Sussex Tumble Report
The start of the new season is underway with the first competition being Sussex Champs. This was held last Sunday 12th October at Hollington gym club. This year tumble joined with Sussex Acrobatic and what a day it was.
We had over 400 gymnasts taking partthroughout the day over both disciplines, with 194 gymnasts on tumble alone.
This year we welcomed Wickers to tumble and was great to have them compete along side Be Gymnastics, Bevendean, Hollington, CACL and Sky High. Unfortunately Dyson were not able to take part this year as busy with festivals.
DE Photos were able to attend and were very busy. We will get a percentage figure from them as normal and that should be known in the next few weeks. Fine Designs cancelled at the last moment, so no Jumpers or t shirt memento this year.
The budget sheet is still being finalised but we took over £2,000 on door entry alone and with entry fees from gymnasts, we anticipate to make roughly £4,000 profit on this comp.
The budget sheet is still being finalised but we took over £2,000 on door entry alone and with entry fees from gymnasts, we anticipate to make roughly £4,000 profit on this comp.
While it was a fantastic day for all taking part, tumble will not be joining with acro again in the future. The numbers are now just too high on both disciplines within Sussex for this to be viable, as it makes for a very long day for everyone.
Future dates -
Hollington will be hosting their Annual Invitational tumble and acro comp weekend of 30th & 31st January 2027.
South East have now release dates for this year's competition season, starting with qualifier 1 on 22nd November 2026 at Jumpers Rebound, Gillingham.
Qualifier 2 on 17th january 2027 at Jumpers, Gillingham
Qualifier 3 on 28th February at Jumpers, Gillingham
SE Champs on 4th April at Jumpers, Gillingham
3Cs event on 6th June at Milton Keynes
English champs finals will again be in Telford in May and the IRCC final back in Birmingham in July.
Trophies-
We are trying to locate all the old tumble shields and trophies so that they can be stored safely and new ones made with the correct grades etc ready to use in 2027.
If any clubs gymnasts have gained these in the past couple of years can they look into returning them to either Nikki at hollington or Mark at sky high
T-shirts
We are still looking at purchasing reps tops (as agreed at previous meetings), which will be stored at either sky high or Hollington. These tops will be available for anyone to use who is attending competitions in the future as Sussex reps.