In February I went to hayling island to play in the national English indoor bowls association champion of champions which consists of 16 players who have all won there club singles and then went on to win the county singles,
In the field there was international players and players who had already won the competition before.
In the first round I managed to win 21-19 against a very good young player who plays in the under 25 england team with myself.
In the quarter final I managed to have a really gd win with a 21-11 win against someone who has won many national titles before.
In the semi final I come up against another under 25 england player which I managed to come out on top 21-17.
In the final I was up against neil mckee a full senior international who had plenty of experience on his side. In a very good final there was some excellent last bowls to keep changing the game and keeping each player in the match. In the end I managed to win with a 21-20 win.
This was my first eba national title and I was very happy to have achieved this.
Tuesday, 18 October 2011
Thursday, 4 August 2011
British Tumbling Championships 2011
Just thought I would update my blog with recent tumbling competition news.
In November 2010 I travelled to Metz France with the National Tumbling Squad to compete at the World Age Group Championships, we compete with Gymnasts from around the world who train to a very high level of tumbling in every age group. There are usually around 40-50 competitors in each age group. I am very proud to say that I succeeded in getting the Gold for the 13/14 years age group for Great Britain which was not an easy task against the Russian competitors at the competition.
July 2011 - British Championships. I am now in the 15/16 age group in Tumbling and have been training hard to improve my tumbling difficulty to give me a good tariff for the competition. I trained for a triple somersault for one of my final runs and it went well in the competition giving me a total score for both of my final runs of 71.5 which is a really high score for my age group putting me ahead of my competitors by at least 7 clear points and earning me the gold medal for first place which means I am now 9 times british tumbling champion.
My next competition will be the World Age Group Championships in November 2011 which is being held in Birmingham NIA this year, this will be an exciting competition as it is in my home country and I hope to do well again and bring home the gold for Great Britain.
In November 2010 I travelled to Metz France with the National Tumbling Squad to compete at the World Age Group Championships, we compete with Gymnasts from around the world who train to a very high level of tumbling in every age group. There are usually around 40-50 competitors in each age group. I am very proud to say that I succeeded in getting the Gold for the 13/14 years age group for Great Britain which was not an easy task against the Russian competitors at the competition.
July 2011 - British Championships. I am now in the 15/16 age group in Tumbling and have been training hard to improve my tumbling difficulty to give me a good tariff for the competition. I trained for a triple somersault for one of my final runs and it went well in the competition giving me a total score for both of my final runs of 71.5 which is a really high score for my age group putting me ahead of my competitors by at least 7 clear points and earning me the gold medal for first place which means I am now 9 times british tumbling champion.
My next competition will be the World Age Group Championships in November 2011 which is being held in Birmingham NIA this year, this will be an exciting competition as it is in my home country and I hope to do well again and bring home the gold for Great Britain.
Friday, 25 February 2011
A good start to 2011
2010 ended with my sixth and final time at the Cadet Winton National Championships - having competed for the East Midlands for the joint longest consecutive time in it's history. In 2011, having won the East Midlands U18s BYC Qualifier the weekend before, I began the year's national Senior Open circuit in Liverpool, on Saturday 19th February, finishing in 3rd place.
The Merseyside Open is one of the oldest open fencing competitions in the country, having started in 1938, and made a good start to the new competitive year. The standard of entry this year was high as always, with a team of Irish fencers providing added competition. With a total of 72 experienced fencers, the competition provided an excellent weekend of preparation for the calendar's larger Senior competitions - notably the Birmingham International and the National Senior Championships.
Finishing in 3rd place was a good result, yet more importantly a tough journey to the semi-finals and several tactically-intense fights provided a great source of experience and good practice. Dropping only one fight out of ten in the two poules, I was seeded 12th and went on to have a further 4 Direct Elimination fights to secure a medal position (each to 15 hits). Fencing a fast left-handed fencer in the last 16 proved interesting; as an opponent who favoured hits aimed below the fencing arm, choosing to adopt a closed and defensive guard proved to be a successful strategy.
The competition has, in many ways, been a prologue to the upcoming series of competitions. In additional to the Senior Circuit, the British Youth Championships in April will join the spectrum of U20s competitions that I aim to have equal success in later on in the year.
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