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Burlesque makes me want to cover my ears each time I hear it. I've actually grown to ignore all the overused Nathan Lanier and Lindsay Stirling songs. At lower level competitions in the U.K., there is a trend of using karaoke versions of pop songs. After hearing 'Rather Be', 'Bom Bom' and 'Talk...

It's quite a popular piece in NCAA at the moment, quite a lot of the girls use various cuts of it. In the UK, Holly Jones from Wales uses it and has beautiful choreography.

I'm going- excited to see all the seniors upgrades in preparation for Rio.

I'm going! I've got tickets for the women's qualifications.

They are worth the same. The current artistry guidelines are encouraging the extra chasses, hops and running steps between the leaps so I'd imagine that we will be seeing more of it in the future.

It's on the BG Website- June 2015 Womens Technical Update.

I'm going and I'm super excited!

I'd have much preferred to see two fuller rounds rather than three empty rounds at the British this year. I don't recall them doing it that way in previous years. It was such a long day and the last round would have been much better if it had started earlier too- gymnasts were still eating their...

The Baby Elephant Walk is a cute one for the little ones :)

I haven't seen it archived in full anywhere yet but there are some of the individual routines popping up on YouTube.

Try this link It is also available to watch on the Baku 2015 app.

What a beautiful gymnast! I especially love her floor music.

I drive 20-30 minutes to gym 5 days a week, depending on the time of day and traffic. I'm not sure if I'd be willing to drive further (as a coach) especially as this gym is double the commute from my original gym. We do have a couple of gymnasts who travel longer distances to get to the gym and...

Have fun! I'm pretty jealous, I'd love to do a gym related trip to Orlando.

I heard from a friend that Hannah has indeed retired but I haven't seen an official announcement anywhere. She has posted videos of upgrades on Instagram since worlds though. Is there no Teal Grindle on the Rio squad? She's been consistently top of the pack in her age group.

Ah, the fond memories of hungover university trampolining! My university were quite proud of ourselves when we won the Boat Race drinking game at the social but didn't get any medals at the comp the next day. I really don't know how the elites pull off those routines whilst hungover- one of our...

We had our county competition recently to finish off our competition season. Lots of medals and smiles all around from the gymnasts- even bigger smiles from coaches who don't have to hear floor music on repeat through training sessions for at least a few weeks! Now to start work on the new...

Music by Disney, Cirque du Soleil and Andrew Lloyd Webber isn't covered by the British Gymnastics license to play music at public events. Gymnasts can use this music but need their own license for it I believe (I have heard the odd piece of disney/cirque music at comps so I assume this is what...

I was pleasantly surprised with Imogen Chan. I think she's been out for for a while but performed some beautiful routines this weekend. There were also some lovely floor routines presentation wise from the younger ones- Lucy Stanhope, Phoebe Turner, Jade from London and Alyana (sp?) from...

It looks like the seniors might be competing everything again as another worlds trial? But only one piece (I'm guessing pre nominated before the comp) counting towards the team score. It's so confusing.