The latest news, results, achievements and club updates from around Okehampton Flyers. Follow our Facebook and Instagram pages @okehamptonflyers.
We have recently been awarded £10,000 by Sport England to run an adult gym and trampoline session on a Thursday, 8.30-9.30pm! The session is for teenagers and adults (14+) and participants can choose whether they do gym, trampolining or both.
£10,000 grant awarded by Sport England for NEW adult gym and trampoline session! Read More »
Okehampton Gym and Trampoline Club wowed audiences at Super Sporting Sunday on 16 July, with trampolining and tumbling displays that included double somersaults and double twisting somersaults. They also ran free have-a-go sessions for children and adults on the trampoline and inflatable tumble track. It was a great day, despite the wet weather!
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Congratulations to the West Devon gymnastics team for coming first in the South West Youth Games gymnastics competition. An annual event, the competition requires gymnasts to compete a Key Steps floor routine, a vault exercise and a range and conditioning routine. The scores of the top four gymnasts in each team are then added together
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Okehampton Flyers came away with more medals from the Griffin trampoline competition in Street on Sunday 18 June. The busy competition had large classes and competitors from across the South West. Trampolinists were required to perform one compulsory routine and one voluntary routine, for which they could perform higher difficulty skills. The scores from the
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Our hard work raising money for a sprung tumble track has finally paid off! We were able to purchase a Continental sprung track in July, meaning we can prepare our gymnasts to enter tumbling competitions. The Inner Wheel of Okehampton and the Rotary Club of Okehampton also made a very generous contribution of £300 each
NEW sprung track for Okehampton Gymnastics Club! Read More »
Okehampton Flyers Gym and Trampoline Club had a successful day at their first British Gymnastics Bath regional trampoline competition. Angus Bond won the NDP4 13+ class with two solid routines and a top score for range and conditioning. Miya Porter came 8th in the 11-12 NDP3 class, also with two excellent routines. Both gymnasts normally
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Okehampton Gym Club ran its first club tumbling competition in December. The competition was a fundraising event to raise money for a sprung tumbling track to enable its more advanced gymnasts to enter regional level competitions. Each gymnast from the club performed a basic pass on floor mats or an advanced tumbling pass on an
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Okehampton Trampoline Club came away with four medals from the Griffin Trampoline competition in Street on Sunday 13th November. It was a busy competition with a friendly atmosphere. The trampolines were top level 6x4s and 4x4s, so the children did well to adjust to the bouncier trampolines with only three or four practice warm ups.
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Children and parents had a hauntingly good time at Okehampton Gym and Trampoline Club’s Hallowe’en party on Friday 28th October. Held to raise money for competition equipment, the fancy dress disco saw children and parents arrive dressed as vampires, princesses, spiders, ghosts and ghouls.
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We are holding a Hallowe’en fancy dress disco at the Pavilion in the Park on Friday 28th October, 6-8pm, £2.50 per person. This is a fundraising event to raise money for a sprung tumble track. The entry fee includes a free ‘vampire’ drink. As well as a disco, there will be Hallowe’en games for the younger children,