Pride of Bracknell Awards

Last night our own James Langley won the Pride of Bracknell award for achievements against great adversity.  

James was unable to attend to dinner because he needed to attend his final training session before a BG selection event on Sunday. However, he was represented by BGC Director - Leigh Barker and by BFBC Councillor Peter Heydon. James apologies were made in advance but he was able to quickly change and attend the awards after his training was completed. Peter Heydon rang the club next morning to say how well James had represented himself and the club at the awards and how popular his win was. 

Bracknell Gymnastics Club are very proud of how hard James has fought and how much he has achieved. Well deserved James 👏

Leigh Barker; James Langley; Peter Heydon

James being interviewed by Bracknell News

James passes another exam

Congratulations to James Langley on passing his TeamGym tumbling L3 exam this afternoon. James has now passed all three technical modules for TeamGym, with only the generic module left for sign off. All the hard work is paying off.

A Different Blue release their first video featuring the Bracknell Senior Men's Team

Many thanks to Tom Peck from A Different Blue Photography and James Langley from Bracknell Gymnastics Club for this project to promote boys' TeamGym. Special thanks also to the Bracknell Senior Men's Team (2015 British Champions) - Charlie Dorrington, Lewis Jones, Ben Knapton, James Langley, Henry Mantel, Sacha Tompkins, Joe Torpey and Connor Wharram.

Katie & James selected to study coaching in Iceland

Two gymnastics coaches from Bracknell Leisure Centre have been selected for an exciting opportunity to represent British Gymnastics and study coaching techniques in Iceland.

Katie Potts and James Langley (both 18) were chosen from a large number of applicants for their potential as the next generation of TeamGym performance coaches. During the trip (late April 2016), the coaches will work with former Danish National Coach and current Icelandic National Coach - Henrik Pillgard at the training centre in Stjarnan, Iceland. The intention of the trip is forge a closer working relationship with the Icelandic Federation, to inspire the young coaches and to bring back new ideas and training techniques. Katie and James are also high performance gymnasts, with Katie competing for Reddam and James for Bracknell Gymnastics Club. Both clubs and Bracknell Leisure Centre are very proud of Katie and James and wish them a successful and memorable trip to Iceland.

Katie Potts & James Langley (Level 2 TeamGym Coaches). 

TeamGym Coaching Clinic

Bracknell was represented at the TeamGym Coaching Clinic at K2 Crawley by Chris Bennett, Lewis Jones, James Langley and Connor Wharram. 

There was technical presentations on floor routines, judging, spatial awareness (presented by Chris), strength and conditioning and media. The team were very inspired and very much enjoyed meeting Solveig Jonsdottir from the Icelandic Gymnastics Federation.  

Coaches and High Performance Gymnasts with Solveig Jonsdottir at the TeamGym Coaching Clinic