CALHOUN, GA—On January 16, at 7:00 p.m. kids ages 9 and up filed into the Georgia-Cumberland
Academy (GCA) gym ready to do gymnastics. They were broken into three groups
that would each create three different routines to perform the next day for the
parents. The groups went to stations where they learned things from tumbling to
two-highs to back-flips to doggie-seat drops on the trampoline to three-highs
to pyramids to their routines that they would perform later on. They did this
until 10:00 p.m. that night and then did it again the next morning.
Logan Foll, one of the Acroflyers, said, “That it was great to teach the kids and
they really loved every minute of it! It also helped me to improve on the skill
I was teaching.”
At 3:00 p.m. the parents filed in and waited for their kids to perform. The three groups
performed great routines. Then the GCA Acroflyers performed their routine.
Coach Boggess, the head coach of the GCA Acroflyers said that “It went very
well. Everyone did very well. Many of the students learned new skills including
back tucks out of a basket-toss and three highs. The trampoline was a big draw
with many of the students learning the fun of wall-walking. Though, my personal
favorite, and the favorite for many of the parents, was the group routines that
we did.”
Coach Boggess brought in a few clinicians to help him teach the 64 kids who came. He
brought in: Nat Davis, who coached and competed in competitive trampoline and power
tumbling on the national level and was a member of the Southern Adventist
University Gym-Masters; Glen Wolters, who is the owner of Sonrise Gymnastics in
Cleveland, Tenn., coaches competitive gymnastics and tumbling, and was a member
of the Southern Adventist University Gym-Masters; Anthony Bullard, who coached
and competed in competetive acrosports on the national level and was a member
of Southern Adventist University Gym-Masters; and Travis Epperson, who is a
former head coach of GCA gymnastics and has participated and coached in
Adventist gymnastics for over 10 years.
Brianna Taylor, a member of the GCA Acroflyers, said, “The Clinicians were amazingly
helpful... they even taught me a few things!” All in all the GCA Acrofest was a
huge success.
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