best way to determine progress is to ask your gymnast how they are finding class, is there anything they can do now in the whole of their class (or perform better) they couldn’t before and also, are they enjoying it. If both of those are positives… from my point of view that’s a win and lets keep learning.

You know what, some gymnasts will never be able to cartwheel like the pros..... and that's ok.

Read more blogs here https://www.affinitygymnastics.co.uk/blog.php?id=25 http://bit.ly/2KE4Rpu

Where does it go . . .I’ve been asked this question a lot – where does this all go? Where will my gymnast progress to within the sport or what does it all lead to?

There’s two answers to this – firstly the development route within gymnastics and how we do this at Affinity. Yes, we have squad gymnasts that enter competitions and do displays plus there’s plenty of progression within our class system. Here’s how it all works:

Red the rest of our blog here http://bit.ly/31aMkXY . http://bit.ly/31aMkXY

But I can’t even cartwheel! Something we hear a lot is: "My child isn’t good at gymnastics. They can’t cartwheel yet" or "Ha! I’m no good at gymnastics. I can’t even do a cartwheel!"
It’s true that a cartwheel is one of the most universally recognised gymnastics skills. So it is natural to base some kind of progress on this skill. But cut your child (or yourself!) some slack. It may be one of our ‘basic’ gymnastics skills but have you ever stopped to think about what a gymnast has to do, in order to do a successful cartwheel? Lets take a look:
- Go completely upside down and come back up again.
- Make a rotation – we start forwards, turn sideways, then turn back again to stand up.
- Travel forwards and sideways across the floor AND in a straight line.
- Coordinate their arms and legs, in the right order AND in the correct positioning. Not just once, but you’ve four separate hand and foot placements to get right.
- Have the strength and flexibility to kick their legs up in the air and -
- Balance on their hands….
- ….but not for long as you’ve got to shift the weight from one hand to the other then to the feet.
- Oh and lets think about form too – we don’t just want the legs in the air do we, we want straight legs, straight body, pointed toes.
- Land in your best ‘I just won the Olympics’ gymnast stretch.

And all of this with speed, all at the same time!!!

Phew I’m a bit overwhelmed just thinking about it.

Compare all these aspects to ‘basics’ in other sports – kicking a football, hitting a forehand in tennis, throwing a rugby ball, shooting a basket in netball, just simply running in athletics. It’s far more complicated and demanding physically. Plus add in that a gymnast at the cartwheel learning level will likely be learning many new skills each session. They aren’t spending all their time learning this one skill, or even a handful – it’s literally 15-20 skills at a time across all the various gymnastic apparatus. Now this is a great aspect of gymnastics – we’re a foundation sport that can literally teach you everything you need to be able to perform any movement in life or in any other sport.

So is it fair of us to measure all our progress or expectations on if our gymnasts can cartwheel?

No. I don’t think it is. To measure progress we need to look at ALL aspects of our training, across all apparatus, both physically and mentally. Which is kind of tough to do, especially when we’re all different. We find the best way to determine progress is to ask your gymnast how they are finding class, is there anything they can do now in the whole of their class (or perform better) they couldn’t before and also, are they enjoying it. If both of those are positives… from my point of view that’s a win and lets keep learning.

You know what, some gymnasts will never be able to cartwheel like the pros..... and that's ok.

Read more blogs here https://www.affinitygymnastics.co.uk/blog.php?id=25 http://bit.ly/2W9Wm7Q

Where does it go . . .I’ve been asked this question a lot – where does this all go? Where will my gymnast progress to within the sport or what does it all lead to?

There’s two answers to this – firstly the development route within gymnastics and how we do this at Affinity. Yes, we have squad gymnasts that enter competitions and do displays plus there’s plenty of progression within our class system. Here’s how it all works:

Red the rest of our blog here http://bit.ly/2VScsmw . http://bit.ly/2VScsmw

But I can’t even cartwheel! Something we hear a lot is: "My child isn’t good at gymnastics. They can’t cartwheel yet" or "Ha! I’m no good at gymnastics. I can’t even do a cartwheel!"
It’s true that a cartwheel is one of the most universally recognised gymnastics skills. So it is natural to base some kind of progress on this skill. But cut your child (or yourself!) some slack. It may be one of our ‘basic’ gymnastics skills but have you ever stopped to think about what a gymnast has to do, in order to do a successful cartwheel? Lets take a look:
- Go completely upside down and come back up again.
- Make a rotation – we start forwards, turn sideways, then turn back again to stand up.
- Travel forwards and sideways across the floor AND in a straight line.
- Coordinate their arms and legs, in the right order AND in the correct positioning. Not just once, but you’ve four separate hand and foot placements to get right.
- Have the strength and flexibility to kick their legs up in the air and -
- Balance on their hands….
- ….but not for long as you’ve got to shift the weight from one hand to the other then to the feet.
- Oh and lets think about form too – we don’t just want the legs in the air do we, we want straight legs, straight body, pointed toes.
- Land in your best ‘I just won the Olympics’ gymnast stretch.

And all of this with speed, all at the same time!!!

Phew I’m a bit overwhelmed just thinking about it.

Compare all these aspects to ‘basics’ in other sports – kicking a football, hitting a forehand in tennis, throwing a rugby ball, shooting a basket in netball, just simply running in athletics. It’s far more complicated and demanding physically. Plus add in that a gymnast at the cartwheel learning level will likely be learning many new skills each session. They aren’t spending all their time learning this one skill, or even a handful – it’s literally 15-20 skills at a time across all the various gymnastic apparatus. Now this is a great aspect of gymnastics – we’re a foundation sport that can literally teach you everything you need to be able to perform any movement in life or in any other sport.

So is it fair of us to measure all our progress or expectations on if our gymnasts can cartwheel?

No. I don’t think it is. To measure progress we need to look at ALL aspects of our training, across all apparatus, both physically and mentally. Which is kind of tough to do, especially when we’re all different. We find the best way to determine progress is to ask your gymnast how they are finding class, is there anything they can do now in the whole of their class (or perform better) they couldn’t before and also, are they enjoying it. If both of those are positives… from my point of view that’s a win and lets keep learning.

You know what, some gymnasts will never be able to cartwheel like the pros..... and that's ok.

Read more blogs here https://www.affinitygymnastics.co.uk/blog.php?id=25 http://bit.ly/2VNTiOp

Where does it go . . .I’ve been asked this question a lot – where does this all go? Where will my gymnast progress to within the sport or what does it all lead to?

There’s two answers to this – firstly the development route within gymnastics and how we do this at Affinity. Yes, we have squad gymnasts that enter competitions and do displays plus there’s plenty of progression within our class system. Here’s how it all works:

Red the rest of our blog here http://bit.ly/30BwgxR . http://bit.ly/30BwgxR

But I can’t even cartwheel! Something we hear a lot is: "My child isn’t good at gymnastics. They can’t cartwheel yet" or "Ha! I’m no good at gymnastics. I can’t even do a cartwheel!"
It’s true that a cartwheel is one of the most universally recognised gymnastics skills. So it is natural to base some kind of progress on this skill. But cut your child (or yourself!) some slack. It may be one of our ‘basic’ gymnastics skills but have you ever stopped to think about what a gymnast has to do, in order to do a successful cartwheel? Lets take a look:
- Go completely upside down and come back up again.
- Make a rotation – we start forwards, turn sideways, then turn back again to stand up.
- Travel forwards and sideways across the floor AND in a straight line.
- Coordinate their arms and legs, in the right order AND in the correct positioning. Not just once, but you’ve four separate hand and foot placements to get right.
- Have the strength and flexibility to kick their legs up in the air and -
- Balance on their hands….
- ….but not for long as you’ve got to shift the weight from one hand to the other then to the feet.
- Oh and lets think about form too – we don’t just want the legs in the air do we, we want straight legs, straight body, pointed toes.
- Land in your best ‘I just won the Olympics’ gymnast stretch.

And all of this with speed, all at the same time!!!

Phew I’m a bit overwhelmed just thinking about it.

Compare all these aspects to ‘basics’ in other sports – kicking a football, hitting a forehand in tennis, throwing a rugby ball, shooting a basket in netball, just simply running in athletics. It’s far more complicated and demanding physically. Plus add in that a gymnast at the cartwheel learning level will likely be learning many new skills each session. They aren’t spending all their time learning this one skill, or even a handful – it’s literally 15-20 skills at a time across all the various gymnastic apparatus. Now this is a great aspect of gymnastics – we’re a foundation sport that can literally teach you everything you need to be able to perform any movement in life or in any other sport.

So is it fair of us to measure all our progress or expectations on if our gymnasts can cartwheel?

No. I don’t think it is. To measure progress we need to look at ALL aspects of our training, across all apparatus, both physically and mentally. Which is kind of tough to do, especially when we’re all different. We find the best way to determine progress is to ask your gymnast how they are finding class, is there anything they can do now in the whole of their class (or perform better) they couldn’t before and also, are they enjoying it. If both of those are positives… from my point of view that’s a win and lets keep learning.

You know what, some gymnasts will never be able to cartwheel like the pros..... and that's ok.

Read more blogs here https://www.affinitygymnastics.co.uk/blog.php?id=25 http://bit.ly/2Vz3SZB

Where does it go . . .I’ve been asked this question a lot – where does this all go? Where will my gymnast progress to within the sport or what does it all lead to?

There’s two answers to this – firstly the development route within gymnastics and how we do this at Affinity. Yes, we have squad gymnasts that enter competitions and do displays plus there’s plenty of progression within our class system. Here’s how it all works:

Red the rest of our blog here http://bit.ly/2JjCFIM . http://bit.ly/2JjCFIM

This is the final week for badge testing! If your gymnast misses both classes during badge testing weeks, we won't be able to award their badge at the end of the term 😥. So, if you missed class last week please try to get to class this week to be assessed for your award. 🤗🤗

But I can’t even cartwheel! Something we hear a lot is: "My child isn’t good at gymnastics. They can’t cartwheel yet" or "Ha! I’m no good at gymnastics. I can’t even do a cartwheel!"
It’s true that a cartwheel is one of the most universally recognised gymnastics skills. So it is natural to base some kind of progress on this skill. But cut your child (or yourself!) some slack. It may be one of our ‘basic’ gymnastics skills but have you ever stopped to think about what a gymnast has to do, in order to do a successful cartwheel? Lets take a look:
- Go completely upside down and come back up again.
- Make a rotation – we start forwards, turn sideways, then turn back again to stand up.
- Travel forwards and sideways across the floor AND in a straight line.
- Coordinate their arms and legs, in the right order AND in the correct positioning. Not just once, but you’ve four separate hand and foot placements to get right.
- Have the strength and flexibility to kick their legs up in the air and -
- Balance on their hands….
- ….but not for long as you’ve got to shift the weight from one hand to the other then to the feet.
- Oh and lets think about form too – we don’t just want the legs in the air do we, we want straight legs, straight body, pointed toes.
- Land in your best ‘I just won the Olympics’ gymnast stretch.

And all of this with speed, all at the same time!!!

Phew I’m a bit overwhelmed just thinking about it.

Compare all these aspects to ‘basics’ in other sports – kicking a football, hitting a forehand in tennis, throwing a rugby ball, shooting a basket in netball, just simply running in athletics. It’s far more complicated and demanding physically. Plus add in that a gymnast at the cartwheel learning level will likely be learning many new skills each session. They aren’t spending all their time learning this one skill, or even a handful – it’s literally 15-20 skills at a time across all the various gymnastic apparatus. Now this is a great aspect of gymnastics – we’re a foundation sport that can literally teach you everything you need to be able to perform any movement in life or in any other sport.

So is it fair of us to measure all our progress or expectations on if our gymnasts can cartwheel?

No. I don’t think it is. To measure progress we need to look at ALL aspects of our training, across all apparatus, both physically and mentally. Which is kind of tough to do, especially when we’re all different. We find the best way to determine progress is to ask your gymnast how they are finding class, is there anything they can do now in the whole of their class (or perform better) they couldn’t before and also, are they enjoying it. If both of those are positives… from my point of view that’s a win and lets keep learning.

You know what, some gymnasts will never be able to cartwheel like the pros..... and that's ok.

Read more blogs here https://www.affinitygymnastics.co.uk/blog.php?id=25 http://bit.ly/30gqhyB

But I can’t even cartwheel! Something we hear a lot is: "My child isn’t good at gymnastics. They can’t cartwheel yet" or "Ha! I’m no good at gymnastics. I can’t even do a cartwheel!"
It’s true that a cartwheel is one of the most universally recognised gymnastics skills. So it is natural to base some kind of progress on this skill. But cut your child (or yourself!) some slack. It may be one of our ‘basic’ gymnastics skills but have you ever stopped to think about what a gymnast has to do, in order to do a successful cartwheel? Lets take a look:
- Go completely upside down and come back up again.
- Make a rotation – we start forwards, turn sideways, then turn back again to stand up.
- Travel forwards and sideways across the floor AND in a straight line.
- Coordinate their arms and legs, in the right order AND in the correct positioning. Not just once, but you’ve four separate hand and foot placements to get right.
- Have the strength and flexibility to kick their legs up in the air and -
- Balance on their hands….
- ….but not for long as you’ve got to shift the weight from one hand to the other then to the feet.
- Oh and lets think about form too – we don’t just want the legs in the air do we, we want straight legs, straight body, pointed toes.
- Land in your best ‘I just won the Olympics’ gymnast stretch.

And all of this with speed, all at the same time!!!

Phew I’m a bit overwhelmed just thinking about it.

Compare all these aspects to ‘basics’ in other sports – kicking a football, hitting a forehand in tennis, throwing a rugby ball, shooting a basket in netball, just simply running in athletics. It’s far more complicated and demanding physically. Plus add in that a gymnast at the cartwheel learning level will likely be learning many new skills each session. They aren’t spending all their time learning this one skill, or even a handful – it’s literally 15-20 skills at a time across all the various gymnastic apparatus. Now this is a great aspect of gymnastics – we’re a foundation sport that can literally teach you everything you need to be able to perform any movement in life or in any other sport.

So is it fair of us to measure all our progress or expectations on if our gymnasts can cartwheel?

No. I don’t think it is. To measure progress we need to look at ALL aspects of our training, across all apparatus, both physically and mentally. Which is kind of tough to do, especially when we’re all different. We find the best way to determine progress is to ask your gymnast how they are finding class, is there anything they can do now in the whole of their class (or perform better) they couldn’t before and also, are they enjoying it. If both of those are positives… from my point of view that’s a win and lets keep learning.

You know what, some gymnasts will never be able to cartwheel like the pros..... and that's ok.

Read more blogs here https://www.affinitygymnastics.co.uk/blog.php?id=25 http://bit.ly/2Vj867p

It's BADGE TESTING time! We do this over two weeks. We're unable to badge test outside of these weeks so parents please make sure your gymnast attends at least one of these weeks. They are the two weeks BEFORE half term, so this means its w/c 13th and 20th May. If your gymnast doesn't attend their class in either of these weeks we won't be able to award their badge at the end of the term. We want to give everyone the best chance to achieve their badge but continuing testing after this point isn't feasible from a logistics point of view (with 700+ badges to order and organise, it's no mean feat). Neither is awarding something for which hasn't been tested so the moral of the story - make sure you are at class within these times so we can all enjoy our awards. Thanks :)

But I can’t even cartwheel! Something we hear a lot is: "My child isn’t good at gymnastics. They can’t cartwheel yet" or "Ha! I’m no good at gymnastics. I can’t even do a cartwheel!"
It’s true that a cartwheel is one of the most universally recognised gymnastics skills. So it is natural to base some kind of progress on this skill. But cut your child (or yourself!) some slack. It may be one of our ‘basic’ gymnastics skills but have you ever stopped to think about what a gymnast has to do, in order to do a successful cartwheel? Lets take a look:
- Go completely upside down and come back up again.
- Make a rotation – we start forwards, turn sideways, then turn back again to stand up.
- Travel forwards and sideways across the floor AND in a straight line.
- Coordinate their arms and legs, in the right order AND in the correct positioning. Not just once, but you’ve four separate hand and foot placements to get right.
- Have the strength and flexibility to kick their legs up in the air and -
- Balance on their hands….
- ….but not for long as you’ve got to shift the weight from one hand to the other then to the feet.
- Oh and lets think about form too – we don’t just want the legs in the air do we, we want straight legs, straight body, pointed toes.
- Land in your best ‘I just won the Olympics’ gymnast stretch.

And all of this with speed, all at the same time!!!

Phew I’m a bit overwhelmed just thinking about it.

Compare all these aspects to ‘basics’ in other sports – kicking a football, hitting a forehand in tennis, throwing a rugby ball, shooting a basket in netball, just simply running in athletics. It’s far more complicated and demanding physically. Plus add in that a gymnast at the cartwheel learning level will likely be learning many new skills each session. They aren’t spending all their time learning this one skill, or even a handful – it’s literally 15-20 skills at a time across all the various gymnastic apparatus. Now this is a great aspect of gymnastics – we’re a foundation sport that can literally teach you everything you need to be able to perform any movement in life or in any other sport.

So is it fair of us to measure all our progress or expectations on if our gymnasts can cartwheel?

No. I don’t think it is. To measure progress we need to look at ALL aspects of our training, across all apparatus, both physically and mentally. Which is kind of tough to do, especially when we’re all different. We find the best way to determine progress is to ask your gymnast how they are finding class, is there anything they can do now in the whole of their class (or perform better) they couldn’t before and also, are they enjoying it. If both of those are positives… from my point of view that’s a win and lets keep learning.

You know what, some gymnasts will never be able to cartwheel like the pros..... and that's ok.

Read more blogs here https://www.affinitygymnastics.co.uk/blog.php?id=25 http://bit.ly/2JxO9rl